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Minnesota Fraud Investigator and Fomer State Trooper: Senior Tim Walz Officials Ordered Me to Illegally Bury Evidence of Rampant "Childcare" Fraud

Just forget what you leared about childcare fraud, they told him.


A former state trooper who ran fraud investigations inside Minnesota's Department of Human Services told state lawmakers Tuesday that senior officials ordered him to delete findings, harassed his unit, and tried to shut down probes into what he now calls an organized criminal enterprise looting the state's public-benefit system. His testimony landed the same day federal agents raided more than 20 businesses in Minneapolis as part of a widening crackdown on suspected fraud in publicly funded childcare and nutrition programs.

Jay Swanson, who led a DHS fraud investigations unit from 2014 to 2018, appeared before the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee with a blunt account of institutional failure. He described a pattern in which investigators flagged large-scale fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program, only to be met with hostility from the very officials who should have acted on the evidence.

...

Swanson told the committee that his unit's work quickly put it on a collision course with DHS leadership. As the Daily Mail reported, Swanson said a senior DHS official confronted him directly over a document his team had prepared, and demanded that portions of it be removed.

"I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs of the document. I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal."

Swanson did not name the official in the quoted testimony. But he made clear the pressure was not an isolated incident. He described a broader campaign against his investigators that went beyond bureaucratic friction.

...

The former investigator also offered a broader assessment of what his team had uncovered, framing it as the beginning of something far larger than a few bad actors gaming a single program.

"As I look back with the benefit of 2020 hindsight, I realized that what our team saw was the early stages of a somewhat loosely organized criminal enterprise beginning to pillage Minnesota's public benefit system."

One of Swanson's most striking claims concerned how widely known Minnesota's vulnerability had become. He told lawmakers that suspects his unit investigated said they had first learned about the fraud opportunity while still living abroad.

As the New York Post reported, Swanson said investigators found it was common knowledge in Somali refugee camps in Kenya that Minnesota was the place to go.

"They had heard you could run the scam in a number of different states, but it was easiest, and you could make the most money doing it in Minnesota."

That testimony aligns with separate sworn claims from another former DHS investigator, Scott Dexter. As Just the News reported, Dexter said his unit found evidence of large-scale fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program involving Somali-run daycare centers, but that investigations were narrowed or converted from law-enforcement cases to internal administrative matters because of political pressure and accusations of bias.

And we haven't even begun to dig into the greatest Fraud State in the world, California. A 2020 report warned Newsom in no uncertain terms that the state was left wide-open to hospice fraud, and Newsom did nothing, because, of course, the Party of Plunder exists solely to plunder and pillage from the hardworking normies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:47 PM




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1 FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

2 Foist???

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (WsJuq)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

4 We're grays, man. We're greys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

5 boo

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (CWTWj)

6 First, a broken blog. Now grey everywhere.

Ace is on a ROLL! Buttah, man....straight buttah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

7 We have unearthed an explosive report.

Flatulence!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (Kt19C)

8 6 First, a broken blog. Now grey everywhere.

Ace is on a ROLL! Buttah, man....straight buttah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (w4o6z)

9 "I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs of the document. I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal."

This is what's known as a Protected Disclosure - a report of a violation of a law, rule or regulation to an official who has the responsibility to correct same. Any follow-on negative action taken against (or positive action withheld) constitutes reprisal.

This could get interesting.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (iNUL3)

10 try purina crow chow

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (CWTWj)

11 WHAT A SHOCK

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (N1DT3)

12
Shock bombshell disclosure anyone could have guessed based on who was involved.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (HdYcL)

13 Uh oh. Elric is back.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (77rzZ)

14 13 Uh oh. Elric is back.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (77rzZ)

======

But he'll never get first.

Because, definitionally, Sponge is always first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (w4o6z)

15 *sigh* as with the trolls' premature ejaculation, none of this is surprising.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (zZu0s)

16 If you do fraud in Minnesota, we WILL catch you. On the other hand, if *I* do it....

Posted by: Walz at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (d997y)

17 Something tells me a hostile take over of Minnesota by the Feds are in order.
Put it into receivership or something until the corruption has been shaken out.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (WsJuq)

18 "I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs of the document. I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal."


As a state trooper, I'd have had a body cam going.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (xHq83)

19 16 If you do fraud in Minnesota, we WILL catch you. On the other hand, if *I* do it....

Posted by: Walz at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (d997y)

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"This asshole has nothing to do with fraud investigations. We aren't including the MBI at all in our work."
-Kash Patel, paraphrased

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (w4o6z)

20 =====

I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (w4o6z)


It made so much more sense before now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

21
Put it into receivership or something until the corruption has been shaken out.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (WsJuq)

_____________

Reconstruction!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (HdYcL)

22 “The 2022 document that I am holding is an 87-page report from the then-acting state auditor in California addressed directly to the governor of California, warning in no uncertain terms that the state's weak oversight of hospice agencies has created opportunities for large-scale abuse and fraud.”

Sounds great! Gavin's our man in '28!

Posted by: The Media-DNC Complex at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (Riz8t)

23 Would it be unconstitutional to harvest their organs as part of restitution? I mean if we did it in a humane, common ordinary way. Like an assembly line.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (w/O5Q)

24 Still cant belive the reports of giant sacks of cash just being flown over seas. This is a frigging jack reacher story.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 05, 2026 02:53 PM (7mCLy)

25 Uh oh. Elric is back.

Where did he go? He doesn't seem like the flouncing type.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 02:53 PM (Riz8t)

26 For those who haven't been paying attention:

The left isn't the loyal opposition. They are not our countrymen.

They see the government (and by extension, YOU) as an object to be looted for their own benefit.

In addition, they want you dead. It's not a contradiction, cause while they don't have the power to kill you, they'll settle for looting you for their own benefit. (Remember how much money the fraudsters "donated" to the Democrat Party and the Socialists in Minnesota.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 02:53 PM (N1DT3)

27 22 Sounds great! Gavin's our man in '28!

Posted by: The Media-DNC Complex at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (Riz8t)

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Gavin's polling support has halved in the last two months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (w4o6z)

28
*ransacks closet for carpetbag*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (HdYcL)

29 Also, water is darned wet.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (7anGw)

30 Apparently IIhan Omar the Eleventh has refused to turn over documents related to a part she may have played in this fraud. I believe yesterday was the deadline.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (OoFl2)

31
Gavin's polling support has halved in the last two months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (w4o6z)


But, he's just like black people!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

32 Like where did these guys get all their bills from. The state didn't pay them in greasy 10s and 20s. Those halal money business are problem breaking every banking rule ever. That was a reacher novel as well.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 05, 2026 02:55 PM (7mCLy)

33
This was the nicest, most polite raping of the public fisc evahhh!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 02:55 PM (HdYcL)

34 Would it be unconstitutional to harvest their organs as part of restitution? I mean if we did it in a humane, common ordinary way. Like an assembly line.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls


Calling Doctor Lecter. Dr. Lecter, please pick up the blood red courtesy phone.
Call for Dr. Lecter.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (xHq83)

35 The Democrats funneling money to Third Worlders they want to replace us with.

Posted by: steevy at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (YwEeS)

36 Apparently IIhan Omar the Eleventh has refused to turn over documents related to a part she may have played in this fraud. I believe yesterday was the deadline.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (OoFl2)


And look at that..........nothing happened.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

37 Remember, Bill DeBlasio's wife straight jacked nearly 2B dollars and when asked where the money went she said, do I look like an accountant to you?

Her net worth is estimated at north of 50m dollars.

Pretty good for a community organizer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)

38 ======

"This asshole has nothing to do with fraud investigations. We aren't including the MBI at all in our work."
-Kash Patel, paraphrased
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (w4o6z)


Imma put my ballz to the walz.

Posted by: Shorter Kash patel at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (7mCLy)

39
Calling Doctor Lecter. Dr. Lecter, please pick up the blood red courtesy phone.
Call for Dr. Lecter.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (xHq83)


Calling Dr. Howard. Calling Dr. Fine. Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

40 There is no fine line between "weak oversight" and getting a cut of the business. Indict the entire Newsom administration in one huge RICO action . Do the same for Walz in Minn and Hochul in NY. Hilarity will ensue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (gu0hJ)

41 30 Apparently IIhan Omar the Eleventh has refused to turn over documents related to a part she may have played in this fraud. I believe yesterday was the deadline.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM

May it lead to her expulsion from Congress and after serving time in prison for fraud, expulsion from these shores.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (WsJuq)

42 Apparently IIhan Omar the Eleventh has refused to turn over documents related to a part she may have played in this fraud. I believe yesterday was the deadline.
Posted by: Piper


Sounds like she's about to bolt.
I'd be running bloodhounds thru the airports and planes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (xHq83)

43 Uh oh. Elric is back.

Where did he go? He doesn't seem like the flouncing type.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 02:53 PM (Riz8t)
_______

The Blade was away for a race. When travelling, I avoid social media and any news at all as much as possible. Recommended.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

44 39
Calling Doctor Lecter. Dr. Lecter, please pick up the blood red courtesy phone.
Call for Dr. Lecter.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (xHq83)


Calling Dr. Howard. Calling Dr. Fine. Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Calling Dr. Herman. Dr. PW Herman

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (7mCLy)

45 >>>The Democrats funneling money to Third Worlders they want to replace us with.

plus 10% for themselves

Posted by: brak at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (jGJov)

46 So we going to arrest Walz now?

If I did this sort of crap with information at my company I'd get arrested. Not just fired...but arrested.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

47 California is built on fraud. It's the only industry.

California is a river of underground shit and the only way to survive there is to stick the biggest straw you can into the ground and suck like a hooker with late rent.

It isn't America anymore. Not the place I grew up in by a damn sight.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (7anGw)

48 42 Apparently IIhan Omar the Eleventh has refused to turn over documents related to a part she may have played in this fraud. I believe yesterday was the deadline.
Posted by: Piper


Sounds like she's about to bolt.
I'd be running bloodhounds thru the airports and planes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (xHq83)

======

I think she feels confident that nothing will happen to her.

Her feelings aren't reality, though.

The SPLC thing probably took a year to assemble before indictments, and that was relatively straight forward wire fraud.

I doubt the DOJ asked for these documents and will just roll over in not getting them. Dollars to donuts, the DOJ already has everything they asked from her. They knew exactly what they were asking for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:00 PM (w4o6z)

49 37 Remember, Bill DeBlasio's wife straight jacked nearly 2B dollars and when asked where the money went she said, do I look like an accountant to you?

Her net worth is estimated at north of 50m dollars.

Pretty good for a community organizer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM

As much as I loathe Comrade DeBolshevik and his skank wife, I believe the amount was 600 million.

Still, there should have been accountability to what happened to my tax dollars, but it NYC and it is continuing its decent into Hell

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 03:00 PM (WsJuq)

50 46 So we going to arrest Walz now?

If I did this sort of crap with information at my company I'd get arrested. Not just fired...but arrested.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

Telling subordinates to commit a crime in a corporate setting would kick off some serious sarbanes oxley crap.....said not a lawyer.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 05, 2026 03:00 PM (7mCLy)

51 Somolisota is just California with more pirates.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:01 PM (7anGw)

52 Get a rope.

Posted by: Pace Picante Sauce at May 05, 2026 03:01 PM (w9Wax)

53 Something tells me a hostile take over of Minnesota by the Feds are in order.
Put it into receivership or something until the corruption has been shaken out.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (WsJuq)


Reconstruction.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:01 PM (8avO+)

54 Newsom was never a contender; the Obama faction hate his guts.

Recall he jumped aboard GavinAir and was actively sniffing around the Biden>Harris DNC switcheroo and was sent packing.

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 03:01 PM (fnZRl)

55 So now we know why the Somali desert pirates relocated to the frozen north that is Minnesota. It's where the loot is, and the looting is good.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (TezPK)

56 I'm so old, I remember when Democrats said they were going to lower your taxes by focusing on government waste, fraud, and abuse. Now they deny that those things even exist.

Posted by: Wally at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (0e5Te)

57 Waiting for the arrest, trials, and maximum setences.

Waiting.

What are "Things that will never happen" for $500, Alex.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (lgmVC)

58 ...warning in no uncertain terms that the state's weak oversight of hospice agencies has created opportunities for large-scale abuse and fraud.

The mistake here is assuming that was not the purpose, the goal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (uEYKS)

59 Still, there should have been accountability to what happened to my tax dollars, but it NYC and it is continuing its decent into Hell
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 03:00 PM (WsJuq)

They stole it, that's what happened. Just like every dime allocated to them for the last 50 years at least.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (8avO+)

60
As much as I loathe Comrade DeBolshevik and his skank wife, I believe the amount was 600 million.

______________

I thought 800 million. How many starving Appalachian children could that have fed?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (HdYcL)

61 this sounds illegal!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (GD0B3)

62 who led a DHS fraud investigations unit from 2014 to 2018

And he's only talking about it NOW? EIGHT ( 8 ) years later?! Either he needs to be going to jail, too, or there better be evidence of true extortion for which the authorities will be charged. Because that's incredible. (Particularly since I'm guessing any charges would now be past the statute of limitations on the fraud itself.)

Posted by: GWB at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (Vh4Jp)

63
he jumped aboard GavinAir and was actively sniffing around the Biden>Harris DNC switcheroo and was sent packing.
Posted by: 13times

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

I bet Harris is licking her chops over these revelations. Harris 2028 here we come!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (n7rxJ)

64 As much as I loathe Comrade DeBolshevik and his skank wife, I believe the amount was 600 million.

______________

I thought 800 million. How many starving Appalachian children could that have fed?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (HdYcL)

None, because they wouldn't send them any.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (8avO+)

65 54 Newsom was never a contender; the Obama faction hate his guts.

Recall he jumped aboard GavinAir and was actively sniffing around the Biden>Harris DNC switcheroo and was sent packing.

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 03:01 PM (fnZRl)

=======

White progressives blame the black caucus for both Biden and Kamala. They openly talk about needing to sideline the black vote in primaries.

The thing is, they have to consolidate all of the not-black vote into one candidate, and that's not happening, especially when 30% of white Democrats support the same candidate as the black caucus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (w4o6z)

66 Apparently IIhan Omar the Eleventh has refused to turn over documents related to a part she may have played in this fraud. I believe yesterday was the deadline.
Posted by: Piper


Sounds like she's about to bolt.
I'd be running bloodhounds thru the airports and planes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (xHq83)

======

I think she feels confident that nothing will happen to her.

Her feelings aren't reality, though.

The SPLC thing probably took a year to assemble before indictments, and that was relatively straight forward wire fraud.

I doubt the DOJ asked for these documents and will just roll over in not getting them. Dollars to donuts, the DOJ already has everything they asked from her. They knew exactly what they were asking for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:00 PM (w4o6z)
_______

She knows the odds of anything happening are very low. Maybe not zero-point-zero, but very low. I'd love to be surprised and see that something happens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

67 Democrats have long ago decided that the laws mean nothing.

I'm beginning to see their point.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (7anGw)

68 So now we know why the Somali desert pirates relocated to the frozen north that is Minnesota. It's where the loot is, and the looting is good.

==

they did they same in Europe - Sweden, Norway

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (GD0B3)

69 He described a pattern in which investigators flagged large-scale fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program, only to be met with hostility from the very officials who should have acted on the evidence.

GOLLY!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (wVcYX)

70
"Finance is the art of moving money from place to place until it all disappears."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (HdYcL)

71 I've also doubted Gavin. My gut doubts Kamala, even though TJM's reasoning is sound- I just don't think the party apparatus will go for her.

All that being said, there's a lot of time before 2028 and the dems are certifiable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

72 Swanson did not name the official in the quoted testimony.
________________________

I must be an un-sophisticated, reactionary, reprobate. If an official waltzed into my fraud investigation and told me to look the other way while supported by other officials...you'd have a difficult time not seeing the official's name in the media after my second or third press conference and 12th news interviews.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (dIske)

73 66 She knows the odds of anything happening are very low. Maybe not zero-point-zero, but very low. I'd love to be surprised and see that something happens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

======

The DOJ just indicted the freaking SPLC and froze $800 million of their assets.

This DOJ is not the Bill Barr "I see nothing" DOJ.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (w4o6z)

74 Will Tampon Tim circle the bloody drain?

/And ... in before the "Nothing Will Happen" crowd.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 03:05 PM (9Kqhl)

75 ...warning in no uncertain terms that the state's weak oversight of hospice agencies has created opportunities for large-scale abuse and fraud.

The mistake here is assuming that was not the purpose, the goal.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 03:02 PM (uEYKS)

yep, reversing cause and effect there. The oversight personnel made it weak to start the fraud. One could not create a system like this without the cooperation of the entire system.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:05 PM (8avO+)

76 NONE of the rampant fraud that exists all across Federal and state governments could have taken root without compromising or outright sellout by the various regulatory and audit systems that were put in place DECADES AGO for the explicit purpose of preventing ANY OF THIS from taking place.

Any organization, public or private, of any size would have in place an internal audit program. Otherwise, leadership couldn't trust their data enough to make good operating decisions.

Any state and federal regulatory agency would have on their radar any organization of any size to do periodic reviews/examinations to ensure they're following the rules, and they would REVIEW and COMMENT on the adequacy (or lack thereof) of the organization's internal audit program.

Lastly, the "Big" accounting firms willingly looked the other way and certified sets of books that were largely fictional.

Its grift and intentional negligence all.the.way.down.

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at May 05, 2026 03:05 PM (TN0g+)

77 DOJ is suing Denver for an illegal weapons ban. This is great , because many D states, counties, cities just outright banned the so called "assault weapons". marxist pervs.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (GD0B3)

78 Crazy internet conspiracy I saw recently:

This weekend, they triggered the internet "kill switch" for 0.7 seconds at 3am (I think?)
Unnoticeable in real time.
That time is the only daily overlap between Japan, Europe and American banks, where they all reconcile their transfers and accounts.
But, that instant froze all traffic long enough for the US to take a snapshot.
How much money, who, and where; the trillions of off-books money propping up the global system and hidden from the people.
That now the US is going to use to take them all down.

Kinda a "Live Free or Die Hard" plot I guess

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (MtSIY)

79 Unless the majority of voters "in the middle" say no and tell DFL to go fuck itself this is just an interesting diversion, in a sane society DFL would be out of power in New Somalia for a quarter century....anyone have a sane society handy?

Posted by: sven at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (Int1s)

80
The DOJ just indicted the freaking SPLC and froze $800 million of their assets.

This DOJ is not the Bill Burr "I see nothing" DOJ.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (w4o6z)


ITS FUNNY BECAUSE BILL BURR IS A COMIC.

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (7mCLy)

81 TOUSI just started 10 minutes ago. He's starting with POTUS and Rubio after the initial report on Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/live/vXGBWppENl4

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (aUMnT)

82 The mental health BS that DiBlasio and his ex wife pulled was around $850m. Alleged to help the seriously mentally ill whatever was paid out went for middle class mental health. Most went to bureaucrats and political hacks to line their pockets , especially through not-for-profits and NGOs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (gu0hJ)

83 People need to go to prison for these frauds. Period.

Posted by: Chairborne...Desk From Above! at May 05, 2026 03:07 PM (49ANY)

84 The DOJ just indicted the freaking SPLC and froze $800 million of their assets.

As a point to consider I assume this is when they'd be starting to line up resources to work on the election. But now they have no money to pay them...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

85
This is why Somali immigrants can have both a low average IQ and also commit prolific fraud. They didn't need a clever plan to evade law enforcement, the evasion was done for them. And they didn't need to know much about the system they were defrauding, they were guided through the necessary steps by the people who ran the system. I look forward to discovering the way the skim was transferred to the politicians who made this happen.

Why were Somalis used for this? Maybe because they take naturally to thievery, and were beyond reproach as a protected class. Like cardboard cutouts otherwise.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (t1fZA)

86 Still cant belive the reports of giant sacks of cash just being flown over seas. This is a frigging jack reacher story.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 05, 2026 02:53 PM (7mCLy)

Where do you think he got his storylines?

Posted by: GWB at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (Vh4Jp)

87 83 People need to go to prison for these frauds. Period.

Posted by: Chairborne...Desk From Above! at May 05, 2026 03:07 PM (49ANY)

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Remember, this all started BECAUSE the DOJ was putting people in prison.

There was a press conference from the MN USA announcing arrests and then a week later Nick Shirley released his first video.

Also, FBI raided twice, once about 4 months ago and the second time last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (w4o6z)

88 I must be an un-sophisticated, reactionary, reprobate. If an official waltzed into my fraud investigation and told me to look the other way while supported by other officials...you'd have a difficult time not seeing the official's name in the media after my second or third press conference and 12th news interviews.
Posted by: Orson


Like I said, State Trooper = body cam.

"I put my body cam back in the charging rack. Someone must hast grabbed it and found it. No, I have no idea how that interaction was released".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (xHq83)

89 I bet Harris is licking her chops over these revelations. Harris 2028 here we come!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (n7rxJ).


There's a short video clip of Gavin grousing about getting ousted.

Getty not welcome!

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (fnZRl)

90 NONE of the rampant fraud that exists all across Federal and state governments could have taken root without compromising or outright sellout by the various regulatory and audit systems that were put in place DECADES AGO for the explicit purpose of preventing ANY OF THIS from taking place.
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a/k/a how we have $38 trillion in debt.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (MtSIY)

91 Remember, Bill DeBlasio's wife straight jacked nearly 2B dollars and when asked where the money went she said, do I look like an accountant to you?
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If youre gonna rip people off, do it big, and make sure you laugh in the face of your victims. Ah to be a leftard.

Posted by: Walz at May 05, 2026 03:08 PM (d997y)

92 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 03:06 PM (MtSIY)


I like the idea. But, how can it be hidden if it is reconciled , one way or the other. I think it is just one of those conspiracy theories...

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 03:09 PM (GD0B3)

93 Famous old Jimmy Cagney movie "Never Steal Anything Small"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:09 PM (gu0hJ)

94 Wow. Did you guys see the video of the United Airlines Boeing 767 hitting a bakery truck? The driver's OK and everyone on the plane is OK. That must have been terrifying.

http://tiny.cc/xtv2101

Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2026 03:09 PM (mkw2N)

95 White progressives blame the black caucus for both Biden and Kamala. They openly talk about needing to sideline the black vote in primaries.

The thing is, they have to consolidate all of the not-black vote into one candidate, and that's not happening, especially when 30% of white Democrats support the same candidate as the black caucus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (w4o6z)

If they had made the black caucus partners instead of sharecroppers on their grievance estate they wouldn't have to do any of that. And the same problem exists in the non racial college grad woke / commie / palestinian / islamist subgroups as well. They actually are zealots for the lies they have been told all these years.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:10 PM (8avO+)

96 People need to go to prison for these frauds. Period.
Posted by: Chairborne...Desk From Above!



Prison? No. Gallows or firing squad.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:10 PM (xHq83)

97 a/k/a how we have $38 trillion in debt.

Every time there is an investigation we find 25-50% in formal fraud.

This is on top of the informal fraud - paying for tranny operas in Chile and the like...

We've gone from a $2T budget to an $8T one. I suspect ALL of that increase is fraud.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

98 73 66 She knows the odds of anything happening are very low. Maybe not zero-point-zero, but very low. I'd love to be surprised and see that something happens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

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The DOJ just indicted the freaking SPLC and froze $800 million of their assets.

This DOJ is not the Bill Burr "I see nothing" DOJ.

She'll scream "RACISM!!!" at the top of her voice, and the rest of the Dems will do the same.

I read about "extinction rage" for the first time today, and you can bet you'll be seeing it in all its glory for awhile, but it won't work. This is not 2008, and the Race Card has been refused.

https://is.gd/10HFNa

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (Riz8t)

99 Wow. Did you guys see the video of the United Airlines Boeing 767 hitting a bakery truck? The driver's OK and everyone on the plane is OK. That must have been terrifying.

http://tiny.cc/xtv2101
Posted by: bonhomme


I have no idea how he hit the bakery truck, the streetlight AND landed without issue.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (xHq83)

100 .

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (49ANY)

101 @49

>>As much as I loathe Comrade DeBolshevik and his skank wife, I believe the amount was 600 million.

She was put in charge of two initiatives, one was funded to the tune of 800m dollars, the other was funded to the tune of 700m dollars.

Both of her initiatives delivered jack squat nothing except kickbacks to herself and other affiliated cronies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)

102 > a/k/a how we have $38 trillion in debt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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It's been the largest theft of public wealth in history. Every fucking tax dollar collected was pissed away on fraud, bribes, money laundering, kickbacks, etc.

Every. Tax. Dollar. Ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (jehhT)

103 One could not create a system like this without the cooperation of the entire system.

I think its the usual coalition of the foolish empaths who want to Do Good and are unaware of consequences, and the crafty left who scheme this stuff out for power and money.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 03:12 PM (uEYKS)

104 I seriously doubt a stupid, corrupt white pretty boy like Newsom will be the Dem nominee in 28. He'll crash hard before then or he will be treated to a full on Swalwell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:12 PM (gu0hJ)

105 AND landed without issue.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (xHq83)

Define "issue".

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:12 PM (aUMnT)

106 This is why Somali immigrants can have both a low average IQ and also commit prolific fraud. They didn't need a clever plan to evade law enforcement, the evasion was done for them. And they didn't need to know much about the system they were defrauding, they were guided through the necessary steps by the people who ran the system. I look forward to discovering the way the skim was transferred to the politicians who made this happen
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My guess?

Somali submits $5k for reimbursement.
Which gets entered as two $5k reimbursements, both to the Somali--one to the Somali's bank and one to the employee's dummy bank account.

I recall many of those confronted were in denial, not in a "I never was paid" way but in a "no way it's that much" way.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 03:12 PM (MtSIY)

107 POTUS up on TOUSI now.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:13 PM (aUMnT)

108 California and Minnesota should pay their own way.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 05, 2026 03:13 PM (rJ48h)

109 98
She'll scream "RACISM!!!" at the top of her voice, and the rest of the Dems will do the same.

I read about "extinction rage" for the first time today, and you can bet you'll be seeing it in all its glory for awhile, but it won't work. This is not 2008, and the Race Card has been refused.

https://is.gd/10HFNa

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (Riz8t)

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That Florida rep who stole $5 million from FEMA tried it too.

She didn't have Omar's national profile, but she is a black woman who did obvious bad things and go no traction at all out of the racism card.

Omar's national profile will make it not a direct comparison, but I suspect that the DOJ, should they pursue charges (which I assume is the point of this whole thing) will have so much that they'll be able to bury her in 99% of courts. Fortunately, she won't be tried in DC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:13 PM (w4o6z)

110 100 .
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (49ANY)

Well done.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 03:13 PM (N1DT3)

111 I for one would love for EVERY State go through a thorough forensic audit of their books for lets say the past 5 years.

And every finding publicized.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 03:13 PM (WsJuq)

112 ... oops, forgot I'm 10 minutes behind on the stream ... but there was a fair bit of gulf news.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (aUMnT)

113 AND landed without issue.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (xHq83)

Define "issue".
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:12 PM (aUMnT)

Well the huge tear in the plane from the light pole it took out was a bit of an issue, at least for taking off again.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

114 104 I seriously doubt a stupid, corrupt white pretty boy like Newsom will be the Dem nominee in 28. He'll crash hard before then or he will be treated to a full on Swalwell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:12 PM (gu0hJ)

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People act like he's regularly leading polling.

He's led like 2 polls in the last 6 months.

He's lost all of the others.

To one person.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (w4o6z)

115
71 I've also doubted Gavin. My gut doubts Kamala, even though TJM's reasoning is sound- I just don't think the party apparatus will go for her.

All that being said, there's a lot of time before 2028 and the dems are certifiable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

I don’t discount Pritzger the Hutt, because he’s keeping all the lefts interest groups appeased, and has a whole lot of money to throw around .

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (XcvNy)

116 I seriously doubt a stupid, corrupt white pretty boy like Newsom will be the Dem nominee in 28. He'll crash hard before then or he will be treated to a full on Swalwell

I don't know if it will be Gavin, but it won't be Kamala. The Dems are in a real pickle here, and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of sociopaths.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM (Riz8t)

117 Relocating an entire culture here with low IQ and no morals and letting them do what came naturally so you can skim off the top was as brilliant as funding the Klan so you can make money fighting the Klan.

People need to get their minds around the fact that we are no longer on the same battlefield. This isn't a Carter Reagam debate.

This is a dog fight.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM (7anGw)

118 Well done.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 03:13 PM (N1DT3)


I see you got my point. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM (49ANY)

119 Define "issue".
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know


Landing gear went thru a semi & a lightpole and didn't collapse or blow a tire.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM (xHq83)

120 Just frigging deport them all down to the last man, woman, and crotchfruit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM (snZF9)

121 The smart pick for the Dems for '28 is a Dem governor from a red or purple state with a small, "moderate" profile.

Shapiro for example.

But since the Dems hate Jews now....

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

122 @114

>>People act like he's regularly leading polling.

Doesn't matter, if the people that run sh*t wan't him to be the guy, he will be the guy.

The problem is that the donks have so jacked up elections that you simply don't know what the level of cheat is going to be election to election.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (XV/Pl)

123 I should note that if stupidity, corruption, and white skin were what disqualified Democrat candidates for president, Joe Biden would never have gotten close.

Newsom's problem is that...the black voting base of the party doesn't like him and the white progressives are split.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (w4o6z)

124 he smart pick for the Dems for '28 is a Dem governor from a red or purple state with a small, "moderate" profile.

Shapiro for example.

But since the Dems hate Jews now....

That's why I didn't mention him. Maybe Pete B.?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (Riz8t)

125 I saw Crotchfruit open for El Gato at Trees in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

126 I have no idea how he hit the bakery truck, the streetlight AND landed without issue.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:11 PM (xHq83)

The pole is a breakaway pole to avoid killing drivers who clip one. The bottom of the wheels smecked the top of the truck cab/trailer. The ground was too close to allow it to react much.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (8avO+)

127 So the national debt is due to fraud? Is that how this is all shaking out? I mean, what state and group isn't fraud-y at this point? Each day another layer of the rotten onion is peeled back to show us the decay and it's amazing how no one ever knew.

They knew. Both sides.

Posted by: turambar at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (Q0yOR)

128 I don’t discount Pritzger the Hutt, because he’s keeping all the lefts interest groups appeased, and has a whole lot of money to throw around .
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (XcvNy)

Dems just making sure they have all the 7 deadly sins represented for the primary.

Gluttony, pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, and sloth.

Seriously, that's the left's platform right there.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (N1DT3)

129 She knows the odds of anything happening are very low. Maybe not zero-point-zero, but very low. I'd love to be surprised and see that something happens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

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The DOJ just indicted the freaking SPLC and froze $800 million of their assets.

This DOJ is not the Bill Barr "I see nothing" DOJ.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:04 PM (w4o6z)
_________

Going after organizations is not the same thing as going after highly protected individual politicians.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

130 I don’t discount Pritzger the Hutt, because he’s keeping all the lefts interest groups appeased, and has a whole lot of money to throw around .

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (XcvNy)


That's frightening. To stop that fat miscreant we just need to hang the whole transgender mutilation of kids thing around his neck.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 05, 2026 03:18 PM (49ANY)

131 122 Doesn't matter, if the people that run sh*t wan't him to be the guy, he will be the guy.

The problem is that the donks have so jacked up elections that you simply don't know what the level of cheat is going to be election to election.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (XV/Pl)

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South Carolina with its relatively clean elections being 1/2 in the calendar really messes up their ability to tip the scales.

If you think they'll cancel the primary completely, that's one thing. But if the primary actually happens, well the path goes through black heavy south before California is a twinkle in the primary's eye.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:18 PM (w4o6z)

132 "Supremacist Muslims stealing billions from the infidels. Well done!"

say all the Muslims, that think the American "dogs" only good for theft.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 05, 2026 03:18 PM (vbXSk)

133 Some fat fuck who has never held a shovel on "our side" will mumble a few platitudes about this tonight on a show and then go out for drinks with a Democrat and laugh at it all.

I'm telling you, if a laidback dude like me is done with this shit, the fuckin boiler is gonna pop soon.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:18 PM (7anGw)

134 Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM (xHq83)

I expect there will still be an investigation. Getting lucky doesn't really seem as if it's an easy ticket out.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:18 PM (aUMnT)

135 Wow. Did you guys see the video of the United Airlines Boeing 767 hitting a bakery truck? The driver's OK and everyone on the plane is OK. That must have been terrifying.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2026 03:09 PM (mkw2N)

Especially for the honey buns.

Posted by: GWB at May 05, 2026 03:18 PM (Vh4Jp)

136 Some of the feel good programs just need to be ended. Home hospice is ripe for abuse regardless but last week I heard a talk radio interview and the program was expanded to pay family to do basic cooking, cleaning, visiting with elderly relatives. Not a a quote but the caller said people should just do basic care for family w/o the gub'mint having to pay them. In home care subsidies should only cover people that need actual medical care. Hell my dad needed low level medical care and I just did that after a (privately paid) aide showed me how. I know not everyone is blessed to be in the laptop class and have the care situation overlap their work getting paranoid about the wuhan lung rot and wanting them to work from home; but people need to do for family and the people who don't have decent family need to save a bit more and pay for someone to come in and cook and clean x hours a week themselves instead of thinking the taxpayers need to fund it.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 05, 2026 03:19 PM (Bu2hG)

137 I should note that if stupidity, corruption, and white skin were what disqualified Democrat candidates for president, Joe Biden would never have gotten close.

Newsom's problem is that...the black voting base of the party doesn't like him and the white progressives are split.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (w4o6z)

'Comes from CA' has been a killer in National Politics since the 90s. This will likely be a problem for Gavin Newsome too.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+)

138 129 Going after organizations is not the same thing as going after highly protected individual politicians.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

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SPLC is holy to the left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:19 PM (w4o6z)

139 117 Relocating an entire culture here with low IQ and no morals and letting them do what came naturally so you can skim off the top was as brilliant as funding the Klan so you can make money fighting the Klan.

People need to get their minds around the fact that we are no longer on the same battlefield. This isn't a Carter Reagam debate.

This is a dog fight.
Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:15 PM

When you import the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world.

Would love to see all of these "refugees" and other ilk sent back to their country of origin.
The US, Canada, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France and Germany will all be better for it.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 03:19 PM (WsJuq)

140 Maybe it's time to put a little pressure on the investigators like this guy. He only feels safe to make these accusations well after they were documented. In Minnesota there are a slew of "mandatory reporting crimes." One such crime is welfare fraud.

I say we bring this investigator up on charges for not reporting this fraud sooner, or giving into the pressure of "officials" telling him to look the other way.

Transparancy is the best disinfectant. It's about time people were motivated to push that philosophy.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2026 03:20 PM (dIske)

141 "...suspected fraud in publicly funded childcare and nutrition programs."


That would include about 95% of NGO's working on ending hunger.

Posted by: CNN at May 05, 2026 03:20 PM (GUOwU)

142 People act like he's regularly leading polling.

He's led like 2 polls in the last 6 months.

He's lost all of the others.

To one person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:14 PM (w4o6z)

Dude, you were needling me for saying "Newsom ist kaput," and then responding with banal crap like "it may not be a coronation .. but ..)

Pfui!

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 03:20 PM (DRokf)

143 Fkin Watz is a Chinese stooge

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)

144 Can't wait for a similar document in Ohio, and one in Maine too. All the "Somali states".

Denaturalize. Prosecute. Deport.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (V6x/S)

145 Pritzker has the same problem that Shapiro has amongst Dems, he's Jewish. Not popular among a large segment of Dem voters these days.
Plus Pritzker is short , fat, ugly and stupid. He got where he is via his money and machine politics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (gu0hJ)

146 Maybe 10-20 years ago a couple of FNM news orgs started probing non profits and found most were basically stealing the money. This led to some half hearted attempts at reform but then just died off...

I suspect this is the time frame where the left found this was a great way to make money with no consequences. There has always been fraud in government spending, but it has increased dramatically since 2008

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

147 For the legal eagles here.


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Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)

148 139 When you import the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world.

EXACTLY! Been saying that for years!

Posted by: turambar at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (Q0yOR)

149 Relocating an entire culture here with low IQ and no morals and letting them do what came naturally so you can skim off the top"

Aleric smiles.

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (XuXeR)

150 It's not just Minnesota or California. It's every state. The federal government facilitates it everywhere because of the rakeoff for Dems, and because they prefer all scum to working Americans - even twelve-toed homunculi.

If you're a hardworking, ethical, taxpaying jerkoff, you're a member of the servile class whose natural role is to buy luxury cars for elected pederasts and illiterate foreigners who get their sisters ready for love with a pair of thread nippers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (BI5O2)

151 Interviewee: "I'd like to join the Secret Service, but I'm afraid it will get in the way of my day drinking and public masturbation."

Bob, Secret Service: "Well just hold on there a sec, big guy..."

Posted by: DC Follies at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (qUkBO)

152 Marco has stolen Karoline's job.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (aUMnT)

153 Walz needs this like guys need tampons.

Let's do it anyways...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)

154 142
Dude, you were needling me for saying "Newsom ist kaput," and then responding with banal crap like "it may not be a coronation .. but ..)

Pfui!

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 03:20 PM (DRokf)

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I'd love to see the Democrat Party cancel its primary again, this time without the winner of the primary just deciding to step aside for reasons.

It would entertain me.

But the chances of that are...very low.

And anyone watching Democrats trying to actually control their presidential primary over the past 10 years should come to the conclusion that they have lost completely control and barely had it in 2016 when their sacrificial lamb almost beat the most qualified person in human history to run a country.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:22 PM (w4o6z)

155
Would love to see all of these "refugees" and other ilk sent back to their country of origin.
The US, Canada, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France and Germany will all be better for it.

Yep, Trump deporting illegals is a good *start* but re-migration needs to be on the table - starting with fake refugees like Somalis and Haitians.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

156 Honey Buns!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 05, 2026 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

157 Maybe 10-20 years ago a couple of FNM news orgs started probing non profits and found most were basically stealing the money. This led to some half hearted attempts at reform but then just died off...

I suspect this is the time frame where the left found this was a great way to make money with no consequences. There has always been fraud in government spending, but it has increased dramatically since 2008
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

The reform was to have DNC operatives move in and get their cut, which led to Catholic Charities moving illegals about the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:23 PM (8avO+)

158 Tim Waltz attempting to take credit for rooting out fraud in MN is ridiculous and hilarious.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 03:23 PM (aZm/F)

159 155 Yep, Trump deporting illegals is a good *start* but re-migration needs to be on the table - starting with fake refugees like Somalis and Haitians.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

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Natural born citizens can't be deported.

Naturalized citizens can have their naturalization revoked and be deported if convicted of a crime.

The Trump admin is going for 400 of the latter this year. That's more than the last 7 presidencies combined. I suspect that the number of those will increase over the next three years as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:23 PM (w4o6z)

160 The only real question the Dems have in 2028 is whether to set us on fire or stab us in the neck.

Pushing us in front of a train is lagging in the polls.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (7anGw)

161 This will likely be a problem for Gavin Newsome too.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+)
=====================
Gavin Newsom's problem isn't that he is a Californian, it is that he is a crook, he has no discernable beliefs other than machine politics, be is glib but stupid, he is a lousy manager, and he chases every skirt in the office.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (V6x/S)

162 @121

>>
South Carolina with its relatively clean elections being 1/2 in the calendar really messes up their ability to tip the scales.

Brandon was a joke with no shot, until that black dude who I forget his name basically said Biden's the guy, then everyone started dropping out and that's how that goes.

They did the same sh*t to Bernie, twice, and Hillary once.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

163 The SS agent who was caught wanking was actually trying out a SS pilot program . Stop assassinations but ejaculation in the assassins eyes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (gu0hJ)

164 I expect there will still be an investigation. Getting lucky doesn't really seem as if it's an easy ticket out.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know


Oh, there will be. I'm just amazed that it didn't pop a tire of munge the landing gear. It could have been a hell of a lot worse. And no one would have known it until they crashed.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (xHq83)

165 has increased dramatically since 2008

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

If only we knew what happened to the government in 2008

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (d997y)

166 152 Marco has stolen Karoline's job.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (aUMnT)

On MS Now, CNN, Fox News AND the CBC.

Seems like he's kicking ass.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (Sco7b)

167 162
Brandon was a joke with no shot, until that black dude who I forget his name basically said Biden's the guy, then everyone started dropping out and that's how that goes.

They did the same sh*t to Bernie, twice, and Hillary once.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

========

https://is.gd/mCGfbC

I invite you to look at the polling.

Biden won every poll save 1 in SC for a year before Clyburn opened his mouth.

Clyburn acknowledged the inevitable and took credit for what was going to happen no matter what. That's all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:25 PM (w4o6z)

168 Would love to see all of these "refugees" and other ilk sent back to their country of origin"

Well, one fugee was busted....

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 03:25 PM (XuXeR)

169 ejaculation in the assassins eyes

Posted by: Smell the Glove

Eewww

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:25 PM (aUMnT)

170 This will likely be a problem for Gavin Newsome too.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+)
=====================
Gavin Newsom's problem isn't that he is a Californian, it is that he is a crook, he has no discernable beliefs other than machine politics, be is glib but stupid, he is a lousy manager, and he chases every skirt in the office.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (V6x/S)

Yes but other democrats only see the first as a liability.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:25 PM (8avO+)

171 Kamala is their obvious nominee next Presidential round. But who wins the governator's office in California. My bet is Becerra. After him comes Republicans, because California is well and truly screwed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:26 PM (V6x/S)

172 I'd love to see Waltz and Newscum arrested for fraud. I think it might be a possibility with Waltz, but I suspect Gavin was shrewd enough that any kickbacks he got were laundered enough to not be easily tied to him.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 05, 2026 03:26 PM (Bu2hG)

173 152 Maybe Karoline’s getting ready to pop?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

174 Marco has stolen Karoline's job.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (aUMnT)

On MS Now, CNN, Fox News AND the CBC.

Seems like he's kicking ass.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (Sco7b)

I can't wait to see the outfit he has in that photoshopped pic of him sitting on the lounge this time.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (8avO+)

175 Yes but other democrats only see the first as a liability.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:25 PM (8avO+)
==================
Heh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (V6x/S)

176 How Gavin (what a gay fucking name) has the audacity to point to the flaming wreckage of his state and advocate for PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE is stunning.

He should be in jail based on the severity of the decline in such a short time.

How many times did his state catch on fire (not counting the most recent "wild" fire)

Who looks at that flaming pile of shit (the state, I mean) and says Yeah! That's what we need! More people shitting in the streets gay parades.

Delusional

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (61TgR)

177 Trump needs a non-DEIdiot protection detail.

If I was him, I'd have the Delta boys shave for a couple years. Give em nice suits.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (7anGw)

178 I got an article from the Independent for some reason in my news feed, "The ‘walkaway wives’: Why so many Gen X women are leaving their marriages"

Their thesis? "Most marriages are more beneficial for men because women are only allowed the freedom of self-expression once everything is done in the home"

Which is comical.

A more obvious answer that they sort of mention without much depth? Menopause. Its a big change and if you live with a definition of marriage that says you should only stick with marriage when it meets your specific immediate needs and then your needs change? Divorce.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

179 If only we knew what happened to the government in 2008"

Sí se puede...

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (XuXeR)

180 Some more jobs
Brett Shumate

@AAGShumate
47m
Office of Immigration Litigation:

GS-15:
https://usajobs.gov/job/867938300

GS-11 to GS-15: https://usajobs.gov/job/866653900

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

181 Why is it people here still think Democrats follow "rules"? Did you not just watch them implant the candidate of their choosing as a nominee? Or do you really think they were forced to go with that idiot Kamala? They weren't, any more than they were forced to go with the first vegetable.

Democrats don't give a fuck about rules and they are certainly not going to do something stupid like let their voters decide.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (d997y)

182 Marco will be tapped as the midwife.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (7anGw)

183 Gavin Newsom's problem isn't that he is a Californian, it is that he is a crook, he has no discernable beliefs other than machine politics, be is glib but stupid, he is a lousy manager, and he chases every skirt in the office.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM (V6x/S)

-------

Yes, I particularly like the "glib but stupid" part.

I do think he's an idiot. But idiots can be managed and controlled.

See also: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden,

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (aZm/F)

184 181 Why is it people here still think Democrats follow "rules"? Did you not just watch them implant the candidate of their choosing as a nominee? Or do you really think they were forced to go with that idiot Kamala? They weren't, any more than they were forced to go with the first vegetable.

Democrats don't give a fuck about rules and they are certainly not going to do something stupid like let their voters decide.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (d997y)

=======

How are they going to win SC for Newsom?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (w4o6z)

185 And these would be related probably to fraud investigations by DoJ.

Federal Programs Branch:

GS-15:
https://usajobs.gov/job/867981100
GS-11 to GS-15:
https://usajobs.gov/job/867980700

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

186 any kickbacks he got were laundered enough to not be easily tied to him.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 05, 2026 03:26 PM (Bu2hG)
=====================
That's why he is married; somebody has to take the money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (V6x/S)

187 152 Maybe Karoline’s getting ready to pop?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah I think the shooting and the couple of tongue lashings she gave the press were her goodbye for now. She's heading home to relax with a frustrating toddler and crying infant.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (8avO+)

188 182 Marco will be tapped as the midwife.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (7anGw)


Surrogate.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 03:29 PM (aUMnT)

189 Swanson did not name the official in the quoted testimony.
.......

Why not?

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 03:29 PM (UjdFS)

190 Lol .... CBC news scroll

US Secretary of State to meet with Pope Leo and Italian PM over Iran war.

Marco Rubio - He's everywhere you want him to be....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b)

191 That's why he is married; somebody has to take the money.

Joe Biden's use of his uncle and son as his moneymen, while traditional, is comical. It doesn't make it any harder to find the bribes but I guess in the end it worked.

Romney for example had a non related minion charged with getting his money from Ukraine (he went with Hunter and Whitey Bulger's nephew)

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (sKqQm)

192 178.

The bra burners taught Gen X that a man was just a retirement plan.

Marry him, wait a few years, watch some tv, get a lawyer, take all his shit. Go have fun.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (7anGw)

193 Who, me?
/maintains bland ignorance

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (RIvkX)

194 Kamala is their obvious nominee next Presidential round. But who wins the governator's office in California. My bet is Becerra. After him comes Republicans, because California is well and truly screwed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:26 PM (V6x/S)

-----------

Califzuela will likely secede and become a ChiComm Protectorate before they allow -- among the worst rigged elections in the country -- a Republican Governor (who would likely be impotent regardless given the super majorities in the rigged Legislature.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (9Kqhl)

195 A more obvious answer that they sort of mention without much depth? Menopause. Its a big change and if you live with a definition of marriage that says you should only stick with marriage when it meets your specific immediate needs and then your needs change? Divorce.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

oh it happens then, but it happens long before that too. Democrat grievance philosophy and Feminist theory all urge married women to split with a husband whenever something makes them dissatisfied.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 03:31 PM (8avO+)

196 194 Califzuela will likely secede and become a ChiComm Protectorate before they allow -- among the worst rigged elections in the country -- a Republican Governor (who would likely be impotent regardless given the super majorities in the rigged Legislature.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (9Kqhl)

========

"A Republican governor of California?! We must secede from America!"
-if you think like a Democrat, it makes sense

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:31 PM (w4o6z)

197 Hillary must look at the Democrat field and think, "if only I was ten years younger and forty pounds lighter"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 03:32 PM (V6x/S)

198 How are they going to win SC for Newsom?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 03:28 PM (w4o6z)

No idea nor did I say it will be Newsom. I just know their voters won't be choosing the candidate. They are at best herded like sheep. I do doubt very much it's Kamala UNLESS (key caveat) the general is in the bag for her.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 03:32 PM (d997y)

199 FWIW, here is a checklist of DoJ Civil Litigation in the Trump administration from the Asst AG in charge of it.

Brett Shumate

@AAGShumate
·
3h
The
@DOJCivil
has been working overtime under the leadership of @DAGToddBlanche to advance and defend
@POTUS priorities in court:

✅Defended hundreds of lawsuits seeking to block
@POTUS policies
✅Filed over 120 motions to combat unlawful injunctions pending appeal
✅Filed 23 denaturalization lawsuits for immigration FRAUD
✅Filed 17 lawsuits challenging sanctuary jurisdiction laws
✅Filed 9 lawsuits challenging in-state tuition laws for illegal aliens
✅Filed 5 lawsuits challenging state regulation of prediction markets
✅Filed 2 lawsuits challenging state laws increasing egg prices
✅Filed 2 lawsuits challenging local bans on natural gas appliances
✅Filed 1 lawsuit challenging a state AI law

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 03:32 PM (E4rtv)

200
163 The SS agent who was caught wanking was actually trying out a SS pilot program . Stop assassinations but ejaculation in the assassins eyes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 03:24 PM

-----------

That was his explanation. I could understand his desperation to go from "retarded pervert looking at jail time" to "hero," but that's just sad.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 05, 2026 03:32 PM (PquBa)

201 US Secretary of State to meet with Pope Leo and Italian PM over Iran war.

Marco Rubio - He's everywhere you want him to be....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 03:30 PM (Sco7b)

------

I hope he tells them both to eff off. But I mean that in a nice way.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 03:33 PM (aZm/F)

202 I seriously doubt a stupid, corrupt white pretty boy like Newsom will be the Dem nominee in 28.

-
In a sane world, Gavin would be an obsequious waiter recommending the veal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 03:33 PM (ndZc7)

203 @167

>>I invite you to look at the polling.

This is what I think of that poll.

https://tinyurl.com/mrz6twnb

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)

204 One interesting change that is already happening in society is that the Karen and their younger versions have had fewer children.

A few generations ago most women had extended family to focus their attentions on but now? Their one child lives far away and isn't going to have a grandchild either. So its either get more cats or get into politics...

And this is very much a political split - right leaning women have twice as many children as left leaning women.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

Woke Reich Lefties Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Tuq'r Qarlson Join Coordinated Op to Merge the Far Left with the Woke Right

Their new op is decrying the artificial schism between communists and "the right" -- by which they mean national socialists -- and calling for communists and "the right" to merge and defeat the "real enemies," who are capitalists, normies, Christian Zionists, and, obviously, Jews.

This has been the op for two years. It is now so undeniable they're no longer denying it. It's now their open political ambition.

The far left knows it cannot command a majority. After trying, and failing, to take over the conservative movement through psyops and subterfuge -- good old communist subversion, inversion, and demorailzation -- the Woke Reich now knows there is no path to power in the GOP or conservative movement.

So they've decided to unite. Or, rather: they're now announcing their plan they've always been set on, uniting the most disgusting elements of the left and the pseudoright.

Cavernous Nostrils called for "fixing the fracture" between the left and "right," and Nazi fan Ian Carroll immediately jumped on board. (Well, actually, this had been gamed out behind the scenes. They're trying to make the new op appear "organic.")

Gal Sharpton was always on the left. She briefly pretended to "convert" to the right when she realized that a black female "right wing" grifter could make much, much more money than a been-there, done-than black female left-wing grifter.

The same logic explains why full-left liberals like David French continue pretending they're "on the right." The money is better pretending to be on the right while agreeing with every single policy imperative of the far left.

And now Gal Sharpton's campaigning for rightists (or people who falsely believe they're on the right) to join her in uniting with the left:

fixthefracture.jpg

candaceowensunitewiththeleft.jpg

You and Cavernous Nostrils are the most diabolical part of the parties, Nazi John Waters.

Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952

Have you noticed how the Halal Right has shifted its messaging to push "coming together" with the left? In this clip they are talking about a new party.

There won't be a new party. They are all full blown leftists and are uniting with the left and our enemies.

Candace said it yesterday. So did the gay pizza delivery guy.

Nick Fuentes has been saying it for a while.

Shawn [Ryan] glizzed fat Cenk and literally didn't disagree with him once on his show because he's now also a gay race communist.

If you don't see the op it's because you don't want to see it.

"Glizzed"? I've heard "glazed." I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that.

Nick Fuentes: "I'm a non-woke moderate Democrat."

"We have to Impeach the Orange. It's time to put this nigga in a peach."

"No Vance, no Rubio, we have to burn down the whole party."

Matt Forney
@mattforney

2h

Watching this creep speedrun the Richard Spencer arc is made even more surreal by the duper's delight smile he's struggling to conceal.

If you started watching Fuentes six months ago and attacked anyone who criticized him, this is your one-time amnesty. Get out of the cult.


DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican

12h

I've been relatively quiet on the subject of right-wing influencers who defected from MAGA.

But if they are actually proposing unity with left wing populist movements, then they are proposing unity with Communists.

That is the red line for me.

Almost as if this is all part of some pre-arranged coordinated op!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM




Comments

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1 who is funding these loons?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (CWTWj)

2 Where

Far Left = The Left

and

Woke Right = Also The Left

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (d997y)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (NcvvS)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

5 THOSE guys are FAGS!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Ace summarizing the news that I can't read elsewhere without vomiting.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (aUMnT)

7 posted this yesterday evening:

just saw this: raw story: the headline

This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

text:
Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time.

Governor Janet Mills suspended her Senate campaign Thursday, leaving Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner as the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in November.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (CWTWj)

8 Chaos on the right! (No actually, they were never on the right)

Posted by: steevy at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (YwEeS)

9 Nazis (original) were always leftists, if you define "leftism" as what it really is, not cool hippies, but people attempting to seize control of all facets of society thru a state mechanism by whatever force they can apply

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (60Adx)

10 Could aspiring artist with charisma and some good ideas be the Democrats' new champion?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (d997y)

11 Good afternoon, Ace! What are you wearing??

Posted by: fly gal at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (Otsi6)

12 "We have to Impeach the Orange. It's time to put this nigga in a peach."

Wow, I'm very impressed that you are so street and authentic and s***! I'll have to support you because obviously you're keeping it real.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

13 And yes, Yahoo. A Nazi oyster farmer is the new Democrat champion.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (iNUL3)

14 It’s time for the Great Divorce.

Let’s just do it.

Posted by: The Dog at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (XodLO)

15 What the f*ck is the "Epstein Class?"

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Oyster farmer?

I've plowed a few myself.

Posted by: Rando Poolboy at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (TezPK)

17 Cavernous Nostrils

Big enough for me to fly up there, maybe build a nest?

Posted by: a Bushtit at May 05, 2026 01:27 PM (UjdFS)

18 I continue to not be bothered by these fuckknuckles. Their whole existence is an op. The be an influencer, you have to influence. These internet generals have no divisions.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2026 01:27 PM (yfRPb)

19 CNO is toxic.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 01:27 PM (aUMnT)

20 I wonder how long it will take the eunuchs at The Bulwark and National Review to sign on.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t)

21 I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that.

I also propose "glizzed out" to be the mental state more politely described as "in the afterglow." Related to both "blissed out" and "glitched out," of course.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:28 PM (VHUov)

22 Where’s “It’s Go Time Donald” to trumpet the virtues of Nick Fuentes, how we need to embrace him and take him seriously, and how young people love him and therefore we should?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:28 PM (rkhDX)

23 I have found my political home at last!

Posted by: Captain Ahoy Krystol at May 05, 2026 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

24 18 I continue to not be bothered by these fuckknuckles. Their whole existence is an op. The be an influencer, you have to influence. These internet generals have no divisions.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2026 01:27 PM (yfRPb)

If you are referred to by that fake word, your influence is zero.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:29 PM (rkhDX)

25 What the f*ck is the "Epstein Class?"

They don't know, it just sounds good.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)

26 Coordinated Op to Merge the Far Left with the Woke Right

Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"

Here we go again.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (VHUov)

27 1 who is funding these loons?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (CWTWj)


It was Quatar but they had to drop them so IRCG picked up the ball for a few days but I think they've also stepped down. Soros seems to be the only one left.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (aUMnT)

28 It’s time for the Great Divorce.

Let’s just do it.

Posted by: The Dog at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (XodLO)

Can't.

Democrats are the crazy ex-wife (or ex-husband, if you prefer) who will drown your kids and burn the house down rather than let you leave with them.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (iNUL3)

29 They should close "NotTheBee" as redundant. Reality is now fully Babylon Bee territory.

Oh, btw, don't miss this California ad. "Moderate Democrats", whoever those people might be, are starting to wonder if maybe their heroes suck rotten eggs.

https://tinyurl.com/yjmxpcku

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (09oQ1)

30 "She turned me into a newt!"

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (YlWIZ)

31 Great news that nick f. now identifies as a democrat and funny too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (n5tGW)

32 What the f*ck is the "Epstein Class?"
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli

4" more leg room, and a 14-year-old.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (VHUov)

33 Nazis (original) were always leftists, if you define "leftism" as what it really is, not cool hippies, but people attempting to seize control of all facets of society thru a state mechanism by whatever force they can apply

I don't care what you call yourself, a boot in my face forever is a boot in my face forever.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

34 Oyster farmer.

Maryland man.

WTF is going on here?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

35 epstein class = the clintons

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (CWTWj)

36 Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"

Here we go again.
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (VHUov)

That thinking is not tolerated here but I happen to think that theory is quite valid.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (rkhDX)

37 Flatulencer >>> influencer

Posted by: Bean Bagger at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (TezPK)

38 5 THOSE guys are FAGS!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (Zz0t1

In behavior they are. And this is as useful as captioning all New Yorker cartoons, "I think I'll jusy kill myself."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 05, 2026 01:33 PM (YlWIZ)

39 The Epstein class is :

A bunch of prominent Dem pols
A bunch of prominent European pols
Much of Hollywood
Much of Academia
The occasional GOPer

Why do I expect these knuckleheads are going to be focused on attacking MAGA instead?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

40 1 who is funding these loons?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (CWTWj)


It was Quatar but they had to drop them so IRCG picked up the ball for a few days but I think they've also stepped down. Soros seems to be the only one left.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

True! Just ignore us.

Posted by: CCP at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (TezPK)

41 who is funding these loons?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (CWTWj)

The SPLC

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (8avO+)

42 Spencer Pratt is lit.

https://tinyurl.com/ytnw5cna

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (09oQ1)

43 Carlson, Greene, Kelly, Owens , Fuentes etc
I stand by my comment yesterday. " Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (gu0hJ)

44 Is history's greatest monster Winston Churchill or is it the half-you-know-who daughter of Patricia Swanson who refuses to deliver the TV dinner fortune to its rightful heirs?

Just asking questions.

Serious questions.

Posted by: C. Tarlson at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (X2tZ4)

45 1 who is funding these loons?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (CWTWj)
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If you click on any link to anything any of them has ever posted, you are.

Posted by: ballistic at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (oqH4h)

46 This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

text:
Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time.
.

How is Mills a phony Dem? She stood for every single thing the extreme left wanted. The only difference between her and Platner is that she doesn't have any NAZI tattoos...that we know of

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

47 There's going to be another looney tranny shooting as sure as God makes little green apples.

Posted by: torabora at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (mNG4E)

48 Who are these people? Serious question.

Sure, I know some of these slimy turd-herder griffs.

But Ian Carroll? Shawn Ryan? "Gay pizza delivery guy"?

Who the fuck are these losers? They couldn't ankle-bite a snake.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 05, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

49 yes, stalin on the left, hitler on the right, liberal democrats and gop establishment in the middle. like saying that water freezes at 32 and also freezes at 212. more bull crap from a cow, what a surprise

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:36 PM (CWTWj)

50 True! Just ignore us.

Posted by: CCP at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (TezPK)

CCP is out of money. China is a wreck.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 01:36 PM (aUMnT)

51 I'd be surprised if Tucker Carlson and Graham Platner weren't already acquainted . Both live in Maine. They live about 120 miles from each other.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2026 01:36 PM (dIske)

52 So what does “glazed” mean in this context?

You kids and your slang…

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

53 Spencer Pratt is lit.

https://tinyurl.com/ytnw5cna
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 01:34 PM (09oQ1)


Well, a butthurt antifa retard supported by the Democrats lit his house on fire......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

54
They make it sound so "reasonable". That is where the danger is.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (IifOV)

55 And now you know what happened to moo moo.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (viF8m)

56 When James Fishback gets 5% in the FL gubernatorial primary, you'll realize the true power of the woke right in the Republican Party.

You shall weep in despair at how all the young Republicans are going full on national socialist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (w4o6z)

57 The union of the left with this sort of Islamic friendly NAZI interest group makes perfect sense:

They both hate Jews
They both want socialism
They both hate America

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

58 Pro tip: all these juvenile nicknames for your enemies every other sentence only serves to make them look like the adults. Nobody is going to join a movement of 70yo's who act like 7yo's. Its embarrassing.

Posted by: No one at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (CQ3Qb)

59 "Glizzed"? I've heard "glazed." I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that.


It's all one big bukkake party.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

60 The left allows no differences of opinion. They will be crushed out or turned into identical clones of the others before long.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:38 PM (8avO+)

61 I just had a fun fantasy.

Kagan and Sotomayor retire to be with their softballs and donuts.

Leaving Jackson as the only progressive on the court.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:38 PM (w4o6z)

62 Sean Ryan (who's Joe Rogan, but with military experience) seems to be part of this, too, based on tweets and apparently youtube shorts (I've watched some, but not a lot of his stuff).

Posted by: Methos at May 05, 2026 01:38 PM (vSvIl)

63 I'll take their premise at face value rather than assume the bad faith that they are making it in.

While both the right populists and the left populists have a problem with the Corporatists, the solutions they present are not the same.

We need LESS government. Corporatists wouldn't be able to wield the power they do without the government. (See the COVID shutdowns- small business got destroyed while the large corporations all were allowed to continue business.)

Just because the populist left and right have problems with the "elite" doesn't mean they should join forces. When you join forces with people who have competing ideas of what a "solution" looks like, you end up with the reign of terror and thousands (probably millions today) dead.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 01:38 PM (N1DT3)

64 58 Pro tip: all these juvenile nicknames for your enemies every other sentence only serves to make them look like the adults. Nobody is going to join a movement of 70yo's who act like 7yo's. Its embarrassing.

Posted by: No one at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (CQ3Qb)

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Yeah, MAGAts, listen to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:38 PM (w4o6z)

65 I have no interest in finding common ground with people who have been screaming for the last 20 years they want me dead, my family dead and all my friends dead for the crime of not being a rabid leftist.

That my mere vote for a Republican is a death sentence.

Fuck you.

Die screaming in a fire, that's the common ground I'll give you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 01:39 PM (MtSIY)

66 Nobody is going to join a movement of 70yo's who act like 7yo's. Its embarrassing./i]

You know I've been known to throw around some silly names for silly people.

And they had a fancy poll in 2024 that said most Americans agree with me...

Posted by: Donald Trump at May 05, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)

67
The Nazi Oyster farmer is going to try and do the Ronald Reagan "Yes, because I used to be a democrat" line. You can bet on it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 05, 2026 01:39 PM (IifOV)

68 Ace, you can add a name to the list:

https://tinyurl.com/7ddp2p3a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 01:39 PM (Sk2hR)

69 We should have always called them what they were. Trans Republicans.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (d997y)

70 What the f*ck is the "Epstein Class?"
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

Democrats. That's what makes this funny.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (8avO+)

71 22 Where’s “It’s Go Time Donald” to trumpet the virtues of Nick Fuentes, how we need to embrace him and take him seriously, and how young people love him and therefore we should?
Posted by: Cow Demon

Out changing his party affiliation in concert with this crowd?

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (Wmg4n)

72 I guess I also have to stop watching Shawn Ryan's YT channel, which is slightly annoying but I guess I won't miss a whole lot.

Posted by: ballistic at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (oqH4h)

73 The Left has been infiltrating the GOP and conservative organizations forever. They are easy to spot but for some reason people are easily fooled. I think the Left infiltrators found out all they have to do is be outspoken on the controversial issue of the day and people on the Right will embrace them. Then they can gaslight on other issues before people realize they were fooled.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (kxLc1)

74 I have no interest in finding common ground with people who have been screaming for the last 20 years they want me dead, my family dead and all my friends dead for the crime of not being a rabid leftist.

AND they are shooting right leaning pols and...school children.

Hell, they just arrested a candidate for state office in PA because not only did he saw he was going to murder Trump, but he was going to murder Fetterman's daughter as well

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

75 eunuchs at The Bulwark"

Wilson Combat whimpers...

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (cGjQu)

76 Big enough for me to fly up there, maybe build a nest?
Posted by: a Bushtit at May 05, 2026 01:27 PM (UjdFS)

Feel free, 'cause however roomy it is, it's not roomy enough for the whole murder.

Posted by: The Crows at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (+5+0t)

77 Ace, you can add a name to the list:

https://tinyurl.com/7ddp2p3a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 01:39 PM (Sk2hR)


He wears his baseball cap backwards.


He's automatically a douchenozzle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

78 https://x.com/goynip/status/
2051714244479971532

Someone knows something about the SCOVA ruling on the VA congressional maps case.

I hope I'm wrong and the GOP on SCOVA decide that they can't save themselves from a Democrat governor replacing them by placating her on this one issue and just burn down her great achievement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (w4o6z)

79 I denounce this attempt by a venomous coalition of globalists to cancel our own people and police the conscience of Christians.

Posted by: Femboys are the Future of the Foundation at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (X2tZ4)

80 >>Out changing his party affiliation in concert with this crowd?

It's Go Time Donald was moo moo.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (viF8m)

81 After trying, and failing, to take over the conservative movement through psyops and subterfuge -- good old communist subversion, inversion, and demorailzation -- the Woke Reich now knows there is no path to power in the GOP or conservative movement.

---------

They appear to be Step 7 of the GloboHomo Deep State Color Revolution here (employing the "Destabilization Strategy" as depicted in the TV Series "Slow Horses"):

1, Compromise an enemy agent (or insider) ✔️
2. Mass shooting / Spectacular violence ✔️
3. Disrupt transport / Infrastructure ✔️
4. Seize the media / Distraction ✔️
5. Assassinate a populist leader ✔️
6. Blind the enemy ✔️
7. Sting in the Tail

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (9Kqhl)

82 74
Hell, they just arrested a candidate for state office in PA because not only did he saw he was going to murder Trump, but he was going to murder Fetterman's daughter as well

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

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Fetterman has voted against all but one of Trump's judicial picks, but the left acts like he's some kind of traitor because he says, "Don't call Republicans Nazis."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (w4o6z)

83 eunuchs at The Bulwark"

Here at the Lincoln Project we certainly couldn't be confused for eunuchs. Just ask the boys we have locked in our basements!

Posted by: John Weaver at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

84 Coordinated Op to Merge the Far Left with the Woke Right

Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"

Here we go again.
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (VHUov)

The first lie was that the Commies and Nazis were on opposite sides. The Circle thing was just yet another way to cloud the issue.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (8avO+)

85 Trying to make him out to be just a working class oyster farmer is also a lie .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (kxLc1)

86 80 >>Out changing his party affiliation in concert with this crowd?

It's Go Time Donald was moo moo.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 01:41 PM (viF8m)

=====

He's back with a new name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (w4o6z)

87 re 60: no, they often have different opinions about whom to imprison (us and mostly each other)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:43 PM (CWTWj)

88
He's back with a new name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (w4o6z)


Paul? Sid? Average Joe makes a comeback?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

89
Yeah, MAGAts, listen to him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:38 PM (w4o6z)

It’s TACO Tuesday!

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 01:43 PM (Wmg4n)

90 all these juvenile nicknames for your enemies every other sentence only serves to make them look like the adults.
--------

I was always partial to Mocha Messiah. But if you put some play on fag in front of any name that works pretty well too so it's not like you're expending too much effort which can be gauche.

For example, Fag Fuentes. Be honest. How good does THAT sound?? Or Fagger Carlson.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:43 PM (d997y)

91 Someone knows something about the SCOVA ruling on the VA congressional maps case.

Saw a new story that .1% of Polymarket accounts get 67% of the earnings.

I suspect there is rampant insider betting...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

92 Trying to make him out to be just a working class oyster farmer is also a lie .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (kxLc1)


They're democrats. All they HAVE is lies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

93 85 Trying to make him out to be just a working class oyster farmer is also a lie .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:42 PM (kxLc1)

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Collins is going to win by 12 points if Platner stays in the race. She will win no polls before the election, though.

If the rumors of some terrible oppo being held back until the official nomination are true, though...

Well, Platner will stay in the race because he's stupid. The Democrat Party will write him off. And Collins will win by 25.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (w4o6z)

94 Candace as a “unifier.”
Nick Fuentes as a “unifier.”

Sure this isn’t a Babylon Bee joke?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (4KUe5)

95 >>>Or, rather: they're now announcing their plan they've always been set on, uniting the most disgusting elements of the left and the pseudoright.

Can they even be said to be of the pseudo-right, since they have long since abandoned any and all precepts that could at some time be considered right or conservative?

I mean, are they currently really even fooling anyone of any note or critical mass?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (dK+Kv)

96 Candace as a “unifier.”
Nick Fuentes as a “unifier.”

Sure this isn’t a Babylon Bee joke?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (4KUe5)


Weren't they just in Greece together or some shit?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

97 Shawn Ryan turned out to be not very bright. In fact, a dumb tool.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (INQN/)

98 91 Someone knows something about the SCOVA ruling on the VA congressional maps case.

Saw a new story that .1% of Polymarket accounts get 67% of the earnings.

I suspect there is rampant insider betting...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

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Of course there is.

Which is why those kinds of huge moves like in the xeet are indications of insiders with most of the shares making a move. This ain't the stock market where it takes Vanguard selling off its entire portfolio to tank a stock 50%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (w4o6z)

99 He's back with a new name.

Which is?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

100 And they included Islamists at their lil’ unity event.
Holy sh$t, are they really pretending it’s, like, 2005 or something??????

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (4KUe5)

101 The first lie was that the Commies and Nazis were on opposite sides. The Circle thing was just yet another way to cloud the issue./i]

Yep.

Fascism is a socialist heresy. Standard socialism says it has to be the whole world, or as much as they can take over.

Mussolini rejected that and argued you could have socialism in one country.

Now, this isn't just an academic dispute, it led to the German-Soviet side of the conflict in WWII but...both sides are still socialists. Its like the Sunni-Shia dispute. Sure it matters to Muslims, but as a non-Muslim they are all just Muslims to me...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

102 This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

text:
Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time.
.

How is Mills a phony Dem? She stood for every single thing the extreme left wanted. The only difference between her and Platner is that she doesn't have any NAZI tattoos...that we know of
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

Like all leftists, who purges who is a matter for discussion. Her stepping down means at least in Maine the Nazis are in charge.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (8avO+)

103 99 He's back with a new name.

Which is?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

======

He has the same commenting pattern, quoting pattern, and tendency to bring in Reddit insights randomly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (w4o6z)

104 New footage of that United jet's landing in Newark a few days ago:

https://tinyurl.com/3dtmer7p

How low can you get?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (Sk2hR)

105
Saw a new story that .1% of Polymarket accounts get 67% of the earnings.

I suspect there is rampant insider betting...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

Why can’t one of us be part of this crowd?

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (Wmg4n)

106 I wonder if handwringing fuckwit Ian Carroll could point out a single "extreme right" policy being implemented today, even though that's the basis of his "both sides are being too extreme" argument.

Fuck you, you lying sack of shit.

Posted by: far cry at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (X+NGn)

107 102 How is Mills a phony Dem? She stood for every single thing the extreme left wanted. The only difference between her and Platner is that she doesn't have any NAZI tattoos...that we know of
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)


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Platner is going to be the Todd Akin of 2026.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (w4o6z)

108 Just weird.

So who is funding this? All of these people are retards of the first order.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (9YP4A)

109 Almost as if this is all part of some pre-arranged coordinated op!
=
Which just happens to coincide with the candidates who "used to* work for the CIA.

Posted by: Methos at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (vSvIl)

110 I love how people don't want Tucker being called names when the shtick that elevated him was literally making funny faces at people while they were talking.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (d997y)

111 trump can unify the country by giving the dems what they want

dems will later unify the country by arresting trump the day after he leaves office

win/win

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (CWTWj)

112 If the rumors of some terrible oppo being held back until the official nomination are true, though...

I hope the rest of the GOP is ready to "pounce".

If there is a video of the guy at a Neo-NAZI rally or similar every Republican nationwide had been be ready to run those ads.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

113 He has the same commenting pattern, quoting pattern, and tendency to bring in Reddit insights randomly.

Are you protecting the name for a reason?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (Riz8t)

114 36 Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"

Here we go again.
Posted by: mikeski

Horseshoe theory. But that is also problematic. Jerry Pournelle and later libertarians in the World's Smallest Ideological Quiz propose a two axis placement of ideology instead which fits empirical results better.

From wiki
"The x-axis, "Attitude toward the State" (labeled statism), refers to a political philosophy's attitude toward the state and centralized government. The furthest right is "state worship" and the furthest left represents the state as the "ultimate evil", preferring individual freedom.

The y-axis, "Attitude toward planned social progress" (labeled rationalism), refers to the extent which a political philosophy is compatible with the idea that social problems can be solved by the use of reason."

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (E4rtv)

115 The first lie was that the Commies and Nazis were on opposite sides. The Circle thing was just yet another way to cloud the issue.

Commies (international socialists) and Nazis (national socialists) are on "opposite sides" like Coke and Pepsi are on opposite sides or Ford and Chevy are on opposite sides. They're enemies because they're vying for the same target market.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (vTZFs)

116 112 If the rumors of some terrible oppo being held back until the official nomination are true, though...

I hope the rest of the GOP is ready to "pounce".

If there is a video of the guy at a Neo-NAZI rally or similar every Republican nationwide had been be ready to run those ads.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

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The GOP did this with Tom Cotton one year.

8-10 years ago, or so. They waited quietly for the Dems to complete the nomination. Then they dumped a mountain of oppo literally the next day.

Dude dropped out of the race and Cotton ran unopposed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (w4o6z)

117 Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"
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Nope.

It's a stupid story dull-witted Education majors repeat as some sort of wisdom.
But with the pernicious intent of deceiving that "extremes" are the danger and the extreme left is really just extreme conservative; left is centrist.

It is not.

Reality is, governance is a scale of individual freedoms between anarchy and totalitarianism.
There is no "extremes meet" because they are and always have been on the same side of the scale.

The retarded "circle" ignores consideration of individual freedoms.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (MtSIY)

118 >>>Or, rather: they're now announcing their plan they've always been set on, uniting the most disgusting elements of the left and the pseudoright.

Can they even be said to be of the pseudo-right, since they have long since abandoned any and all precepts that could at some time be considered right or conservative?

I mean, are they currently really even fooling anyone of any note or critical mass?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (dK+Kv)

If they were they would still be in place undermining MAGA. This is a huge admission of failure.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (8avO+)

119 Which is?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

You'll recognize it as soon as he starts misbehaving again.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (d997y)

120 113 He has the same commenting pattern, quoting pattern, and tendency to bring in Reddit insights randomly.

Are you protecting the name for a reason?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (Riz8t)

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What if I'm wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (w4o6z)

121 Anyone wanna take a wild guess why?

@ConwayShow 29m
San Pedro tunnel fire closes northbound 110 Freeway lanes indefinitely | KTLA

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (diia5)

122 Baby's got a brand new bag.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (9YP4A)

123 Yay! we aren't all going to die in a global fire! The earth got over its fever!

"The IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures."

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (n5tGW)

124 FWIW, Jerry Pournelle had a Phd and taught political science at Pepperdine before moving to NASA (and later writing and computers).

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (E4rtv)

125 Why would any self-respection oyster farmer give up his glamorous, mentally stimulating career to run for Senate?

Oh, right, Nazi.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (wBaIH)

126 What if I'm wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (w4o6z)

Like you were about Prometheus?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (d997y)

127 104 New footage of that United jet's landing in Newark a few days ago:

https://tinyurl.com/3dtmer7p

How low can you get?!

Who was the pilot, Wei Tu Lo?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (Riz8t)

128 What if I'm wrong?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (w4o6z)

When has that stopped you?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (9YP4A)

129 126 What if I'm wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (w4o6z)

Like you were about Prometheus?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (d997y)

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I was very wrong that it was Scott's 4th best movie.

Really, it's his 3rd.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (w4o6z)

130
If you can stand someone calling you a mean name in politics and carry on with whatever your ideology tells you to do you don't belong in politics.

Trump has people shooting at him. Yes he calls other people silly names. Why the *hell* are people more worried about the latter then the former?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

131 Ugh, I really liked Shawn Ryan's work. He had a lot of great discussions, especially with the vets. But I've learned as a recovering GWB supporter to let go of support when warranted.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (cZMme)

132


"I had a lengthy discussion with Cenk Yugurt"

Was it a REASONABLE DISCUSSION! JUST WANTS TO HAVE A REASONABLE DISCUSSION!

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (et1vG)

133 Are you protecting the name for a reason?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:47 PM (Riz8t)

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What if I'm wrong?

Then I will taunt you a second time.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (Riz8t)

134 Theory: the vaccines made everyone retarded.

(I was already retarded so I didn't need to take them)

Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (q177U)

135 Does Platner have the libertarian line also? The Dems are famous for running a "libertarian" who is really a Dem to try and drain votes from the Republican. That's a possibility in Maine if Platner is the nominee

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (gu0hJ)

136 128 What if I'm wrong?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (w4o6z)

When has that stopped you?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (9YP4A)

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If you people can't accept that Marion Barry was set up, I don't know what I can or can't believe anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (w4o6z)

137 I did get a kick out of Ted Cruz being some kind of standard bearer. Puhlease.

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (cS1cw)

138 The y-axis, "Attitude toward planned social progress" (labeled rationalism), refers to the extent which a political philosophy is compatible with the idea that social problems can be solved by the use of reason."
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:48 PM (E4rtv)

I just reject the entire premise. How some French radicals sat in a tennis court in the 1780-90s isn't any kind of theory at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (8avO+)

139 46 This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

text:
Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time.
.

How is Mills a phony Dem? She stood for every single thing the extreme left wanted. The only difference between her and Platner is that she doesn't have any NAZI tattoos...that we know of


Word is she has a tramp stamp, or auf deutsch:
(from google translate)


Arschgeweih is a German colloquial term, literally translating to "ass antlers," used to describe a popular 1990s and early 2000s lower-back tattoo. It refers to symmetrical tribal or floral designs positioned above the tailbone, often called a "tramp stamp" in English. The term became cultural shorthand for this trend, which fell out of fashion later.

"ass antlers" really cracks me up

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at May 05, 2026 01:51 PM (Iwv3U)

140 133 Then I will taunt you a second time.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (Riz8t)

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Archimedes is French!

And here I thought he was Greek...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:51 PM (w4o6z)

141 The left calls Jerry Pournelle a NAZI.

No based on his stated political views it doesn't make any sense.

I do wonder as this union of NAZI and internal socialists continue though what the left will start to call its enemies...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

142 Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"

Here we go again.
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (VHUov)

That thinking is not tolerated here but I happen to think that theory is quite valid.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (rkhDX)

It's not that it's not tolerated, it's that it's not true. All of the Nazi "right" turn out to be folks whose world view should put them on the left, but they had some kind of snitfit and 'changed sides' by becoming the left's caricature of the right. Eventually they decide to go home. That's all you're seeing.

Posted by: Methos at May 05, 2026 01:51 PM (vSvIl)

143 Reality is, governance is a scale of individual freedoms between anarchy and totalitarianism.
There is no "extremes meet" because they are and always have been on the same side of the scale.

The retarded "circle" ignores consideration of individual freedoms.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

And that is why political philosophy ignores the concept. Instead, there are various forms of charting ideology via at several axis using a core value. See Nominate Scores for example rather than the pawltry cherry picked scorecards used by interest groups. You can get good information from scorecards if you aggregate them but by themselves as individual scorecards, they are pretty useless.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:51 PM (E4rtv)

144 If you people can't accept that Marion Barry was set up, I don't know what I can or can't believe anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:50 PM (w4o6z)

All one can know is that one knows nothing. This is the path to wisdom.
-Butchered Quotes'R'Us

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 01:52 PM (9YP4A)

145 I haven't seen anything made by the femboy who proudly declares himself a nazi, but he's enormously popular, and it's not a smart thing to declare him a nazi.

Posted by: n itwit at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (X2tZ4)

146 A$$ antlers

That is perfection!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (4KUe5)

147 145 I haven't seen anything made by the femboy who proudly declares himself a nazi, but he's enormously popular, and it's not a smart thing to declare him a nazi.

Posted by: n itwit at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (X2tZ4)

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Enormously popular...where?

With whom?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (w4o6z)

148 I always got an "ick" feeling about Shawn Ryan starting with the Army guy who allegedly set explosives off in his Tesla in front of a LV Trump hotel. Shawn Ryan comes across as a sleazy con artist with his bedroom voice and his cheesy home cocktail lounge.

Posted by: fly gal at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (Otsi6)

149 And here is a point on the whole "extremes" - imagine a government completely made up of Trumps. Or Santorums. Or Pat Robertsons. Whoever the left has as their boogie man of the moment

Such a government would have fewer laws, a smaller scope, and more freedom then what we have now. This isn't up for any sort of serious question.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

150 New footage of that United jet's landing in Newark a few days ago:

https://tinyurl.com/3dtmer7p

How low can you get?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
.......

almost a total catastrophe.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (v0R5T)

151 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at May 05, 2026 01:54 PM (y4Ge6)

152 Why would any self-respection oyster farmer give up his glamorous, mentally stimulating career to run for Senate?

Oh, right, Nazi.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (wBaIH)

Maybe he wore his arm out, fertilizing all those oysters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 01:54 PM (utfVc)

153 f you can stand someone calling you a mean name in politics and carry on with whatever your ideology tells you to do you don't belong in politics.

Trump has people shooting at him. Yes he calls other people silly names. Why the *hell* are people more worried about the latter then the former?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

Because the only gravity these people have is a charade given to them by the loud job titles. When was the last time one of them said anything worth hearing rather than cribbing lines from a 1930s Soviet Poster?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:55 PM (8avO+)

154 The whole American Left and Right meet somewhere is bs.

There is one thing the Left and Right "meet" on, and it's hatred of Jews.

You will note that is the "intersection" here.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:55 PM (d997y)

155 Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm

Trump has been calling opponents stupid nicknames before he was officially in politics. And it's non-partisan.

Ridicule is a powerful political weapon though.

My position is to ridicule when the opponent will never be open to reasonable discussion. Which is what the Democrats have become.



Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:55 PM (kxLc1)

156 Saw a new story that .1% of Polymarket accounts get 67% of the earnings.

I suspect there is rampant insider betting...
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You can bet on what the temperature will be in a specific location.

So a guy placed a huge bet it'd be higher than predicted.

And went out to the official weather station with a heat gun.

LOL.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 01:56 PM (MtSIY)

157 155 Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm

Trump has been calling opponents stupid nicknames before he was officially in politics. And it's non-partisan.

Ridicule is a powerful political weapon though.

My position is to ridicule when the opponent will never be open to reasonable discussion. Which is what the Democrats have become.



Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:55 PM (kxLc1)

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But, Harry, Americans greatly value restrained statesmanship in their politicians. All of electoral history bears this out because of the long line of boring academics who became dominant political forces.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:56 PM (w4o6z)

158 Enormously popular...where?

With whom?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (w4o6z)
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Was poking fun at a troll from threads past, but it seems a similar one named "Sid" has just shown up.

Posted by: n itwit at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (X2tZ4)

159 They may may not necessarily think it's a good idea, but they are probably sponsored by the same people, both the extreme pro-Hamas left and the fake right. Their sponsors think it's a good idea to bring them together and these fake "influencers" would do anything to keep the money coming.

Posted by: PG at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (du9mZ)

160 There is one thing the Left and Right "meet" on, and it's hatred of Jews.

You will note that is the "intersection" here.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:55 PM (d997y)

Dude again those people were never on the Right even if they pretended to be.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (kxLc1)

161 I prefer no tats at all on people but the left' reaction is even more comical than ever.

Jerusalem Cross = white supremacist crazy evil racist

Actual SS Death's Head = silly mistake in the past, totally good guy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (uEYKS)

162 132 "I had a lengthy discussion with Cenk Yugurt"

Goldie G. calls him Chunky Yogurt ... publicly, if not to his face.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (aUMnT)

163 Posted by: No one at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (CQ3Qb)

Is that you Burt? That sounds like you Burt! Don't be a Burt, Burt!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (zBgIx)

164 141 The left calls Jerry Pournelle a NAZI.

No based on his stated political views it doesn't make any sense.

I do wonder as this union of NAZI and internal socialists continue though what the left will start to call its enemies...
Posted by: 18-1
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Jerry has been dead for awhile now. He got some bug at Dragon Con and died shortly thereafter. Think Roberta now has passed on as well. Kids did still have his Chaos Manor website up though last time I checked.

Guy knew his political theory and worked to get Sam Yorty, probably the last good mayor of LA, elected.

He always mentioned a key book, very readable btw, by C. Northcote Parkinson (of Parkinson's Law--"The number of workers within public administration tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done." You can still buy an out of print copy--The Evolution of Political Thought. Dry, sarcastic, and a very good summary of the past political theory of the past.

Parkinson later wrote novels, in part, to escape the 1970's pessimism I guess from his career in analyzing political theory and its future application in society.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (E4rtv)

165 145 I haven't seen anything made by the femboy who proudly declares himself a nazi, but he's enormously popular, and it's not a smart thing to declare him a nazi.

Posted by: n itwit at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (X2tZ4)

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Enormously popular...where?

With whom?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:53 PM (w4o6z)

The dems cut him off from banking and such a while ago and it cost them nothing. Sometime after that he at least was able to get finances for his sweet podcast studio setup.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+)

166 >>>Once the US cuts off Israel, peace can finally reign.
Posted by: Sid at May 05, 2026 01:54 PM (y4Ge6)

Is this a joke account?

Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2026 01:58 PM (q177U)

167 166 Is this a joke account?

Posted by: Max Power at May 05, 2026 01:58 PM (q177U)

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The world was at peace before 1947 and the establishment of the modern state of Israel

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:58 PM (w4o6z)

168 New footage of that United jet's landing in Newark a few days ago:

https://tinyurl.com/3dtmer7p

How low can you get?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 01:46 PM (Sk2hR)

I love the question to @grok in that string:

@grok did the glideslope malfunction, account for the pole?

Um, the weather was sunny and clear. In that case the glideslope is only a backup to the visual approach. Both pilots screwed the pooch on that one.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 01:58 PM (Y1sOo)

169 Could oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo scandal be Democrats' new champion?

--------

🎶

Devil with the Death Head, Death Head, Death Head
Devil with the Death Head tat

🎶

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:58 PM (9Kqhl)

170 Anyone, anywhere asking me to agree with, come together with, or fight with, the left (today's leftist Americans) is fucking nuts.

We have nothing in common. Nothing.

I don't want troops on the ground in Iran. So, maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 01:59 PM (aZm/F)

171 Don't take Chunky Yogurt if you are allergic to Chunky Yogurt.

Posted by: Big Yogurt at May 05, 2026 01:59 PM (v0R5T)

172 148 I always got an "ick" feeling about Shawn Ryan starting with the Army guy who allegedly set explosives off in his Tesla in front of a LV Trump hotel. Shawn Ryan comes across as a sleazy con artist with his bedroom voice and his cheesy home cocktail lounge.
Posted by: fly gal
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If you care to find it online, Shawn tells an interviewer that he was a drug dealer for a time in Colombia while being a CIA operative and heavy substance abuser. Dunno if that has been scrubbed recently but I saw it a couple of months ago when he started becoming a thing on YT.

Guy ain't to be trusted as stable nor moral.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:00 PM (E4rtv)

173 Dude again those people were never on the Right even if they pretended to be.

I agree, but unfortunately yes there are those on the right who are very anti-Jewish, including some who visit here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:00 PM (uEYKS)

174 Um, the weather was sunny and clear. In that case the glideslope is only a backup to the visual approach. Both pilots screwed the pooch on that one.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 01:58 PM (Y1sOo)

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DEI FTW?

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:00 PM (9Kqhl)

175 all I want out of this divorce is to lead a squad to blow up a dam to take out a bridge stacked with communists

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 05, 2026 02:01 PM (jrgJz)

176 Dude again those people were never on the Right even if they pretended to be.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:57 PM (kxLc1)

I didn't say they were. In fact you will find me among only a select few that has long called Tucker and Megyn (and Vivek and others) exactly what they were. I do not require an education on this subject. (unless you're a leggy redhead in which case educate away)

The reality is there is a "far right" that blames Jews for the ills of the world. I don't know how "right" they really are but unless it's all astroturf, they are not of the Left. Plus I've known a number of real life righties that have some "interesting" things to say about Jews among others.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:01 PM (d997y)

177 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:56 PM (w4o6z)

Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the Continental Liar from the State of Maine

Ma Ma Where's my Pa?

( Gone to the White House Ha Ha Ha.) Awesome retort.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:01 PM (kxLc1)

178 But, Harry, Americans greatly value restrained statesmanship in their politicians. All of electoral history bears this out because of the long line of boring academics who became dominant political forces.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 01:56 PM (w4o6z)

In fact, this is a fairly recent thing, this name calling. It was unheard of in our history. In fact, it is merely by happenstance that the dem party is represented by a Jackass and has nothing to do with the fact that Andrew Jackson was called one, and instead of being a baby, he embraced it. This parlayed right into the symbol representing Dems to this day on this fairytale.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:02 PM (Wmg4n)

179 178 In fact, this is a fairly recent thing, this name calling. It was unheard of in our history. In fact, it is merely by happenstance that the dem party is represented by a Jackass and has nothing to do with the fact that Andrew Jackson was called one, and instead of being a baby, he embraced it. This parlayed right into the symbol representing Dems to this day on this fairytale.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:02 PM (Wmg4n)

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Those John Adams/Thomas Jefferson accusations were lit.

“A blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:02 PM (w4o6z)

180 I don't want troops on the ground in Iran. So, maybe I'm wrong.

I think everyone but Lindsay Graham agrees on this.

But what we are seeing right now is what happens to a society when you violate the unwritten rule of no politics or religion in polite company. The left violated that worse than a Hollywood party passing around a Disney starlet. They didn't just decide to ignore the rule, they began forcing their positions and opinions on everyone, in every setting, without rest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:03 PM (uEYKS)

181 Jerry Pournelle had his own 2 dimensional political chart.

He rates NAZIs and commie as in agreement as the state as good, with the NAZIs fully irrational and the commies fully rational.

I get what he's going for but I don't agree. Socialism enthrones pseudo-science and then rejects any test of their nominal science out of hand - for example look at a simple comparison of North and South Korea since WWII.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

182 It would be nice to see “fugacity,” “glizzed,” and “ass antlers” all used in a limerick. The same limerick.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 02:03 PM (77rzZ)

183 Nick Fuentes: "I'm a non-woke moderate Democrat."

"We have to Impeach the Orange. It's time to put this nigga in a peach."

"No Vance, no Rubio, we have to burn down the whole party."


Sorry. But I'm past time for the trigger pulling to begin.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:04 PM (xHq83)

184 I am barely smart enough, and barely care enough, to divide the political world into statists and sane people.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 05, 2026 02:04 PM (GPa4z)

185 Sorry if anyone has already commented on this; it looks to me like they're trying to do a hostile takeover of Turning Point USA. The infrastructure of the organization is established, there's a large base of support, and it's an easier way of getting your message out rather than building your own organization from scratch.

Posted by: RPL at May 05, 2026 02:04 PM (6lCOl)

186 Goldie G. calls him Chunky Yogurt

I prefer Chunk Wheezer, or when I am really annoyed, Chuck Whigger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (uEYKS)

187 Politics exists in L-dimensional space, where L is sufficiently large as to be non-comprehensible. The "World's Smallest Ideological Quiz" with its two axes is intended to direct people in a certain direction (toward libertarianism), and is about as enormous an oversimplification as a one-axis view of right versus left or as "horseshoe theory".

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (d09E8)

188 Kyle Mann of the Babylon Bee is right. It's a fabulous headline.
Reminder: Nazis are on the left wing of politics. The name is National Socialist in English.

Posted by: Roland Hirsch at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (Imt38)

189 I agree, but unfortunately yes there are those on the right who are very anti-Jewish, including some who visit here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:00 PM (uEYKS)

I am always amazed by how much the Jews are hated.

It doesn't make sense... until I remember it's a spiritual battle, not a logical one.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (N1DT3)

190 Maybe we should start calling them "The Boys from Brazil".

Owens is just a self-aggrandizing lunatic. I doubt she understands or believes half the stuff she says. Megan Kelly is more in this group than the former.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (dIske)

191 190 Maybe we should start calling them "The Boys from Brazil".

Owens is just a self-aggrandizing lunatic. I doubt she understands or believes half the stuff she says. Megan Kelly is more in this group than the former.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (dIske)

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Owens has never been wrong about anything ever.

I just need to know how she defeated the French/Israeli assassination squad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:06 PM (w4o6z)

192 Saw a new story that .1% of Polymarket accounts get 67% of the earnings.

I suspect there is rampant insider betting...
---
You can bet on what the temperature will be in a specific location.

So a guy placed a huge bet it'd be higher than predicted.

And went out to the official weather station with a heat gun.

LOL.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 01:56 PM (MtSIY)

That's pretty much global warming research in a nutshell. Weather stations used to be in cooler areas around airports, out of the city's heat island. Now these stations are all inside the heat island. They have found stations surrounded by black asphalt parking lots, next to A/C exhausts, or even missing entirely and 'projected' from stations they liked the results from.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

193 Just as a basic point here - Donald Trump is a moderate Democrat from the 90s, implementing what were considered moderate Dem ideas from the time.

So when Fuentes calls himself a moderate Dem and then calls for removing Trump he is negating himself.

Moderate Dem positions:
All illegals should be sent home and immigration kept at low to moderate levels
Taxes are about where they should be.
A $2T federal budget is high enough
We need don't ask don't tell but homosexuality should be forced in anyone's fake and trannies are mentally ill

and on and on...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

194 Who are all these idiots who don't know how to use hyphens, and why am I seeing this everywhere lately?

This- is incorrect.

This - is correct.

Why is that so hard?

Posted by: massideas at May 05, 2026 02:06 PM (q2B29)

195 Ian Carrol is clinical moron, not a good one like you fine people here at AoS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2026 02:07 PM (xvV+O)

196 Megan Kelly is more in this group than the former.

For her, I think its about money: she goes wherever she figures the earning is.

Someone hacked into Tucker Carlson's x account and found that he has 7500 subscribers. His huge numbers are purchased bots and people from places like Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:07 PM (uEYKS)

197 Name Calling Gem:

"Go get another booster, you angry drunk."

about You Know Who

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 05, 2026 02:07 PM (DgMqy)

198 DEI FTW?
Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:00 PM (9Kqhl)

Either way, ALPA will go to bat for them.

(I was a member of ALPA for 30 years, so I've seen some shit where pilots keep their jobs after events such as this).

Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 02:07 PM (Y1sOo)

199 The first lie was that the Commies and Nazis were on opposite sides. The Circle thing was just yet another way to cloud the issue.
Posted by: Oldcat

The first lie is a lie, Nazis are leftist and always have been, if left/right means anything.

I said the circle theory exists, not that I subscribe to it, or that it makes sense in the real world. "The pure communism where everyone is the government is really the same as the pure anarchism where nobody is the government." I think Syndrome said something about that. But neither one can happen in a society that's not made up of robots or angels.

And I apologize for derailing the thread with an offhand comment. Please return to discussions of corvids, shelving, and boobs.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 02:08 PM (VHUov)

200 The Dems are always the rule when describing evil positions.

The Republicans are always the exception to the rule when describing those same evil positions.

But it's always used to frame both parties as the same.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:08 PM (kxLc1)

201 I agree, but unfortunately yes there are those on the right who are very anti-Jewish, including some who visit here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:00 PM (uEYKS)

I am always amazed by how much the Jews are hated.

It doesn't make sense... until I remember it's a spiritual battle, not a logical one.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (N1DT3)

pretty simple. Jews, as a group, tend to be smarter and more successful. In days of yore they were excluded from a lot of jobs that gave status like landholding, so they worked in trade and lending. So people soon owed them money.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:08 PM (8avO+)

202 Ian Carrol is clinical moron

To use a term I learned here, she's a bunny boiler. She's the kind of crazy woman they make movies warning about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:08 PM (uEYKS)

203 I agree, but unfortunately yes there are those on the right who are very anti-Jewish, including some who visit here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


I'm always amazed at the amount of JINO there are. When half the world wants you dead, hoping the alligator eats you last is a funny way to game it out.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:09 PM (xHq83)

204 I prefer Chunk Wheezer, or when I am really annoyed, Chuck Whigger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:05 PM (uEYKS)

That's nice but both Goldie and Tousi are regularly invited on to Fox and some other channels. The interviewers appear very nervous sometimes ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 02:10 PM (aUMnT)

205 I sincerely believe anyone who encourages or believes a democrat congress and Presidency would be good for the country is insane.

I said yesterday and stand by it that being on the left, you're just varying degrees of crazy. And not temporarily have an off day, crazy, I mean you're nuts.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 02:10 PM (aZm/F)

206 It is an op. I specifically delineated the shape of this op, a year or more ago, before there was even a whiff of it. I saw what was happening, here and other places, and called it. It was obvious the Left had nothing to sell so the next best thing would be breaking the competition..

They had it all laid out and were going to use the power of the Epstein Story to do it. But Trump saw it coming and defused it like a magician. They've carried it on of course but it did not have the weight it was supposed to once Trump pulled the plug on it by calling "some" of his supporters crazy. It was a risk but he had to do it.

It was intended to bifurcate the entire movement but instead Trump dictated the shape and size of the split. With Iran they had another chance to try again. But this is now more about headlines than engineering a split.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:10 PM (d997y)

207 I just reject the entire premise. How some French radicals sat in a tennis court in the 1780-90s isn't any kind of theory at all.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Past echoes to the present. Dialectical Leninism used a variant of it and thus the commies brought it into today. That is why they never value the present or past.

If you read some of the literature by the troon, feminism, or whateve movement for example, they regard it as self evident that everyone is born a blank slate and society warps them inevitably so we must destroy it.

E.g. If we want Iran to be peaceful, then all we have to do is think happy thoughts about it and shovel them money to make them happy. Empiricism is NOT viewed as compatible with rationalism from first principles on the left but is why Pournelle combines this axis with another regarding the state.

Pournelle is not talking about logic here, but the philosophy of rationalism. From another approach, Terry Guillam's "Adventures of Baron von Munchausen" demonstrates the absurdities of believing that one can think something into existence and ignore reality that contradicts one's thought.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

208 Those John Adams/Thomas Jefferson accusations were lit.

“A blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:02 PM (w4o6z)


What ever you say YOU HATCHED FACED NUTMEG DEALER

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 05, 2026 02:10 PM (ubCxQ)

209 Lunatics seeking lunatics for fun and frolic, and some murder and mayhem.

Posted by: mrp at May 05, 2026 02:11 PM (rj6Yv)

210 The Evolution of Political Thought.

Free at the best hack site on Earth.

Archive.org; The Evolution of Political Thought; PDF

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:11 PM (fnZRl)

211 206 It is an op. I specifically delineated the shape of this op, a year or more ago, before there was even a whiff of it. I saw what was happening, here and other places, and called it. It was obvious the Left had nothing to sell so the next best thing would be breaking the competition..

They had it all laid out and were going to use the power of the Epstein Story to do it. But Trump saw it coming and defused it like a magician. They've carried it on of course but it did not have the weight it was supposed to once Trump pulled the plug on it by calling "some" of his supporters crazy. It was a risk but he had to do it.

It was intended to bifurcate the entire movement but instead Trump dictated the shape and size of the split. With Iran they had another chance to try again. But this is now more about headlines than engineering a split.
Posted by: ...
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James Lindsay was saying something similar about the same time.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:11 PM (E4rtv)

212 36 Isn't there an old theory that the "Left/Right" thing isn't a line, but a circle, and they meet at both the "moderate" and "extremist" "ends?"

Here we go again.
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:30 PM (VHUov)

That thinking is not tolerated here but I happen to think that theory is quite valid.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:31 PM (rkhDX)

I think that "horseshoe theory" is an artifact of oversimplification. Human society is n-dimensional, so of course politics is; and if you try to model it one dimension, that's even worse than shining a flashlight past a complex object and trying to understand it from its shadow. Flattening three dimensions into two is already so bad as to make the comprehensible not; flattening n into one is just ridiculous.

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 02:11 PM (Sy6m/)

213 Hey, what happened?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

214 Middle ground for the left is a conservative 6ft under. No ground given for them. None!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 05, 2026 02:12 PM (tJBLS)

215 Ace broke the blog again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

216 I said the circle theory exists, not that I subscribe to it, or that it makes sense in the real world. "The pure communism where everyone is the government is really the same as the pure anarchism where nobody is the government."
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 02:08 PM (VHUov)

Pure communism is just another lie, so pretending it lies anywhere on a political spectrum "past" totalitarianism is just yet another lie. As is that anarchy is an extension of the conservative ideas of religion, morals, and limited government.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (8avO+)

217 213 Hey, what happened?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

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Ace is still learning the backend to the blog.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (w4o6z)

218 Except for the trannies and black idolization, name one difference between the NAZI party and the democrap party.

You can't because there isn't one. They are the same.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (xvV+O)

219 So people soon owed them money.

That was a big part, also Jews refuse to blend in, they are always distinct. A polite part of culture, but dress and behave differently, ass God told them to. That makes them stand out and ignorant people can easily choose them as the enemy.

But those things are about the past. You can identify them as the causes of Jew-hate up to around 1950. These days? I figure its just billions of dollars of propaganda and pressure on culture by Muslims who hate Jews religiously - literally its part of their religion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (uEYKS)

220 217 213 Hey, what happened?

I thought The Rapture might finally be here.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 05, 2026 02:14 PM (DgMqy)

221 this thread disappeared for a while

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 02:14 PM (sKqQm)

222 Poor Ace, so clueless. He sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Billygoatpuke at May 05, 2026 02:15 PM (XZjgl)

223 THREAD DOWN! THREAD DOWN!


MAN OVERBOARD!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:15 PM (xHq83)

224 Gaslighting the Astroturf!

Crossing the streams...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 05, 2026 02:15 PM (mP0Kj)

225 187 Politics exists in L-dimensional space, where L is sufficiently large as to be non-comprehensible. The "World's Smallest Ideological Quiz" with its two axes is intended to direct people in a certain direction (toward libertarianism), and is about as enormous an oversimplification as a one-axis view of right versus left or as "horseshoe theory".
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan
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Not really if you can use it as the basis for prediction. Nominate scores have been used as such and are quite accurate in predicting legislative and now judicial voting behavior.

That is where positing infinite space ultimately is self defeating--same reason we use Newton's laws as the basis of engineering even though they are a simplication of reality.

Look up heuristics sometime.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv)

226 Donald Trump is a moderate Democrat from the 90s, implementing what were considered moderate Dem ideas from the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)
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The political positions of Donald Trump are largely the opposite of those actually implemented by the Clinton administration in the 1990s, though not as far from those claimed by Bill when he was running for president.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 05, 2026 02:15 PM (cD7cN)

227 I guess they had a very fruitful Rome getaway... This is an op, has always been an op, and Cucker tried to take over TPUSA to promote it. That did not go as well as he planned, but many groypers did infiltrate TPUSA. They have beed doing it while Charlie Kirk was astill live, and continue infiltrating today.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:15 PM (GD0B3)

228 James Lindsay was saying something similar about the same time.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:11 PM (E4rtv)

I don't know who that is but I assume he is smart, funny and wildly handsome.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:16 PM (d997y)

229 We have once again reached the merge where Al Sharpton meets David Duke to support Cindy Sheehan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 02:16 PM (85V9g)

230 Hey, what happened?

I thought The Rapture might finally be here.
Posted by: Bad Andrew


I fully expect it to go that way.

BOOM!

And there I am, staring at my phone and no one is answering.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:16 PM (xHq83)

231 The same logic explains why full-left liberals like David French continue pretending they're "on the right." The money is better pretending to be on the right while agreeing with every single policy imperative of the far left.

First off, Gal Sharpton is a great name, gotta remember that one.

Second, David French is much worse than the others to me. He's not just a grifter, he's trying to use the Bible, to use Christianity to support these evils and this insanity. Like John Piper, he uses empathy for his arguments, but he goes far further than Piper in not just opposing what he dislikes on the right to openly endorsing the left based on sophistry and twisting Biblical teachings.

Its diabolical in the most literal terms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:17 PM (uEYKS)

232 The dash in L- dimensional space was used correctly

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:17 PM (d997y)

233 Except for the trannies and black idolization, name one difference between the NAZI party and the democrap party.

You can't because there isn't one. They are the same.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (xvV+O)

There were a lot of homos in the Nazi party and Hitler was an incestuous pedo so tranny love really not a stretch.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:17 PM (kxLc1)

234 232 The dash in L- dimensional space was used correctly

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:17 PM (d997y)

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That's up for the dash police to decide, peasant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:17 PM (w4o6z)

235 banned trolls cannot help themselves when Woke Reich is mentioned, just can't stay away. I guess it's a plus for AOS engagement numbers.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM (GD0B3)

236 In fact, this is a fairly recent thing, this name calling. It was unheard of in our history. In fact, it is merely by happenstance that the dem party is represented by a Jackass and has nothing to do with the fact that Andrew Jackson was called one, and instead of being a baby, he embraced it. This parlayed right into the symbol representing Dems to this day on this fairytale.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:02 PM (Wmg4n)


Aaron Burr put a bullet into Alexander Hamilton. I think we have had little disagreements from the start.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM (8avO+)

237 Donald Trump is a moderate Democrat from the 90s, implementing what were considered moderate Dem ideas from the time.

Yeah although he's been moved to the right pretty strongly by the left's over the top violent crazed opposition.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM (uEYKS)

238 210 The Evolution of Political Thought.

Free at the best hack site on Earth.

Archive.org; The Evolution of Political Thought; PDF
Posted by: 13times
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Parkinson is rare of scholars of his era as he includes Asian examples in his work. Roughly follows Aristotle in his forms of government in chapter outline.

Again worth reading, especially if one has no inclination to read the Durants multiple volumes for the endless variations seen in civilization.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM (E4rtv)

239 "Glizzed"? I've heard "glazed." I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that.

I love to lick glizzed donuts!

Posted by: Ariana Grande at May 05, 2026 02:19 PM (0sNs1)

240 >>>58 Pro tip: all these juvenile nicknames for your enemies every other sentence only serves to make them look like the adults. Nobody is going to join a movement of 70yo's who act like 7yo's. Its embarrassing.

Your Concern is

[ ] Noted
[X] Not Noted

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)

241 Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

I voted for Trump the first time because I hoped he would burn the Republican party to the ground and something better might be born from it.

He didn't and though he certainly has done things that other politicians only talk about doing, much of the core problems within our country have remained the same.

And one of those core problems IS that both sides are played against each other; both sides project their own sins onto the other, act from this ignorance, and so no real, meaningful, lasting change occurs. We just get reactive pendulums that do little to change the status quo.

Democrat voters are not the enemies of Republican voters. They are a mirror. The more grotesque we look in each others eyes says more about us as viewers than us as viewed.

Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens might be bad faith grifters but they are only symptoms, not the disease. I don't care that they are spergs trying to become the sperg queens. Two wings. Same bird. It doesn't take many election cycles to figure this shit out.

Posted by: Mad Jojo at May 05, 2026 02:19 PM (LTRDy)

242 240 Your Concern is

[ ] Noted
[X] Not Noted

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 02:19 PM (1wjle)

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"i'm never noted..."
-the post status drop down

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (w4o6z)

243 banned trolls cannot help themselves when Woke Reich is mentioned, just can't stay away.

The groypers are pretty crazed in their zealotry. These are the idiots who were klansmen in the past, then John Birchers, then Buchananites and now Nick Fuentes followers. Its not like the last two groups were wholly wrong and messed up, but they attracted a lot of the worst kind of humanity as followers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (uEYKS)

244 This op was tried here in Nebraska with the Senate run of Dan Osborn. He ran as an independent, referring to himself as a mechanic and Navy vet. He didn't use the word "socialist" in any ads, though he'd been one for decades. He talked about those rich guys in Washington from both parties, although the only ones he ever mentioned by name were Republicans. And then -Surprise!- the Dems endorsed him and the source of his campaign funds came out.
The ploy worked for a while, until Senator Fischer finally spent some money and exposed Osborn for what he was. But the op will be tried again.

Posted by: Wally at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (0e5Te)

245 "Glizzed"? I've heard "glazed." I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that.

I love to lick glizzed donuts!
Posted by: Ariana Grande


Give me a minute. Almost there. Toobin.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (xHq83)

246 A third US-registered ship safely transited the Strait of Hormuz, "guided" by US naval vessels. South Korea is making noises about being next.

Posted by: mrp at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (rj6Yv)

247 I don't know who that is but I assume he is smart, funny and wildly handsome.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:16 PM

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Harvey, standing by the outdoor ficus at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (0sNs1)

248 >>>Poor Ace, so clueless. He sounds vaccinated.
Posted by: Billygoatpuke

the nazi gayboys have been alerted

why are all of you gay? Just curious. Is it something about power and male sweat that turns you on?

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (1wjle)

249 58 Pro tip: all these juvenile nicknames for your enemies every other sentence only serves to make them look like the adults. Nobody is going to join a movement of 70yo's who act like 7yo's. Its embarrassing.

Your Concern is
[ ] Noted
[X] Not Noted
Posted by: ace

Haw haw!

Posted by: the 7yo's in the back of the class at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (VHUov)

250 Again worth reading, especially if one has no inclination to read the Durants multiple volumes for the endless variations seen in civilization.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM (E4rtv)

CliffsNotes version:


https://archive.org/details/parkinsons-law

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (DRokf)

251 >> Trump is a moderate Democrat from the 90s,

70s

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (aUMnT)

252 235 banned trolls cannot help themselves when Woke Reich is mentioned, just can't stay away. I guess it's a plus for AOS engagement numbers.
Posted by: runner
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They swarm over certain X feeds as well. As if some compulsion from mental illness existed or in some cases, as if they were getting notified and paid for their trolling.

Then you have gaymondo which is probably a composite troll and deviants between extreme incomprehensible pronouncements or readable ones. Either a person who goes off and on their meds or a composite troll name with multiple people doing it for the money.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (E4rtv)

253 They would not exist if there was no heavy funding and boosting. You can literally buy bots to boost the numbers in the "online space". Musk needs to clean up X. They are already doing it and change the algo of who gets paid and how, but there is much more to do.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (GD0B3)

254
"Pro Tip" was a condom brand back in the 70"s.

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 02:21 PM (Y8DZL)

255 This is a non-starter. I kept trying to tell people who are gay for Carlson, Fuentes, etc. that these weird grifters are not leadership material and can't build a movement, regardless of whether or not young people are hungry for Jew-baiting.

Now that these parasites are being rejected by the mainstream Right host they've been feeding on, this third-party "unity against the Jews" push is the natural next grift. But for it to ever be more than a fringe grift, they'd have to, you know... Build a fucking mass movement.

Which they can't do, because they're all charisma vacuums who've never had an original thought. They'll be absorbed and then forgotten by the Leftist media borg cube in short order, now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 02:22 PM (BI5O2)

256 Donald Trump is a moderate Democrat from the 90s, implementing what were considered moderate Dem ideas from the time.

Yeah although he's been moved to the right pretty strongly by the left's over the top violent crazed opposition.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM (uEYKS)

To me, this is the most fascinating piece of the Trump phenomenon. If the left just made mouth noises about being able to work with a New York real estate baron with whom they were ALL friendly, he'd have given them a solid 40% of what they wanted and we'd be here bitching about what a squish Trump is.

Instead, they debanked his family and tried to kill him, so now this is happening.

The left could have gotten damn near everything they wanted but their ego wouldn't permit it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 02:22 PM (iNUL3)

257 Posted by: Mad Jojo at May 05, 2026 02:19 PM (LTRDy)

You're going to get run over trying to stand in the middle of the road. Just more bullshit about both sides being the same. Take the blinders off and quit virtue signaling.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:22 PM (kxLc1)

258 the nazi gayboys have been alerted

why are all of you gay? Just curious. Is it something about power and male sweat that turns you on?
Posted by: ace


It's really simple. They are like Native Americans. They believe if they absorb your essence, they can have your power.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:23 PM (xHq83)

259 I started to suspect something had broken with Tucker when he started doing the UFO shows in the final days at FOX.

Posted by: BRYAN at May 05, 2026 02:23 PM (3idXb)

260 https://archive.org/details/parkinsons-law
Posted by: 13times

Back in the 40's and 50's, political scientists were broadly read in the discipline including public administration. By the late 60's, people began specialization due to the necessity of behavioralism requiring computers and math to do the survey analysis correctly. That moved right into the use of econometrics and game theoretical models by the 80's and 90's. Those that could not do math or logic became the swamp of 'studies'--gender, race, etc. And those commies ate the field eventually.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)

261
It's really simple. They are like Native Americans. They believe if they absorb your essence, they can have your power.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:23 PM (xHq83)/i]


So, they've substituted essence with jizz?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

262 So people soon owed them money.

That was a big part, also Jews refuse to blend in, they are always distinct. A polite part of culture, but dress and behave differently, ass God told them to. That makes them stand out and ignorant people can easily choose them as the enemy.

But those things are about the past. You can identify them as the causes of Jew-hate up to around 1950. These days? I figure its just billions of dollars of propaganda and pressure on culture by Muslims who hate Jews religiously - literally its part of their religion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (uEYKS)

Not just Muslims. Left Wingers have always had a solid stripe of Jew hatred due to their implantation in East Europe where the populations were higher. And its always a big seller to the disgruntled to offer to overturn the lender, the landlord, and the law.

And part of refusing to blend in was often Jews were required to wear identifying clothes by law. And stay in parts of the cities. It was often useful for the upper strata to have someone who would be rioted against before themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:24 PM (8avO+)

263 >>>Democrat voters are not the enemies of Republican voters. They are a mirror. The more grotesque we look in each others eyes says more about us as viewers than us as viewed.

finally we get to hear from a Concerned Christian Conservative!

Thank you for your input!!!

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 02:25 PM (1wjle)

264 "Pro Tip" was a condom brand back in the 70"s.
Posted by: Auspex



"Just the Tip" would be a great Moron Horde brand name for condoms. Little picture of a Jolly Roger up and down the sides.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:25 PM (xHq83)

265 This is a weird thread to watch

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

266 They are like Native Americans. They believe if they absorb your essence, they can have your power.

They do not avoid men, Mandrake. But they... they... do deny them my essence.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:26 PM (uEYKS)

267 It's really simple. They are like Native Americans. They believe if they absorb your essence, they can have your power.
Posted by: rickb223
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Comment of the month right there. Well played.

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

268
Thank you for your input!!!

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 02:25 PM (1wjle)



A true man of the people!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

269
Low IQ Gay Nazi Goose Step or Low IQ Gay Nazi Goosing Self?

Seems about the same, amirite?


Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 02:26 PM (iJfKG)

270 I like Sean Ryan's interviews with veterans.
I find his political interviews less appealing.

Posted by: Inogame at May 05, 2026 02:26 PM (53oGX)

271 Low IQ Gay Nazi Goose Step or Low IQ Gay Nazi Goosing Self?

Seems about the same, amirite?


Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 02:26 PM (iJfKG)


Elephant Walk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

272 Democrat voters are not the enemies of Republican voters. They are a mirror. The more grotesque we look in each others eyes says more about us as viewers than us as viewed.

You're completely correct.

Except they are actively trying to kill babies and us, and we're actively trying to change their political opinions.

But other than that small almost incidental point, exactly the same.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (iNUL3)

273 I want to go on record that I don't think ace's name calling is funny either. He's only really funny in a narrow band, which travels a minimal distance from pop culture references, to 16th century French philosophy, to body part humor, to basic logic and math, to science, to wry absurdity, to regular absurdity, to straight humor, to gay humor, to Raymond Chandler, and of course, to cruelty.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (d997y)

274 >>>Democrat voters are not the enemies of Republican voters. They are a mirror. The more grotesque we look in each others eyes says more about us as viewers than us as viewed.

Put down the bong. Step away from the bong.

Now what the fuck does that even mean, retard?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

275 A projectile poop on all your houses!

Posted by: Big Penguin at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (hcr/o)

276 Somebody hacked into the super duper code of Cucker's platform, and found that he allegedly (did I do that right?) has 7K or so subscribers. But..the supposedly his "viewing" is in the millions. Then we get a pictures of bot farms in Phakistan and Turkey (another very very bad actor). Certain very bad ideas got normalized in the last number of years. Courtesy of these bad actors. The sooner they are poor the better.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (GD0B3)

277 I don't even know who Ian Carroll is.

And if all of the others decided to go into cloistered, silent religious orders and we never heard from them again, Id be relieved. I'd feel bad for the religious orders, however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (8Xy/A)

278 The only political divide that has relevance in this country is "Hate Trump" v. "MAGA".

There is no leadership for the "Hate Trump" people because the US economy is strong and is getting stronger. All the whining and b*tching going on is coming from MSM-fomented bile, grifters heading for the dustbin of history, university faculties, and social influencers on foreign payrolls.

Posted by: mrp at May 05, 2026 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

279 I want to go on record that I don't think ace's name calling is funny either. He's only really funny in a narrow band, which travels a minimal distance from pop culture references, to 16th century French philosophy, to body part humor, to basic logic and math, to science, to wry absurdity, to regular absurdity, to straight humor, to gay humor, to Raymond Chandler, and of course, to cruelty.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (d997y)



Check out the big brain on 3 dots!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

280 Somebody tell the new nics they are transperent and most (not all) AOS commenters are a ton smarter then them.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (GD0B3)

281 Fuentes is such an electoral force, he said he was going to Michigan to campaign against Trump in September of 2024.

Sure, he didn't go because he was afraid of Vance's security detail murdering him, but that's just proof that if he had gone Trump would have lost Michigan!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (w4o6z)

282 Give me a minute. Almost there. Toobin.
Posted by: rickb223
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Another comment of the week. Dude, you are on fire today.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (E4rtv)

283 "Just the Tip" would be a great Moron Horde brand name for condoms. Little picture of a Jolly Roger up and down the sides.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:25 PM

But ribbed for her pleasure, right?

Right?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (0sNs1)

284 Fix the fracture? I like the fracture!

Posted by: Weasel at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (GNqmQ)

285 Aaron Burr put a bullet into Alexander Hamilton. I think we have had little disagreements from the start.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:18 PM

It’s actually very interesting how some of the concerns of the past mirror concerns to this day. We should do a game where we just post insults and insinuations from the past.

I have a few ONT connections. But fair warning, I have brought a few ideas up and they all stare at me for a few seconds, look at each other and then go on about something else entirely.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (OoFl2)

286 When someone says "pro tip " the only thing they are a pro at is being a troll. Ignore it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (gu0hJ)

287 Check out the big brain on 3 dots!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)
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He's a smart mf'er.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 02:30 PM (xvhJH)

288 If a Democrat is a mirror please don't let it be David French

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:30 PM (d997y)

289 Howabout? Trump is simply a JFK democrat.

I've used that in meatspace and get asked "what is a JFK democrat," and at that point I just walk away.

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:30 PM (DRokf)

290 277 I don't even know who Ian Carroll is.

And if all of the others decided to go into cloistered, silent religious orders and we never heard from them again, Id be relieved. I'd feel bad for the religious orders, however.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Some Canadian on X I think that is one of the dudes that shows up on the other's podcasts. The Woke Right are very insular in that. Honest people want nothing to do with them.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:31 PM (E4rtv)

291 So the judge groveling and apologizing to the attempted assassin story gets worse:

The issue had been resolved, was moot, the defense lawyer asked for the hearing to be cancelled and the judge insisted it proceed specifically so he could grovel and apologize.

Because the judge is disappointed he didn't succeed, is the reasonable conclusion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 02:31 PM (MtSIY)

292 I've used that in meatspace and get asked "what is a JFK democrat," and at that point I just walk away.

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:30 PM (DRokf)

One they keep trying to shoot

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:31 PM (d997y)

293
Rough audience today. Guess it's time for a nap.

Tomorrow early trout fishing. Raw-dogging Panther Martin #6's on 4lb. test.

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 02:31 PM (Y8DZL)

294 Democrat voters are not the enemies of Republican voters. They are a mirror. The more grotesque we look in each others eyes says more about us as viewers than us as viewed.

Put down the bong. Step away from the bong.

Now what the fuck does that even mean, retard?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

it means "accept my assumed authority". But I don't go for slogans from a fortune cookie for my political analysis.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (8avO+)

295 I don't even know who Ian Carroll is.
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The Ernst Roehm of Heinrich Himmlers?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (xvhJH)

296 289 Howabout? Trump is simply a JFK democrat.

I've used that in meatspace and get asked "what is a JFK democrat," and at that point I just walk away.
Posted by: 13times

Most of the people that can actually remember JFK's politics (not visuals) are Silent Generation or older. Few voters left from that era.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (E4rtv)

297 Never a Joe Rogan podcaster fan but he should be jumping the shark now for those that became fans.

I loved him on News Radio though. His stand up was hit or miss.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (kxLc1)

298 Not just Muslims. Left Wingers have always had a solid stripe of Jew hatred due to their implantation in East Europe where the populations were higher

The left used to love Jews though. They were considered the ultimate oppressed other, the direct victim of the Ultimate Evil nazis. That changed pretty recently.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (uEYKS)

299
Now what the fuck does that even mean, retard?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (zZu0s)



It means he's had sex with his mother more than once.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

300 I have a few ONT connections.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM

Yeah, well, not all of have the high membership card status you do.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

301 What is the"woke right"?I still don't understand that term..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (8Xy/A)

302 So the judge groveling and apologizing to the attempted assassin story gets worse:

The issue had been resolved, was moot, the defense lawyer asked for the hearing to be cancelled and the judge insisted it proceed specifically so he could grovel and apologize.

Because the judge is disappointed he didn't succeed, is the reasonable conclusion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 02:31 PM (MtSIY)

Appeal at once for him to be removed from this and all cases for bias against law and order.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (8avO+)

303 stare at me for a few seconds, look at each other and then go on about something else entirely.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM (OoFl2)


That's a feature of the place.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (aUMnT)

304 What is the"woke right"?I still don't understand that term..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (8Xy/A)

traitors.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (8avO+)

305 I have a few ONT connections.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM



So, what happened last night?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

306 It's really simple. They are like Native Americans. They believe if they absorb your essence, they can have your power.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02


Do not make me break out the war drums and get my fellow natives involved. Essence is the least of your worries.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (OoFl2)

307 What is the"woke right"?I still don't understand that term..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:33 PM (8Xy/A)

What if we called them trans right?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (d997y)

308 Democrat voters are not the enemies of Republican voters. They are a mirror. The more grotesque we look in each others eyes says more about us as viewers than us as viewed.
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"we have met the enemy and it is us"

Or some retarded shit I've seen commie dipshits bandy about.

Piss off, you moldy cum sock.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (MtSIY)

309 305 I have a few ONT connections.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:29 PM



So, what happened last night?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026

Don’t know- I am only connected. They won’t let me drive.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (OoFl2)

310 The only good commie is a dead commie.

Posted by: pookysgirl, freedom-lover at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (Wt5PA)

311 Molotov-Ribbentrop in the 21st century.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (PDF0v)

312 I like how the talking heads in the media claim to be "conservative" or "progressive" or blah blah blah. They are all full of shit and only care about fame and money.

Hell even Rush said he was an entertainer and to go find out about shit on your own.

Posted by: Turn Off The Media Scumbags at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (K1Mmf)

313 Aaron Burr put a bullet into Alexander Hamilton.



Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (xHq83)

314 The only political divide that has relevance in this country is "Hate Trump" v. "MAGA".

There is no leadership for the "Hate Trump" people because the US economy is strong and is getting stronger. All the whining and b*tching going on is coming from MSM-fomented bile, grifters heading for the dustbin of history, university faculties, and social influencers on foreign payrolls.
Posted by: mrp at May 05, 2026 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

All this far right/far left mix is trying to do is muddy the water (or mixing horseshit with snakeshit). They're trying very hard to confuse people. They will be partially successful.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (g8Ew8)

315 Not just Muslims. Left Wingers have always had a solid stripe of Jew hatred due to their implantation in East Europe where the populations were higher

The left used to love Jews though. They were considered the ultimate oppressed other, the direct victim of the Ultimate Evil nazis. That changed pretty recently.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (uEYKS)

Protocols of the Elders of Zion anyone? Blood Libel?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (8avO+)

316 280 Somebody tell the new nics they are transperent and most (not all) AOS commenters are a ton smarter then them.
Posted by: runner
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To some regulars here, it is kind of like a mouse being batted around by a cat. The only difference is that in such a case, the mouse (new nic) doesn't think they've won the argument.

Our trolls are objectively less intelligent than that mouse.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (E4rtv)

317 They are trying to break up Trump's coalition, make Rs lose 2026, 2028 even.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GD0B3)

318 "we have met the enemy and it is us"

Or some retarded shit I've seen commie dipshits bandy about.

Piss off, you moldy cum sock.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (MtSIY)



"Are we the baddies?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

319 You people quit staring at Piper!

Posted by: Weasel at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GNqmQ)

320 So, what happened last night?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Don’t know- I am only connected. They won’t let me drive.
Posted by: Piper


Someone gorgot the booster seat.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (xHq83)

321 Do not make me break out the war drums and get my fellow natives involved.

it can't be worse than Haka dancing. Maori really need to stop doing that

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (uEYKS)

322 Piper, did you try to hijack the ONT into another fashion Thread?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (0sNs1)

323 Aaron Burr put a bullet into Alexander Hamilton.



Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (xHq83)

well to be more accurate it probably was a spherical lead ball that killed him.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (8avO+)

324 They are trying to break up Trump's coalition, make Rs lose 2026, 2028 even.
Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GD0B3)


Because selling your soul out for communism in America is SOOOOO in right now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

325 317 They are trying to break up Trump's coalition, make Rs lose 2026, 2028 even.
Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GD0B3)

Do they actually have that much power ? I'm thinking not...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (iTbY5)

326 DOJ sues Colorado over unconstitutional gun grab.

Posted by: torabora at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (mNG4E)

327 317 They are trying to break up Trump's coalition, make Rs lose 2026, 2028 even.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GD0B3)

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Most of these people were trying to do it in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (w4o6z)

328 How many of today's retards would be able to say "Boys have a penis; girls have a vagina" without their heads exploding?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (WMyc4)

329 Raw-dogging Panther Martin #6's on 4lb. test.
Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 02:31 PM

No idea what raw dogging means and likely don't want to know.

Panther Martin with yellow blade with red dots nets trout in the northern Sierra Nevada-Cascades.

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:37 PM (DRokf)

330 All this far right/far left mix is trying to do is muddy the water (or mixing horseshit with snakeshit). They're trying very hard to confuse people. They will be partially successful.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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Most normal people shut down on talk about politics nowadays anyway. Very few are ideological and the Woke Reich are stupid enough to believe they can reprogram the existing ideological people here to their viewpoint using stupid debating tactics and talking points.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:37 PM (E4rtv)

331 You people quit staring at Piper!

Posted by: Weasel at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GNqmQ)


It's gotta be the pants.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

332 Check out the big brain on 3 dots!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)


Beyond my pay grade.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 02:37 PM (aUMnT)

333 No idea what raw dogging means and likely don't want to know.


You don't.

Especially don't use the Urban Dictionary to look it up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

334 How many of today's retards would be able to say "Boys have a penis; girls have a vagina" without their heads exploding?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (WMyc4)

They have a Toomah ?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (kxLc1)

335 Last night's ONT was to be sponsored by Sloth World Orlando but they went out of businesses because the sloths died.

Posted by: Sorry about that at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (vFG9F)

336 I am so hungry for a TACO salad right now.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (anL5R)

337 "we have met the enemy and it is us"

Or some retarded shit I've seen commie dipshits bandy about.

Piss off, you moldy cum sock.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 02:34 PM (MtSIY)

They quoting cartoon possums living in a swamp now? LOL

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (8avO+)

338 it can't be worse than Haka dancing. Maori really need to stop doing that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Especially when half the rugby team are crackers.

It loses it je ne sais quoi.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (xHq83)

339 Check out the big brain on 3 dots!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:28 PM

You realize that was said sarcastically?

Posted by: Jules Winnfield at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (0sNs1)

340 336 I am so hungry for a TACO salad right now.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (anL5R)

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I remember when Trump wasn't even going to attack Iran at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (w4o6z)

341 Last night's ONT was to be sponsored by Sloth World Orlando but they went out of businesses because the sloths died.
Posted by: Sorry about that at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (vFG9F)
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As long as they don't debauch the sloth.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (xvhJH)

342 >>> 333 No idea what raw dogging means and likely don't want to know.
==

You don't.

Especially don't use the Urban Dictionary to look it up.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

It means WEAR YOUR MASK!!!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz, 27-year-old SMAAHHHHHRRRT person at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (WMyc4)

343 Do they actually have that much power ? I'm thinking not...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (iTbY5)

We have to see. It is my understanding that one of the candidates in OH election today is favored by Cucker.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (GD0B3)

344 319 You people quit staring at Piper!
Posted by: Weasel at May 05, 2026 02:35

Thank goodness you are here! They are getting close. Next thing you know a bunch of kids in a van with a talking dog are going to hop out!

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (OoFl2)

345 I want to go on record that I don't think ace's name calling is funny either. He's only really funny in a narrow band, which travels a minimal distance from pop culture references, to 16th century French philosophy, to body part humor, to basic logic and math, to science, to wry absurdity, to regular absurdity, to straight humor, to gay humor, to Raymond Chandler, and of course, to cruelty.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:27 PM (d997y)

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Ace is a wordsmith for our times.

"Roll over George Orwell
Tell Bill Shakespeare the news ..."

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (9Kqhl)

346 I remember when Trump wasn't even going to attack Iran at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (w4o6z)

I remember when Iran had a navy, and ...cooking oil...

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (GD0B3)

347
You realize that was said sarcastically?
Posted by: Jules Winnfield at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (0sNs1)


I'm fully aware when I use sarcasm, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

348 it can't be worse than Haka dancing. Maori really need to stop doing that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

===

Especially when half the rugby team are crackers.

It loses it je ne sais quoi.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM

They make up for it at the elephant walk during the post-match social function.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

349 Howabout? Trump is simply a JFK democrat.

I've used that in meatspace and get asked "what is a JFK democrat," and at that point I just walk away.
Posted by: 13times

Most of the people that can actually remember JFK's politics (not visuals) are Silent Generation or older. Few voters left from that era.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (E4rtv)

I would say that the vast majority of people who voted for JFK are dead.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (g8Ew8)

350 >>> 341 Last night's ONT was to be sponsored by Sloth World Orlando but they went out of businesses because the sloths died.
Posted by: Sorry about that at May 05, 2026 02:38 PM (vFG9F)
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As long as they don't debauch the sloth.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (xvhJH)

Sloth?! I wanted seagulls!!!

Posted by: immoral porpoise at May 05, 2026 02:41 PM (WMyc4)

351 ITS NOT A TOOMAH!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:41 PM (uEYKS)

352 Do they actually have that much power ? I'm thinking not...
Posted by: It's me donna

They don't. Some are gay for pay, others because they have mental problems. Subcultures like the Woke Reich often become echo chambers like Bluesky for the left that are even much more conformist than they allege the broader culture is.

Like the left, the Woke Reich use 'magic' spells containing the magic invocation of Epstein, Jews, Capitalism, Constitution, etc. that are supposed to overawe and befuddle their political opponents.

But there is no logic nor empirical support to their endless Texas Sharpshooter fallacies because at heart, they don't even believe much of the claptrap they spout.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:41 PM (E4rtv)

353 It means WEAR YOUR MASK!!!
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz, 27-year-old SMAAHHHHHRRRT person at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (WMyc4)


Says some old biddy who's never been raw dogged in her long, long life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

354 343 Do they actually have that much power ? I'm thinking not...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 02:36 PM (iTbY5)

We have to see. It is my understanding that one of the candidates in OH election today is favored by Cucker.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:39 PM (GD0B3)

=====

Tucker endorsed a candidate in a House race in a Texas primary a month or so ago.

Primary. Small race. Easy to show some influence.

The dude came in 6th.

He's endorsed James Fishback in the FL GOP primary for governor. Tucker called him the future of the GOP. Fishback hasn't polled above 5%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:41 PM (w4o6z)

355 That changed pretty recently.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:32 PM (uEYKS)

It wasn't recent, and it wasn't long lived. 19 years, start to finish.

It was a brief blip starting in 1948 when Stalin was the first leader to recognize Israel. But Israel kept consistently failing to go Communist. Then after 1967, the US invited Israel into its coalition, and the American Left instantly reverted to form.

And I mean instantly. An American Communist Fulbright Scholar from UCLA was killed fighting for the fedayeen in 1970, by which time every right-thinking Leftist in the country had denounced the Zionist Entity.

The only thing that's changed recently is that Dem politicians have finally quit pandering for Jewish money, from fear of their base.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 02:42 PM (BI5O2)

356 >>> 344 319 You people quit staring at Piper!
Posted by: Weasel at May 05, 2026 02:35

Thank goodness you are here! They are getting close. Next thing you know a bunch of kids in a van with a talking dog are going to hop out!
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM (OoFl2)

I don't get it.

You look *nothing* like Clippy.

Posted by: and I've even met you, so I know at May 05, 2026 02:42 PM (WMyc4)

357 331 You people quit staring at Piper!

Posted by: Weasel at May 05, 2026 02:35 PM (GNqmQ)


It's gotta be the pants.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:37 PM

What Sponge said.

And Weasel, I was only trying to determine windage.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:42 PM (WsJuq)

358 Jules said that in earnest in reply to Brad clocking the metric system when Jules himself did not. It was a statement of sincere humility.

Doesn't mean it was a compliment. See, there are many different kind of smart, some of which are very dumb.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:42 PM (d997y)

359 344 Thank goodness you are here! They are getting close. Next thing you know a bunch of kids in a van with a talking dog are going to hop out!
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 02:40 PM

Ruh Roh

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:43 PM (WsJuq)

360 I would say that the vast majority of people who voted for JFK are dead.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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They would have been born prior to 1940 to have voted in 1960. Youngest would be 86-87 now depending on birthdate. You had to be 21 at the time to vote.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:43 PM (E4rtv)

361 The big change is the Democrats are now trying to ingratiate themselves to the Islamists, and so can be more forthright as to what they really think about Jews and other things.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (d997y)

362 I saw Debauch The Sloth open for The Lemon Twigs at the Vibe Lounge in '15.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (9Kqhl)

363 >>> 361 The big change is the Democrats are now trying to ingratiate themselves to the Islamists, and so can be more forthright as to what they really think about Jews and other things.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (d997y)

"jooos"

Posted by: commie style guide at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (WMyc4)

364 360 I would say that the vast majority of people who voted for JFK are dead.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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They would have been born prior to 1940 to have voted in 1960. Youngest would be 86-87 now depending on birthdate. You had to be 21 at the time to vote.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:43 PM (E4rtv)

======

You have to also consider their children.

Brought up in a home that honored Saint John F. Kennedy has an effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (w4o6z)

365 > born after he was retired! > JFK

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (DRokf)

366 361 The big change is the Democrats are now trying to ingratiate themselves to the Islamists, and so can be more forthright as to what they really think about Jews and other things.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (d997y)

This is more concerning to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (iTbY5)

367 Fishback hasn't polled above 5%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Fishback has had slight problems with the law and is a genuine loon.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

368 WaPo: Looks like half a dozen high-ranking DC police officers are being fired for falsifying their crime numbers under Biden.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (iNUL3)

369 JFK was in office less than 3 years. The Dems were already who they are today. The Camelot , moderate Dem story is all bullshit imo. They were evil lying shits then just like they are now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (kxLc1)

370 367 Fishback hasn't polled above 5%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Fishback has had slight problems with the law and is a genuine loon.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

=====

He supports Mamdani, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (w4o6z)

371 ITS NOT A TOOMAH!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor



It's Lupus.
Posted by: Gregory House

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (xHq83)

372 It was a brief blip starting in 1948 when Stalin was the first leader to recognize Israel. But Israel kept consistently failing to go Communist. Then after 1967, the US invited Israel into its coalition, and the American Left instantly reverted to form.

That makes sense, actually but the Democrat party definitely only recently began to openly hate Jews.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:46 PM (uEYKS)

373 Nood Tim Walz.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 02:46 PM (iNUL3)

374 You have to also consider their children.

Brought up in a home that honored Saint John F. Kennedy has an effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not really, doesn't mean that you actually bothered to inform oneself of JFK's politics which is what the original post was about. Not looks. And that is also true in part because JFK did not have much success politically before his death on his domestic agenda and his foreign policy agenda was uneven to say the least.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

375 The big change is the Democrats are now trying to ingratiate themselves to the Islamists, and so can be more forthright as to what they really think about Jews and other things.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (d997y)

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To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill:

"An appeaser is one who feeds a Muzzie, hoping it will behead him last."

/obligatory Churchill

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (9Kqhl)

376 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:41 PM (w4o6z)

Yeah, I've seen that. Let's see what OH is going to do. In KY he is promoting Massie of course.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (GD0B3)

377 361 The big change is the Democrats are now trying to ingratiate themselves to the Islamists, and so can be more forthright as to what they really think about Jews and other things.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 02:44 PM (d997y

Pretty sure a senator by the name of priss durphy put on his John Kerry mask and has been passing encouragement to the irgc.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (7mCLy)

378 Nood

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (WsJuq)

379 376 Yeah, I've seen that. Let's see what OH is going to do. In KY he is promoting Massie of course.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (GD0B3)

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Massie put out an ad about how close he is to Trump.

Because he's gonna win easily, or something, so he had to completely put on a new face for his constituents from what he's been doing for more than a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:48 PM (w4o6z)

380 255 This is a non-starter. I kept trying to tell people who are gay for Carlson, Fuentes, etc. that these weird grifters are not leadership material and can't build a movement, regardless of whether or not young people are hungry for Jew-baiting.

Now that these parasites are being rejected by the mainstream Right host they've been feeding on, this third-party "unity against the Jews" push is the natural next grift. But for it to ever be more than a fringe grift, they'd have to, you know... Build a fucking mass movement.

Which they can't do, because they're all charisma vacuums who've never had an original thought. They'll be absorbed and then forgotten by the Leftist media borg cube in short order, now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 02:22 PM (BI5O2)

Yes, this. The male Socio-Sexual Hierarchy is a very useful theory, and one of the lessons is that strong leadership ability is mostly inborn and very rare. Alphas are just one part of three kinds of apex males (along with "right-hand man" bravos and "lone wolf" sigmas); and then after the mass of steady deltas, there's "secret king" gammas, outcast omegas, and gay lambdas.

Charlie Kirk is a crippling loss.

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 02:48 PM (Sy6m/)

381 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 02:42 PM (BI5O2)

If Stalin wasn't an atheist he would have known God would not have allowed Israel to become a godless state.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (kxLc1)

382 The Dems were already who they are today. The Camelot , moderate Dem story is all bullshit imo. They were evil lying shits then just like they are now.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:45 PM (kxLc)

Camelot was bullshit. And no, Democrats were not 100% commie lunatics. The commies were fringe; beat poets at al.

Posted by: 13times at May 05, 2026 02:49 PM (fnZRl)

383 Saying Trump is a democrat at all is stupid. It lays the groundwork for future stupidity too.

"The best President in our lifetime was a democrat...see Trump was a 90's dem."

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (cS1cw)

384 The Camelot , moderate Dem story is all bullshit imo.

That time period is so odd. There was a whole mythology built up around a series of wholly undeserving events and people. James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Woodstock, Kent State, JFK "camelot" on and on. Pretty much everything in Forrest Gump.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (uEYKS)

385 What ever you say YOU HATCHED FACED NUTMEG DEALER
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 05, 2026 02:10 PM (ubCxQ)

Whoa! Whoa! Why bring Jon Townsend into this??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 05, 2026 02:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

386 Not really, doesn't mean that you actually bothered to inform oneself of JFK's politics which is what the original post was about. Not looks. And that is also true in part because JFK did not have much success politically before his death on his domestic agenda and his foreign policy agenda was uneven to say the least.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

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My mom -- a Catholic Democrat at the time -- campaigned for JFK and was most distraught after his assassination (although I was only two years old at the time).

Anyway, the first book she ever bought for me to read was "Profiles in Courage" -- for which he won the Pulitzer -- which I greatly enjoyed and admired.

Being cast way too cynical during and after the 90s owing to the Clinton Crime Syndicate, I suppose I was not surprised -- but was disappointed -- to learn in 2008 that it was largely ghostwritten by his speechwriter, Ted Sorensen.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (9Kqhl)

387 I was told there would be no Greek.

I didn't pack any olive oil.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (7anGw)

388 369 JFK was in office less than 3 years. The Dems were already who they are today. The Camelot , moderate Dem story is all bullshit imo. They were evil lying shits then just like they are now.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

To be honest, there wasn't much difference between Ike Republicanism and JFK. Nixon and JFK's debates were about trivialities like Quemoy and Matsu that were important at the time to the elites, but indecipherable to the public.

The GOP establishment was firmly pro globalism as part of its anti communism stance and was quite liberal on race issues, moreso than Democrats at the time. Taft against Ike in 1952 never had a chance and Dewey was a liberal GOP member in the mold of someone like Hoover.

GOP was founded as a progressive party after all, not a particularly conservative one.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (E4rtv)

389 Being cast way too cynical during and after the 90s owing to the Clinton Crime Syndicate, I suppose I was not surprised -- but was disappointed -- to learn in 2008 that it was largely ghostwritten by his speechwriter, Ted Sorensen.
Posted by: ShainS
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If it makes you feel better, JFK did actually nail a lot of tail himself rather than passing it off to his aides like Sorensen.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (E4rtv)

390 Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (E4rtv)

The evil started in 1962 banning school prayer and 73 with Roe v Wade.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (kxLc1)

391 GOP was founded as a progressive party after all, not a particularly conservative one.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (E4rtv)

Anti-Sovery

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:55 PM (kxLc1)

392 That time period is so odd. There was a whole mythology built up around a series of wholly undeserving events and people. James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Woodstock, Kent State, JFK "camelot" on and on. Pretty much everything in Forrest Gump.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Happens that it occurred during a certain massive generation which shall remain nameless.

But the Millennials have the cheery tales of the Clinton years to bolster them in their old age.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (E4rtv)

393 Charlie Kirk is a crippling loss.

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 02:48 PM (Sy6m/)

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Absolutely. They pre-assassinated a likely future charismatic conservative Christian POTUS.

And I'm convinced it wasn't a "lone spoof" ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (9Kqhl)

394 Motherfucker autocorrect is a troll.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 02:56 PM (kxLc1)

395 Not just Muslims. Left Wingers have always had a solid stripe of Jew hatred due to their implantation in East Europe where the populations were higher. And its always a big seller to the disgruntled to offer to overturn the lender, the landlord, and the law.

You also had Marx writing a screed against Jews, and the falling out really got rolling when Israel rejected communism.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (PDF0v)

396 If it makes you feel better, JFK did actually nail a lot of tail himself rather than passing it off to his aides like Sorensen.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (E4rtv)

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lol

That gives me great comfort, whig!

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 02:57 PM (9Kqhl)

397 We don’t want to fight wars for Israel. America first!
And yes we’re still talking about Epstein.

Posted by: Billygoatpuke at May 05, 2026 02:58 PM (XZjgl)

398 391 GOP was founded as a progressive party after all, not a particularly conservative one.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:52 PM (E4rtv)

Anti-Sovery
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

It was a weird conglomeration of splinter parties and the Northern wing of the Whig party. Free Soilers, Anti Masonic Party, the No Nothing nativists, and rump Northern Whigs without a home. Basically everyone that was NOT a Democrat after the Whig party died after the Compromise of 1850.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (E4rtv)

399 So the people who push the wacked out conspiracy theories are the "Normal" ones?

Sure

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 05, 2026 03:16 PM (61TgR)

400 The call for unity and compromise always comes from the Left when they are losing.

Can't we all just get along??

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 03:17 PM (4NO2D)

401 "I guess "glizzed" is the more sexually suggestive version of "glazed." I will use that."

I've heard people on line call hot dogs 'glizzies'. Make of that what you will.

As for me, it's still a hot dog. Drag it troo da garden, dere/Chicago style.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at May 05, 2026 03:20 PM (Ft5W9)

402 Marco Rubio has been speaking live on Tousi TV (YT) Live.

Iran.

Posted by: mrp at May 05, 2026 03:21 PM (rj6Yv)

Supreme Court Grants Motion to Immediately Finalize Gerrymander Decision, Allowing Lousiana to Implement It Now

I guess there's some period of time that usually passes after a decision is announced until it is considered implementable law -- thirty two days before it is "reported" to the lower court.

But this is just a general practice, not a firm rule. The Court has adjusted this clock before when justice demanded it.

The Supreme Court granted Louisiana's motion to speed up that clock and finalize the decision immediately.

The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request to immediately finalize its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state's congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections. That map is expected to favor Republicans, who currently hold four of the state's six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map.

Was it justified to speed up the clock? Yes, for two reasons.

1, the racially discriminatory maps are unconstitutional right now. Not in two years, right now. The citizens of Louisiana are living under racist congressional maps right now. And what's the left's favorite propaganda slogan...? "Justice delayed is justice denied."

2, we now have almost complete confirmation of the rumor that Obama hack Kagan deliberately dragged her heels on submitting her dissent not because she needed seven months to perfectly craft it, but specifically to avoid the ruling taking effect a half year ago, giving southern states plenty of time to adjust without having to scramble right before voting began.

Because it's now revealed that the Supreme Court "conferenced" the case seven months ago -- meaning they debated and voted on the decision.

But Kagan needed Moar Time to craft her perfect dissent.

Unqualified DEI Fake Justice Ketanji-Brown through another one of her racialist hissy-fits. She is appalled that the Court will not allow the leftwing Justice's deliberate seven-month delay to stand. She has no good reason for this -- she says that granting this motion would show "partisanship" but, as Alito says, she does not explain why not granting it would equally show partisanship, but in favor of the Always Racist Democrat Party.


Alito blasted the racist swamp-hag:


Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 HOLY CRAP!! Justices Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas just PUMMELED Ketanji Jackson's dissent, calling it "trivial at best, and the other is baseless and INSULTING"

🔥🔥

Jackson basically ATTACKED the majority, and argued Louisiana should be required to use an *unconstitutional* racially gerrymandered map in the 2026 midterms -- directly against the majority ruling.

Alito didn't take too kindly to that:

"The dissent goes on to claim that our decision represents an unprincipled use of power...that is a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge."

"What principle has the Court violated? The principle that Rule 45.3's 32-day default period should never be shortened even when there is good reason to do so? The principle that we should never take any action that might unjustifiably be criticized as partisan?"

"The dissent accuses the Court of 'unshackl[ing] itself from 'constraints...' It is the DISSENT'S rhetoric that lacks restraint."

"The dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered. The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional."

"The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution."

"Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action."

"One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting."

Gorsuch signed onto this as well.

Once again, not a single other leftwing justice was willing to sign her name to Ketanji-Brown's pig-ignorant doctrine of "the law must constantly shape-shift to guarantee that blacks, women, gays and Democrats always win" bullshit:


Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke

15h

There was a routine Supreme Court procedural order today not to delay fixing Louisiana's unconstitutional gerrymander. Normally these things are handled quietly without revealing who thought what but this time was different because Jackson insisted on writing a bizarre diatribe, which prompted Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch to respond. And they did not hold back. They described her claims as "baseless and insulting" and "groundless and utterly irresponsible." They really, really cannot stand her.

What really says it all is that the other liberals would not touch it, let alone join Jackson or defend her. She is simply too embarrassing even for them to sign onto. Also interesting, but not surprising, that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett sat this one out, as usual, because they are too timid to call out someone who, by any sane standard, should not be anywhere near a judge's chambers, especially not this one.

Flashback: the unqualified DEI racialist larped as a Broadway "star" in a gay rewrite of Romeo and Juliet featuring nonbinary characters.

She infamously cannot define the word "woman" because, see, she's not a biologist.

Hello! Good afternoon to all. Except those on the west coast or further west. Good morning!

Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.) He comes most days now. I didn't tell you before because I wanted to post a good photo of him, but my photos are terrible. Also, they're not improving.

When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM




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1 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (CWTWj)

2 And what's the left's favorite propaganda slogan...? "Justice delayed is justice denied."

I kinda like that one myself.

* motions towards Fauxci and the rest of the deep state *

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:11 PM (VHUov)

3 The judicial coup encompasses SCOTUS. The solution for the widespread coup isn't even being debated.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (jehhT)

4 Did anyone argue that these gerrymanders were equivelent to racial ghettos.
Because they are.

Posted by: Operator Error at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (yk/I+)

5 anyone appointed by biden is not only suspect but nonexistent, since biden was not the one making the decisions

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (CWTWj)

6 I really think Jackson is going to be of great value to us on the Court.

She's stupid, opinionated, loud, and genuinely unpleasant by all accounts.

If Biden had put someone halfway smart, there'd be one more loyal vote for the left but who can actually make an argument.

At best, Jackson will be a non-entity, the equivalent of putting a simple machine that goes only asks if good for Dem party or not as the reasoning. At worst, she's going to argue so badly that it'll help keep the right part of the court unified.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (w4o6z)

7 Why is it always necessary to culturally appropriate a play and deform it into something ugly ?

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

8 I see the NAACP has "asked" for an emergency motion to stop Louisiana from implementing it's new map...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (iTbY5)

9 >>>And when he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.

Don't worry. Deep inside, he really likes you.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (8mulE)

10 Once again, not a single other leftwing justice was willing to sign her name to Ketanji-Brown's pig-ignorant doctrine of "the law must constantly shape-shift to guarantee that blacks, women, gays and Democrats always win" bullshit:

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It's a stupid procedural motion that should have been granted unanimously with a single line on a single pdf.

And she went full Leroy Jenkins.

It's not the kind of thing to go full Leroy Jenkins on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:14 PM (w4o6z)

11 what do you call a guy in illinois who has sex with an under age girl? romeo in joliet. read that probably when nixon was president

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 12:14 PM (CWTWj)

12 I'm shocked that enough of the Supreme Court had the courage to do the right thing.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (N1DT3)

13 I really think Jackson is going to be of great value to us on the Court.

She's stupid, opinionated, loud, and genuinely unpleasant by all accounts.

If Biden had put someone halfway smart, there'd be one more loyal vote for the left but who can actually make an argument.

She's so bad, she embarrasses the other leftist rubber stamps into not siding with her, or at least not joining the dissent. I've never seen such enmity on SCOTUS, who typically make a fetish of collegiality.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

14 7 Why is it always necessary to culturally appropriate a play and deform it into something ugly ?

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

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Ask the left post-WWI that saw the war as an excuse to advance ugliness instead of beauty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (w4o6z)

15 So the liberals will have to have 3 minutes of hate this hour instead of the usual two.

Posted by: Stateless at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (Sco7b)

16 Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.) He comes most days now. I didn't tell you before because I wanted to post a good photo of him, but my photos are terrible. Also, they're not improving.

When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.
___________________________

Skip the unsalted peanuts. Start using grapes. Wear a helmet.

Posted by: Orson at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (dIske)

17 >>>Don't worry. Deep inside, he really likes you.

The first time I saw him (if this is just one crow), he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (1wjle)

18 13 She's so bad, she embarrasses the other leftist rubber stamps into not siding with her, or at least not joining the dissent. I've never seen such enmity on SCOTUS, who typically make a fetish of collegiality.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

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Yeah, she's going to be on the court for 40 years.

But, on the other hand, she's going to be on the court for 40 years!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (w4o6z)

19 >KBJ is single-handedly discrediting progressive jurisprudence for a generation


As Neil Rogers would say, this is swishful thinking.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (rJ48h)

20 hell yeah, now the rest of us need to do so,

and the SC needs to smake VA down hard

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (v6XNT)

21 rule one: never accept a court ruling if it goes again liberal beliefs. rule two: denounce trump for not obeying a lower court ruling that has been thrown out by a higher court

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (CWTWj)

22 I always assumed that the liberal justices had to "drug their feel" simply as a requirement for being liberals.

Posted by: CayleyGraph2015 at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (gJ7tw)

23 "But she needed that time to craft the perfect response that you rethuglicans could understand because you're too stupid to grasp context!"

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (BpO1e)

24 Whoa, what a fugly little troll Action Jackson is. In my day, she would be a lazy DMV drone, doing the least work possible with a smirk on her face.

Posted by: Promoted Beyond All Reason at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (oftw2)

25 Did he like the cereal?

Posted by: No Name Today at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (8mulE)

26 >>>Skip the unsalted peanuts. Start using grapes. Wear a helmet.

oh, I stupidly threw away some older blueberries. I'll rescue them from the trash and put them out there.

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

27 20 hell yeah, now the rest of us need to do so,

and the SC needs to smake VA down hard

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (v6XNT)

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The case is before SCOVA, not SCOTUS.

And SCOTUS would side with the new maps based on the rulings in the CA and TX rulings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (w4o6z)

28 Ace, thanks for the CORVIDUS UPDATAE.

Posted by: pookysgirl, breaking out the fake Latin at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (Wt5PA)

29 NEW: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes Broadway debut in “& Juliet,” a queer twist on Romeo and Juliet.

Watched the video....



Will these sexual temptations ever stop????

Posted by: Stateless at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b)

30 crows all look alike to white people

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 12:18 PM (CWTWj)

31 Ask the left post-WWI that saw the war as an excuse to advance ugliness instead of beauty.


Dada dada
Is all I want to say to you

Posted by: The Police at May 05, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

32 "Drug their feet"?

Did they overtoes?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (Sk2hR)

33 And what's the left's favorite propaganda slogan...? "Justice delayed is justice denied."

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Well, maybe second-favorite ... after "Kill Whitey!""

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (JqXxE)

34 Because it's now revealed that the Supreme Court "conferenced" the case seven months ago -- meaning they debated and voted on the decision.

But Kagan needed Moar Time to craft her perfect dissent.



You get one week to "craft your dissent".

You lost. You're lucky we're even letting you comment.

Your "dissent" changes nothing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (xHq83)

35 Using Ace as my Crow Spirit Guide, i tried to attract a crow over the weekend. I put some bread out on one of my backyard tables, and he/she/it/them/lol came to grab it.

But I then put it on a glass table and it spent ten minutes hoping from chair to chair really wanting that bread but freaking out because apparently birds and glass confuse each other (well I suppose glass is rather stoic in its appreciation of birds, until it gets splatted with bird poop, which creates great anger in glass...)

Posted by: TheMewTwix at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (XodLO)

36 Why is it always necessary to culturally appropriate a play and deform it into something ugly ?
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

Because EVERYTHING will be turned to support the left's religion, or destroyed.

I have to give them credit, though. The left is FAR more zealous for their demonic religion than most Christians are for Jesus, to their utter shame.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

37 Yeah, that footnote is brutal.
It was completely not needed except to say one thing:
We are tired of your bullshit and your lies.

Not only does it confirm that the Left Bloc were dragging their feet to draft their dissent, it confirms another thing:
The majority had acceded to demands--and promises--of the Left Bloc to take the highly unusual step of ordering additional argument and briefing.

I don't know what lies and promises the Left Bloc made, but they convinced the majority they were acting in good faith 7 months ago.
The footnote makes it clear they have burned all their credibility and good will.
Especially Jackson.

Every Justice, but Roberts, has now written a specific response to attacks by Jackson.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (MtSIY)

38 And what's the left's favorite propaganda slogan...? "Justice delayed is justice denied."
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Well, maybe second-favorite ... after "Kill Whitey!""

I'm gonna get me a shotgun
and kill all the whiteys I see!

Posted by: Garrett Morris at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

39 Did he like the cereal?
Posted by: No Name Today at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (8mulE)

It was Kaboom. Probably. No wonder the crow flees.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (T5E0t)

40 34 You get one week to "craft your dissent".

You lost. You're lucky we're even letting you comment.

Your "dissent" changes nothing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (xHq83)

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Kagan et al are taking advantage of the comity of the court, and the rest of the court are figuring it out.

The only thing holding back Thomas and Alito from demanding such things is Roberts who controls calendars.

I think it's most noteworthy, though, that Gorsuch signed onto the opinion by Alito.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (w4o6z)

41 It's a stupid procedural motion that should have been granted unanimously with a single line on a single pdf.

And she went full Leroy Jenkins.

It's not the kind of thing to go full Leroy Jenkins on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:14 PM (w4o6z)

When you're stupid, you pick stupid things to take a stand on.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 12:21 PM (N1DT3)

42 Good afternoon Ace. May your shelves be properly aligned
I can't understand it. Paul Ryan said that his sister-in-law KBJ would be a great addition to the court. He wouldn't lie would he?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:21 PM (gu0hJ)

43 I really think Jackson is going to be of great value to us on the Court.
She's stupid, opinionated, loud, and genuinely unpleasant by all accounts.

So...like many co-workers, fast food customers and subway riders I am familiar with. Good that the SCOTUS has to put up with it too.

Posted by: Welcome To My World at May 05, 2026 12:21 PM (K1Mmf)

44 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (yTBF+)

45 25 Did he like the cereal?

Posted by: No Name Today at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (8mulE)

Crows are not vegan. Road kill (or maybe steak) is more likely.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (aUMnT)

46 Well, maybe second-favorite ... after "Kill Whitey!""

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (JqXxE)

I always hear that phrase in Chris Farley's voice. Tommy Boy is the better of the two movies, but Black Sheep has some golden moments.

Posted by: pookysgirl's brothers used to tape SNL for her at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (Wt5PA)

47 Ask the left post-WWI that saw the war as an excuse to advance ugliness instead of beauty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Much of it ugly, Bauhaus, Brutalism, but Art Deco was also spawned with pretty decorative elements. The Post WW11, International Style, steel and glass was boring. No prettiness whatsoever.

Posted by: Compare Building Lobby 1925 vs. 1955 at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (oftw2)

48 The first time I saw him (if this is just one crow), he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (1wjle)

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The other crows told him you're a big KBJ fan.

Posted by: The_Hoser at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (H4qGm)

49 deliberately dragged her heels on submitting her dissent
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Well I have a dissent to your dissent -

Go fuck yourself. Legally speaking.

And physically. Cunt.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (d997y)

50 That congressional district that was gerrymandered black in Louisiana was insane. A squiggle line that connected all the black areas outside of New Orleans. The state was required to create that monstrosity....there would be no other way to get a majority black district any other way in Louisiana. There is no reason outside of race that Shreveport shares any meaningful connection to Baton Rouge or Alexandria. Different Louisiana cultures....

Posted by: mishdog at May 05, 2026 12:22 PM (IbrTD)

51 she says that granting this motion would show "partisanship" but, as Alito says, she does not explain why not granting it would equally show partisanship

"A fish doesn't know it's underwater."

And Ketanji doesn't even know whether a fish needs a bicycle.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:23 PM (VHUov)

52 >>.25 Did he like the cereal?

yup

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle)

53 >>I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.)

Long ago, would walk a couple of blocks to a convenience store to pick up the morning papers. For some reason, this enraged the local crow population, which would announce their displeasure from 3-4 trees on my block. Never did anything to bother them, and the only thing they did to bother me. Crows are a mysterious bunch.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 12:23 PM (NcvvS)

54 ... we now have almost complete confirmation of the rumor that Obama hack Kagan deliberately dragged her heels on submitting her dissent not because she needed seven months to perfectly craft it ...

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Next you'll be telling me that Kagan and the Commies leaked and slow-walked Dobbs hoping that one of their base would assassinate Kavanaugh and/or more of the "conservative" justices -- or one of them might "retire" or some reason -- first.

Wait, wut?

[h/t Mollie Hemingway]

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:23 PM (JqXxE)

55 Debbie Wasserman Schultz being bounced out of her seat on her seat is the cherry on top of the icing on the cake of gerrymandering. Bye Felicia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:24 PM (gu0hJ)

56 A fish doesn't know it's underwater.
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Or butter

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:24 PM (d997y)

57 Watching the left howl and sputter as their bullshit rules, that they used to illegally build their power, are swept away is hilarious.

And it is illegal power. Built on unconstitutional rules.

And when the Court rules that ballots cannot be counted after Election Day, expect more.

Note:
In her frothing dissent, Jackson defines "election" as starting as soon as ballots are sent out--and we can't change the rules in the middle of an election, she whines.
But in VA, the Dems are arguing that "election" means only when the votes are fully counted--after election day.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (MtSIY)

58 Her "perfect" dissent, aka:

The Ketanji Brown trousers moment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (O7YUW)

59 >>>But I then put it on a glass table and it spent ten minutes hoping from chair to chair really wanting that bread but freaking out because apparently birds and glass confuse each other

hah

Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

60 Crows will eat dog food btw. Our border collie refuses to eat until just before bedtime. So crows will come by and snatch kibble all day from his bowl.

Posted by: mishdog at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (IbrTD)

61 I see the NAACP has "asked" for an emergency motion to stop Louisiana from implementing it's new map...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (iTbY5)

I'm waiting for some no name lower court judge to grant a nation wide injunction against redrawing of any maps,

unless the change benefits democrats in the november midterms...

/s?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (v6XNT)

62
Ace Ka-Booms the crows?

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 12:26 PM (Y8DZL)

63 Long ago, would walk a couple of blocks to a convenience store to pick up the morning papers. For some reason, this enraged the local crow population, which would announce their displeasure from 3-4 trees on my block. Never did anything to bother them, and the only thing they did to bother me. Crows are a mysterious bunch.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 12:23 PM (NcvvS)

They were trying to do you a favor by squawking out the morning news so you wouldn't have to buy the newspaper.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with the most charitable explanation at May 05, 2026 12:26 PM (Wt5PA)

64 57 Watching the left howl and sputter as their bullshit rules, that they used to illegally build their power, are swept away is hilarious.

And it is illegal power. Built on unconstitutional rules.

And when the Court rules that ballots cannot be counted after Election Day, expect more.

Note:
In her frothing dissent, Jackson defines "election" as starting as soon as ballots are sent out--and we can't change the rules in the middle of an election, she whines.
But in VA, the Dems are arguing that "election" means only when the votes are fully counted--after election day.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (MtSIY)

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Oh, tea leaves!

I love tea leaves.

But Earl Grey is overrated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:27 PM (w4o6z)

65 >>>the first time I saw him (if this is just one crow), he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.
Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (1wjle)

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Peer pressure. The murder is murder.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 05, 2026 12:27 PM (NYInA)

66 I really think Jackson is going to be of great value to us on the Court.

She's stupid, opinionated, loud, and genuinely unpleasant by all accounts.

If Biden had put someone halfway smart, there'd be one more loyal vote for the left but who can actually make an argument.
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This. She's so bad she's pushed the moderates more towards the Thomas/Altio/Gorsuch wing.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:27 PM (G0vdT)

67 @60/mishdog:

Crows work on a "The Quick and the Hungry" principle.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 12:28 PM (O7YUW)

68 Long ago, would walk a couple of blocks to a convenience store to pick up the morning papers. For some reason, this enraged the local crow population, which would announce their displeasure from 3-4 trees on my block. Never did anything to bother them, and the only thing they did to bother me. Crows are a mysterious bunch.
Posted by: Nazdar

We were warning you that you were just falling for bullshit propaganda, and could save your money.

Posted by: the crows at May 05, 2026 12:28 PM (VHUov)

69 The picture will only happen if there is an offering made of one box of Capn Crunchs Crunchberries!

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:28 PM (fue0v)

70 Who'd athunk prioritizing racism over competence would lead to this?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 12:28 PM (ndZc7)

71 The first time I saw him (if this is just one crow), he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.
Posted by: ace at May 05, 2026 12:15 PM (1wjle)


Maybe hide your boner?

Posted by: Denny Crane - That's What I Do! at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (dmDsy)

72 As was noted by TJM last thread the Virginia SC is majority GOP, albeit wishy washy. However the number of procedural errors by the Dems which flew right in the face of black letter law are so large I don't think they'll be able to do anything but throw out the gerrymandering. That doesn't even include the BS language of the ballot.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (gu0hJ)

73 Unqualified DEI Fake Justice Ketanji-Brown through another one of her racialist hissy-fits.

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"You do what you think is right and let the law catch up."

-- Thurgood Marshall, The O.G. DEI Hire

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (JqXxE)

74 KBJ looks like an extra from The Wiz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (utfVc)

75
Well, Collins, Murkowski and Romney seemed to think she was o.k.

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (Y8DZL)

76 So Jumanji Jackson Browne is a theater kid. This explains everything.

Posted by: Walks, quacks, shucks and jives like one at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (TbWk/)

77 This. She's so bad she's pushed the moderates more towards the Thomas/Altio/Gorsuch wing.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:27 PM (G0vdT)

What she's apparently done is fool people into thinking there are leftard "moderates".

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (d997y)

78 So much was made about her being a black woman, but no one mentioned she's the first midget on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (wGerL)

79 72 As was noted by TJM last thread the Virginia SC is majority GOP, albeit wishy washy. However the number of procedural errors by the Dems which flew right in the face of black letter law are so large I don't think they'll be able to do anything but throw out the gerrymandering. That doesn't even include the BS language of the ballot.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (gu0hJ)

=======

Retort:

"It's a tax."

Really, it should be thrown out, but underestimating the cowardice and craven nature of GOP appointed judges is a dangerous game.

"Maybe if I do this, I'll get reappointed."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:30 PM (w4o6z)

80 Oh, tea leaves!

I love tea leaves.

But Earl Grey is overrated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:27 PM (w4o6z)

Oolong is nice, as is rooibos.

Posted by: Spilling tea at May 05, 2026 12:30 PM (TbWk/)

81 I wonder if recent leftist assassination attempts, KBJ's stupidity and general insanity are behind the SC pushing on this.

Who the hell wants a Dem congress when they are this out of control?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

82 and the SC needs to smake VA down hard

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (v6XNT)

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The case is before SCOVA, not SCOTUS.

And SCOTUS would side with the new maps based on the rulings in the CA and TX rulings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (w4o6z)

i know it's with state, but we all know it'll end up in front of scotus, so thomas and alito might as well just hand them their ass now...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 12:31 PM (v6XNT)

83 82 i know it's with state, but we all know it'll end up in front of scotus, so thomas and alito might as well just hand them their ass now...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 12:31 PM (v6XNT)

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Alito and Thomas let CA do its thing even though there were also arguable breaks with the law around ballot wording.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:32 PM (w4o6z)

84 Maybe hide your boner?

Posted by: Denny Crane - That's What I Do! at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (dmDsy)

https://youtu.be/BbiJBHGVZE4

Professional Eater vs. Grizzly Bear: Hot Dog Eating Contest

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:32 PM (aUMnT)

85 Jackson previously said it was her life goal to perform on a Broadway stage.

The entire federal bench is GAY AF for this kind of nonsense, reflecting the class aspirations of the kind of mid-wits who become lawyers these days.

Federal judges still cannot shut the fuck up about Hamilton, like a bunch of Millennials who've only ever read Harry Potter and have made it their touchstone for discussing anything and everything.

Judge Ho, a conservative on the Fifth Circuit, littered an opinion with Hamilton references, for example. You know, because that's a sober way to write a judicial opinion and spend the limited time and resources of a federal appellate court.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (yfRPb)

86 Also interesting, but not surprising, that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett sat this one out, as usual, because they are too timid to call out someone who, by any sane standard, should not be anywhere near a judge's chambers, especially not this one.

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I haven't consistently called them "The Weak Sisters" for nothin' ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (JqXxE)

87 Did anyone argue that these gerrymanders were equivalent to racial ghettos.
Because they are.
--
It's not racist to stuff blacks into districts where they can't vote for any other candidate except a Democrat.
Who is white.

That's literally several of minority-majority districts.

Also, those districts segregated blacks from the greater American governance--they have no say in or appeal to the rest of America.

And they eradicated any moderate or centrist Dems in the South because, instead of having to appeal to the general constituency and changing voting patterns of the state as a whole, they were safely cocooned inside illegal bubbles of blue.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (MtSIY)

88 Every time I read Louisiana v. Callais I can't help but think this is between a state and a city in France.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (n5tGW)

89 >>They were trying to do you a favor by squawking out the morning news so you wouldn't have to buy the newspaper.

Sadly, not a crow-speaker.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (NcvvS)

90 86 Also interesting, but not surprising, that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett sat this one out, as usual, because they are too timid to call out someone who, by any sane standard, should not be anywhere near a judge's chambers, especially not this one.

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I haven't consistently called them "The Weak Sisters" for nothin' ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (JqXxE)

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Barret called Jackson stupid in another ruling a few months ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (w4o6z)

91 Blatant homophobia.

Prominent Canadian drag queen, AKA the "Grand Marshal of Progress," found guilty of sex trafficking

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (ndZc7)

92 I think the issues with Ketanji sort of pale in comparison to Kagan's slow walking her dissent so blue states had the opportunity to get ahead of the ruling.

But, by all means, let's discuss how SCOTUS is totally nonpartisan there Mr. Roberts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (jehhT)

93 Crow is a sign!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

94 Did he like the cereal?

yup
Posted by: ace

He likes it! Hey Mikey!

Posted by: Life Lessons at May 05, 2026 12:34 PM (w9Wax)

95 Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.) He comes most days now.
.......

I get a huge one every morning. He likes the bird bath.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:34 PM (UjdFS)

96 Grackles are much more common than crows around here. They take the cat food on the back step where I feed my kitty. Dip it in the cat's water bowl to soften it. They only do it April through June and are disinterested the remainder of the year.

Posted by: Bird Hijinks at May 05, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)

97 She's so bad, she embarrasses the other leftist rubber stamps into not siding with her, or at least not joining the dissent. I've never seen such enmity on SCOTUS, who typically make a fetish of collegiality.
Posted by: Archimedes

Oh, there was emnity. Warren Burger was hated by those on the right and those on the left. Before that, William Douglas, Felix Frankfurter were hated by some of their colleagues and before those guys, Harlan Fiske Stone.

There is a book, Battles on the Bench, that describes some of the animosity. Petty feuding and dislike are common when you have people stuck in a nearly lifelong 'marriage' with each other and strong views.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:34 PM (E4rtv)

98


I hope the old guys retire soon and scumbags like Thune and the like have no say if they're going to place more liberal idiots like that fuckhead Bush did.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (et1vG)

99 Take the Louisiana win. It’s a big one to go along with the others. Virginia - well it could be a win too.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (Gqar8)

100 Roberts retiring, Thomas getting to be Chief for a year, and then Thomas, Alito, and Roberts all getting replaced by Ho, Oldham, and Willett would be fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (w4o6z)

101 But Earl Grey is overrated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

You nothing about teas.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (GD0B3)

102 Prominent Canadian drag queen, AKA the "Grand Marshal of Progress," found guilty of sex trafficking

The left will point out that most pedos are NOT trannies or gender fluid people.

But gay people are a couple of percent and trannies/related are a fraction of a percent.

And they commit sex crimes at orders of magnitude higher rates then straight people

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (sKqQm)

103 I haven't consistently called them "The Weak Sisters" for nothin' ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (JqXxE)

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Barret called Jackson stupid in another ruling a few months ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (w4o6z)
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Yes she did. When you get ACB dissing you, you know everyone is tired of your BS.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (G0vdT)

104 ..know..

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (GD0B3)

105 I love tea leaves.

But Earl Grey is overrated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:27 PM (w4o6z)

It has to be "hot".

Posted by: Denny Crane - Quoting The Next Generation... at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (dmDsy)

106 >>We were warning you that you were just falling for bullshit propaganda, and could save your money.

This was when they still ran conservative columnists, and being able to do 4 crosswords & a sudoku in the morning was nice. Already knew about 'Name That Party' & 'Republicans Pounce'.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (NcvvS)

107 I had a crow visitor the other day. He had a single feather sticking straight up out of his back. He was making a strange keening sort of sound. I talked to him a little bit, doing that silly thing where you ask if they're OK, as if they can answer you. I didn't notice my neighbor watching. He told me they make that sound all the time and he thinks they're begging.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)

108 >>I get a huge one every morning.

Posted by: that's what she said! at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (Y1sOo)

109 KBJ is dumb, Kagan is smart.

You should always hope your enemies are stupid.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)

110 I can't stop laughing at Jumanji in her Official Midget Dunce costume in that clip. She should wear it in court.

Posted by: far cry at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (X+NGn)

111 101 But Earl Grey is overrated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

You nothing about teas.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (GD0B3)

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I'm very much with Ted Lasso when it comes to tea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (w4o6z)

112 Squirrels > Crows

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)

113 All crow groomers know that you've got to start 'em young...

Posted by: UncleJefe at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (gAuAm)

114 Maybe hide your boner?

Posted by: Denny Crane - That's What I Do! at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (dmDsy)

I get a huge one every morning. He likes the bird bath.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:34 PM (UjdFS)

Sorry about that.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (aUMnT)

115 English Breakfast > Earl Grey

Posted by: More PG Tips about tea at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

116 Jumanji Samuel L Jackson-Brown is the epitome of DEI hires.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (IifOV)

117 If that crow asks you if you like wearing mime makeup or if there is anyone you want to take revenge on, I'd stop talking to him for a while.

Posted by: Nelly at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (6+ehB)

118 Crow is a sign!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

That Ace has a thing for Zombie Brandon Lee?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (dK+Kv)

119 KBJ also won't shut up. She often talks twice as much as everyone else put together.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (dVqc8)

120 NEW: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes Broadway debut in “& Juliet,” a queer twist on Romeo and Juliet.

The play features ‘May,’ Juliet’s he/she/they best friend.

Jackson previously said it was her life goal to perform on a Broadway stage.

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What, a gender- and race-swapped Othello wasn't available?

She could have played Othello's white male nobleman husband "Desmonda" ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (JqXxE)

121 36 Why is it always necessary to culturally appropriate a play and deform it into something ugly ?
Posted by: SMOD

Because they are violently ugly and want everything in the world to reflect that so they look normal.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (BpO1e)

122 > KBJ looks like an extra from The Wiz.

She has a really strange physiognomy. From the short videos I've seen of her Broadway appearance, she looks practically disabled. As if she can only walk a short ways. And she looks really, really short. Like 4'11" short.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (mkw2N)

123 Why do crows fly back to the sky every time you walk by?

Posted by: If I were a Carpenter at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (Cqx++)

124 One of the crows is the three-eyed raven.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (w4o6z)

125 Hi Ace. I’m gonna be the obnoxious spelling police.
Threw not through. Otherwise, great article.

Posted by: LMD at May 05, 2026 12:37 PM (hUI3V)

126 The left is FAR more zealous for their demonic religion than most Christians are for Jesus, to their utter shame.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

I don't think it's so much that. Christ does not demand zealotry. Demons do.

When pushed - the world and in particular Satan and his minions - is going to find that there is no one more firm or certain in their belief than those in Christ the Lord.

Communists and Islamists mistake the "tolerance" level of Christians for many assorted levels of their constant streams of bullshit insult and injustice, for weakness and a faint heart, as opposed to a fealty and will they could never dream up let alone imitate or understand. By the time they feel its force, it will be too late.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:38 PM (d997y)

127 One of the crows is the three-eyed raven.

Oh don't worry about him, that's completely normal

Posted by: Tzeentch at May 05, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

128 KBJ on Broadway? WTAF
*searches online for tickets*

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:38 PM (UjdFS)

129 Why is it always necessary to culturally appropriate a play and deform it into something ugly ?
Posted by: SMOD

Post-modernism. Anything that embodies truth or beauty must be destroyed in pursuit of the belief that there is no truth or beauty.

Posted by: Merely narratives and preferences at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (TbWk/)

130
Justice delayed is justice denied, but the left owns justice so...

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (Y8DZL)

131 Persistence is key with seducing crows. It took a full summer for my local flock to understand the "peanuts" whistle, and that I wouldn't always produce peanuts on demand. (I didn't want the WHOLE SKY OF CROWS that would otherwise descend on me...) Now it is just a family group of about 20.

Sounds like you have a scout sent by the Head Crow to see if it is safe. They have Heard Things about your shelves, and what if you want to use crows to fix them?

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (Y9Vvl)

132 When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.

Install a game camera?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (vTZFs)

133 May she stay on the court for as long as she wants, writing lone, angry dissents

Some on X wrote that she may be unintentionally pushing the other lefties on the court to avoid going with extra-constitutional decisions because they don't want to have to share any space with her. Minor blessings, I hope.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (diia5)

134 And SCOTUS would side with the new maps based on the rulings in the CA and TX rulings.
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Agree.

But if--and this is a big if--and only if VA had followed the law in enacting and passing the redistricting.

The redistricting in VA is fully legal but for the illegal methods undertaken to pass it.

But, as others have pointed out, it would not have passed if they had followed the rules in passing it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (MtSIY)

135 "When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture."

So, build a shelf, and while your crow visitor is admiring your craftmanship, snap a quick photo.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (Vpqw1)

136 Here is my take on gerrymandering.

When I see 40% of the Representatives from New England as Republicans, I will start to listen to the sudden leftist complaints about gerrymandering.

Until that point you FA and now you've FO

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)

137 Problem is: all those old white guys (and Thomas, who is just a white guy wannabe, according to the Left), are all going to retire or croak, and that ignorant bitch will still be there, and may have more fellow travelers by then.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (QaH55)

138 Paul Ryan personally assured us she could handle the job of SCOTUS Justice.

NARRATOR: Paul Ryan lied.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (dVqc8)

139 Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.)

Are you saying that we all look alike?!

Posted by: The Crows at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (4NO2D)

140 Romeo and Julius?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (gu0hJ)

141 >>Posted by: Paul at May 05, 2026 12:38 PM (rJjpq)

Never heard you complain about New England's complete lack of Republican representation before. Thanks!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 12:41 PM (NcvvS)

142 Paul Ryan personally assured us she could handle the job of SCOTUS Justice.

NARRATOR: Paul Ryan lied.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM

In fairness, she's his sister-in-law. What else could he say?

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 12:41 PM (4NO2D)

143 Paul Ryan personally assured us she could handle the job of SCOTUS Justice.

NARRATOR: Paul Ryan lied.

In fairness my gym bro offered to let me do that thing in his mouth if I said that so...come on your guys understand right?

Posted by: Paul Ryan at May 05, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

144 134 Agree.

But if--and this is a big if--and only if VA had followed the law in enacting and passing the redistricting.

The redistricting in VA is fully legal but for the illegal methods undertaken to pass it.

But, as others have pointed out, it would not have passed if they had followed the rules in passing it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (MtSIY)

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I seem to remember CA breaking a law or two in getting their maps to the voters, and SCOTUS signed off on it 9-0.

Best case at SCOTUS challening it would be a 5-4 decision supporting it (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh in the minority).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:41 PM (w4o6z)

145 One of the crows is the three-eyed raven.
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Oh don't worry about him, that's completely normal

I know I'd like to have three eyes. Wouldn't you?

Posted by: Montgomery Burns at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (vTZFs)

146 Some GOP state legislators are dragging their feet on fixing these SCOTUS -declared unconstitutional gerrymanders. They're far more concerned about the welfare of a select few politicians than of the party or the country.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (0MjtC)

147 Crow update: I am getting one crow visitor. (I think it's one.) He comes most days now. I didn't tell you before because I wanted to post a good photo of him, but my photos are terrible. Also, they're not improving.

When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.

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We once setup a motion-sensor video camera to identify neighbors whose dogs were shitting in our front yard without cleaning up after their dogs -- so we could confront them with evidence after they continually denied it.

Anyway, maybe you could rig-up some kind of motion detector in order to snap some good photos. Only problem is, of course, you might get the camera tripped by other movements in the area ... especially on windy days.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (JqXxE)

148 >>crows all look alike to white people

The other day there were 3 crows doing some sort of dogfight over the conservation land next door. It was pretty cool to watch but got confusing cause they all do look alike and it was hard to tell who was chasing whom.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (viF8m)

149 You get one week to "craft your dissent".

You lost. You're lucky we're even letting you comment.

Your "dissent" changes nothing.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (xHq83)

This. There should be no time wasted for "dissents", well-crafted or otherwise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (utfVc)

150 146 Some GOP state legislators are dragging their feet on fixing these SCOTUS -declared unconstitutional gerrymanders. They're far more concerned about the welfare of a select few politicians than of the party or the country.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (0MjtC)

======

There will be a lot more changes for 2028.

Some of these states have real procedural issues like calling legislatures into session just to hear it, all while primaries have already started.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (w4o6z)

151 135 "When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture."

So, build a shelf, and while your crow visitor is admiring your craftmanship, snap a quick photo.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (Vpqw1)

The noisy collapse will scare them all off.

Posted by: Rattle bang crash and clang at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (TbWk/)

152 132 When he sees me he flies off, so I've only got a second to grab the picture.

Install a game camera?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 05, 2026 12:39 PM (vTZFs)


Or re-focus your toilet cam to the outside?

Posted by: Denny Crane - Again, I Have Been Here..... at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (dmDsy)

153 I know I'd like to have three eyes. Wouldn't you?
Posted by: Montgomery Burns at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (vTZFs)

We have a club. Free membership for the first 100 new acolytes! And yes, your first three mutations are free!

Posted by: The Tzeentch booster club at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)

154
Impeachment.
Just saying.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (2Ez/1)

155
I see the NAACP has "asked" for an emergency motion to stop Louisiana from implementing it's new map...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (iTbY5)



This is the same NAACP that was founded in 1910 by a bunch of pasty white people (and that commie WEB DuBois as the token negro), and didn't have a black President of the organization until 1975.

The NAACP is still nothing more than a commie cocksucker Donk organization who only exists as a means of controlling Black Americans by white leftists.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (y9nCu)

156 Oh goodness I have season tickets to the theatre and " & Juliet" is coming up. I had no idea that was the 'plot.' Hard pass.

Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (tZg+I)

157 I would imagine that if the Democrats get back into power and pack SCOTUS we may be looking at Ketanji Brown Jackson as a moderate, compared to the clown show they'd force down our throats.

If not moderate, at least wholly ineffectual.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (jehhT)

158 78
lol

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (UjdFS)

159 All you white people look alike to us.

Posted by: The crows at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (2Ez/1)

160 It would be amusing to see the Rs impeach KBJ for stupidity.

A lot of other things would have to shift towards sanity in our culture before you get to that though.

Hell Kagan wrote Obamacare then ruled it constitutional and that is a clear ethics violation that should have gotten her impeached...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

161 Kemp is allegedly fighting doing anything regarding gerrymandered facial districts in Georgia. He is a first class douchebag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (gu0hJ)

162 he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.
Posted by: ace

Did you provide milk?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (qRa1H)

163 154
Impeachment.
Just saying.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (2Ez/1)

=======

I can give you 3 GOP senators who would vote for acquittal.

Can you give me 17 Democrat senators who would vote for conviction?

Impeachment is failure theater. And moral victories of the asterisk on her name mean nothing when she gets to go back to work and take her anger out on us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (w4o6z)

164 I had a cute little interaction yesterday.

My gym has an elevator. I'm walking by the elevator and a little guy, maybe two years old comes out. He's alone. I glance around and I see his mom coming from the stairway. She has that mom look as she's approaching her son, like, "Don't do that again. You can't do that. It's not safe."

Little guy has the biggest grin on his face and he doubles over and dances as he celebrates his adventure.

I smiled at the mom and said, "He's so proud of himself!"

She agreed.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2026 12:45 PM (mkw2N)

165 I know I'd like to have three eyes. Wouldn't you?
Posted by: Montgomery Burns

Doesn't end well.

Posted by: 3rd Eye Blind at May 05, 2026 12:45 PM (w9Wax)

166 The redistricting in VA is fully legal but for the illegal methods undertaken to pass it.

But, as others have pointed out, it would not have passed if they had followed the rules in passing it.

Even if they had followed every procedural rule (they didn't - at all) it should never have been allowed to go to a referendum with the language used to describe it on the ballot. Restore fairness?! Howzabout you KMA.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

167 Alito and Thomas let CA do its thing even though there were also arguable breaks with the law around ballot wording.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
====
Rule of Four. Got to have four justices willing to hear a case and then there is the whole strategy around defensive denials. The whole federal courts muddle on the right comes from the wishy washy application of constitutional principles like equal protection clause to the nasty business of election law and process. Same problem with firearm laws. How much 'federal' should the rulings on processes and law be versus states.

I don't particularly think that most of the justices really want to be state supervisors of elections so they naturally defer on a lot of state based crap that they really shouldn't. Like states not following their own laws in cases involving federal elections should technically result in reversals by federal courts.

But the fact that these often occur most in blue states with blue state judges picked via the blue slip veto by Democrat senators, you get cases with bad facts and little to go by to reverse at higher appellate court levels.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:46 PM (E4rtv)

168 Racial not facial. Hmm....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:46 PM (gu0hJ)

169 We once setup a motion-sensor video camera to identify neighbors whose dogs were shitting in our front yard without cleaning up after their dogs -- so we could confront them with evidence after they continually denied it.

Anyway, maybe you could rig-up some kind of motion detector in order to snap some good photos. Only problem is, of course, you might get the camera tripped by other movements in the area ... especially on windy days.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (JqXxE)

Most cheapo webcams now come with software that allows setting up motion detection and capture.

We know who you are, dogshitters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 12:46 PM (dK+Kv)

170 Whenever I see that clip I wonder if she is abnormally short, or everyone else is tall. And her costume makes her look like a dwarf.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:46 PM (OoFl2)

171 Flashback: the unqualified DEI racialist larped as a Broadway "star" in a gay rewrite of Romeo and Juliet featuring nonbinary characters.

I hope the SecServ had the decency to offer the agents who covered her psych help afterward.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2026 12:46 PM (diia5)

172 So much was made about her being a black woman, but no one mentioned she's the first midget on the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM

Is she shorter than the skeksi RGB?

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 12:46 PM (4NO2D)

173 I named my crow visitor Jim Crow 2.0.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:47 PM (UjdFS)

174 164 I had a cute little interaction yesterday.

My gym has an elevator. I'm walking by the elevator and a little guy, maybe two years old comes out. He's alone. I glance around and I see his mom coming from the stairway. She has that mom look as she's approaching her son, like, "Don't do that again. You can't do that. It's not safe."

Little guy has the biggest grin on his face and he doubles over and dances as he celebrates his adventure.

I smiled at the mom and said, "He's so proud of himself!"

She agreed.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 05, 2026 12:45 PM (mkw2N)

Narrator: later that day, she permanently beat the child's confidence, curiosity, independence, and sense of adventure out of him.

Posted by: For her convenience, which is paramount at May 05, 2026 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

175
Romeo and Julius?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Black Romeo and Orange Julius.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2026 12:47 PM (Cqx++)

176 Romeo and Julius?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:40 PM (gu0hJ)

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* snort *

Antoinette and Cleopatra

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:47 PM (JqXxE)

177 Grok sez KBJ is 5'1", but I think 2 inches of that is the calluses on her feet.

Posted by: Homely Troll at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (oftw2)

178 KBJ is supposedly an inch taller then RBG.

So in the future Satan might not be able to put his beer on her head like he is doing now with RBG

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

179 I have a chicken named Crow, does that count? I’ll send him your way.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (yUiGU)

180 KBJ’s single objective is to subvert the constitution and undermine American jurisprudence- just as her friends in the lower courts have done.

Caw.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (JW6Az)

181 But I don't understands why every time I farts I blows off my tenny shoes.

Posted by: KBJ at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (GSuqO)

182 When you're stupid, you pick stupid things to take a stand on.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 12:21 PM (N1DT3)

Gentlemen, this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture to be done on somebody's part.

And we're just the jurists to do it!

Posted by: Kagan, Jackson and Sotomajor at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (zafwz)

183 I just misgendered my chicken…oh the humanity.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 05, 2026 12:48 PM (yUiGU)

184 173 I named my crow visitor Jim Crow 2.0.
Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:47 PM
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That creepy old guy in Delaware used to call me Jim Eagle.

Posted by: Jim Crow 2.0 at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)

185 God forbid if Sotomayor's diabetes causes her to die before November. If you think the Dems are nuts now, Katie bar the door.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (gu0hJ)

186 149 You get one week to "craft your dissent".

You lost. You're lucky we're even letting you comment.

Your "dissent" changes nothing.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (xHq83)

This. There should be no time wasted for "dissents", well-crafted or otherwise.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (utfVc)
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I'm a little more forgiving. After the majority finalizes their opinion, dissent has, hmmm, 2 weeks.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (G0vdT)

187 185 God forbid if Sotomayor's diabetes causes her to die before November. If you think the Dems are nuts now, Katie bar the door.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (gu0hJ)

=======

I thought she looked like shit and at death's door in 2017 at Trump's first inauguarl.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (w4o6z)

188 Today I learned that there is a real word called 'fugacity,' a term I would previously have judged to be high in bogosity.

Posted by: gp at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

189 Has Skip been by? I am starving. It’s almost noon.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (OoFl2)

190 We have a club. Free membership for the first 100 new acolytes! And yes, your first three mutations are free!
Posted by: The Tzeentch booster club at May 05, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm

******

Are there any free Crunch berries? That's the deal- breaker for me.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (fue0v)

191 he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.
Posted by: ace

Did you provide milk?
Posted by: Stu Podaso
......

Ace, instead of cereal try some of those scrambled eggs.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (UjdFS)

192 I can give you 3 GOP senators who would vote for acquittal.

Can you give me 17 Democrat senators who would vote for conviction?

Math is raciss.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (vTZFs)

193 Piper is here. Ixnay on the shortie jokes.

Posted by: Homely Troll at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (oftw2)

194 Imagine this. Biden said he was searching for the best black woman to put in the court, and he found this dunce. If this is the best I’d hate to see the worst.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (JW6Az)

195 How KBJ writes her dissents now:

Dear Law Clerks: Write like the dissent thing. And you better make it sound GOOD

How KBJ will write her dissents in the future:

Dear ChatGPT: Write like the dissent thing. And you better make it sound GOOD

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

196 Maybe Ace could put out fresh hobo meat for the crows.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

197 I see the NAACP has "asked" for an emergency motion to stop Louisiana from implementing it's new map...
--
Why are they so desperate to hold that single, illegal, extra seat?
Folks don't understand how extremely perfected gerrymandering has become.

I posted it before but Rs flipped 8 seats in 2024.
In what would have been, 20+ years ago, a wave election that would have seen 20-40 House seats flip.

That is how precise, and how far, Dems have pushed the limit of gerrymandering--so many seats are safe even in a wave.
But that cuts the other way--Rs are isolated in blue states to such safe districts, they can't flip them in a blue wave either.

4 of those flipped in 2024 were by less than 2%. All of those incumbents are running.

All the "conventional wisdom" of 2026, that the party out-of-power loses seats never answers "which seats?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (MtSIY)

198 188 Today I learned that there is a real word called 'fugacity,' a term I would previously have judged to be high in bogosity.
Posted by: gp at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM
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The pomposity!

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (2Ez/1)

199 The 14th Amendment is outdated as there are no longer any freed slaves for it to protect.

Just saying

Posted by: Operator Error at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (yk/I+)

200 191 Concur. Crows love eggs.

Posted by: gp at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (N8ZBc)

201 BTW I don’t dance for peanuts, cheap bitch.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (JW6Az)

202 Beretta Holding and Ruger Agree to Partnership

by FRANK MINITER posted on May 4, 2026
NEWS, ARMED CITIZEN

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. and Beretta Holding S.A. have announced a strategic cooperation agreement.
This collaboration began last year as a contentious disagreement between the two companies—as of last March, Beretta Holding S.A., the Luxembourg-based parent of the iconic Italian gunmaker Beretta, had amassed a 9.95 percent stake in Ruger.

The shared agreement will allow Beretta to increase its ownership of Ruger to up to 25 percent of the company’s outstanding shares (NYSE: RGR). According to the press release, the minimum partial tender offer price shall be $44.80 per share in cash.
Beretta had been promoting four individuals for seats on the Ruger board. But, according to this agreement, Beretta will “nominate up to two independent directors following the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and regulatory approval.

https://tinyurl.com/43y76tvh

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (xHq83)

203 >>>85 God forbid if Sotomayor's diabetes causes her to die before November. If you think the Dems are nuts now,

they will insist it is now a permanent "Wise Latina" seat and only abuelas are elgible

Posted by: brak at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (jGJov)

204 This Juliet play, like many other examples, aren't really about making good art or theater. It's about always pushing the leftist propaganda. And they get people to pay for it!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (n5tGW)

205 Stop stealing my nic, racist.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (JW6Az)

206 Doesn't end well.
Posted by: 3rd Eye Blind at May 05, 2026 12:45 PM (w9Wax)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (zafwz)

207 Impeachment is failure theater. And moral victories of the asterisk on her name mean nothing when she gets to go back to work and take her anger out on us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=====
Parliament gave that power up because they found it useless themselves. Framers were mixed on it due to the Convention occurring while the famous failed impeachment trial of Hastings was going on in Parliament. That went on for years before it finally ended in failure.

With a unitary executive that could fire and hire who they wanted, the only thing impeachment could really be aimed at was the President and VP, despite early attempts to use it (Sen. Blount) for senators and later for a Supreme Court justice, Chase, that they hated. Both of those impeachments failed. It only worked on lower court judges like one that went literally insane, and for those that were convicted of crimes.

The major flaw in the Founder's thinking was the universal approbation of political parties but yet these same gentlemen promptly created a party system that is literally extra-constitutional and to have expected otherwise was foolish as a matter of history and political theory (see Why Parties by Aldrich).

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv)

208 177 Grok sez KBJ is 5'1", but I think 2 inches of that is the calluses on her feet.
Posted by: Homely Troll at May 05, 2026

Hmmm. I am 5’1. Maybe her proportions are all wonky. In which case I feel badly about making fun of her.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (OoFl2)

209 203 >>>85 God forbid if Sotomayor's diabetes causes her to die before November. If you think the Dems are nuts now,

they will insist it is now a permanent "Wise Latina" seat and only abuelas are elgible
Posted by: brak at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (jGJov)
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She must be on Ozempic for her diabetes. She's lost a lot of weight.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (G0vdT)

210 Piper is here. Ixnay on the shortie jokes.
Posted by: Homely Troll at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (oftw2)

Bring on the kale jokes!

Posted by: far cry at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (X+NGn)

211 Flashback: the unqualified DEI racialist larped as a Broadway "star" in a gay rewrite of Romeo and Juliet featuring nonbinary characters.

But, hard! what cock through yonder window throbs?
It is the east, and Julio is the sun.

Posted by: Homeo and Julieit at May 05, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

212 Stop stealing my nic, racist.
Posted by: The Crow


Up your beak.
Posted by: Brandon Lee

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:53 PM (xHq83)

213 204 This Juliet play, like many other examples, aren't really about making good art or theater. It's about always pushing the leftist propaganda. And they get people to pay for it!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2026 12:52 PM (n5tGW)
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So, like late night shows?

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:53 PM (G0vdT)

214 fugacity

Bach's production rate when on tour.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:53 PM (aUMnT)

215 Crows are a menace to other birds and their chicks. Crows raid nests, eat the eggs, gobble up nestlings and cause chaos!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:53 PM (GD0B3)

216 KJB is the result of social media politics

Get these clowns the hell out of here.

Its always a countdown to violence with these assholes

Fuck you and your "Social Justice"

We have Justice per The god damned US Constitution

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 05, 2026 12:53 PM (61TgR)

217 Beretta Holding and Ruger Agree to Partnership"

That's nothing. Wilson Combat has a new model out.
It's called...
...
...

The Bulwark.

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (XuXeR)

218 We eat by sight, not smell. If you read the comments you would know that. Pieces of apples are one good visual clue, dummy.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (JW6Az)

219 There is probably a nice bird nest nearby and the crow is trying to destroy it.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (GD0B3)

220 204 This Juliet play, like many other examples, aren't really about making good art or theater. It's about always pushing the leftist propaganda. And they get people to pay for it!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at

And it’s such a disrespectful way to use a rare talent God gave them. Broadway voices are amazing.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (OoFl2)

221
KJB is just Jasmine Crockett on the supreme court

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (IifOV)

222 Piper is here. Ixnay on the shortie jokes.
Posted by: Homely Troll at May 05, 2026 12:50 PM (oftw2)

Bring on the kale jokes!
Posted by: far cry


Always cook kale in coconut oil. Makes it much easier to slide out into the trash can.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (xHq83)

223 .
KBJ be RBG reincarnated.
.
Lawsy, lawsy ... I be terrified.

Posted by: Marooned at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (kt8QE)

224 KJB looks like 10 pounds of shit on a 2 pound bag.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (JW6Az)

225 How far are we from hearing about brawls in the cloak room!

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (G0vdT)

226 One advantage of having a short girlfriend/wife is that as a guy you can put your favorite snacks in the high shelves and be confident she won't snag them

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

227 Kale is no different than okra, right ?

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (GD0B3)

228 he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.
Posted by: ace

Did you provide milk?
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Don't try to chestfeed the crows. It just won't work.

Posted by: Unless you lure them with something shiny at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (TbWk/)

229 The Dems have plans to pack the court with crazies far more radical than KBJ.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

230 227 Kale is no different than okra, right ?
Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:55

Both delicious.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (OoFl2)

231 Today I learned that there is a real word called 'fugacity,' a term I would previously have judged to be high in bogosity.

Posted by: gp at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

That was the bane of many a Thermodynamics student.

Thermo Professor seemed to relish torturing students with it every year.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (dK+Kv)

232 She's so bad, she embarrasses the other leftist rubber stamps into not siding with her, or at least not joining the dissent. I've never seen such enmity on SCOTUS, who typically make a fetish of collegiality.
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We're going to see something like 6-1-2 opinions, where Kagan and Sotomayor have a single line of their concurrence opinion to the dissent: "we join the minority in the ruling only but do not join the dissent opinion."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (MtSIY)

233 I would imagine that if the Democrats get back into power and pack SCOTUS we may be looking at Ketanji Brown Jackson as a moderate, compared to the clown show they'd force down our throats.

If not moderate, at least wholly ineffectual.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 12:44 PM (jehhT)

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Can you say Supreme Court Justices Maxine Waters and Hank Brown?

/I might consider defecting to Venezuela ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (JqXxE)

234 KBJ be RBG reincarnated.
.

I suspect if you gave them each a truth drug RBG would claim that KBJ is one of those inferiors for which R v W was intended, and KBJ would argue RBG was one of those white devils that need to be gotten rid of...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

235 KBJ was put on the court for her politics, not her jurisprudence.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:56 PM (G0vdT)

236 >> I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.

Wearing a bag over your face is an option. Just sayin.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (JW6Az)

237 Talking about crows and racial gerrymandering.

That's rayciss, yo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (gu0hJ)

238 I was her stand-in on Broadway. Humble brag.

Posted by: Tamera McLaughlin at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)

239 Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

240 Ketangi Brown Jackson is the Temu Whoopie Goldberg of The Supremes.

Posted by: fly gal at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (Otsi6)

241 Crow #1 - There's some good food over there, but be careful.

Crow #2 - Why?

Crow #1 - That Ewok throws stuff at you if he sees you.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (n5tGW)

242 >>>She must be on Ozempic for her diabetes. She's lost a lot of weight.

she's on the RBG powerlifting/ Crossfit plan

Posted by: brak at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (jGJov)

243 >> Both delicious

Stone her!!

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (JW6Az)

244 >>Hmmm. I am 5’1. Maybe her proportions are all wonky. In which case I feel badly about making fun of her.

Don't. There's so much about her to make fun of!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (NcvvS)

245 I'm a little more forgiving. After the majority finalizes their opinion, dissent has, hmmm, 2 weeks.
Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (G0vdT)

Only time a dissent might be useful is if the court revisits the issue in future, which could be many years later, if at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (utfVc)

246 227 Kale is no different than okra, right ?
Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 12:55 PM (GD0B3)

No, you can actually prepare okra in a manner that makes it edible.

Posted by: Kale is animal fodder for animals you hate at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

247 I'll show all you dumb hillbilly h8ters how smart I akshully be when I write an opinion that clearly defines what a woman is!

Posted by: Ketanji! at May 05, 2026 12:58 PM (5rh/l)

248 Oolong is nice, as is rooibos.

LOVE

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 05, 2026 12:59 PM (DgMqy)

249 We eat by sight, not smell. If you read the comments you would know that. Pieces of apples are one good visual clue, dummy.

Posted by: The Crow at May 05, 2026 12:54 PM (JW6Az)

Crows are protected but can be dispatched if they are in the act of depredation, in the sense of crop depredation.

A common saying is that Crows are always in the act of depredation or coming from or going to an act of depredation.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 12:59 PM (dK+Kv)

250 Completely irrelevant but there is 1 kitty in Saijo’s crate and1 kitty on top of it. He is very upset about this but isn’t allowed to chase kitties or roo roo at them (he does not bark. He only says roo roo). He is just sitting there staring at them, then staring at me, then back at them.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:59 PM (OoFl2)

251 239 Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

Bruh.

Posted by: Edgar Allen Poe at May 05, 2026 12:59 PM (TbWk/)

252 199 The 14th Amendment is outdated as there are no longer any freed slaves for it to protect.
Posted by: Operator Error
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Had not the Scotus before the Civil War interpreted the privileges and immunities provision in the US Constitution properly, there was no need for it. But they didn't, in part because slavery became THE issue for the roughly 50 years before the Civil War. Simply put, privileges and immunities should have been interpreted as the Rights of Englishmen encoded via common law at the time of Independence. And that no state could deny such to its citizens nor legitimate travelers going through the state. The Marshall court ignored rights of citizens for the most part and Barron v. Baltimore refused to apply the Bill of Rights to the states. Taney was no friend of civil rights and liberties either. So we had a civil war because the branches could not come to an agreement to end slavery which contradicted our own statements on independence.

The Court in Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank promptly shat on the duplicative and clear language imposing the privileges and immunities clause in the 14th on states as well when they had the chance.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:59 PM (E4rtv)

253 194 Imagine this. Biden said he was searching for the best black woman to put in the court, and he found this dunce. If this is the best I’d hate to see the worst.

Count your blessings. Biden might have decided to put the first openly tranny justice on SCOTUS, and we'd all be talking about Justice Dylan Mulroney.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

254 Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?"

Nevermore

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 01:00 PM (XuXeR)

255 I'm starting to worry Ace is becoming Brooks Hatlen.

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at May 05, 2026 01:00 PM (uHU6e)

256 English Breakfast > Earl Grey

Posted by: More PG Tips about tea at May 05, 2026 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

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Lipton Canned Iced Tea > all others

Posted by: That's BRISK, baby! at May 05, 2026 01:01 PM (H4qGm)

257 Ace, you need to set up a camera where he normally lands. Then you can post footage of man-crow interaction.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 05, 2026 01:01 PM (w6EFb)

258 FWIW, Clarence Thomas is about the only justice interested in killing some of these old bad decisions by Scotus that were literal amendments to the Constitution by the court by ruling that the plain language of the provisions did not mean what they said.

See 9th Amendment, the Guarantee Clause, the Contract clause, the 4th Amendment, privileges and immunities (twice!), etc.

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

259 KBJ is the Hank Johnson of Jasmine Crocketts

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 05, 2026 01:01 PM (affD0)

260 There is no progressive jurisprudence. It is entirely outcome-based decision making.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (RAxGY)

261 Today I learned that there is a real word called 'fugacity,' a term I would previously have judged to be high in bogosity.
Posted by: gp at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

Yeah. I have heard it used in chemistry, to describe the "potency", if you will, of a reactant in a reaction. It does not have a number attached to it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (utfVc)

262 Ace, you need to set up a camera where he normally lands. Then you can post footage of man-crow interaction.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 05, 2026 01:01 PM (w6EFb)

That's hot.

Posted by: AOFHQ at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (TbWk/)

263 Crows are a menace to other birds and their chicks. Crows raid nests, eat the eggs, gobble up nestlings and cause chaos!
Posted by: runner
......

Democrats of the bird world?

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (UjdFS)

264 No, you can actually prepare okra in a manner that makes it edible.
Posted by: Kale is animal fodder for animals you hate


Kale is decoration for a salad bar so you don't see the ice.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (xHq83)

265 Today I learned that there is a real word called 'fugacity,' a term I would previously have judged to be high in bogosity.

Posted by: gp at May 05, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

That was the bane of many a Thermodynamics student.

Thermo Professor seemed to relish torturing students with it every year.


Fugacity sounds like it should be an attribute of Sly and the Family Stone.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (Riz8t)

266 I think the key with animals, any sort, is to be consistent. Same clothes, same time, same food.

Even today, after 10 years, if I've got sunglasses and a hoodie on they freak out like they don't know me.

They're also stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (jehhT)

267 Romeo and Julius?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Gnomeo and Julius...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)

268 Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

Bruh.
Posted by: Edgar Allen Poe

Twice a season.

Posted by: Pittsburgh Steelers at May 05, 2026 01:03 PM (K4JMi)

269 >>>Oolong is nice, as is rooibos.

Speaking of made up words.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:03 PM (dK+Kv)

270 he did allow me to come out on to the deck and throw some cereal towards him without fleeing. I don't know why he's more skittish now, flying away if he even sees me through the window.
Posted by: ace
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Maybe don't wear your KABOOM! clown mask, and see if he is calmer.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 01:03 PM (kj/CD)

271 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

272 Can you say Supreme Court Justices Maxine Waters
Posted by: ShainS
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Apparently Waters has been missing votes and is MIA in public for awhile now. Would not be surprised to see a sudden vacancy in her district soon.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:03 PM (E4rtv)

273 The Dems last three picks for the SC have been 1) the first lesbian justice, Kagan (probably), 2) Hispanic, Sotomayor 3) black woman , KBJ. How's the diversity working out for you Dems?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 01:03 PM (gu0hJ)

274 What really says it all is that the other liberals would not touch it, let alone join Jackson or defend her. She is simply too embarrassing even for them to sign onto. Also interesting, but not surprising, that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett sat this one out, as usual, because they are too timid to call out someone who, by any sane standard, should not be anywhere near a judge's chambers, especially not this one.


Roberts does not believe there are right wing judges or left wing judges. Only judges.


I hope the things they have against him are revealed, soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

275 The best thing about the Obama library is that it looks just like my favorite butt plug, except I can go inside of it instead of the other way around!

Posted by: Pete Buttegag at May 05, 2026 01:04 PM (864Ya)

276 fugacity

Bach's production rate when on tour.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

The judges justices would also have accepted a Carnac The Magnificent sock.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:04 PM (VHUov)

277 He gave up and told the kitties they can have the stupid crate. He doesn’t really use it anyway.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 01:04 PM (OoFl2)

278 See 9th Amendment, the Guarantee Clause, the Contract clause, the 4th Amendment, privileges and immunities (twice!), etc.

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

Second Amendment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:04 PM (dK+Kv)

279 Roberts does not believe there are right wing judges or left wing judges. Only judges.

That's what he says, because he's trying to act as a PR agent for SCOTUS. He isn't so stupid as to actually believe it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

280 They're also stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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And yet smarter with a much smaller brain than Justice Action Jackson. They just don't have the law clerks to put out her bird brained decisions in English word salads.

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

281 7 Why is it always necessary to culturally appropriate a play and deform it into something ugly ?
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (RHGPo

Uncreativity.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:05 PM (rkhDX)

282
Democrats of the bird world?
Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (UjdFS)


Have you heard?

About the bird?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

283 Ketanji, Ketanji
When will those clouds all disappear?
Ketanji, Ketanji
Where will it lead us from here?
With no lovin' in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
Ketanji, Ketanji
You can't say we never tried

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at May 05, 2026 01:06 PM (FXPhD)

284 A semi truck with a full load made a delivery from Houston to Dallas yesterday. No big deal except it was fully autonomous with no observer or back up driver or any human involvement. It was not a test run.

That is kind of scary and awesome at the same time.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:06 PM (kxLc1)

285 >>>239 Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?

pretty sure that was the very first post on this blog

Posted by: brak at May 05, 2026 01:06 PM (jGJov)

286 They're also stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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And yet smarter with a much smaller brain than Justice Action Jackson.

Sooo... you're saying the other justices should distract her with bright, shiny objects and she'd forget to vote?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:06 PM (Riz8t)

287 I saw Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank open for Immolation and Dismember at The Dawn Has Come - European Possession Tour in '91.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (zko5i)

288 Sotomayor is as pure an affirmative action situation as the idiot Jackson. Back to her days at Princeton. Dumb.

Will Chamberlain is a darkly unintentionally humorous member of the Legal Cult. "Progressive jurisprudence discredited for a generation". Every word and concept of that idiotic sentence is ridiculous.

As if dim totalitarians ("progressives") can be "discredited" when their entire schtick is just ruthless pursuit of power and control for its own sake or to impose their vile racist or ideological atrocities. And as if the little Stalinist oblast secretaries being churned out by law schools would understand or care about actual constitutional principles or intellectual standards or cultural norms.

With enough bad breaks, there will be a lone justice with any meaningfully American or non-totalitarian/racist mindset ignored and abused by the mindless Revolutionary Command Council majority on the court as it completes the evisceration of the former constitutional system. Legal Cult cultists are among the dumbest of the non-elite elites.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (U/Byj)

289 The sad thing is that I am 100% positive that one day Northside ISD in San Antonio will name after KBJ.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (rkhDX)

290 The Dems last three picks for the SC have been 1) the first lesbian justice, Kagan (probably), 2) Hispanic, Sotomayor 3) black woman , KBJ. How's the diversity working out for you Dems?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

It's only not working because they don't have the presidency and have not packed the court with even more diversity.

A SAVE Act to help prevent that would be nice.....

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (VHUov)

291 Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

I have responded to their calls when walking in the woods. Sometimes they call back. Can be fun to get a "conversation" going.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (utfVc)

292 282
Democrats of the bird world?
Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 01:02 PM (UjdFS)


Have you heard?

About the bird?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The bird is the word.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 01:08 PM (OoFl2)

293 I saw Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank open for Immolation and Dismember at The Dawn Has Come - European Possession Tour in '91.
Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (zko5i)


How the hell did they fit all that on a poster?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

294 When you have one crow visitor, you will eventually have a couple at least. They are very social, though during nesting season they tend to be in breeding pairs.
They are also pretty careful in new areas until they feel them out.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

295 I wonder if it bothers Sotomayor that she's basically become invisible since KBJ stole her dunce hat.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 05, 2026 01:09 PM (EcHpA)

296 It sure is nice to live in a country where low-functioning, room-temp-IQ retards have risen to the highest offices in the land.

It's the effluence to affluence pipeline.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (TezPK)

297 I saw Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank open for Immolation and Dismember at The Dawn Has Come - European Possession Tour in '91.
Posted by: ShainS

How the hell did they fit all that on a poster?
Posted by: Sponge

Double-sided.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (VHUov)

298 Have you heard?

About the bird?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

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Bird is the Word.

/I miss Larry ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (zko5i)

299 Lol. GatewayPundit

Barack Obama: Trump Has Caused “Genuine Tension” in My Marriage to Michelle


If they can get over her penis, I think they can ,ake it.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

300 How the hell did they fit all that on a poster?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

The punk bands used to print up mini posters on a quarter size sheet, and post them on telephone poles. When you can get that close you don't care much about about the readability beyond arm's length

Posted by: Kindltot at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

301 Second Amendment.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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That was sort of a revived amendment after being dead from Cruikshank and later Miller decisions.

Explicitly in the 14th Amendment discussions, the right of having firearms was mentioned as part of the privileges and immunities clause (see the English Bill of Rights of 1689 as the origin).

Thomas noted it early on and has publicly hated on Cruikshank and Slaughterhouse cases for eviscerating the application of the Bill of Rights to the states intended by the privileges and immunities clause in the 14th. Instead, when the court got around to it this century, they used the ridiculous due process approach and selective incorporation of parts of the Bill of Rights to the states instead of incorporating the whole thing.

And that is because too many of the elites on the court after the turn of the century disfavored citizens owning firearms as they saw average people as causing mayhem and death needlessly in criminal cases.

The Sullivan acts of New York should never had been allowed to be constitutional in the first place.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

302 I wonder if it bothers Sotomayor that she's basically become invisible since KBJ stole her dunce hat.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 05, 2026 01:09 PM (EcHpA)

I guess KBJ was god for something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

303 A semi truck with a full load made a delivery from Houston to Dallas yesterday. No big deal except it was fully autonomous with no observer or back up driver or any human involvement. It was not a test run.

That is kind of scary and awesome at the same time.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:06 PM (kxLc1)

We'll get it next time.

Posted by: United 767 pilots at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (X+NGn)

304 I bet Whoopi knows a thing or two about fug-assity.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

305 The bird is the word.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 01:08 PM (OoFl2)

She gets it.

Posted by: Peter Griffin, Family Guy at May 05, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

306 Never mistake the things a leftard says for the things they actually believe.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:11 PM (d997y)

307 Lol. GatewayPundit

Barack Obama: Trump Has Caused “Genuine Tension” in My Marriage to Michelle
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Say what? LOL. I'd love to hear the details on this.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 01:11 PM (G0vdT)

308 >>Anybody here ever dealt with ravens?

Nevermore.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 01:11 PM (viF8m)

309 Always Racist Democrat Party. ARDP. That is what they should be called.

You now, if Black people wanted to get more blacks elected, maybe they should become republicans? We are perfectly fine with electing black people to office. That is the funny part here - dems want to gerrymander their states along party lines, and so do republicans. The problem is black people vote 80-90% D, hence they lose seats in republican states. The Ds call this racist, but what the Ds just want more seats. They don't give a crap about black people and never have.

Again, simple solution, more blacks become republican.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:12 PM (k8xm0)

310 Barack Obama: Trump Has Caused “Genuine Tension” in My Marriage to Michelle
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"She" wants to date him?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

311 Barack Obama: Trump Has Caused “Genuine Tension” in My Marriage to Michelle

Oh, just shut your cakehole, you whiny little b***h.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)

312 whig @258, and that's why the outlook is so dark, and the system so collapsed.

I chuckle at the concept of "originalism".

If I contemptuously inform the bank holding my mortgage that the terms of the contract are not what they plainly state, but I have a new interpretation, is their lawyers' response to me "originalism", or just common sense backed up by plain language.

Thought so.

Inertia is our friend, and really all that's left.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2026 01:12 PM (U/Byj)

313 The Court in Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank promptly shat on the duplicative and clear language imposing the privileges and immunities clause in the 14th on states as well when they had the chance.
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Reminder:
Thomas is on record for decades now, that he wants to overturn Slaughterhouse.

I think that will be his grand farewell majority opinion.

Almost the entirety of lefty governance, taxes and regulation rest on that stupid opinion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 01:13 PM (MtSIY)

314 It sure is nice to live in a country where low-functioning, room-temp-IQ retards have risen to the highest offices in the land.

It's the effluence to affluence pipeline.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (TezPK)

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

OUT: The Peter Principle.
IN: The Bleater Principle.

/The Sheeple Have Spoken!

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:14 PM (zko5i)

315
Oh, just shut your cakehole, you whiny little b***h.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)


"She" hates the White House, but is incredibly pissed off she can't live in it anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

316 Ketanji-Brown is stupid. And partisan. But mostly deeply, embarrassingly stupid. Stupid to the point you wonder how the hell she even got a law degree.

But it turns out not only is she a deeply stupid person, but she is also highly disagreeable. Obnoxious. Rude. Vain. Filled with hubris.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:14 PM (k8xm0)

317 I can se Illinois going scorched earth and getting rid of every gop seat. I’ve seen a map where this is possible. Basically every district touches Chicago.

Posted by: Heroq at May 05, 2026 01:14 PM (bzsoO)

318 But it turns out not only is she a deeply stupid person, but she is also highly disagreeable. Obnoxious. Rude. Vain. Filled with hubris.


But other than that...

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:15 PM (Riz8t)

319 It's chaos I tells ya.

Posted by: a Bushtit at May 05, 2026 01:15 PM (UjdFS)

320 Stupid to the point you wonder how the hell she even got a law degree.



Affirmative. Action.

Period. In no sane world would she have a degree, much less one of higher education.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)

321 146 Some GOP state legislators are dragging their feet on fixing these SCOTUS -declared unconstitutional gerrymanders. They're far more concerned about the welfare of a select few politicians than of the party or the country.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 05, 2026 12:42 PM (0MjtC)

You say that as if that’s a bad thing.

Posted by: Dustin Burrows, Speaker of the TX House and Head of the Burrowcrats at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (rkhDX)

322 Just an FYI, bread is not good for any birds, ducks, geese. It provides zero nutritional value and fills them up so they don't go looking for actual nutritional food and their health suffers if you do it regularly.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (BCuCF)

323 That's what he says, because he's trying to act as a PR agent for SCOTUS. He isn't so stupid as to actually believe it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

I don't know. He's enough of an institutionalist to actually believe the lie. It's possible.

I was at a luncheon where the Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit spoke (not an impressive figure), and she too trumpeted how non-partisan the federal judiciary is based on how often they all vote together despite who appointed them (something that is more attributable to the weight of existing precedent, the role/status of intermediate appellate judges within the judicial hierarchy, and shared class culture - upper middle class with aspirations, than to lack of political difference between the parties). Federal judges are both so lacking in self-awareness and egocentric enough to believe such myths as the apolitical judiciary (apart from a few bad apples). Kind of like how it takes higher education and fancy degrees to believe certain kinds of nonsense.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (yfRPb)

324 That is kind of scary and awesome at the same time.

I suspect that autonomous trucks are safer on a per-mile basis than human-driven ones, especially if the human is at best semi-English literate but the court case stemming from the first fatal accident is going to be a doosey.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (vTZFs)

325 I guess KBJ was god for something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

Can you imagine a world where she was sovereign over everything? I'm pretty sure gravity would be broken. And Guam really would tip over.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (d997y)

326 She's lucky Scalia isn't still around He would have ripped her ass up and down.

She is really crossing the line with the others. It's gonna turn the court in to a mini congress

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 05, 2026 01:17 PM (S+j2h)

327 307 Lol. GatewayPundit

Barack Obama: Trump Has Caused “Genuine Tension” in My Marriage to Michelle
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Say what? LOL. I'd love to hear the details on this.
Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 01:11 PM (G0vdT)

I imagine he (you pick which one is he) has performance anxiety watching how Trump wields the power of the Presidency.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 05, 2026 01:17 PM (N39Ws)

328 New England has 21 seats. New England votes 60-40 Democrat. Yet of the 21 seats, all 21 are Democrat.

I always point this out when some jackoff complains about Republican gerrymandering.

Posted by: Heroq at May 05, 2026 01:17 PM (bzsoO)

329 No doubt, Biden's handlers were looking for the dumbest, black woman, political tool in the country, and they found her.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 01:17 PM (aZm/F)

330 Kagan is highly partisan, but smart. I don't agree but see her logical point.

Sotomayor is not smart but makes emotional appeals. I don't agree, but I do feel what she is saying.

Ketanji-Brown manages to be partisan, but not smart, and is very poor at making emotional appeals, because she is also a highly unpleasant and unprofessional person.

Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch are downright gentlemanly. Polite. For them to get riled by her...is quite a feat.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:18 PM (k8xm0)

331 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (yfRPb)

How come Roberts has never corrected a leftist when they complain about Republican judges?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:19 PM (d997y)

332 289 The sad thing is that I am 100% positive that one day Northside ISD in San Antonio will name after KBJ.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:07 PM (rkhDX)

should be “name a HS after KBJ”. NISD schools are named after SCOTUS justices. There are schools there named for John Paul Stevens and Sonia Sotomayor.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 01:19 PM (rkhDX)

333
"Fugacity" is equivalent of "activity," but for gases. Activity is the thermodynamically effective or apparent concentration of a component in solution relative to some reference state; it has the units of concentration. I think fugacity is expressed as units of gas pressure (it's been a while). In both cases, the values can be represented by a coefficient, a dimensionless number. E.g., multiply actual concentration by an activity coefficient, and you get activity, the thermodynamically apparent concentration. Actual gas pressure times fugacity coefficient gives apparent/effective gas pressure.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 05, 2026 01:19 PM (HLgI3)

334 Barack Obama: Trump Has Caused “Genuine Tension” in My Marriage to Michelle

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This could explain the (so far that we know) two dead employees in and around their residences.

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:19 PM (zko5i)

335 Inertia is our friend, and really all that's left.
Posted by: rhomboid
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I am not as pessimistic as that. History is never a straight line progression as it depends on the unpredictable individuals and actions in the future when an existential crisis appears.

Simply put, regimes have to fit the citizenry and society they exist in. When there is a mismatch, you get dysfunction and it is primarily because of the 'elites' in society more than the rank and file.

The rank and file are recruited by elites during fights with other elites.

John Adams really should be considered higher than James Madison on the scale of political philosopher. His superb 3 volume Defense of the Constitutions of the United States completed just prior to the constitutional convention is an overlooked work of a serious scholar of constitutional law and philosophy.

And since he more or less ghostwrote the Massachusetts state constitution post independence, he knew both the practicalities and problems of practice applying theory.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

336 KBJ fits the phrase "Some peoples' only purpose in life is to serve as a bad example to others." to a tee.

Posted by: farquad at May 05, 2026 01:20 PM (CFMhl)

337 Can you imagine a world where she was sovereign over everything? I'm pretty sure gravity would be broken. And Guam really would tip over.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:16 PM (d997y)

You authors, there is your premise. Go.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:20 PM (dK+Kv)

338 I was told there'd be no thermodynamics.

And don't even get me started on organic chemistry ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:21 PM (zko5i)

339 How come Roberts has never corrected a leftist when they complain about Republican judges?
Posted by: ...
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His wife makes millions by being a legal recruiter for law firms is why. Big Law is definitely pro leftist at this point because the entire legal education field is run by leftists now.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

340 "Fugacity" is equivalent of "activity," but for gases. Activity is the thermodynamically effective or apparent concentration of a component in solution relative to some reference state; it has the units of concentration. I think fugacity is expressed as units of gas pressure (it's been a while). In both cases, the values can be represented by a coefficient, a dimensionless number. E.g., multiply actual concentration by an activity coefficient, and you get activity, the thermodynamically apparent concentration. Actual gas pressure times fugacity coefficient gives apparent/effective gas pressure.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 05, 2026 01:19 PM (HLgI3)

lol

That clears it up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)

341 That diamond is a fugacity.

Posted by: Donnie Brasco makes a fatal error at May 05, 2026 01:22 PM (X+NGn)

342 New one:

Nazis Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Tuq'r Qarlson Join Coordinated Op to Merge the Far Left with the Woke Right

Posted by: Archimedes at May 05, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t)

343 Why do Democrats continue to pick the absolute worst possible representatives of their precious black race?

Because it's still blackface, just with black people now.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:22 PM (d997y)

344 I was told there'd be no thermodynamics.

And don't even get me started on organic chemistry ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 01:21 PM (zko5i)

All your base are belong to us.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (dK+Kv)

345 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (NcvvS)

346 By the way, I have a friend who is a lawyer and reads the supreme court arguments and decisions. He's also a lefty.

He says Kagan is PhD law, Sotomayor is first year law, and Ketanji Brown is a liberal arts major pretending to know the law.

He is very embarrassed about this.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (k8xm0)

347 New one:

Nazis Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Tuq'r Qarlson Join Coordinated Op to Merge the Far Left with the Woke Right
Posted by: Archimedes

It's all socialists.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (TezPK)

348 I wonder if it bothers Sotomayor that she's basically become invisible since KBJ stole her dunce hat.
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 05, 2026 01:09 PM (EcHpA)
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I think she is glad she is no longer the village idiot of SCOTUS, but also aware she is heartbeat away from being the village idiot again.

Posted by: Penfold at May 05, 2026 01:23 PM (Fbt5B)

349 Nood nazis

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 01:24 PM (iNUL3)

350 343 Why do Democrats continue to pick the absolute worst possible representatives of their precious black race?
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 01:22 PM (d997y)

Because dumb people are more easily controlled.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:24 PM (k8xm0)

351 Archimedes said it first.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 05, 2026 01:25 PM (NcvvS)

352 The fact that KBJ graduated high school, let alone got a bachelor's degree then a JD, passed the bar and eventually became a judge and eventually a Supreme Court Justice is a wild indictment of our educational system, justice system as a whole, the practice of Law in general, and of Joe Biden's Autopen.

The woman is a fucking retard. I would just as soon go deep into Appalachia and find a person who can barely write their own name and install them on the highest court in the land, because at least that illiterate rube probably has some basic, foundational sense of right and wrong without trying to bend everything to fit a racist, sexist, Marxist worldview.

Posted by: ballistic at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (oqH4h)

353 284 A semi truck with a full load made a delivery from Houston to Dallas yesterday. No big deal except it was fully autonomous with no observer or back up driver or any human involvement. It was not a test run.

That is kind of scary and awesome at the same time.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 05, 2026 01:06 PM (kxLc1)


Scary. Eventually as more are in operation, there will be two in approximately the same location, on an interstate in the same direction. Eventually they will end-up side-by-side due to occasional single-lane traffic at reduced speed due to construction or accidents. They will both run at the speed limit in their GPS database, making passing impossible. No. Thanks.

Posted by: Ketanji! at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (5rh/l)

354 348 I wonder if it bothers Sotomayor that she's basically become invisible since KBJ stole her dunce hat. Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 05, 2026 01:09 PM (EcHpA)

Honestly, I think Sotomayor has improved a bit. Agreeing with KBJ makes you FEEL stupid. hence anything KBJ says that you might agree with makes you think a lot more deeply about the issues.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (k8xm0)

355 Bless those Obamas...
Look at how they continue to sacrifice for our nation.
Yes, yes, Barry, if only America didn't need you so badly, you could spend more time braiding Moochelle's back hair...

Posted by: UncleJefe at May 05, 2026 01:28 PM (gAuAm)

356 Thing is, though, Chief Justice Johnny Cartel allowed her to stall for seven months to Rig the Election.

Just like he let night court judges block the President until he was forced to rule against it–but still lets them ignore it.
Just like he sicced the FISA Court on the President.
Just like he lets CIA Enforcer Boasberg protect Money Launderer Powell.
Just like he stocks the courts with foreigners who apologize to assassins and impose #SwaziLaw on Americans.

If John Roberts had been the deciding vote, he would have voted against the redistricting repeal. But since he couldn’t stop it, he went along for the conservative street cred, like John Thune in a black dress.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 05, 2026 01:32 PM (JuQSv)

357 Reminder:
Thomas is on record for decades now, that he wants to overturn Slaughterhouse.

I think that will be his grand farewell majority opinion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Slaughterhouse is a perfect example of bad facts in the case were compounded by Scotus. Essentially a group of independent butchers did not want to use the mandated state slaughterhouse for meat packing. New Orleans had had multiple times where the offal from the animals was discarded in the river above where the city got its drinking water from. So you got nasty diseases from drinking the water.

The independent butchers were challenging (which goes back to Dr. Bonham's case), the Louisiana legislature creating a monopoly by state action and claiming they had a right to pursue an occupation that the state was hindering by requiring them to use the state slaughterhouse that put its sewage downstream of the drinking water taps for New Orleans.

I would actually use Cruikshank to overturn the privileges and immunities clause jurisprudence. Better facts there. Cruikshank involved blacks and GOP trying to protect the courthouse and voting from Southern Democrat racists. Race riot occurred.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 01:35 PM (E4rtv)

358 I have a crow that visits me regularly. Each time I see him I talk nice to him. And I ask him if he wouldn't like to perch, just for a minute on my finger. he never does, but he gets closer every time.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:37 PM (k8xm0)

359 Ace seems to have changed the headline...and put the post back into draft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 02:12 PM (w4o6z)

360 Uh oh....ace broke the blog again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

361 THREAD DOWN! THREAD DOWN!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 02:13 PM (xHq83)

362 Oh, good, it's not just me being banned for stupid comments.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 05, 2026 02:14 PM (aZm/F)

363 If you dissent like ten times in a row on Supreme Court decisions do you win a special prize like a t-shirt or a free sub sandwich from the Supreme Court cafeteria?

Posted by: JB1000 at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (w/MRC)

364 Honestly, I think Sotomayor has improved a bit. Agreeing with KBJ makes you FEEL stupid. hence anything KBJ says that you might agree with makes you think a lot more deeply about the issues.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 05, 2026 01:26 PM (k8xm0)

That's KBJ's Super Power, and why she's so ineffective for and damaging to the left.

The other members adore their Grand and Mighty Intellects Which Allow Them to (Inessense) Rule Over Us Without Recourse.

KBJ makes it clear that any retard can rule in that position, so her fellow libs have to make sure that she's looked upon as a freak accident of some sort,

to agree with KBJ is to self-proclaim your self to be aligned with and at the same level of a witless retard.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

365 In her frothing dissent, Jackson defines "election" as starting as soon as ballots are sent out--and we can't change the rules in the middle of an election, she whines.
But in VA, the Dems are arguing that "election" means only when the votes are fully counted--after election day.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 12:25 PM (MtSIY)

Words are just tools to the left.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:48 PM (8avO+)

366 As was noted by TJM last thread the Virginia SC is majority GOP, albeit wishy washy. However the number of procedural errors by the Dems which flew right in the face of black letter law are so large I don't think they'll be able to do anything but throw out the gerrymandering. That doesn't even include the BS language of the ballot.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 12:29 PM (gu0hJ)

And if they don't throw it out, it probably violates the new Supreme Court rules banning race based districts.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:50 PM (8avO+)

367 She's lucky Scalia isn't still around He would have ripped her ass up and down.

She is really crossing the line with the others. It's gonna turn the court in to a mini congress
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 05, 2026 01:17 PM (S+j2h)

Good. Pretending your enemies are non political when they are is the worst of all worlds.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:54 PM (8avO+)

368 Completely irrelevant but there is 1 kitty in Saijo’s crate and1 kitty on top of it. He is very upset about this but isn’t allowed to chase kitties or roo roo at them (he does not bark. He only says roo roo). He is just sitting there staring at them, then staring at me, then back at them.
Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 12:59 PM (OoFl2)

You need one box or crate or cat bed for each of the cats you have, and one for the dog. I had a female cat that would always swipe the preferred spots of the boys when they got up. Peace was had when a good spot was then left empty for the lad.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 05, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+)

The Morning Rant

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When supposedly conservative organizations reach a certain size, they begin that sad journey into wishy-washy bullsh*t language, so as not to attract the attention of the legal departments of their competition, or the libel attorneys working for the Democrat opposition.

Of course there is a different interpretation, and that is they are protecting their carefully cultivated access to the movers and shakers of the Corporate GOP apparatus, and the excellent cocktail parties they throw with the superb passed hors d'œuvres (especially the scallop with bacon!) and top-shelf bourbon.

Why else would The Federalist bury the obvious lead until the penultimate paragraph? They are minimizing the glaringly obvious conclusion that the Democrat talking points about lack of access to citizenship documents being a horror on par with genocide and puppy rape are absolute unmitigated lies, and the real issue is that the reason so many of their voters can't prove they are citizens is BECAUSE THEY AREN'T!

WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can't Prove They're Citizens

Ayres and Slaughter estimate that Democrats are 13 percentage points “less likely than Republicans to hold qualifying registration documents” in New Mexico. And while Ayres and Slaughter estimate the passage of the SAVE America Act would only have “modest” consequences for the midterms because those currently registered to vote would be “unaffected,” “as more people would need to register after moving, changing their names or reaching voting age, this document shortfall could flip New Mexico to an electorate where Republicans have a 3.3-percentage-point advantage.”

They are buying into the nonsense that poor people and people of color and non-binary trans-women and downtrodden housewives simply can't get the vital documents to prove they are citizens. No...not "buying into," but purposefully obfuscating so their donors in the GOPe don't get too frustrated by the threats to their labor force...wetbacks and non-citizen guest workers, many of whom vote.

The correct headline should read:

WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens

Everybody with a pulse and a few functioning neurons knows that's the case, but Conservative Inc. can't seem to admit it.

Rushing out articles debunking the Democrat lies about the difficulty of access to basic documentation is allowing the Democrat/Progressive cabal to control the narrative. The issue is not documentation access...it is that illegals are voting.

That's it. Nothing else matters.

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

2 Woo-hoo!

I’ll cull the otters.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

3 They're citizens of the world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)

4 3rd?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 05, 2026 11:03 AM (fue0v)

5 the reason so many of their voters can't prove they are citizens is BECAUSE THEY AREN'T!
_-_
Ayup

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 11:03 AM (nFsD6)

6 con inc doesn't want to do any real work when the canned "we need money to do anything" stuff is already on file and ready to go.

can't you please to donate just 50 dollars a month to stop cucky schemer?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 05, 2026 11:04 AM (zBgIx)

7 Morning. Missed the Art thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:04 AM (utfVc)

8 I want, and will accept no less than, every illegal out of the US.

I know I will be disappointed, but that's my standard.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:04 AM (xHq83)

9 "Voting." That's cute.

Posted by: Dominion Systems at May 05, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

10 Killer Joe Scarborough is pulling this crap with "My ditz wife can't find her birth certificate so under the SAVE Act she can't vote" BS.

If she's already registered, she doesn't need it, Joe. But of course, you already know that.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:06 AM (gtcuf)

11 Might as well read the content.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 11:06 AM (aUMnT)

12 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:06 AM (N1DT3)

13 Aside from needing to cheat, the Dem base think that any resident no matter how temporary should be able to vote. They are all about students attending college out of state voting. (preferable twice, absentee from their parent's state and in person in the state where they are going to college)

Posted by: PaleRider at May 05, 2026 11:07 AM (PV+Zw)

14 Nothing else matters.
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Never cared for what they do

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:07 AM (d997y)

15 >>WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens


Nor citizens
Not alive
Not an actual real person
Not living in that state anymore
Not using that maiden name anymore

The voter rolls have been wildly inflated for decades by design. Forcing people to provide ID in order to vote under one of the existing bogus entries will destroy A LOT of the fraud they've got going.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 11:07 AM (5xoct)

16 WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens

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But they're registered.

And if you're registered, that means your vote isn't illegal. Even if the registration is illegal.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:07 AM (w4o6z)

17 This could relate to the going theory that Angel Studios released Andy Serkis' pro-communist version of 'Animal Farm' to ingratiate themselves with Hollywood, even though this has enraged their paying customers.

Posted by: the lower depths at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (Dg7ng)

18 In the last thread I was last seen waving forlornly from a distant iceberg.

Posted by: The SAVE Act at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)

19 But remember, it's totally believable that 82 million people voted for Biden!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (5xoct)

20 My standard is every leftist to guantanamo

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (d997y)

21 7 AOP, a note will go in your permanent record, and this will be reflected in your annual review.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

22 Killer Joe Scarborough is pulling this crap with "My ditz wife can't find her birth certificate so under the SAVE Act she can't vote" BS.

If she's already registered, she doesn't need it, Joe. But of course, you already know that.
Posted by: Delurker


And if she's too stupid to figure out how to get it, she doesn't need to be voting.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (xHq83)

23 Lizzy nailed it.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (PV+Zw)

24 im too stupid to get an id
and sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (hw2G4)

25 17 This could relate to the going theory that Angel Studios released Andy Serkis' pro-communist version of 'Animal Farm' to ingratiate themselves with Hollywood, even though this has enraged their paying customers.

Posted by: the lower depths at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (Dg7ng)

=====

Serkis has a supporting role in their new summer movie Young Washington.

Nick Searcy had a post recently about how Angel is happy to work with leftists because they're happy to use the name and don't mind supporting them financially while the hard leftists, like Serkis, don't mind doing the work because they know that none of the people they actually know and work with will ever see it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (w4o6z)

26 https://youtu.be/CHAsXAfJl9c

Cover ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (aUMnT)

27 WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens

=====

But they're registered.

And if you're registered, that means your vote isn't illegal. Even if the registration is illegal.

Duh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


It's also proof in writing that they are criminals.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (xHq83)

28 Long ago, when I moved from NY to CO, I discovered that the birth certificate I'd been using for everything, my entire life, wasn't my real BC (city-issued, not county or state) and wasn't accepted by the DMV. My real BC was sitting in some vault in Albany.

The very helpful DMV clerk (I know, wonders never cease) showed me how to get it. It took all of 10 days and 70 bucks to get it, and that's from the dysfunctional state of NY.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (gtcuf)

29 Lizzy nailed it.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (PV+Zw)

Evergreen

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (d997y)

30 I wonder how many pets are registered to vote.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

31 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:10 AM (+sD5M)

32 Voting should be reserved for land-owning males aged 25 years or older

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 11:10 AM (ZxPkt)

33 >>This could relate to the going theory that Angel Studios released Andy Serkis' pro-communist version of 'Animal Farm' to ingratiate themselves with Hollywood, even though this has enraged their paying customers.


Angel Studios went public recently, "through a merger with Southport Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in September 2025."

They are going mainstream. Thanks for the support, Christians, we've cashed in our shares from the IPO!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 11:10 AM (5xoct)

34 They're citizens of the world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)


NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:10 AM (+sD5M)

35 The entirety of the political process if the shroud the truth in euphemisms and distractions.

Like you're supposed to say that 2020 had many "voting irregularities" when we saw blatant and obvious fraud happening in front of our eyes. (But much more outside of our purview because they KICKED THE OBSERVERS WHO ENSURE A FAIR ELECTION OUT. In what reality is that not prima facie evidence of fraud and deception? "Yeah, we kicked out the refs, but we totally scored 4 touchdowns while they were gone and won the game. I mean, it's on the scoreboard and everything!")

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:11 AM (N1DT3)

36 >>Voting should be reserved for land-owning males aged 25 years or older


Looking at how SBA loans and other entities have been giving priority to foreigners in recent years, that may not be the solution for now.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 11:11 AM (5xoct)

37 I wonder how many pets are registered to vote.
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (77rzZ)


A woman was recently arrested for registering her dog and voting with that registration. She was proving a point. But, seemingly picked the wrong state to try that in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:11 AM (+sD5M)

38 These people don't understand that they themselves are going to be the ones replaced by the illegals. The politicians, the talking heads on TV... all of them will be out of a job because the non-citizens get preferential treatment.

Not every illegal who comes here is all in for the free shit. Many are, but some have political aspirations. Take one Ilhan Omar for example. Or any of the Hispanic transplants who now dot Congress.

It's amusing when one of the proponents of illegal immigration in Congress gets stomped out of office by the very illegal they championed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 11:12 AM (jehhT)

39 WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens

Everybody with a pulse and a few functioning neurons knows that's the case, but Conservative Inc. can't seem to admit it.
Rushing out articles debunking the Democrat lies about the difficulty of access to basic documentation is allowing the Democrat/Progressive cabal to control the narrative. The issue is not documentation access...it is that illegals are voting.
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And the GOP has been cheap labor and pro free trade corporatism types since the New Deal era. Democrats flipped in the 1960's and Dick Gephardt was the last representative of old Dem nativist and private sector labor union politics.

Now the Dems are all in on racialism and importing the world including its criminals here to bring about communism with an Islamic flavor. Green-Red alliance which is going in most of the Western World.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:13 AM (E4rtv)

40 That’s a hell of an admission on their part. Brazen, in fact. I have to assume that they believe they can act with impunity.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:14 AM (Gqar8)

41 Forgot to mention:

Same day voting registration by out of state people

College students using college ID to vote in the state of their school, and voting absentee in their home state

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 11:14 AM (5xoct)

42 im too stupid to get an id
and sid's ass is the best tasting ass
Posted by: Paul at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (hw2G4)

Says the troll. But if they are at the point of being so uninvolved with life that they need no ID, maybe they should not be voting, either. If they still give a shit, they can get ID. If they don't give a shit, they should not be voting. And any Democrat that tires to vote in their name should be immersed in molten sodium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:14 AM (utfVc)

43 John Thune is the face of the GOP insiders that are standing athwart the will of the GOP voters, yelling "Stop". F that guy in particular.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 05, 2026 11:16 AM (864Ya)

44 Let's see, have they added a new step?

1) it's not happening
2) maybe it's happening a little bit but it's not enough to affect anything
3) it's happening but here's why it's a good thing
4) it's happening and we need to ensure more of it.

From "illegals aren't voting" to "we need to help more illegals vote."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 05, 2026 11:16 AM (MtSIY)

45 I suppose until we get a court that is at least more balanced we fight at a disadvantage.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar8)

46 Posted by: Paul at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (hw2G4)



You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 05, 2026 11:18 AM (+sD5M)

47 Angel Studios went public recently, "through a merger with Southport Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in September 2025."

They are going mainstream. Thanks for the support, Christians, we've cashed in our shares from the IPO!
Posted by: Lizzy
======
Pretty much. Our upper crust left and right go to the same schools, attend the same social events, share the same tastes, and that is to be pseudo aristocrats complete with privileges. But to do that in the US requires money, not having the right ancestors. So they use the right's money to get where they are and then sell out for generational wealth and access to the pseudo aristocracy.

The current 'woke' right podcasters are a perfect example--they view their audience as rubes to be fooled, tricked, and defrauded just like any other con man would.

After all, some of them did that gig for the real media back in the day and got paid for it, so why not repeat the con in a new arena.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)

48 Got a local news item in my feed last night.

Townhome sales in the Charlotte area.

https://is.gd/Deb6XZ

"Townhome sales plummeted nearly 14% compared to this time last year, while listings increased 18.9% to just over 2,000 in March."

"Charlotte’s overall home sales also saw one of the steepest slides in the country, falling 7.6% in March.

Part of that can be blamed on an unusually snowy February, pushing closings back."

"“We’ve also seen job growth slow down during the first few months of 2026 across most sectors except professional services,” McShane says. “That could be keeping some middle-income buyers on the sidelines.”"

I been sayin for a while. Deportations are going to be wide and deep and have huge effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:21 AM (w4o6z)

49 Eat the rice!

Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’
he actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

https://tinyurl.com/vwfdybey

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

50 Angel Studios needs to maybe not make another Brave New World.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:21 AM (Gqar8)

51 "“We’ve also seen job growth slow down during the first few months of 2026 across most sectors except professional services,” McShane says. “That could be keeping some middle-income buyers on the sidelines.”"

I been sayin for a while. Deportations are going to be wide and deep and have huge effects.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:21 AM (w4o6z)


I'm sure the murder of a young white woman on the Charlotte public transport system by an insane black man "known to authorities" has NOTHING to do with that either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (+sD5M)

52 Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (aUMnT)

Talented

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (d997y)

53 I had the feeling Angel Studios was a grift when they kept sticking "buy a free extra ticket!!" appeals at the end of their movies.
Pity. I liked the Shift and loved Sound Of Freedom.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (wYjRZ)

54 arah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’
he actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

https://tinyurl.com/vwfdybey
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)



Who?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (+sD5M)

55 The Chosen has become pretty irritating with their endless email barrage. Time to cut them loose.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar8)

56 Now the Dems are all in on racialism and importing the world including its criminals here to bring about communism with an Islamic flavor. Green-Red alliance which is going in most of the Western World.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:13 AM (E4rtv)

Needs to be fought by the silver and gold (lead and brass) juggernaut.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 11:23 AM (snZF9)

57 51 I'm sure the murder of a young white woman on the Charlotte public transport system by an insane black man "known to authorities" has NOTHING to do with that either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (+sD5M)

======

Also that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:24 AM (w4o6z)

58 43 John Thune is the face of the GOP insiders that are standing athwart the will of the GOP voters, yelling "Stop". F that guy in particular.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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The older Bush era GOP desperately wants to get back to selling the US to the world's worst countries and inviting the world for their WEF buddies worldwide who are doing the same shit to their countries.

And these globalist cloud people despise and hate the common people in their countries much more than they hate and despise their nominal political opponents like the Dems/Labour/Social Democrats etc.

The US Senate is the keystone to the Uniparty establishment much more than the House and the fact that its members are got filthy rich by selling their votes and enriching their entire families like crime bosses, indicate why old timers don't want the party to ever stop.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)

59 The red rat commie bastards of the Democrat Party are our opponents. The Republicans are our enemy.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (4NO2D)

60 Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’
he actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

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Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (g8Ew8)

61 54

Who?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (+sD5M)

My thought exactly. I would assume some acting slug who fancies herself important.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (Gqar8)

62 It's 2026...voting should be online using a credit card or Paypal.

$19.99 per vote.

Posted by: Zombie Miss Cleo at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (w+ZZu)

63 Talented

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:22 AM (d997y)


That one is two years old. They've improved a lot since then.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 11:26 AM (aUMnT)

64 Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (g8Ew

Her name is Sarah Paulson.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (d997y)

65 Angel Studios needs to maybe not make another Brave New World.
Posted by: tubal


Angel Studios maybe needs to not make another dime from conservatives.

And here I was, thinking about dropping a few and picking them up.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (xHq83)

66 I need a Y chromosome to figure out how to prove my identity!!

Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (lCppi)

67 Thx CBD
Angel Studios proves Eric Hoffer right. "Every cause begins as a movement, then becomes a business,then degenerates into a racket"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (gu0hJ)

68 Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (lCppi)

LOL seriously

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:28 AM (d997y)

69 ]
Her name is Sarah Paulson.
Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (d997y)


Every image I find shows her face giving this holier than thou pretentious look.

F*ck that b*tch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:28 AM (+sD5M)

70 Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Posted by: angel studios at May 05, 2026 11:28 AM (rJ48h)

71 > Angel Studios maybe needs to not make another dime from conservatives.
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Money changes everything. Somebody should put that to lyrics.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 11:28 AM (jehhT)

72 Latest. Fortunate Son (cover).

https://youtu.be/nntqkq_8Qss

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 11:29 AM (aUMnT)

73 Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (g8Ew

Lesbian actress who thinks she's all that.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 05, 2026 11:29 AM (/HDaX)

74 66 I need a Y chromosome to figure out how to prove my identity!!
Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (lCppi)

I would help you out, but I only have one and I’m using it.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:29 AM (Gqar8)

75 Needs to be fought by the silver and gold (lead and brass) juggernaut.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
=====
I prefer not to have a civil war because the wrong assholes die--it is never the leaders nowadays that get their just deserts as they flit off to safe places and avoid leading from the front. The old real aristocracy, did not have that disadvantage, they were required to lead from the front (at least the males did).

I prefer Bukele's solution--mass incarceration of their pets until death do they part with prison. And these elites and their bootlickers should be impoverished and imprisoned on an wholesale basis using the very tools they used to oppress the people--NSA intercepts, financial intercepts, etc.

The evidence is there of clear betrayals of the people of the US (and most Western countries) because to coordinate these criminal actions, they must communicate and must be able to exchange money. That is the Achilles heel of the global society and any real conspiracy--the need to communicate and move money around.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:29 AM (E4rtv)

76 67 Thx CBD
Angel Studios proves Eric Hoffer right. "Every cause begins as a movement, then becomes a business,then degenerates into a racket"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:27 AM (gu0hJ)

======

Just a bit further backstory:

Animal Farm was independently produced, shown to distributors, and no one bought it. Eventually, Angel Studios bought the distribution rights, probably at a cheap price because everyone else had passed.

It also probably has something to do with how Serkis is in Angel Studio's actual production coming out this year, Young Washington.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:29 AM (w4o6z)

77 Money, it's a gas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 11:30 AM (4NO2D)

78 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ)

79 Every image I find shows her face giving this holier than thou pretentious look.

F*ck that b*tch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:28 AM (+sD5M)

She got something between resting bitch face and resting hag face.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (snZF9)

80 Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’
he actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

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Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


Whacked out nut from American Horror Story.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (xHq83)

81 Bow down before the one you serve

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (9NPTz)

82 WSJ has an interesting analysis on Polymarket that shows that .1% of accounts get 67% of the profits.

There are two possible explanations for this:

1) Fraud - people betting with insider info or people using Polymarket to launder money

2) Someone has a bot net that locks for poorly bet scenarios and then just uses that: eg if one bet should be 60-40 but it is currently at 80-20 you come in and bet on the lower probability event.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

83 Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:25 AM (g8Ew

Lesbian actress who thinks she's all that.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 05, 2026 11:29 AM (/HDaX)

Ah so. Another Hollywood carpet muncher. There's so many of them.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:32 AM (g8Ew8)

84 I don't give a shit about Angel Studios, or any other movie studio. It's all crap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:32 AM (utfVc)

85
Barriers to the Ballot Box - a limerick

A young trannie prostitute named Bull jax
Plied his services out on East Colfax
His surcharge was a dandy
Ten percent for a handy
Which basically amounts to a pull tax

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 11:32 AM (I0N4X)

86 80

Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


Whacked out nut from American Horror Story.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (xHq83)

Huh. Explains why I would not know. I knew that show was shit without ever needing to watch it.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:32 AM (Gqar8)

87
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (y9nCu)

88 I been sayin for a while. Deportations are going to be wide and deep and have huge effects.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And that in turn is driving the GOP corporatist developer complex nuts--they got dependent on a fast rising population and the downside of a declining one means less money, less political influence, less ability to make bank.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)

89 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ)


I just threw up in my mouth....a LOT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (+sD5M)

90 @76 TJM , heard that. However being bought out by investment group kind of screws the original intent

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (gu0hJ)

91 Bow down before the one you serve
Posted by: gKWVE



I kneel before God. No one else.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (xHq83)

92 Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’
he actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

It amazes me how many rich leftists we have running around demanding we eat the rich. I see this among the left LIVs I know that might be in the $1-5M range. They damn Elon but don't realize that to normal Americans they are ALSO "the rich"

The median household wealth in America is under $200k

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (sKqQm)

93 Which basically amounts to a pull tax
Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 11:32 AM (I0N4X)



Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (+sD5M)

94
You know who else has too much money?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (d997y)

95 90 @76 TJM , heard that. However being bought out by investment group kind of screws the original intent

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (gu0hJ)

=====

It's just people seem to be thinking that Angel was instrumental in the film creatively. They're really just a distributor.

If that's the red line for you, all good.

But it really does feel like this particular instance is a professional courtesy and cheap investment more than anything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (w4o6z)

96 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ

I'd make a wise crack about that, but I got nothing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (utfVc)

97 and what is truth?

Posted by: Pontius Pilate at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (y9tbG)

98 84 I don't give a shit about Angel Studios, or any other movie studio. It's all crap.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
======
There is some decent stuff out there including a few of Angel's previous films. But depends on taste. Same with music, same with the arts, and with gaming.

Gresham's law applied to entertainment, bad crap drives out the good.

But when budgets are squeezed, like for our pseudo ngo-fraud class, demand drops.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)

99 And that in turn is driving the GOP corporatist developer complex nuts--they got dependent on a fast rising population and the downside of a declining one means less money, less political influence, less ability to make bank. off of State and Federal Governments funding illiegals
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)

FTFY.

It's all just another grift.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:35 AM (N1DT3)

100 It amazes me how many rich leftists we have running around demanding we eat the rich. I see this among the left LIVs I know that might be in the $1-5M range. They damn Elon but don't realize that to normal Americans they are ALSO "the rich"

The median household wealth in America is under $200k
Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (sKqQm)


All of them can write a check as big as they want to the federal government EVERY YEAR. None of them ever do. Yet, they BEG for the government to hold the proverbial gun to their heads FORCING them to write big checks every year.

It makes no f*cking sense whatsoever.

They are mentally deranged.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:35 AM (+sD5M)

101 92 It amazes me how many rich leftists we have running around demanding we eat the rich. I see this among the left LIVs I know that might be in the $1-5M range. They damn Elon but don't realize that to normal Americans they are ALSO "the rich"

The median household wealth in America is under $200k

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:34 AM (sKqQm)

=======

I advocate for anyone who argues to tax the rich gets taxed at 90%. We're all rich compared to the rest of the world.

Also, ask them if we should stop fraud at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:35 AM (w4o6z)

102 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that

A fair number of lesbian couples are really just roommates. This is why you can see the pattern of post-menopausal women with kids divorcing their husbands and "discovering" they are lesbians.

Its not really that they have a sexual attraction to women. They don't have ANY sexual attraction.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

103 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ)

She's a lesbian? But she was engaged or married to some guy at one time. How can this be?

Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde, not a lesbian yet at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (K1Mmf)

104 89 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ)


Holland Taylor - the mother from 'Two and a Half Men?'

Why can't we get lipstick Hollywood lesbians....?

Posted by: Stateless at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (Sco7b)

105 > Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’
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That's just sad. She should have had at least a Benji on. A dollar? LMFAO

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (jehhT)

106 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ)

That's plenty.

Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (lCppi)

107 Sarah Paulson is 51, her lesbian lover is Holland Taylor who is 83. That's all I have to say about that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (gu0hJ)



Soooo, she's also a paleontologist.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (snZF9)

108
I kneel before God. No one else.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (xHq83)


There are 3 I will kneel for.

God.
The fallen.
Asking my wife for her hand in marriage. And the rest of her to come along for the ride.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:37 AM (+sD5M)

109
She's a lesbian? But she was engaged or married to some guy at one time. How can this be?
Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde, not a lesbian yet at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (K1Mmf)


It took her 50 years to figure out she was "born that way."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:37 AM (+sD5M)

110 Angel Studios jumped the harp.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (gtcuf)

111 Also, ask them if we should stop fraud at all.

This is a point I've hammered on repeatedly. The lefties that tell us people are literally dying because of lack of government funds should also be the people most angry about fraud because it is killing those same people.

At best they ignore and minimize it, but often they celebrate it. One lefty hot take on the Somali fraud in MN was that it was a good thing because it shows Somalis aren't the retards the right claims if they could pull off such a scam.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (sKqQm)

112
Soooo, she's also a paleontologist.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 11:36 AM (snZF9)


Forensic Anthropologist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (+sD5M)

113
Poor Diana thinks she's going on a trip.

But Diana is not going on a trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (aH3bq)

114 Before I head out, MS Now is still very sad and horrified over the 'gutting' of the Voter's Right Act. I'm not sure if their 1.7 million 'viewers' give much of a damn.

Posted by: Stateless at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (Sco7b)

115 But it really does feel like this particular instance is a professional courtesy and cheap investment more than anything else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It is a rather stupid branding mistake if the studio wants to be a continuing operation. Same reason that Disney back in the 80's put its PG and R movies under a different studio name.

If you are selling the brand, you screw it up really quickly when you do something that messes with your brand identity. Marketing 101.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (E4rtv)

116 Eating Eggs Regularly May Significantly Slash Alzheimer’s Risk

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

117 Quick! Which of these menu items can be included in a typical Chinese meal?

Egg Foo Young?

Chicken Chow Mein?

Hot and Sour Soup?

None of the above.

Your answer will probably depend on where you live in the world. Those inside China would probably argue that none of those dishes resemble anything from a traditional Chinese menu.

But others might disagree.

For them, the idea of "western Chinese food" isn't an oxymoron, it's a genuine style of cuisine primarily developed by generations of Chinese immigrants to the United States.

Now, one restaurant in Shanghai is trying to bring American Chinese food back to China.

[...]

One of the biggest challenges was finding the right ingredients to use in the kitchen.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

118 Damn! Just looked up a pic of ol' Sarah. She looks like a rigid, bitter bitch.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

119 Eating Eggs Regularly May Significantly Slash Alzheimer’s Risk
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)


So eggs are good again?

I'm so confused.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:39 AM (+sD5M)

120 Sloan on the Art Thread AND a righteous Rant. All within an hour and a half. CBD has swung for the fences today-and connected. Will his Hot Streak continue?

Posted by: Stay Tuned at May 05, 2026 11:39 AM (oftw2)

121 I kneel before God. No one else.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:33 AM (xHq83)

If only Zod were here to correct your error.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 05, 2026 11:39 AM (yfRPb)

122 111 At best they ignore and minimize it, but often they celebrate it. One lefty hot take on the Somali fraud in MN was that it was a good thing because it shows Somalis aren't the retards the right claims if they could pull off such a scam.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (sKqQm)

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Then they should go back to Somalia and build it into a superpower.

I mean, here in racist, oligarchal, capitalist, fascist police state America, they just face micro-aggressions and murder by cops while mean people on social media accuse them of being fraudsters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:39 AM (w4o6z)

123 Why can't we get lipstick Hollywood lesbians....?

I remember when this really became a thing - MTV had some awards show where Madonna made out with Britney Spears and Christiana Agulerah (sp?)

Note all three of those women prefer men in their private lives...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:40 AM (sKqQm)

124 This is a point I've hammered on repeatedly. The lefties that tell us people are literally dying because of lack of government funds should also be the people most angry about fraud because it is killing those same people.

At best they ignore and minimize it, but often they celebrate it. One lefty hot take on the Somali fraud in MN was that it was a good thing because it shows Somalis aren't the retards the right claims if they could pull off such a scam.
Posted by: 18-1
=====
Half of the current leftists are commies, the other half think they will run society when the commies take over. So both think Piven-Cloward is just fine because it hastens the time to which they get full power. Then they start shooting each other and purging after the victory.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:40 AM (E4rtv)

125 The greatest Guitarists are as follows:
1. Lindsey Buckingham
2. Eric Clapton
3. Phil Keaggy
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. EVH
Honorable Mention:
6. SRV

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 11:40 AM (XV/Pl)

126 A new book.

That's What Heroes Do
By: Adam Kinzinger

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7)

127 Mark Knopfler.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)

128 116 Eating Eggs Regularly May Significantly Slash Alzheimer’s Risk
Posted by: SMOD

This is why my brain werks so good!

Posted by: Preznit Joe Emeritus at May 05, 2026 11:41 AM (oftw2)

129
Who the hell is Sarah Paulson?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


Whacked out nut from American Horror Story.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:31 AM (xHq83)


Also, in the movie Serenity, she was the hologram crew member who makes the warning message about Miranda and the Pax drug that The Alliance put into the atmosphere processors while terraforming the planet.

She also gets raped to death by Reavers before she can put a bullet in her dome.

I love a film with a happy ending.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (y9nCu)

130 97 and what is truth?
Posted by: Pontius Pilate

The climactic statement of a very long, disjointed book.

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (Y8DZL)

131 Roger McGuinn.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (Gqar8)

132 Are the Cocaine Hippos doing okay?

Posted by: torabora at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (fZu7e)

133 Then they should go back to Somalia and build it into a superpower.

The leftwing answer to this is to bring up Jews in WWII.

But almost all refugees in the US are fleeing traditional kleptocracies. If a person is going to succeed in the US they will most likely succeed back home too.

But most immigrants/refugees just go on welfare which doesn't exist back home. And you can see this in practice - Trump has deported 2M+ illegals and America hasn't lost a million jobs over that time has it?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

134 Where does McCartney fall on that list?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

135
The lefties that tell us people are literally dying because of lack of government funds should also be the people most angry about fraud because it is killing those same people.

Posted by: 18-1

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

That's not how it works. You keep subsidizing the people who need it, AND you subsidize the people who steal it -- because of who they are. Now git back to the mines.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2026 11:43 AM (n7rxJ)

136 134 Where does McCartney fall on that list?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

Maybe flat on his ass.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar8)

137 Steve Howe, Alex Lifeson, David Gilmour

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:43 AM (gtcuf)

138 One of the biggest challenges was finding the right ingredients to use in the kitchen.
Posted by: SMOD

You don't want ingredients from China. Trust me.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2026 11:43 AM (diia5)

139 Where does McCartney fall on that list?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)


Giving SRV an honorable mention makes that list not serious.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:44 AM (+sD5M)

140 👍 CBD

Ballotpedia - Proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration by state

All 49 states with voter registration systems require applicants to declare that they are U.S. citizens in order to register to vote in state and federal elections, under penalty of perjury or other punishment.[1][2]

Some states* have enacted laws requiring individuals to provide proof of citizenship at the time of voter registration or if there are questions regarding their citizenship status.

*A very few have an actual process.
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Governor Shapiro Implements Automatic Voter Registration in Pennsylvania, Joining Bipartisan Group of States That Have Taken Commonsense Step to Make Voter Registration More Streamlined and Secure
By automatically combining the verification processes of DMV registration and voter registration, Shapiro Administration will enhance the accuracy and security of Pennsylvania voter rolls while saving taxpayers time and money. Sep. 9, 2023
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Currently - MILPA (Movement of Immigrant Leaders in PA)

At MILPA, we don’t just fight for driver’s licenses. We fight for dignity. We fight for health. We fight against poverty.

We believe that everyone deserves the basics.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 11:44 AM (NFX2v)

141 Jorma Kaukonen.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar8)

142 138 One of the biggest challenges was finding the right ingredients to use in the kitchen.
Posted by: SMOD

You don't want ingredients from China. Trust me.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 05, 2026 11:43 AM (diia5)

Eat your melamine round-eye!

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:45 AM (Gqar8)

143 >Where does McCartney fall on that list?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

He plays bass.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 05, 2026 11:45 AM (rJ48h)

144 "92 It amazes me how many rich leftists we have running around demanding we eat the rich. I see this among the left LIVs I know that might be in the $1-5M range. They damn Elon but don't realize that to normal Americans they are ALSO "the rich""

My peers at work who are in the top 1% or better globally, and top 5-10% in the US, won't shut the fuck up about how poor and oppressed they are and how we need to destroy capitalism.

It's a combination of trannies and freaks parroting what they know they need to parrot to not get burned in the town square, and spoiled shits who aren't as smart as they think they are and convinced they live lives of hardship because eating out 20 times a week drains their budget vs blue hive rent and the omnipresent cost of the crime, bums, and invaders they voted for.

Fuck all these people.

Posted by: heya at May 05, 2026 11:45 AM (VczSh)

145 Smoking a fag or two a day greatly reduces the chance of Alzheimer's Risk.

Posted by: Barney Fag, Not Dead Yet at May 05, 2026 11:45 AM (K1Mmf)

146 Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta

IT’S OFFICIAL: Mitch Sylvester has announced 301,620 signatures for the Alberta independence petition outside Elections Alberta’s office in Edmonton.

He called on the Premier to recognize this as a clear expression of the democratic will of Albertans and move forward with putting the question on the October 19, 2026 referendum ballot.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (RHGPo)

147 The greatest Guitarists are as follows:
1. Lindsey Buckingham
2. Eric Clapton
3. Phil Keaggy
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. EVH
Honorable Mention:
6. SRV
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 11:40 AM (XV/Pl)

That you don't have Wes Montgomery on that list indicates a significant lack of education.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (N1DT3)

148 ---
Governor Shapiro Implements Automatic Voter Registration in Pennsylvania, Joining Bipartisan Group of States That Have Taken Commonsense Step to Make Voter Registration More Streamlined and Secure
By automatically combining the verification processes of DMV registration and voter registration, Shapiro Administration will enhance the accuracy and security of Pennsylvania voter rolls while saving taxpayers time and money. Sep. 9, 2023
---


Everything that guy just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (+sD5M)

149 You don't want ingredients from China. Trust me.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Melamine, formaldehyde and asbestos are the building blocks of good health.

Posted by: Your Rexall Druggist. at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (oftw2)

150 143 >Where does McCartney fall on that list?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

He plays bass.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 05, 2026 11:45 AM (rJ48h)

Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar8)

151 85
Barriers to the Ballot Box - a limerick

A young trannie prostitute named Bull jax
Plied his services out on East Colfax
His surcharge was a dandy
Ten percent for a handy
Which basically amounts to a pull tax
Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 11:32 AM (I0N4X)
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LOL

Posted by: ballistic at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (oqH4h)

152 That you don't have Wes Montgomery on that list indicates a significant lack of education.


Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (N1DT3)


Howard Roberts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (+sD5M)

153 Killer Joe Scarborough is pulling this crap with "My ditz wife can't find her birth certificate so under the SAVE Act she can't vote" BS.

--

Not to mention, it's very easy to go to your state's Vital Statistics website and request another birth certificate if yours is lost or destroyed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (qBdHI)

154
Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.
Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar


Stu Hamm farts in your general direction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (+sD5M)

155 That you don't have Wes Montgomery on that list indicates a significant lack of education.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (N1DT3)


Also, Prince.

Posted by: ballistic at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (oqH4h)

156 McCartney played quite a bit of guitar. That's all him on the studio version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," for starters.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (gtcuf)

157 Giving SRV an honorable mention makes that list not serious.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:44 AM (+sD5M)

That too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (N1DT3)

158
Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.
Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar


Billy Sheehan kicks you square in the nuts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (+sD5M)

159 158
Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.
Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar


Billy Sheehan kicks you square in the nuts.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (+sD5M)

I’ll look him up.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar8)

160 Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta

IT’S OFFICIAL: Mitch Sylvester has announced 301,620 signatures for the Alberta independence petition outside Elections Alberta’s office in Edmonton.

He called on the Premier to recognize this as a clear expression of the democratic will of Albertans and move forward with putting the question on the October 19, 2026 referendum ballot.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (RHGPo)

Excellent news! The threshold was 175,000 signatures, so I would say it's a done deal. Plenty of extras, should there be any challenges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:49 AM (utfVc)

161 So bass guitar is not considered a guitar?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

162 It's a combination of trannies and freaks parroting what they know they need to parrot to not get burned in the town square, and spoiled shits who aren't as smart as they think they are and convinced they live lives of hardship because eating out 20 times a week drains their budget vs blue hive rent and the omnipresent cost of the crime, bums, and invaders they voted for.

Yep, the rich lefty LIVs I know have:

A mortgage on a multi-million dollar home
Two new cars with loans
Take multiple overseas vacations a year
Eat out a lot
Have "help" as in nannies, maids, and a lawn service
and on and on

Then they tell me they are already taxed too much AND the government needs to tax the rich more. They mean Elon because they refuse to acknowledge they are the rich as well

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:50 AM (sKqQm)

163 Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.
Posted by: tubal

Up yours!

Posted by: Noel Redding, Felix Pappalardi, Geddy Lee, and Phil Lesh at May 05, 2026 11:50 AM (oftw2)

164
Now, one restaurant in Shanghai is trying to bring American Chinese food back to China.

[...]

One of the biggest challenges was finding the right ingredients to use in the kitchen.
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)



The tough part is getting the kitchen management to wash the dishes in a semi-clean kitchen sink, rather than taking them into the sewer drain.

"All you need is water. The sewer water is just sitting there free, and unused, round-eye."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:50 AM (y9nCu)

165 Will his Hot Streak continue?

Posted by: Stay Tuned at May 05, 2026 11:39 AM (oftw2)

Probably not.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2026 11:50 AM (iERP6)

166 125 147 Roy Clark.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (gm9Sb)

167 The greatest Guitarists are as follows:

Posted by: Thomas Bender

**********

A-chording to you...

...but don't fret over it.

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (I0N4X)

168 A lot of bass enthusiasts here at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)

169 Excellent news! The threshold was 175,000 signatures, so I would say it's a done deal. Plenty of extras, should there be any challenges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:49 AM (utfVc)

Can't we just trade Minnesota for Alberta?

I can't say everyone would be better off, because both Minnesota and Canada would be worse off, but they'd be getting what they want, good and hard.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (N1DT3)

170 168 A lot of bass enthusiasts here at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar

=====

At least we're avoiding the fish puns.

*oh god...what have I done...?*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (w4o6z)

171 The internet says there are 2.9M voters in Alberta so more then 10% voted for getting it on the ballot.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (sKqQm)

172 Jerry Reed.

Posted by: Guitar Man at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (K1Mmf)

173
That you don't have Wes Montgomery on that list indicates a significant lack of education.


Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (N1DT3)


Howard Roberts.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (+sD5M)


Chet Atkins *mic drop*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (y9nCu)

174 Best jazz guitarist almost nobody's heard of: Grant Green.

Played on more Blue Note sessions than any other guitar player. He could play it all: bop, post-bop, soul jazz, big band, but he really excelled at Jazz-Blues. Lots of great LPs like Matador, Iron City, Green Street, Idle Moments, Grantstand.

And he really ripped it up, playing lots of single line stuff like a rock guy. Check him out, check him outers.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (gtcuf)

175 Eating Eggs Regularly May Significantly Slash Alzheimer’s Risk

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

By what mechanism? I eat eggs pretty much every day. Quick easy protein and versatile.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (d997y)

176 The greatest Guitarists are as follows:

Posted by: Thomas Bender

**********

A-chording to you...

...but don't fret over it.
Posted by: muldoon

We shouldn't pick on him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (K4JMi)

177
Chet Atkins *mic drop*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (y9nCu)


Roy Clark........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (+sD5M)

178 I personally only know of one case where someone was disenfranchised...My Dad.
When he moved in to live with my brother in Missouri, he didn't have a passport, and his birth certificate only had "baby [surname]". There was a process he could have gone through to get everything fixed, but my brother made a deal with my Dad...he'd vote the way Dad wanted to vote on his ballot! LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

179 170 168 A lot of bass enthusiasts here at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar

=====

At least we're avoiding the fish puns.

*oh god...what have I done...?*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:51 AM (w4o6z)

Well it’s a low comment day - we gotta do our part.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (Gqar8)

180 We shouldn't pick on him.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (K4JMi)


Some will let it slide.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (+sD5M)

181 Being deficient in protein increases risks of cognitive decline in general.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm)

182 Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.
Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar


Stu Hamm farts in your general direction.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:47 AM (+sD5M)

John Paul Jones sneers at all of them.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)

183
Then they should go back to Somalia and build it into a superpower.

Black Gypsy Empire

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (Cqx++)

184 Are the Cocaine Hippos doing okay?
Posted by: torabora



I thought they made them into burgers?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (xHq83)

185 A-chording to you...

...but don't fret over it.
Posted by: muldoon

Don't stick your neck out.

Posted by: My Philosophy Of Life at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (oftw2)

186 Bass. The Kaboom! of guitars.
Posted by: tubal
=======
John Entwistle may have something to say to you.
"The Real Me" by the Who
https://youtu.be/6y1c3xllo8c

Notably he called himself a bass guitarist.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)

187 He plays bass."

mama sang tenor?

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (XuXeR)

188 For those keeping score at home, Fuentes now admits he's a "moderate Democrat", the GOP needs to be destroyed and Trump impeached.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (viF8m)

189 One thing to vote, when Somali was more of a power historically its because they were the key slave traders in the region.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm)

190 Excellent news! The threshold was 175,000 signatures, so I would say it's a done deal. Plenty of extras, should there be any challenges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:49 AM (utfVc)

The CBC - lololol - had a 'hard-hitting- report yesterday on the 'threat' of anonymous people hiring actors to do videos promoting Albertan independence.

This was HORRIBLE!

Because people are just too freaking stupid to make up their own minds.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (Sco7b)

191 177
Chet Atkins *mic drop*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (y9nCu)


Roy Clark........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:52 AM (+sD5M)

https://youtu.be/lxDQQDF6j0Y

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

192 That you don't have Wes Montgomery on that list indicates a significant lack of education.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 05, 2026 11:46 AM (N1DT3)

That there are no blues guitarists on that list is itself a travesty, given that the rock musicians "stole" a lot of their licks from the blues guys (which Clapton freely admits).

And what about Chuck Berry? Would "rock guitarist" even be a job category if he had not made flashy guitar playing a popular thing?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (utfVc)

193 188 For those keeping score at home, Fuentes now admits he's a "moderate Democrat", the GOP needs to be destroyed and Trump impeached.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (viF8m)

======

Saying he was going to Michigan to campaign against Trump in September of 2024 wasn't a clue for a lot of people.

His Pakistani audience will be surprised, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (w4o6z)

194
Jeff Beck *mic drop, along with the rest of the stadium PA system*

And Clapton is easily the most overrated guitarist in rock history.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (y9nCu)

195 Any list without Duane Allman is having a laugh

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (d997y)

196
https://youtu.be/lxDQQDF6j0Y
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (ynpvh)


Ridiculous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (+sD5M)

197 Oh, Gutfeld yesterday had a segment stating Swalwell hosted meetings at 'Hooters.'

My opinion went up.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 05, 2026 11:55 AM (Sco7b)

198 189 One thing to vote, when Somali was more of a power historically its because they were the key slave traders in the region.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm)

======

Ah, when George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin ran Somali domestic policy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:55 AM (w4o6z)

199 147 Roy Clark.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
=====
Roy Clark and Glen Campbell trading licks on Ghost Riders in the Sky. Was on Hee Haw episode.

https://youtu.be/v_kbgjsuCec

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:55 AM (E4rtv)

200
Glenn Campbell was quite good.

So was Charo, believe it or not.

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 11:55 AM (Y8DZL)

201 Three little letters: GOP.

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 05, 2026 11:56 AM (cS1cw)

202 They're claiming it's the yolk which has lecithin and choline

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:56 AM (d997y)

203 I mentioned in JJ's TMR that Ventura County emailed me a notice that my mail in ballot is on it's way. Never mind that I've not lived in VC since last July and am now registered here in Florida. I'm sure that ballot will end up in a special folder along with others bearing the names of fellow California expats and deployed as needed...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 05, 2026 11:57 AM (nbLIj)

204 Apparently VA Dems are freaking out thinking they're going to lose the SCOVA case on gerrymandering.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:57 AM (w4o6z)

205 Eggs are good for putting on weight.

You eat them, and you get lessythin.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

206 One of my brothers is a professional bass player, so I shant disparage the bass. No, I shannot.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (gtcuf)

207 Are the Cocaine Hippos doing okay?

*********

Yeah Baby!

Posted by: Hip Hippo doing a line off a she-hippo's...um...hips at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (I0N4X)

208 Joe Robinson

https://youtu.be/UU1Xl4-bHpU


@jonjones6749
1 year ago
Probably the best Guitar player I have ever heard and I have seen Clapton, BBKing, SRV, Mayer in concert.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (aUMnT)

209 > What's this? SSA gov - Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) Transactions by State

Interesting.

A few states have several 'single match deceased' entries for the week chosen.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (NFX2v)

210 204 Apparently VA Dems are freaking out thinking they're going to lose the SCOVA case on gerrymandering.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:57 AM (w4o6z)

You offhand the partsan makeup of that court?

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (Gqar8)

211 Oh, and the Indiana primaries are tonight, and consensus seems to be that at least 4 if not 7 of the 8 targeted GOP state senators (2 refused to run for re-election) will end up losing.

Still, votes gotta happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (w4o6z)

212 156 McCartney played quite a bit of guitar. That's all him on the studio version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," for starters.
Posted by: Delurker
======
On Abbey Road album, 'The End' has three out of the four Beatles trading guitar licks.

AI summary.
"John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison traded guitar solos during the track "The End". This iconic sequence features George Harrison playing the first solo, followed by Paul McCartney, and finally John Lennon, who delivered a "funky, dirty" lead performance described by McCartney as sounding like a "dog barking."

You can easily tell who is who listening to it as it reflects their personalities.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

213 205 Eggs are good for putting on weight.

You eat them, and you get lessythin.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 11:59 AM (ynpvh)

214 *plays a few warm-up riffs on the concertina*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 11:59 AM (xvhJH)

215 210 204 Apparently VA Dems are freaking out thinking they're going to lose the SCOVA case on gerrymandering.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:57 AM (w4o6z)

You offhand the partsan makeup of that court?

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 11:58 AM (Gqar

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Majority GOP.

But VA GOP, so spineless quislings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:59 AM (w4o6z)

216 if in the year 2026 you don’t have photo ID, you are not a functioning member of society and you should not be voting.

Posted by: Heroq at May 05, 2026 12:00 PM (bzsoO)

217 211 Oh, and the Indiana primaries are tonight, and consensus seems to be that at least 4 if not 7 of the 8 targeted GOP state senators (2 refused to run for re-election) will end up losing.

Still, votes gotta happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ain't that a shame. Now get rid of Marvin Stutzman too who wants amnesty and open borders.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)

218
*plays a few warm-up riffs on the concertina*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 11:59 AM (xvhJH)



Reminds me of one of the best Far Side cartoons ever.

"Welcome to Heaven, here's your harp."

"Welcome to Hell, here's your accordian."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (y9nCu)

219 217 Ain't that a shame. Now get rid of Marvin Stutzman too who wants amnesty and open borders.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)

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I was told that GOP voters have no memory, would forget about it all, and no one who likes Trump votes when he's not on the ballot, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (w4o6z)

220 215

Majority GOP.

But VA GOP, so spineless quislings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 11:59 AM (w4o6z)

If it goes badly, what? On to the the USSC?

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (Gqar8)

221 Roy Clark also played a mean banjo.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

222 The Statist stooges who insist we must show government ID to see Gaylord's bathhouse or to buy a six-pack of beer now say such documents are too onerous?

They deserve all the respect they give us, absolutely none.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (2GVsD)

223 Who said I even wanted to be rescued?

Posted by: Hip Hippo doing a line off a she-hippo's...um...hips at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (I0N4X)

224 >>> WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Are Not Citizens

This is true - fabricated vote tallies are not citizens.
They want you to think one vote == one person, citizen or not.

In reality a significant number of their votes are not people at all.
Just bubbles on a sheet of paper, numbers in a machine, vote talliez on a pad of paper or taped to the side of a locked ballot box.

Posted by: Operator Error at May 05, 2026 12:02 PM (yk/I+)

225 Plenty of extras, should there be any challenges.

I went thru tat process, not for a major change, but just to put someone on a ballot.

The rules vary for state to state, but can include:
1) each petition sheet may only contain names from the geographic area .. one name for outside, the sheet is dumped.

I only needed 3 sheets, had 4, but 2 got dumped. No Joy.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

226 Who said I even wanted to be rescued?
Posted by: Hip Hippo doing a line off a she-hippo's...um...hips at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (I0N4X)
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Mud mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (xvhJH)

227 220 If it goes badly, what? On to the the USSC?

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:01 PM (Gqar

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It'll stand.

I think there's a way to get it to SCOTUS, but if that happened, all the recent SCOTUS decisions about procedure on redistricting have just allowed the state's to have their way (it's why the CA and TX cases both bowed to the wills of the state governments).

There'd need to be some kind of new case brought to challenge it under Callais, if that's what you're thinking, and even then I think the new map actually would fit post-Gingles jurisprudence better than the old map. They actually broke up a couple of black districts to get the new map.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (w4o6z)

228 Gas has gone up 30 cents since Saturday. It's now $4.29 here in upstate SC. This is...not good.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (qBdHI)

229 221 Roy Clark also played a mean banjo.
Posted by: Bulg
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Not going to post it but there is a hilarious version of Roy Clark and Buck Trent doing Duelin' Banjos from Deliverance (video quality could be better).

Complete with comedic mugging and flourishes. They redid that during a much later Hee Haw reunion video that is also on line.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)

230 /🦛 sock off

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (I0N4X)

231 There are 600,000 graves in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. You know they all continue to vote.

Posted by: Ward Heeler at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (oftw2)

232 Gas has gone up 30 cents since Saturday. It's now $4.29 here in upstate SC. This is...not good.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (qBdHI)
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It's $5.50+ near me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (xvhJH)

233 Texas SB 4 “is one of the most extreme anti-immigrant laws ever passed by any state legislature in the country” and will “separate families and directly lead to racial profiling,” the ACLU argues.

... sure seems that the ACLU is racially profiling the state legislature

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (RHGPo)

234 Gas has gone up 30 cents since Saturday. It's now $4.29 here in upstate SC. This is...not good.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (qBdHI)
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It's $5.50+ near me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (xvhJH)


It's 100% price gauging that no one is doing a damn thing about.

Trump is taking it on the chin with this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 12:06 PM (+sD5M)

235 Texas SB 4 “is one of the most extreme anti-immigrant laws ever passed by any state legislature in the country” and will “separate families and directly lead to racial profiling,” the ACLU argues.

... sure seems that the ACLU is racially profiling the state legislature
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (RHGPo)


The ACLU can go f*ck itself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (+sD5M)

236 232 Gas has gone up 30 cents since Saturday. It's now $4.29 here in upstate SC. This is...not good.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (qBdHI)
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It's $5.50+ near me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (xvhJH)

The price of gas, short term, should not be a voting factor, but I really believe it might be.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar8)

237 Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (qBdHI)

I am hoping slash imagining Trump has a long term plan and/or had a damn good reason to do all this. Best I can tell he is doing as much damage to the globalists and our enemies (BIRM) as he possibly can. They already showed what they were willing to do in his first term - basically steal his first AND second - if they were counting on him not taking chances because "midterms" they gravely miscalculated.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (d997y)

238 SPONGE!!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (xvhJH)

239 233 Texas SB 4 “is one of the most extreme anti-immigrant laws ever passed by any state legislature in the country” and will “separate families and directly lead to racial profiling,” the ACLU argues.

... sure seems that the ACLU is racially profiling the state legislature
Posted by: SMOD
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ACLU hates families and tries to destroy them supporting all sorts of deviance, kid grooming, rape, murder etc. by their pets.

All the ACLU is mad about is that their precious Dems might lose votes and thus power/money/grifting in Texas. Like the SPLC, NAACP, Amnesty Intl,etc., any good these NGOs did is long past, now they are a skinsuit for communists seeking power by any means.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)

240 235 Texas SB 4 “is one of the most extreme anti-immigrant laws ever passed by any state legislature in the country” and will “separate families and directly lead to racial profiling,” the ACLU argues.

... sure seems that the ACLU is racially profiling the state legislature
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (RHGPo)

=====

Texas is trying to save brown people from the evils of the oligarchal and capitalist police state that is America.

Why isn't the ACLU celebrating how these immigrants will be able to leave and go to enlightened countries that have single payer healthcare?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:08 PM (w4o6z)

241 I went thru tat process, not for a major change, but just to put someone on a ballot.

The rules vary for state to state, but can include:
1) each petition sheet may only contain names from the geographic area .. one name for outside, the sheet is dumped.

I only needed 3 sheets, had 4, but 2 got dumped. No Joy.
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

I am not up on what the Alberta rules are, but I am pretty sure that the rules were followed. I signed it in Mesa, AZ. Lots of Alberta snowbirds down there. They sent a team there to gather signatures, and got a lot, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:08 PM (utfVc)

242 The price of gas, short term, should not be a voting factor, but I really believe it might be.
Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar
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Here in Oregon, I wonder how much the price is due to the current unpleasantness, and how much due the closing of two major refineries on the West Coast.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:08 PM (xvhJH)

243 Long ago, when I moved from NY to CO, I discovered that the birth certificate I'd been using for everything, my entire life, wasn't my real BC (city-issued, not county or state) and wasn't accepted by the DMV. My real BC was sitting in some vault in Albany.

The very helpful DMV clerk (I know, wonders never cease) showed me how to get it. It took all of 10 days and 70 bucks to get it, and that's from the dysfunctional state of NY.
Posted by: Delurker

Needing money to get ID! Poll Tax! Unconstitutional! QED!

Posted by: Leftist twits at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (VHUov)

244 I'm absolutely baffled as to what made Trump go full neocon, tossing aside everything he's stood for foreign policy-wise since he came down the golden escalator over a decade ago.

I want to puke every time I hear that old Bushian bullshit coming out of this admin's mouths. "They're dancing in the streets and greeting us as liberators! The citizens will rise up...any day now...any day...." LMAOGFY.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (gtcuf)

245 If they don't vote, how will we win? If we don't win, who will represent the criminal aliens?

Posted by: The DNC at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (3arSl)

246 Again - are Democrats even associated with low gas prices? Republicans are. What are they promising to do to fix gas prices?

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (d997y)

247 Gas prices are complex, right? Of course the Democrats will cut through all of the complexities with OrangeManBad.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (Gqar8)

248 if they were counting on him not taking chances because "midterms" they gravely miscalculated.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (d997y)

Trump has several things going for the midterms. He's not counting on the RINOs for anything. SCOTUS just came through.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:11 PM (aUMnT)

249 211 Oh, and the Indiana primaries are tonight, and consensus seems to be that at least 4 if not 7 of the 8 targeted GOP state senators (2 refused to run for re-election) will end up losing.

Still, votes gotta happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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I voted but my state senator was the one pushing for the re-districting and wasn't up for a vote. Dang it. Will be interesting to see the results.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at May 05, 2026 12:11 PM (VkY89)

250 And what about Chuck Berry? Would "rock guitarist" even be a job category if he had not made flashy guitar playing a popular thing?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 11:54 AM (utfVc)

Thanks man! I was also a pioneer in the woman's restroom toilet camera thingee. Boy, did I have it all or what?

Posted by: Zombie Chuck Berry, nasty nasty man at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (K1Mmf)

251 Nood Degerrymandering

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:12 PM (VHUov)

252 The amount of times I have heard "this time Trump has really lost it" only for it not to be complete bullshit is innumerable. The best anyone had on Trump was covid response but he was cornered into most of that bs and a ton of it was local and he couldn't stop it if he tried, without just taking blame for deaths with no good outcome.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (d997y)

253 Has anyone ever considered that perhaps gas prices are being manipulated as a means of defeating Trump? Which is why concern trolls are so invested in the gas price whine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (utfVc)

254 Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (gtcuf)

Check out Tom Luongo and "The Ladies from Promethean Action".

They're all mad but they believe they have decifered Trump's plan and there's nothing Bushian about it.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (aUMnT)

255 244 I'm absolutely baffled as to what made Trump go full neocon, tossing aside everything he's stood for foreign policy-wise since he came down the golden escalator over a decade ago.

I want to puke every time I hear that old Bushian bullshit coming out of this admin's mouths. "They're dancing in the streets and greeting us as liberators! The citizens will rise up...any day now...any day...." LMAOGFY.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 12:10 PM (gtcuf)

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You really think there aren't decades of video of Trump advocating for the toppling of the mullahs in Iran?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (w4o6z)

256 Amusing story of Shit Midas,

"Johnny St.Pete@JohnMcCloy

🔥👀 WOW.. THE TRUTH COMES OUT. The reason “THE OBAMALISK” is so ugly is because Obama himself was so hands on. He insisted it be huge and kept asking for it to be larger and bolder according the architects.

Final cost? $850 million. The original budget was $350 million LOL

“ Oh my God. This is serious sh*t. He wouldn’t LET IT REST” - Architect Tod Williams

This guy ruins everything he touches and it’s all to feed his ego. He was marking up EVERYTHING when they gave him designs. Apparently Obama was almost as sh*tty and architect as he was as President."

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)

257

Beretta Holding and Ruger Agree to Partnership

by FRANK MINITER posted on May 4, 2026
NEWS, ARMED CITIZEN

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. and Beretta Holding S.A. have announced a strategic cooperation agreement.
This collaboration began last year as a contentious disagreement between the two companies—as of last March, Beretta Holding S.A., the Luxembourg-based parent of the iconic Italian gunmaker Beretta, had amassed a 9.95 percent stake in Ruger.

The shared agreement will allow Beretta to increase its ownership of Ruger to up to 25 percent of the company’s outstanding shares (NYSE: RGR). According to the press release, the minimum partial tender offer price shall be $44.80 per share in cash.
Beretta had been promoting four individuals for seats on the Ruger board. But, according to this agreement, Beretta will “nominate up to two independent directors following the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and regulatory approval.

https://tinyurl.com/43y76tvh

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 12:16 PM (xHq83)

258 244 I'm absolutely baffled as to what made Trump go full neocon, tossing aside everything he's stood for foreign policy-wise since he came down the golden escalator over a decade ago.

I want to puke every time I hear that old Bushian bullshit coming out of this admin's mouths. "They're dancing in the streets and greeting us as liberators! The citizens will rise up...any day now...any day...." LMAOGFY.

Posted by: Delurker
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Objection: Facts not in Evidence.

None of what you said represents statements by Trump. Neocons plan to invade and change the government internally, Trump is doing punitive expeditions to keep them from getting nukes.

That is what this is about-the Iranians were gloating that they had enough enriched uranium for 11 nukes and missiles to deliver them.

And they told us that in the negotiations after we went after their nuke program.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (E4rtv)

259 236 232 Gas has gone up 30 cents since Saturday. It's now $4.29 here in upstate SC. This is...not good.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 12:03 PM (qBdHI)
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It's $5.50+ near me.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 05, 2026 12:05 PM (xvhJH)

The price of gas, short term, should not be a voting factor, but I really believe it might be.
Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar

I'm afraid this is unavoidable. A lot of people do not take the long view or understand the broader picture. President Trump is singlehandedly administering correctives for 47+ years of disastrous American foreign policy toward Iran, 54+ years of the same toward China, and Cuba, and South America, as well as the utter lawlessness of the Obama and Biden administrations regarding illegal immigration among other things. The more advanced the disease the more painful the treatment. So there are people freaking out without understanding why we are where we are, and that corrections can bring short-term discomfort.

Posted by: My 2 cents at May 05, 2026 12:18 PM (TbWk/)

260 The shared agreement will allow Beretta to increase its ownership of Ruger to up to 25 percent of the company’s outstanding shares (NYSE: RGR). According to the press release, the minimum partial tender offer price shall be $44.80 per share in cash.
Beretta had been promoting four individuals for seats on the Ruger board. But, according to this agreement, Beretta will “nominate up to two independent directors following the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and regulatory approval.

https://tinyurl.com/43y76tvh
Posted by: rickb223
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Not a fan of consolidation in industries--stifles innovation, makes companies more amenable to doing governmental bidding, etc.

Beretta was going after Ruger because growth in Euroland is stymied and they have had trouble doing much in the American markets.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:19 PM (E4rtv)

261 And they told us that in the negotiations after we went after their nuke program.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 12:17 PM (E4rtv)

The number of tons of U235 claimed has been upped considerably recently. Very likely untrue but the regime is desperate because they only have a few days left before the oil goes to hell ... or so I am told.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (aUMnT)

262 t's 100% price gauging that no one is doing a damn thing about.

Trump is taking it on the chin with this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 12:06 PM (+sD5M)

And you have proof of the price gouging.
A gallon of coca cola is more than a gallon of gas.

Posted by: MAC V SOG at May 05, 2026 12:20 PM (P4Pk9)

263 If any US citizen is too screwed up to obtain a valid, State issued, photo ID; I do not want them to vote at all. No more mail in ballots except for the military.
Real, both party monitoring of the counting process.
Mandatory paper ballots.
All ballots are to be serialized, watermarked, and have a QR or barcode to eliminate mystery extra ballots.
All ballots must be accounted for.
And MOST IMPORTANTLY: Anybody caught voting illegally or otherwise tampering with the vote/talley gets a minimum of 10 years in federal prison - after the horrifying 2 weeks in the barrel.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at May 05, 2026 12:35 PM (JNTt1)

264 The GOPe and Wall Street Dems both want cheap (read: illegal) laborers who can be paid off the books. GOPe wants them for its donors' in the Chamber of Commerce, Dems want them for their nannies and votes.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 05, 2026 02:06 PM (uY1j2)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Sloan Six oclock.jpg

Six O'Clock, Winter
John French Sloan

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 First, do no harm.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (xHq83)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (+sD5M)

4 kool

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (/+uur)

5 FIST

Posted by: Otto Penn at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (sJHOI)

6 Where's the snow?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (+sD5M)

7 I feel elevated.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

8 Chicago El? Or NYC?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (xHq83)

9 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

10 More train art. Very nice.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

11 The commuters were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

12 i see royko.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

13 The Phillips Collection is an “intimate museum combined with an experiment station.”–Duncan Phillips, 1926

Period
Twentieth-Century
Materials
Oil on canvas
Object Number
1759
Dimensions
26 1/8 x 32 in.; 66.3575 x 81.28 cm.; Framed: 33 7/8 in x 40 1/2 in x 3 in; 86.04 cm x 102.87 cm x 7.62 cm
Credit Line
Acquired 1922; © 2022 Delaware Art Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)

14 It's Train Week! Yes!

Posted by: Jerry Jeff Walker at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (0e5Te)

15 This tracks.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

16 Is this Ashcan School?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

17 Train, train...take me on out of this place...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (OUMaO)

18 Were I into trains, I'd hang this one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (+sD5M)

19 I can’t wait for November.

Cold, wet, dark and the beach is empty, save me and the seagulls.

Plus, pumpkin spice!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (A5RD0)

20 I sense a theme this week.

Posted by: Tuna at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

21 Getting off the train looks dangerous.

Posted by: huerfano at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (VJX5o)

22
Looks like a U-boat used as a restaurant. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (HdYcL)

23 8 Chicago El? Or NYC?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (xHq83)


NYC. Sloan was New York based.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (x0n13)

24 21 lucky to make it off.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (R11M+)

25 I took the train to nowhere.

I got off at the road to nowhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (+sD5M)

26 More rail art, ay. Which day this week will we get to see the midnight train to Georgia?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (uSu5D)

27 i like it. very nice.

would hang if i had a room for it.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (v6XNT)

28 Guess this week we're gonna 'do the locomotive' with CBD!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (5xoct)

29 Wonderful! Thank you. The dark right in the center of the piece hits you like an oncoming apple cart.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (2ap+5)

30 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (x0n13)


Nick link FIXED! Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (+sD5M)

31
Popeye Doyle driving like hell under the tracks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (HdYcL)

32 Well, it's no Wabash Cannonball.

Posted by: J. Cash at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

33 Positively Bidenesq

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (jehhT)

34 And after they got off the train they went to a diner and became Nighthawks
Like this one, would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (gu0hJ)

35 I was expecting a margarita, a taco or a Mexican artist.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

36 The subject of Six O’Clock, Winter—the Third Avenue El (short for “elevated train” at the peak of the evening rush hour—reflects Sloan’s ability to catch the drama in everyday scenes.

The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway.

Big Govt bought it and closed it down, much like Liawatha closed down Spearit Airlines.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:35 AM (/+uur)

37 I see three lights!

Posted by: Following Train at May 05, 2026 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

38 Very good. The more I look at it, the more I like it!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 05, 2026 09:35 AM (DgMqy)

39 Reminds one of the cartoon from back in the day where the train arrived, train cars peeled open like sardine cans and the sardines flooded out as the cans were refilled by more sardines and the lid rolled closed again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:35 AM (+sD5M)

40 Guess this week we're gonna 'do the locomotive' with CBD!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (5xoct)

rather do the locomotion with Kylie Minogue....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:35 AM (v6XNT)

41 I like it. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 09:36 AM (8Xy/A)

42 The same artist who painted "McSorley's Bar"

Posted by: Tuna at May 05, 2026 09:36 AM (lJ0H4)

43 glirp gleep glop

Posted by: Paul at May 05, 2026 09:36 AM (zl0bi)

44
A somber portrayal of the emptiness of American life. Commuters and pedestrians unaware of their manipulation and future robbed by billionaires.

*submits for PhD thesis*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:36 AM (HdYcL)

45 Thought I recognized this guy's work. He also painted McSorley's Bar.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 09:37 AM (gu0hJ)

46
The couple at the left, bottom, are startled and crying out, "Wouldja look at the size of those RATS!"

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:37 AM (xG4kz)

47 John French Sloan

I prefer American sloan.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:37 AM (gtcuf)

48 Ahhh. Perfectly captures the peace and tranquility of living like rats in a decaying urban hellscape Habitrail.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 09:37 AM (YOetg)

49 Know who else liked trains?

Posted by: Shifty eyes at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

50 that guy with the date is going to bowler over.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (R11M+)

51 But... it's not a monorail. 🤔

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (jehhT)

52 >>rather do the locomotion with Kylie Minogue....

Heh

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (5xoct)

53 John French Sloan? Haven't we seen him before?

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

54
Early 15 minute city school of art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (HdYcL)

55 Six O'Clock, Winter.

Well, it's Spring, but ok.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

56 I want to like this guy's works but they are pretty dark. Maybe it's my eyes.

Posted by: javems at May 05, 2026 09:39 AM (zFsEm)

57
"Where's a fella got to go to get some privacy to urinate in public 'round here?"

-- a "romantic street person" of those times

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:39 AM (xG4kz)

58 Yay! A Sloan! Delaware Art Museum has the best Sloan collection, mostly because his widow, who was much younger than him and a good artist in her own right, had a long association with the DAM. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Ashcan Rocks! at May 05, 2026 09:39 AM (oftw2)

59
Drug-crazed homeless guy stabbing people on that train.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:39 AM (HdYcL)

60 He does a good job of depicting the big-city bustle below.

I get the feeling there's a point being made here that I'm not getting, though.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:40 AM (gtcuf)

61 Soviet transportation, American style.

You'll go where we decide, when we decide, and with whom we decide.

Ignore the feces and occassional murderer you'll encounter.

Not sure on the who/whom thing. I have calluses and don't lift my pinky when I drink.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 09:40 AM (YOetg)

62
All those bowlers and nary a 300 game among the lot of them. Sad!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:41 AM (xG4kz)

63 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Hey California! Look! Trains can be built!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 09:41 AM (2WIwB)

64 I lived in a home on Palisade Avenue in Riverdale that was the "summer house" of the man who owned the Third Avenue El. The beams supporting the house were huge girders, surplus to construction of the El.

Posted by: 3020 Palisade Avenue. at May 05, 2026 09:41 AM (oftw2)

65 French Sloan as opposed to English Sloan?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 05, 2026 09:42 AM (GYOcA)

66 This looks familiar. We've had something similar, but I can remember if it was a different artist.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

67
Those two guys on the cart, middle, "... got to move these refrigerators. [They] got to move these colour TVs"

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:42 AM (xG4kz)

68 Love this one, and I was prepared not to since industrial urban scenes are not my usual cup of tea. Maybe it's the remarkable sky/train contrast. Anyway, thanks CBD.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 09:43 AM (CBln3)

69 NYC. Sloan was New York based.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (x0n13)
====

Kinda looks like the 7 train

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

70 Boxcar Willie has you in his crosshairs with a .308.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 09:43 AM (D1E+2)

71 Upper left, just out of frame on the roof, lurks the Batman.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 05, 2026 09:44 AM (GYOcA)

72 Nice painting. I LOVE the lack of diversity.

Can always use more attractive asian women though.

Posted by: Stateless at May 05, 2026 09:44 AM (Sco7b)

73 Some wonderful details from Sloan's Wikipedia page -
He married an alcoholic prostitute
He took a job teaching at an art school but informed his students, "I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living."

Posted by: Wally at May 05, 2026 09:44 AM (0e5Te)

74 74 for that, nyc is king.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:45 AM (R11M+)

75
Yay! A Sloan!

I see no Sloane Peterson here, much less a Mia Sara

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:45 AM (xG4kz)

76 Sloan sets a mood and location with color (the sky is especially well done) detailed, realistic backgrounds and objects. The people are comparatively indistinct, interchangeable and, maybe, unimportant. He did the same with "McSorley's Bar". I may not care for the subject of the painting or the urban mindset, but can admire the talent.

Posted by: JTB at May 05, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

77 PA system in background:
"Mind the murder."
"Mind the murder."

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (YOetg)

78 The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway.
===
Thanks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

79 Nice picture.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (sl73Y)

80 Trump approval collapses as Zionist war drags on.

Shapiro show viewership down 85% Daily Wire lays off 50% of staff

America has had enough of “the chosen people”.

Sad!

Posted by: Le Haim at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (ZGTXg)

81 Thick marine layer out there this morning. Chilly.

And it’s Tummy Rub Tuesday! Best day of the week!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (A5RD0)

82 61 “Who” is subject, “whom” is object. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

83 When the D.C. Metro (subway) finally made it out to Silver Spring, then Wheaton, MD. we'd get a $5 fare card and ride down to the Mall, spend the day at the various museums, ride it into VA to Pentagon City's underground mall and then, about dark, come home.

Back when the capitol city wasn't a smoldering pile of crap.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (jehhT)

84
Some wonderful details from Sloan's Wikipedia page -
He married an alcoholic prostitute

Hey! Just like William Jefferson Clinton!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (xG4kz)

85 NYC. Sloan was New York based.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


Wasn't sure. The elevated supports don't quite look like NYC.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:46 AM (xHq83)

86 I kind of like this one CBD.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 09:47 AM (0nHVk)

87 Kinda looks like the 7 train
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Part of the fun of the World's Fair,
Is the Subway Special that takes you there.

Posted by: The Flushing Flash at May 05, 2026 09:47 AM (oftw2)

88 why?

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 09:48 AM (ZxPkt)

89 I was expecting a margarita, a taco or a Mexican artist.
Posted by: redridinghood



Bing homepage will help you out.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:48 AM (xHq83)

90 Thanks, Bulg.

Now about that...gonna need a couple more explanations...

You said you were a tutor...

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 09:48 AM (Sbumo)

91 Last time I carried golf clubs on a train, I got some weird looks. Pretty sure they were people going to work and not out to play. Just as I am now for Tuesday Geezer Golf!
Woohoo!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 09:48 AM (2WIwB)

92 Part of the fun of the World's Fair,
Is the Subway Special that takes you there.
Posted by: The Flushing Flash at May 05, 2026 09:47 AM (oftw2)
=====

Wow did you just trigger me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

93 90 Sure, fire away, Sifty.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

94 When's Elon buying that too?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 09:50 AM (9hv2t)

95 I haven't been in years, but there was a pretty good Jewish deli under the El in the North Bronx.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2026 09:50 AM (iERP6)

96
He took a job teaching at an art school but informed his students, "I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living."

That reminds me of a professor at Berkeley -- he specialized in computational chemistry -- who introduced himself to his Quantum Chemistry class thuswise: "Hello, I am Professor ___. My research interests are systems where the number of particles are less than or equal to one. If systems with more that one particle are of interest to you, then you should enroll in Professor ___'s class."

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

97 92 i keep crossing paths with a guy named francesco. i have taken to calling him franpsycho, shorts and sandals with socks year round is a qualifier.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:52 AM (R11M+)

98 Looked into his works a bit further. He does like the naked ladies.

Posted by: javems at May 05, 2026 09:52 AM (zFsEm)

99 Wow did you just trigger me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I know the whole song.

Posted by: Ashamed To Say... at May 05, 2026 09:53 AM (oftw2)

100 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:53 AM (/+uur)

101
hunnert!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:53 AM (xG4kz)

102 ("poor ol' charlie")

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:54 AM (R11M+)

103 12 i see royko.
Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

Mike Royko, writing his column for the Chicago Daily News afternoon edition.

Posted by: Roy at May 05, 2026 09:54 AM (qwype)

104 Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

Markowitz?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2026 09:54 AM (iERP6)

105
Curse you, r hennigantx! I demand reparations!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:54 AM (xG4kz)

106 103 quite the marathon.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:54 AM (R11M+)

107 On the theme of mass transit (discussed earlier) , if Musk buys Sprint and reactivates it, he needs to place some of his AI robots in the waiting area, and program them to go Chinese Robot Spastic if anyone acts up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 09:55 AM (XcvNy)

108 What in the EL is going on here?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 05, 2026 09:55 AM (z2aPa)

109 CBD, loving this weeks picks so far... take a shot of Makers Mark out of petty cash, you earned it!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 05, 2026 09:55 AM (dmDsy)

110
An Elevated Discourse - a limerick

There once was a commuter named Snell
Whoo was late for the opening bell
His car was in the shop
and the A Bus didn't stop
"You expect me to take a train? What the 'ell?"

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)

111 93.

Haha.

Better discussed on a boat catchin fish than on a smart military blog.

Hate to blow my reputation here as a genius.


BWAHAHAHAHA

As my Dad said when I enrolled for my 15minutes in art school.
"ART is cool. I've seen some of it on my way to and from work trying to keep your ungrateful ass from starving to death all these years."

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 09:56 AM (X0WIh)

112 take a shot of Makers Mark out of petty cash, you earned it!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 05, 2026 09:55 AM (dmDsy)

My morning bourbon is usually Wild Turkey 101, but thanks!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2026 09:56 AM (iERP6)

113 I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 1955-66. The N Train was the hinterlands of the MTA, and was still using 1917 era subway rolling stock. Can still remember the look, sounds, and smells. Wicker seats, porcelain hanger straps, over head fans, no A/C, of course.

Posted by: Next stop-Coney Island at May 05, 2026 09:57 AM (oftw2)

114 Wild Turkey.

The gentleman's Listerine.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 09:57 AM (X0WIh)

115 Oh dear. Harmeet Dillon might be a moronette.
tinyurl.com/myt5cy3u

Posted by: gKWVE in his bunk at May 05, 2026 09:57 AM (9hv2t)

116 That sky sure has a hazy shade.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 05, 2026 09:58 AM (/TlUl)

117 Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:58 AM (/+uur)

118 Alternate title:

"Meh, It's Not A Monorail"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

119
Markowitz?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Bob Harris was the speaker

(Robert?) Schaffer was the other prof

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

120 Did we ever find out what happened to the ONT last night?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

121 aline kominsky's parents, "he's a vitch? vitch is he? an aahtist? he's a bum!"

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:59 AM (R11M+)

122
Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.”
Posted by: r hennigantx

Now, there's a call for an erectile dysfunction medication prescription!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 10:00 AM (xG4kz)

123 A shot of hot butterscotch bourbon in the morning coffee is a good thing.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 05, 2026 10:01 AM (z2aPa)

124 Sure, Tuck. Trump has an army of genies at his beck and call like the prophet Solomon. He's got a secret ring with the six pointed star for that purpose. So you better mind your manners or the zutt are coming for you in your bed again

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 10:02 AM (9hv2t)

125 122.

I'm thinking Qatarzan has taken too much mercury.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:02 AM (X0WIh)

126 CBD will leave no Sloane unturned.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 05, 2026 10:02 AM (/TlUl)

127
I'm thinking Qatarzan has taken too much mercury.
Posted by: Sifty Boones

Salts of white mercury!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 10:03 AM (xG4kz)

128 I'm thinking Qatarzan has taken too much mercury.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:02 AM (X0WIh)

*sips tea*
*goes back to sleep*

Posted by: the dormouse at May 05, 2026 10:03 AM (9hv2t)

129 The shots rang out.
Then the murders started.
What the bloody El?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 05, 2026 10:03 AM (w9Wax)

130 120 Did we ever find out what happened to the ONT last night?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

It was attending the Met Gala and forgot to get us a sitter.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 05, 2026 10:03 AM (/TlUl)

131 i keep crossing paths with a guy named francesco. i have taken to calling him franpsycho, shorts and sandals with socks year round is a qualifier.
Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 09:52 AM (R11M+)
====

Shorts and sandals with socks definitely a psycho.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

132
I see no Sloane Peterson here, much less a Mia Sara
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:45 AM (xG4kz)


But that Rooney. What an asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:04 AM (+sD5M)

133 ONT can't start until tankdemon gets there

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 10:04 AM (9hv2t)

134 Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

Yeah...they didn't teach anything I took!

That was a serious chemistry department in the early 80s.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2026 10:04 AM (iERP6)

135 Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.”
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:58 AM (/+uur)

Wish he’d do that to some Republican senators.

Posted by: Heroq at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (bzsoO)

136 98 Looked into his works a bit further. He does like the naked ladies.
Posted by: javems
+++
Well, who doesn't?

Posted by: Guys everywhere at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

137 I like this one! You can almost hear all the sounds.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (Wmg4n)

138 Tucker isn’t even reliably leftist, he’s just batshit crazy now. A bit more goofball crazy than Candace, who is now psycho-bitch bunny boiler crazy.

Best of Tucker lately was the Times asking why he said Trump was the Antichrist, and Tucker claimed “I never said that.” So they played the video clip of Tucker saying that Trump was the Antichrist, and he mumbled something like that was someone else, not me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (XcvNy)

139 Random top ten train tunes. No. 1 is Aerosmith, Train Kept A'Rollin'. Which I don't think I've ever heard.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4dcyc4

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (XvL8K)

140 I like this one! You can almost hear all the sounds.

Posted by: Piper at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (Wmg4n)


Winter, so the smells are a bit toned down......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:06 AM (+sD5M)

141 Best of Tucker lately was the Times asking why he said Trump was the Antichrist, and Tucker claimed “I never said that.” So they played the video clip of Tucker saying that Trump was the Antichrist, and he mumbled something like that was someone else, not me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (XcvNy)

Time for an Exorcism ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 10:06 AM (iTbY5)

142 131.

Fun people watching game:

Europeon tourist or psychopath?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:06 AM (X0WIh)

143 "What in the EL is going on here?"

"You expect me to take a train? What the 'ell?"

Nowadays you 20 times more likely to get stabbed.

Posted by: Rex B at May 05, 2026 10:06 AM (rgnea)

144 On the theme of mass transit (discussed earlier) , if Musk buys Sprint and reactivates it, he needs to place some of his AI robots in the waiting area, and program them to go Chinese Robot Spastic if anyone acts up.
Posted by: Tom Servo


Spirit Airlines - may have been cheap, but never had a plane fall out of the sky.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:06 AM (xHq83)

145 Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.”
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:58 AM (/+uur)


Ok, someone needs to test Qatucker. He's on drugs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:07 AM (+sD5M)

146 133 ONT can't start until tankdemon gets there
Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 10:04 AM (9hv2t)

I was cavorting in the Cafe when the ONT usually posts.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 05, 2026 10:08 AM (/TlUl)

147 Looked into his works a bit further. He does like the naked ladies.
Posted by: javems
+++
Well, who doesn't?
Posted by: Guys everywhere


Ahem.
Posted by: Don Lemon

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:08 AM (xHq83)

148 Best of Tucker lately was the Times asking why he said Trump was the Antichrist, and Tucker claimed “I never said that.” So they played the video clip of Tucker saying that Trump was the Antichrist, and he mumbled something like that was someone else, not me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 10:05 AM (XcvNy)


That guy's turned out to be a bigger asshole than TJM.

GFY, Qatucker. Your 15 minutes are up. Enjoy shoving your peen in Cavernous Nostrils' nostril.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:09 AM (+sD5M)

149 142 "spot the turk"

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:10 AM (R11M+)

150 Open warfare has broken out between Justice Alito and "Justice" Jumanji.

Now, with this judgment, there was a harsh rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent, where Justice Alito, in an academic tone, essentially called her a reckless clown who doesn’t understand the law. We’ve seen a similar attitude on the liberal side as well, with Justices Kagan or Sotomayor disagreeing with the majority but avoiding Jackson’s dissents since they usually don’t make much sense.

https://tinyurl.com/4y7xfv6r

[T]here was an unspoken baseline that, for the highest court in the land, and really the world, you could appoint ideological opposites, but you did not cheapen the institution by lowering the intellectual bar.
But the autopen removed that baseline, and with it degraded the level of discourse and eroded the professional respect that made those relationships possible in the first place. So for someone who has spent two decades on the Court, that has to be very painful to watch, seeing an institution slide into idiocracy and performative nonsense.

https://tinyurl.com/2bh3ha3h

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

151 It was attending the Met Gala and forgot to get us a sitter.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 05, 2026 10:03 AM (/TlUl)

I don't really care about the Met Gala,who came there and what they wore. I laughed at Donkey Chompers last year orbeforewearing a gown which said "Eat the Rich" on the back side, as if she's not rich. However, I enjoyed the headline about the Gala this year from the NYPost which said "Frock and Awe."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:11 AM (8Xy/A)

152
Now, with this judgment, there was a harsh rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent, where Justice Alito, in an academic tone, essentially called her a reckless clown who doesn’t understand the law. We’ve seen a similar attitude on the liberal side as well, with Justices Kagan or Sotomayor disagreeing with the majority but avoiding Jackson’s dissents since they usually don’t make much sense.



This is what affirmative action/DIE gets you. Incompetent fools in positions of great power, destroying everything around them.

F*ck you, liberals. You are a bane on all civilization.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:12 AM (+sD5M)

153 Tucker's insanity ploy is likely netting him bigtime clicks and therefore... $$. It's a put-on. An Eminence Front, if you will.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 10:13 AM (jehhT)

154 LeftIn News has a comical headline about the Met Gala BS.

How it isn't sufficiently woke and communist this year.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:13 AM (X0WIh)

155
John Frenched Sloane?


The Title of the Sad Sequel to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

156 I don't really care about the Met Gala,who came there and what they wore. I laughed at Donkey Chompers last year orbeforewearing a gown which said "Eat the Rich" on the back side, as if she's not rich. However, I enjoyed the headline about the Gala this year from the NYPost which said "Frock and Awe."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:11 AM (8Xy/A)


I think her dress said 'Tax the Rich' and she owed $3000 that she illegally used campaign money to pay for.

Nothing like living in 2 different worlds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:14 AM (+sD5M)

157 152.

Only leftists can make being rich miserable.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:15 AM (X0WIh)

158 142 Fun people watching game:

Europeon tourist or psychopath?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:06 AM (X0WIh)

Lots of overlapping on that Venn diagram.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 05, 2026 10:15 AM (/TlUl)

159 This is what affirmative action/DIE gets you. Incompetent fools in positions of great power, destroying everything around them.

F*ck you, liberals. You are a bane on all civilization.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:12 AM (+sD5M)

Who does not know that the Louisiana District was fake fake fake from the beginning.
It aligned people from just South of Shreveport (they think they are in East Texas) all the way down thru Coonass Country and then connected to Baton Rouge Welfare State.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 10:15 AM (/+uur)

160 Nigerian Drives Car Into ICE Agents At Brooklyn Hospital, Triggering Protest

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Kind of confusing headline but the protest was against ICE because they objected to cars being driven into them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:15 AM (ndZc7)

161

Ah! Back when America worked and you could travel on the subway and not step in poop, get stabbed or shoved onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train.

High Trust Society, we hardly knew ye!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

162 It is very hard to be optimistic about anything observing an Embassey Suites breakfast franzy in Atlanta.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:16 AM (X0WIh)

163 Oil-rich province could hold vote on leaving Canada as early as October

AMF

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 10:16 AM (/+uur)

164 Nigerian Drives Car Into ICE Agents At Brooklyn Hospital, Triggering Protest

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Kind of confusing headline but the protest was against ICE because they objected to cars being driven into them.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:15 AM (ndZc7)


Karma In Action: Car Strikes Protest Protesting ICE Car Strikes

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:17 AM (+sD5M)

165 Nancy Mace:

The files are out.
Our subpoena has uncovered settlements totaling $338,000 from Congress's sexual harassment slush fund.
Nine members named. Records before 2004 - destroyed.
357 members of Congress voted to keep it hidden. We’re leading the charge to release them despite their opposition.

2007: Rodney Alexander ($15,000)
2009: Office of Carolyn McCarthy (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) ($8,000)
2010: Eric Massa I ($85,000)
2010: Eric Massa II ($20,000)
2010: Eric Massa III ($10,000)
2010: John Conyers I ($50,000)
2014: Blake Farenthold ($84,000)
2014: John Conyers (Severance pay $27,111.75)
2017: Patrick Meehan (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) (Severance pay $39,250)

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:18 AM (xHq83)

166 There is one thing we can agree on, The Brady Bunch had the most accurate Parents to Children casting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 10:18 AM (XV/Pl)

167 John French Sloan

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

Quoi? Il ne sait pas! - another limerick

As an artist he flirted with danger
Imperilment wasn't a stranger
But his scheduling was deficient
So he hired a office assistant
Who was known as the French Sloan Arranger!

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 10:18 AM (I0N4X)

168 *Car Strikes Protest Protesting ICE Car Strikes*

Duuuude. Wheels within wheels, man.

Posted by: Stoner in his parent's basement at May 05, 2026 10:19 AM (2Ez/1)

169 There is one thing we can agree on, The Brady Bunch had the most accurate Parents to Children casting.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Mom riding the oldest stepson & dad queer as a three dollar bill?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:20 AM (xHq83)

170 Rep. Rashida Tlaib Introduces “Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights” — It’s as Bad as It Sounds

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Finally, a chance for utopia!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:20 AM (ndZc7)

171
"My dear Smythe, what we do on our Court is unique, at least in the United States. A lifetime of study of the Supreme Court has left me unconvinced that lawyers are better qualified to staff such a tribunal than would be philosophers, historians, or litterateurs." - Walter Murphy, The Vicar of Christ

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 10:21 AM (HdYcL)

172 @169

>>Mom riding the oldest stepson & dad queer as a three dollar bill?

That was behind the scenes drama, I'm talking about looking at the Mom and Dad and going, yep, those are their kids.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 10:21 AM (XV/Pl)

173 > Rep. Rashida Tlaib Introduces “Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights”
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Another one that needs a one way on "Deportation Airlines."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 10:22 AM (jehhT)

174 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:14 AM (+sD5M)

You are correct. Sorry. It probably would have been too over the line to have "Eat the Rich" but yes, she is a liar.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:22 AM (Yl2Ob)

175 169 alice did what?

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:22 AM (R11M+)

176 165.

There have been some years I earned less working full time.

Should have just let Congress fondle my nuts.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:22 AM (X0WIh)

177 I don't think anyone who was a kid back then thought about the sexual antics of the people on the show, which is appropriate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:24 AM (Yl2Ob)

178 169 alice did what?
Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:22 AM (R11M+)


Sam the butcher.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:24 AM (+sD5M)

179 That was behind the scenes drama, I'm talking about looking at the Mom and Dad and going, yep, those are their kids.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Ahhh. 👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:25 AM (xHq83)

180 I knew Mr Brady was a fruit but that's news to me that Mrs Brady got herself caught in the dryer

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (3EtqZ)

181 Ratchita Tlabia is 10lbs of ugly in a 3lb sack.

She looks like an angry bluegill.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (X0WIh)

182 John Loftus: Americans Farmers Appear To Be Screwed

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Ehh, who needs them?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (ndZc7)

183 You are correct. Sorry. It probably would have been too over the line to have "Eat the Rich" but yes, she is a liar.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:22 AM (Yl2Ob)


Well, you asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/z8a8nbTjwnI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (+sD5M)

184 178 ah, yes. corporal henshaw.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (R11M+)

185 Did we ever find out what happened to the ONT last night?
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

Does it really matter? It's not like anyone reads ONT content anyway!

Posted by: Therapist for Disco and Dino at May 05, 2026 10:27 AM (FenX4)

186 Ratchita Tlabia is 10lbs of ugly in a 3lb sack.

She looks like an angry bluegill.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (X0WIh)


Someone here appropriately named her Rancid Tilapia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:27 AM (+sD5M)

187 And since "The Brady Brunch" was on in the 70's we didn't have all the LBGT stuff so we knew nothing about the fathers sexual orientation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:27 AM (Yl2Ob)

188 Here is some relevant classical literature, it seems:
Passer-by, Aphrodisios is my name; I'm a citizen of Alexandria Troas and a leader of the chorus. I die a most pathetic death because of my wife, the dirty adulteress (whom Zeus will destroy). Her secret lover, Lychon—a member of my own family!—slaughtered me, still in my youth. He threw me from the heights like a discus. I was twenty years old, so full of beauty, when the Moirai spun my fate and sent me as a delight to Hades.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 10:27 AM (3EtqZ)

189 181 you said (t)labia huh heh, heh.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:27 AM (R11M+)

190 186.

Nobody nails it like the morons.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:28 AM (X0WIh)

191 189.

Bill Buckley I aint.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (X0WIh)

192 Sefton has repeatedly compared Tlaib to a coelacanth.

Which is an injustice to coelacanths.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

193 Open warfare has broken out between Justice Alito and "Justice" Jumanji.
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Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and ACB in a prior opinion, have put in writing their contempt for KBJ's legal reasoning.

Posted by: WisRich at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (G0vdT)

194 I knew Mr Brady was a fruit but that's news to me that Mrs Brady got herself caught in the dryer
Posted by: gKWVE


Greg caught her in the dryer, under the bed & in the couch.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (xHq83)

195 187 it was kinda obvious back then. gabbin' knew some is not the first person to sit like that.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:30 AM (R11M+)

196 148 Best of Tucker lately was the Times asking why he said Trump was the Antichrist, and Tucker claimed “I never said that.” So they played the video clip of Tucker saying that Trump was the Antichrist, and he mumbled something like that was someone else, not me.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Someone on the X mentioned it is also possible that he is simply reading a script.

It has often been noted that Tucker relied on others to write his scripts for his shows on Fox.

Same as ghostwriters for biographies where they spike the controversy factor for bucks.

A lot of these podcasters rely on 'talent management' companies that do the hard work in packaging the ads, ensuring compliance with various laws, booking guest, etc. where the 'talent' is simply the newsreader on the cast. And curiously enough for people that track them, people using the same management companies tend to swim in the same direction on their podcasts.

The old media manufactured objectivity is now viewed as dead but that trust has simply been put now on podcasters who do the same damn trick.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)

197 192.

They prefer to be referred to as "coelacan"s.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:31 AM (X0WIh)

198 Is Gov. DeSantis Preparing for 2028 Presidential Campaign?

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We have a strong bench, Vance, Rubio, DeSantis to mention only a few. And the Donks . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

199 Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:30 AM (R11M+)

I was a kid. I didn't notice or care.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:31 AM (Yl2Ob)

200 [ponders the pic]

Alas, Gallo stopped production:

https://drunkard.com/63-night-train-express/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (XeU6L)

201 193 Open warfare has broken out between Justice Alito and "Justice" Jumanji.
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Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and ACB in a prior opinion, have put in writing their contempt for KBJ's legal reasoning.
Posted by: WisRich
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And thanks to autopen Biden junta, we have these patently activist judges that at the same time are incompetent at actually being a judge. They start with results first and work their way back picking and choosing whatever law they can cram into their opinionated bullshit.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (E4rtv)

202 192 the third individual i have known that i would describe as a monkfish. damn things cook like pork tenderloin.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (R11M+)

203 MidSouth Shooter's Supply - Aguila Plinko de Mayo Sale.

LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (xHq83)

204
Well, you asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/z8a8nbTjwnI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:26 AM (+sD5M)

Raised. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (snZF9)

205
This was back when people showed up for work at 6 a.m. and went home at 6 p.m. and actually did stuff and were better people than we are.

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 10:33 AM (Y8DZL)

206 "...that Mrs Brady got herself caught in the dryer."


Is that what you kids are calling It nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at May 05, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

207 194 it was either that, or pushups.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:33 AM (R11M+)

208 164 Nigerian Drives Car Into ICE Agents At Brooklyn Hospital

Count Dankula has a funny story from Glasgow yesterday:

https://youtu.be/X9mfhBGJO8Y

Drive mistook graffiti for tunnel entrance ... road runner jokes ensued.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 10:33 AM (aUMnT)

209 Go Go Go Godzilla!

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 10:33 AM (4NO2D)

210 We have a strong bench, Vance, Rubio, DeSantis to mention only a few. And the Donks . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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The left relies on illegal votes, rigging elections, and flood of illegal fundraising, ngos, etc. They don't WANT a strong horse, they want someone that they can tell what to do. See Biden as an example. Obama and his cohort still think they can run the country as a shadow junta just like a lot of the world is run.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:34 AM (E4rtv)

211 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE "QUOI? IL NE SAIT PAS!" IS FRENCH FOR "QUE? NO SABE!"

Posted by: BEN R. at May 05, 2026 10:34 AM (I0N4X)

212 just saw the trailer for The Odyssey

do you think people called their fathers 'Dad' in ancient Greece?

"My Dad's coming home."

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 10:34 AM (ZxPkt)

213 Six O’Clock on a Christmas morning? (H/t, Dream Theater, “6:00”; “The Dead”

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 10:35 AM (rkhDX)

214 Looks like the El in Chicago … which looks like the El in NYC … in other words, it ain't 'such a much' …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (ayRl+)

215 just saw the trailer for The Odyssey

do you think people called their fathers 'Dad' in ancient Greece?

"My Dad's coming home."
Posted by: Don Black


Pliney probably just said, "the Elder is home".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (xHq83)

216 Walter Murphy, The Vicar of Christ
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Murphy was a scholar of the judiciary and produced some classic works on how justices strategized on the court (Elements of Judicial Strategy). Also a soldier and deeply involved in the Catholic Church in his lifetime. Interesting guy.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)

217 Biological warfare.

Rolling Stone moved Eric Clapton down from the top 10 of greatest guitar players of all time to 35 because he admitted to being Covid "vaccine" injured & refused to discriminate on entry to his concerts based on "vaccine" status. They even admit the reasoning in the explanation!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (ndZc7)

218 Raised. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (snZF9)


CURSES!!!!! Foiled again!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:38 AM (+sD5M)

219 217.

1-10 are Mark Knopfler anyway. No big deal.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at May 05, 2026 10:40 AM (X0WIh)

220 204 raised indeed. "here, have a bottle of jack."

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:40 AM (R11M+)

221 Rolling Stone moved Eric Clapton down from the top 10 of greatest guitar players of all time to 35 because he admitted to being Covid "vaccine" injured & refused to discriminate on entry to his concerts based on "vaccine" status. They even admit the reasoning in the explanation!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (ndZc7)


Seriously. Who gives a flying f*ck what Rolling Stone has to say about anything anymore?

They've been mostly irrelevant for a long time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:40 AM (+sD5M)

222 We have a strong bench, Vance, Rubio, DeSantis to mention only a few. And the Donks . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
======
The left relies on illegal votes, rigging elections, and flood of illegal fundraising, ngos, etc. They don't WANT a strong horse, they want someone that they can tell what to do. See Biden as an example. Obama and his cohort still think they can run the country as a shadow junta just like a lot of the world is run.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:34 AM (E4rtv)

Once again the SAVE bill waves at you forlornly as it floats out of sea on an iceberg.

If nothing else, the latest attempted assassination of Trump should've caused the Republicans to ram that bill through. Just to rub the Democrats nose in it for their insane assholery.

But, no. Thune points and laughs gaily on the shore as SAVE floats into oblivion.

Ball-less Leaders, huh?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

223 Six O'Clock, Winter
John French Sloan

Like this painting a great deal - it actually reminded me of Chicago quite a few years ago - though I'd pass hanging it unless it was a set (see article below) of Sloan's painting.

>It Might Be Art Organization, The Poetry of Everyday Life: John Sloan’s New York Paintings, April 25, 2023

A lovely article that begins,

"John Sloan is known for his unflinching eye. His New York could be transcendent, full of heartbreaking moments, like the sunset captured in his 1906 painting, “Sunset, West Twenty-Third Street.” Sloan’s New York could also be a dark, hard place.

Some of my favorite Sloan paintings capture those small moments of joy, or pleasure, that creep up on us, moments that overtake us, in an ecstasy that takes us out of our present.

Others, like his painting of the bar at McSorley’s, freeze the flow of ordinary time. Frozen, in paint, the moment becomes monumental. Even the most ordinary moments and gestures, revealed like this, carry a heft, and dignity, that render them both solemn, and sad."

(More followed, reading all suggested.)

A nice art selection for a Tuesday. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

224 217.

1-10 are Mark Knopfler anyway. No big deal.
Posted by: Sifty Boones
________

He was dropped to 96 in the rankings. Not sure what his political sin was.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 05, 2026 10:41 AM (XvL8K)

225 This is a seriously whacked out broad. We covered this yesterday a little bit.

Michigan trial attorney and Democratic fundraiser Kelly Neumann, the co-chairwoman of Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow’s campaign, threatened the Free Beacon with “legal action” unless we retract our story about her Veterans Day Facebook post honoring her grandfather who served “on the German side” in World War II, our Andrew Stiles reports.

The Free Beacon and others reported in January about Neumann’s bizarre Facebook post praising her “Grandfather, Albert Neumann,” who she said was “on the German side in WWI & WWII” and “escaped to Brazil … after Germany lost.” The post included several photos of the man in his Wehrmacht uniform. Neumann recalled that her grandfather was one of the first people to accept her homosexuality, a demonstration that “people can change and love can indeed win.” Heartwarming.

“Last week, the Free Beacon received a letter from Neumann’s attorney demanding a ‘formal retraction’ of the ‘false and defamatory’ statement in the article,” writes Stiles.

https://tinyurl.com/2pne579m

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:41 AM (xHq83)

226 Rolling Stone moved Eric Clapton down from the top 10 of greatest guitar players of all time to 35 because he admitted to being Covid "vaccine" injured & refused to discriminate on entry to his concerts based on "vaccine" status. They even admit the reasoning in the explanation

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

Old School: Fingering the strings.

Brave New World: Toeing the line.

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 10:43 AM (I0N4X)

227 Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:41 AM (xHq83

If she ousted this why is it defamatory to post it again?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:44 AM (2sfNr)

228 227- meant "posted"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:46 AM (2sfNr)

229 Rolling Stone moved Eric Clapton down from the top 10 of greatest guitar players of all time to 35 because he admitted to being Covid "vaccine" injured & refused to discriminate on entry to his concerts based on "vaccine" status. They even admit the reasoning in the explanation!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (

Grok says Neil Young is ranked 17th On that list. He aint singing for pepsi or coke, but he'll chirp all day long for pfizer!

Posted by: Rex B at May 05, 2026 10:46 AM (rgnea)

230 *Old School: Fingering the strings.*
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And chicks for free.

Posted by: I miss my... at May 05, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)

231
I saw Seriously Whacked Out Broad open for Janis Joplin at Woodstock in '69.


They tried the Brown Acid.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 10:47 AM (iJfKG)

232 Grok says Neil Young is ranked 17th On that list. He aint singing for pepsi or coke, but he'll chirp all day long for pfizer!
Posted by: Rex B at May 05, 2026 10:46 AM (rgnea)


this makes the list completely irrelevant and should be destroyed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:47 AM (+sD5M)

233 Speaking of the Krauts . . .

German authorities are investigating two Christian men for saying Islam is antisemitic

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Damn blasphemers!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

234 German authorities are investigating two Christian men for saying Islam is antisemitic



Uh.....it's in their book.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:48 AM (+sD5M)

235 228 227- meant "posted"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:46 AM (2sfNr)


I thought you meant "outed" ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 10:48 AM (aUMnT)

236 "hash browns and bacon strips
i like the way that you lick your lips"
hahaha.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:49 AM (R11M+)

237 Jann Wenner is gay, ergo, Rolling Stone is gay

Last time I read RS, Hunter S Thompson had a byline

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 10:50 AM (ZxPkt)

238 You guys probably already found this one, but I just noticed it:

Can't build big data centers everywhere we want - no problem, we'll just put your portion of the control grid in your backyard!

https://tinyurl.com/2ww5nbn2

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 10:50 AM (nFsD6)

239 Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 05, 2026 10:48 AM (aUMnT)

She sounds more than a little highly strung and engaged in frivolous lawsuits.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:51 AM (2sfNr)

240 FYI, SRV is the presumptive #1

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (ZxPkt)

241 Okay. I'm done.

Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (I0N4X)

242 Square peg in round hole?

Obama celebrates Star Wars Day by … acknowledging his library looks like the Death Star?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)

243 If she ousted this why is it defamatory to post it again?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


It's not. She's just trying everything to get them to take it down. You post anything on Facebook and it's PUBLIC.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (xHq83)

244 Regrading Rolling Stone: Humans tested by fame often perform poorly. I think it is probably a blessing to have enough money and good friends. Fame and fortune seems to ruin many lives.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (nFsD6)

245 Once again the SAVE bill waves at you forlornly as it floats out of sea on an iceberg.

If nothing else, the latest attempted assassination of Trump should've caused the Republicans to ram that bill through. Just to rub the Democrats nose in it for their insane assholery.

But, no. Thune points and laughs gaily on the shore as SAVE floats into oblivion.

Ball-less Leaders, huh?
Posted by: naturalfake
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I think the coming decision by Scotus killing the after election vote stuffing scam using absentees is probably more useful than the SAVE act.

The massive culling of voter registrations is also going to leave a mark. The Democrats were reactivating inactive voters on the lists, casting an absentee ballot, and then deactivating them. Which is why the vote tallies never match the actual number of voters. Apparently the Dems have been monkeying around with voter histories and inactive registrations since about 2007.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)

246 FYI, SRV is the presumptive #1
Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (ZxPkt)


There's a plethora of guitar players out there through out history that Rolling Stone can't hold their guitar strap. They haven't known anything about music and musicians in decades.

Case in point: They said the silly band No Doubt was the future of rock n' roll.

Um, yeah.....about that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:53 AM (+sD5M)

247 German authorities are investigating two Christian men for saying Islam is antisemitic



Uh.....it's in their book.
Posted by: Sponge


The instant someone says something that is against the truth, they need to be backhanded across the mouth with a billy club.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:54 AM (xHq83)

248 236 "hash browns and bacon strips
i like the way that you lick your lips"
hahaha.
Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:49 AM (R11M+)

Sittin' here in a hired tuxedo
You wanna see my bacon torpedo

Posted by: Sausages out for Lemmy at May 05, 2026 10:54 AM (TbWk/)

249 Okay. I'm done.
Posted by: muldoon at May 05, 2026 10:52 AM (I0N4X)


With?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:54 AM (+sD5M)

250 229 Rolling Stone moved Eric Clapton down from the top 10 of greatest guitar players of all time to 35 because he admitted to being Covid "vaccine" injured & refused to discriminate on entry to his concerts based on "vaccine" status. They even admit the reasoning in the explanation!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:36 AM (

Grok says Neil Young is ranked 17th On that list. He aint singing for pepsi or coke, but he'll chirp all day long for pfizer!
Posted by: Rex B
======
Listicles simply reflect the prejudices of the people that are surveyed.

Want a guitar hero treat, dig up on youtube some live performances of Richard Thompson. In fact, one of his recent songs is Guitar Heroes where he does solos in the song of each of his guitar heroes of the past.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:55 AM (E4rtv)

251 231 lemmy played the parking lot at woodstock.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:56 AM (R11M+)

252 German authorities are investigating two Christian men for saying Islam is antisemitic



Uh.....it's in their book.
Posted by: Sponge


The instant someone says something that is against the truth, they need to be backhanded across the mouth with a billy club.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 10:54 AM (xHq83)

Step One: Define our terms!

Something tells me that 'antisemitic' doesn't mean what we think it means any more.

Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 10:57 AM (lCppi)

253 Once again the SAVE bill waves at you forlornly as it floats out of sea on an iceberg.

If nothing else, the latest attempted assassination of Trump should've caused the Republicans to ram that bill through. Just to rub the Democrats nose in it for their insane assholery.

But, no. Thune points and laughs gaily on the shore as SAVE floats into oblivion.

Ball-less Leaders, huh?
Posted by: naturalfake
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I think the coming decision by Scotus killing the after election vote stuffing scam using absentees is probably more useful than the SAVE act.

The massive culling of voter registrations is also going to leave a mark. The Democrats were reactivating inactive voters on the lists, casting an absentee ballot, and then deactivating them. Which is why the vote tallies never match the actual number of voters. Apparently the Dems have been monkeying around with voter histories and inactive registrations since about 2007.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)

From your lips to God's ear.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 05, 2026 10:58 AM (iJfKG)

254 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 10:41 AM (NFX2v)

Thanks for the informative posting on the art.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 10:58 AM (2sfNr)

255 Richard Thompson, live in Germany
"Tear Stained Letter"
https://youtu.be/DfBYoakHe4E

Another upbeat song, "Valerie" on acoustic
https://youtu.be/W8SCOvLVjlE

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)

256 trains!

Posted by: amtrak joe at May 05, 2026 10:58 AM (oY6Yp)

257 lemmy played the parking lot at woodstock.
Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 10:56 AM (R11M+)


Where'd he attach the strings?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:58 AM (+sD5M)

258 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for closing (over a shoplifting crisis)

-
Damn drug store thinks it can go broke without consequences!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 05, 2026 10:58 AM (ndZc7)

259 I think the coming decision by Scotus killing the after election vote stuffing scam using absentees is probably more useful than the SAVE act.

The massive culling of voter registrations is also going to leave a mark. The Democrats were reactivating inactive voters on the lists, casting an absentee ballot, and then deactivating them. Which is why the vote tallies never match the actual number of voters. Apparently the Dems have been monkeying around with voter histories and inactive registrations since about 2007.
Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)

From your lips to God's ear.

Posted by: naturalfake

Yeah...the ACA "ruling" back in the day taught me not to take SCOTUS rulings for granted. We'll see.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 05, 2026 11:01 AM (OUMaO)

260 256 trains!
Posted by: amtrak joe

Trains! They run in the family!

(Hunter Biden, Amtrak Board of Directors from 2006 to 2009.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

261 249 extrapolating.

Posted by: edgar n. cleaver at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (R11M+)

262 Step One: Define our terms!


Posted by: LASue


You post something on a public forum and try to claim it's private.

WHACK.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (xHq83)

263 193 Open warfare has broken out between Justice Alito and "Justice" Jumanji.
-----------

Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and ACB in a prior opinion, have put in writing their contempt for KBJ's legal reasoning.
Posted by: WisRich

At the event for Justice Thomas, he was asked about the well-known camaraderie between the justices, regardless of their political leanings and other disagreements. He firmly implied that was the situation on the previous court, but was not the case anymore.

Posted by: LASue at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (lCppi)

264 Train I ride
fifteen coaches long

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (ZxPkt)

265 248 You wanna see my bacon torpedo

hide your salami in my weapons bay cargo hold, big boy!

Posted by: lusitania at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (oY6Yp)

266 U nas yest’ NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

267 254. Thanks for the informative posting on the art.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You're very welcome.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

268 261 extrapolating.

extrapolating is best polating

Posted by: anachronda at May 05, 2026 11:04 AM (oY6Yp)

269 Yeah...the ACA "ruling" back in the day taught me not to take SCOTUS rulings for granted. We'll see.
Posted by: Brother Tim
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Not the same court nor is the President the same. Obama was threatening the court at the time.
Alito, Thomas, Sotomayor, and Roberts are all that is left of that particular court.

And the left did not have Action Jackson, the repulsive Justice that everyone does not want including her leftist colleagues.

Posted by: whig at May 05, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)

270 They've been mostly irrelevant for a long time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 10:40 AM (+sD5M)

They were never relevant to me for a single second.

They hate Eric Clapton but love the guy who exploded a pressure cooker into children. My God but the Left are some upside down hateful retard faggots.

Posted by: ... at May 05, 2026 11:05 AM (d997y)

271 253 she's monaural, and the train's not?

Posted by: edgar n. cleaver at May 05, 2026 11:06 AM (R11M+)

272 255 there is only "the vincent song."

Posted by: edgar n. cleaver at May 05, 2026 11:07 AM (R11M+)

273 257 ha. to the blisters on his fingers.

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 11:08 AM (R11M+)

274 268 well, ultrapolating...

Posted by: cmeat at May 05, 2026 11:09 AM (R11M+)

275 I think the coming decision by Scotus killing the after election vote stuffing scam using absentees is probably more useful than the SAVE act.
Posted by: whig

Michigan Sec state and gubanatorial candidate Jocylin Benson just lost in court over her efforts to hide ballot information.

The vote cheat is Democrats' biggest effort here, and she's been fanatic about it..

Posted by: Auspex at May 05, 2026 11:10 AM (Y8DZL)

276 The greatest Guitarists are as follows:
1. Lindsey Buckingham
2. Eric Clapton
3. Phil Keaggy
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. EVH
Honorable Mention:
6. SRV

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 11:38 AM (XV/Pl)

277 The Sixth Street El was also bought in 1939, closed down, and sold for scrap, to Japan. Hence the 1944 e.e. cummins anti-war poem referring to a young soldier dying with a ‘nipponized piece of the sixth street el’ in his head.

Posted by: Lester Fahrner at May 05, 2026 12:38 PM (+jqKS)

The Morning Report — 5/ 5/26

Morning Report intro.jpg

Good morning kids. Lots of ground to cover today so let's dive right in. Well despite the repeated attempts on our President's life most recently less than couple weeks ago this still happened yesterday:

Gunshots were fired near the White House complex and the Washington Monument Monday, prompting the Secret Service to lock down nearby locations.

United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident, and a bystander was struck; both are alive, authorities confirmed at a press briefing Monday. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man near the White House and National Mall before President Donald Trump’s event in the East Room of the White House began, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported... The suspect is currently in custody and no Secret Service agents were harmed. He is reportedly recovering from his gunshot wounds at George Washington Hospital, and Secret Service agents recovered his firearm.


You may well ask, given the fact that President Trump and his entire cabinet and really all of us who support and voted for him have a big fat (literal, not Mark Kelly imaginary) target painted on them, how could something like this happen, yet again?! Well how about this for starters?

Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami. John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.


Well, that's bad enough but if we want to talk about root causes, let's get down to brass tacks:


Joe Biden, the last Democrat to occupy the White House, said it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” Five days later, Thomas Matthew Crooks evaded the Secret Service and fired seven shots, one wounding candidate Trump in the ear. Jump ahead to April 25, 2026.
By all indications, Joe Biden issued no post after Cole Thomas Allen aimed to assassinate Trump. Take Obama’s post as another admission that, as David Samuels acknowledged in “The Obama Factor” in 2023, the hapless Biden was a puppet and the “fictional character” created in Dreams from My Father was still running the country and “responsible for the disaster that we are living through now.”
For all but the willfully blind, leading Democrats are now all-in on political violence. Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.

And that's how someone like Spillman gets to spill his seed while on duty. But the institutional rot predates even Obama/Biden. As horrendous as this creep may be, how is it that a known and avowed communist like John Brennan was able to become a CIA agent let alone was able to rise to become its director? I will never understand that one.

Elsewhere, and in a not necessarily unrelated story, President Trump is disrupting and dismantling the global order. With all eyes still on Iran, there are still rumblings about potential moves to at long last liberate the tropical island gulag 90 miles to the south of Florida.


Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba: The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy. “All property and interests in property that are in the United States,” the order says, are barred from operating “in the energy, defense and related materiel, metals and mining, financial services, or security sector of the Cuban economy, or any other sector of the Cuban economy,” under the penalty of economic sanctions.

Fresh off the exposure of the Great Somalian Simoleon Swindle real journalist Nick Shirley is once more entering the breach:

If you'll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the U.S. and Europe — including members of Code Pink, commie activist Hasan Piker, and Ilhan Omar's daughter — flew into the crumblingly communist country and stayed in five-star hotels, enjoyed fancy meals, held concerts, and recorded podcasts, all while the Cuban people starve and live without electricity or water much of the time. They took photos with "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel and came back declaring that all was well on the island. 

This crew spent some of their time riding around the city and viewing the Cubans as if they were on some sort of poverty safari, and Piker said the people just had an "island mindset" and that's why they just hung around in the streets all day. They came back reporting that things were just groovy down there and would be even better if Trump and Rubio would stop bullying them. 

Well, independent journalist Nick Shirley recently visited Cuba and attempted to do the same thing... but he wanted to tell the real story of what's happening after decades of failed and corrupt communist rule. As you can imagine, he didn't get quite the welcome the others did. Not only that, but according to him, his equipment was seized, "spies" followed him around, and he barely escaped without being "kidnapped." 

It is my fervent hope and prayer that Nick Shirley is not a one-off and that there are growing numbers of millennials and the younger generations that while not perhaps as open and brave as to put themselves in direct danger at least will become the next literal "Silent Majority" that will reject the insanity of Democrat/Leftism and once again secure America's future as the shining city on a hill.

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1 Oh look! Leftists being violent once again. That's never happened before.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 07:12 AM (BpO1e)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 07:13 AM (Sk2hR)

3 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)

4 Not good. So for in the last 12-14 hours, 2 US refueling tankers in the Hormuz area issued code 7700. Unconfirmed reports say that one of them went off radar.

Also, those 2 US serviceman who went missing in Morocco:

https://tinyurl.com/5jsrmw67

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 07:16 AM (Sk2hR)

5 top 10

Posted by: TALACHULITNA at May 05, 2026 07:19 AM (qxOSq)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 07:21 AM (jehhT)

7 This crew spent some of their time riding around the city and viewing the Cubans as if they were on some sort of poverty safari, and Piker said the people just had an "island mindset" and that's why they just hung around in the streets all day.
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What a great description!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:25 AM (A4jJ3)

8 I'm supposed to be in the gym but, today, I kind of have an island mindset.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:26 AM (A4jJ3)

9 Nothing about the most important thing that happened yesterday?

Posted by: The Met Gayla at May 05, 2026 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

10 Cornell's President, a very sour guy imo, ran over a couple of kids promoting free speech at the university last night. Cornell Police (and they are actual, real police!) released video showing Kotlikoff (the Prez) tried to back out of his parking spot after a speech but the students surrounded his car. Usually its the lefties who do this stuff. No big injuries, but he probably should have let the cops clear a path instead of driving over feet. I'm sympathetic to him though, even if I'm not a fan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:30 AM (A4jJ3)

11 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 05, 2026 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

12 9 I'm supposed to be in the gym but, today, I kind of have an island mindset.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:26 AM (A4jJ3)


Elton John's "Island Girl" suddenly an earworm.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)

13 The Philadelphia Museum of Art—in the city where the Declaration of Independence was drafted and signed—is marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of America with an exhibit that harps on our country’s flaws so obsessively that the wall labels read more like an indictment than a celebration.
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Fuck 'em. It's a mediocre museum anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:32 AM (A4jJ3)

14 Can we please institute an interview process for trolls! We deserve better than stupid!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:33 AM (A4jJ3)

15 Migrant from Sierra Leone molested a child, but gets to stay so he can remain on disability benefits

Good link: https://tinyurl.com/24p889da

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 05, 2026 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

16 JJ, I beg you to please leave that post up for awhile. Every word is spelled correctly, which is an achievement for that twit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:35 AM (A4jJ3)

17 Cornell's President, a very sour guy imo, ran over a couple of kids promoting free speech at the university last night. Cornell Police (and they are actual, real police!) released video showing Kotlikoff (the Prez) tried to back out of his parking spot after a speech but the students surrounded his car. Usually its the lefties who do this stuff. No big injuries, but he probably should have let the cops clear a path instead of driving over feet. I'm sympathetic to him though, even if I'm not a fan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:30 AM (A4jJ3)

i would be sympathetic, but their rules, f him. throw him in jail for attempted murder with a vehicle. they want to play those games to ur side, we should do the same.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 07:36 AM (v6XNT)

18 Can we please institute an interview process for trolls! We deserve better than stupid!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:33 AM (A4jJ3)

he's proof that commies ruin everything, including trolls.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 07:37 AM (v6XNT)

19 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

20 It’s Naomi Wolf with Outspoken. I’m here tonight to talk about a huge news story that broke in the last couple of days. It could be thread that unravels the whole COVID virus/vaccine perpetrator issue.

A criminal syndicate, essentially.
========================
You go woman! Get Fauci in front of the Hague! The guy has well earned his appointment with destiny.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:38 AM (UJBtD)

21 The Philadelphia Museum of Art . . . .

Ah yes, in the city of Brotherly Shove.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2026 07:38 AM (Kyh8Y)

22 Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 07:36 AM (v6XNT)
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Their rules. You are right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:38 AM (UJBtD)

23 For months, I’ve been a bit confused about “affordability,” the latest Democrat meme. Then, early last week, I read a piece about “affordability” and realized: “of course.” Affordability is just the Democrats’ latest excuse for giving out free stuff to their supporters, paid for by you and me.

That became obvious back when all the social media drones were pushing it. As Bonchie from Red State says: Know the op when you see it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 05, 2026 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

24 Not sure if it was confirmed, but the shooter yesterday in DC was 45 year old Michael Marx, 45, a Texas driver’s license holder. He remains in the hospital with shots to the back and leg.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 05, 2026 07:39 AM (tOcjL)

25 Cuba might be close to collapse, but revitalizing the island is going to take decades. Our political class is the gold standard when it comes to incompetence and corruption, but Havana's not far behind.

Plus the entire infrastructure is crap and in need of replacement.

There's potential there, but it'll be expensive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 07:39 AM (jehhT)

26 Five days later, Thomas Matthew Crooks evaded the Secret Service and fired seven shots, one wounding candidate Trump in the ear. and murdered an innocent bystander

fixed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

27 18 Migrant from Sierra Leone molested a child, but gets to stay so he can remain on disability benefits

Good link: https://tinyurl.com/24p889da
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 05, 2026 07:35 AM (ExV1e)


LINK FIXED!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 07:40 AM (x0n13)

28 ...how is it that a known and avowed communist like John Brennan was able to become a CIA agent let alone was able to rise to become its director? I will never understand that one.
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JJ, they're inside the house. They've been inside for 30 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

29 Looks like Spillman was rubbing one out when they took his mugshot.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 05, 2026 07:41 AM (R86kT)

30 Affordability is a feeling, not a fact.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 05, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

31 31 ...how is it that a known and avowed communist like John Brennan was able to become a CIA agent let alone was able to rise to become its director? I will never understand that one.
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JJ, they're inside the house. They've been inside for 30 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)


Has to be longer than that as Brennan is an old man and he must've been recruited at least 50 or more years ago. The CIA could not have been that rotten that long ago, or could it???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 07:43 AM (x0n13)

32 Something tells me Spillman will get off.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 05, 2026 07:45 AM (R86kT)

33 Has to be longer than that as Brennan is an old man and he must've been recruited at least 50 or more years ago. The CIA could not have been that rotten that long ago, or could it???
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

They've been against the American public since the OSS days.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2026 07:45 AM (Kyh8Y)

34 Seattle used to be a place where the arts were bigger than Antifa, food culture was bigger than fentanyl, and where hardworking citizens were prized above homeless addicts.
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Channeling Katie Wilson, "Like, bye" to Seattle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:45 AM (UJBtD)

35 Poll: Most Americans Believe Democrats Are for Open Borders

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Then they had damned well do some serious introspection on what that means to them for their own lives, for the country, for our culture, from now on...because the first nanosecond another Democrat gets into the WH, it will be Biden's open borders on steroids. And this will not be changing. You elect a Democrat, you will get the flood of the the world's worst populations overrunning this country all over again.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 07:46 AM (qBdHI)

36 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 07:46 AM (xHq83)

37 ** Singing **

We're d*****g around...
D*****g around...
D*****g around in the Straight of Hormuz
We're d*****g around...

No end in sight of D*****g around...

(Repeat Chorus)

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

38 Has to be longer than that as Brennan is an old man and he must've been recruited at least 50 or more years ago. The CIA could not have been that rotten that long ago, or could it???
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 07:43 AM (x0n13)
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Of course it was, imo, as was it's civilian arm, the State Department.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (UJBtD)

39 >>Has to be longer than that as Brennan is an old man and he must've been recruited at least 50 or more years ago. The CIA could not have been that rotten that long ago, or could it???

The Church Committee was run in 1975. The following year The Safari Club was started.

The CIA has been corrupt since the day it was founded.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (viF8m)

40 How is beating it in a bathroom public? Sounds like a George Michael situation

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (eSVH+)

41 JJ, they're inside the house. They've been inside for 30 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)


They have been inside the house since the FDR admin and achieved control after Kennedy was murdered.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (zBgIx)

42 Happy 5/5!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (wVcYX)

43 The CIA could not have been that rotten that long ago, or could it???"

DC has been "all in" on Marxist/Lenin/Engsoc for a century now...

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (XuXeR)

44 "Elect." That's cute.

Posted by: Dominion Systems. at May 05, 2026 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)

45 Has to be longer than that as Brennan is an old man and he must've been recruited at least 50 or more years ago. The CIA could not have been that rotten that long ago, or could it???
Posted by: J.J. Sefton



CIA was rotten since it's inception.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 07:48 AM (xHq83)

46 >>Something tells me Spillman will get off...

...with only a stiff fine.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 07:49 AM (Y1sOo)

47 Something tells me Spillman will get off...

...with only a stiff fine.
Posted by: one hour sober

He already did hard time.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2026 07:49 AM (Kyh8Y)

48 Something tells me Spillman will get off...

...with only a stiff fine.
Posted by: one hour sober

He already did hard time.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2026 07:49 AM (Kyh8Y)

He made splashy headlines.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 05, 2026 07:50 AM (wVcYX)

49 18 Migrant from Sierra Leone molested a child, but gets to stay so he can remain on disability benefits

Good link: https://tinyurl.com/24p889da
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Australia. It's like what the left dies to small population red states, easy to turn blue after a couple of decades of locusts migrating from California and the blue islands of University town traitors within.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 05, 2026 07:52 AM (864Ya)

50 No end in sight of D*****g around...
(Repeat Chorus)
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The perfect job for our Secret Service professionals, then.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 07:52 AM (eSVH+)

51 17 Can we please institute an interview process for trolls! We deserve better than stupid!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Have you ever sat in on one of those interviews? I have. It took two bottles of vodka before I felt clean again.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 07:52 AM (BpO1e)

52 Crooks... murdered an innocent bystander
fixed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

But fuck him, right? Eggs and omelets. BRB gonna teach my dog a lesson./hasan

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 07:54 AM (eSVH+)

53 But fuck him, right? Eggs and omelets. BRB gonna teach my dog a lesson./hasan
Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 07:54 AM (eSVH+)
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He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-generic low IQ local leftist politician and Chicago Alderman

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

54 hey youse. noticed at 'raw story':

President Donald Trump lives in an ever-shrinking bubble, and as he loses his mental faculties and the country falls to pieces under his leadership, it's become increasingly obvious he'll have no mainstream defenders after this chapter closes.

That's according to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who made the comments to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 05, 2026 07:57 AM (CWTWj)

55 The second I saw the headline for the massive Medicaid fraud coming out of Ohio, I knew it was the Columbus area before I even heard one word. Why? It is yet another area completely saturated with Somalis. A community of miscreants that has been growing in that area in my home state for many years. Go listen to JJ's link. It's blood boiling.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

56 I stopped reading Mr. Greenfield’s screed when he made it about race and talked about “white births”. So only white people can be habituated in the government of this country? What a racist argument, while I agree we should not have mass immigration and immigration must be tightly controlled, this is a dumb argument,

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 07:57 AM (rkhDX)

57 Hmm. JJ might be interested in this. At 7:10 central, MeTV will begin airing a crime drama series, ripped from the NY headlines in the 60s. It follows the cases of officers Gunther Toody and Francis Muldoon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 05, 2026 07:57 AM (gm9Sb)

58 Twenty-six bones in each foot. If lefty Antifas were surrounding my car, I would endeavour to rollover all 52. That could hurt and maybe end their "protesting" careers.

Posted by: Wrap 'Em Up, Roll 'em Out.... at May 05, 2026 07:58 AM (oftw2)

59 Can we please institute an interview process for trolls! We deserve better than stupid!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Have you ever sat in on one of those interviews? I have. It took two bottles of vodka before I felt clean again.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 07:52 AM (BpO1e)

you're supposed to DRINK the alcohol, not bathe in it....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 07:58 AM (v6XNT)

60 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 05, 2026 07:58 AM (53oGX)

61 you're supposed to DRINK the alcohol, not bathe in it....
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

I'm referring to the purge afterward.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 07:59 AM (BpO1e)

62 I think it's difficult for American soldiers to watch the sunrise over the Atlantic from Morocco.

Posted by: pawn at May 05, 2026 08:00 AM (+rSJz)

63 But fuck him, right? Eggs and omelets. BRB gonna teach my dog a lesson./hasan
Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 07:54 AM (eSVH+)
=====

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-generic low IQ local leftist politician and Chicago Alderman
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

that's what he gets for supporting drumph...
/typical leftist commie scum

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 08:00 AM (v6XNT)

64 And if our adversaries purchase that data, it can and will be used to target and kill American military members. Indeed, it was reported that the Iranian drone strike in March that killed six U.S servicemembers in Kuwait may have used targeting data gathered from these same sources, raising concerns surrounding whether or not these massive data aggregators and brokers are being used in the tracking, targeting, and killing of United States troops.

WTFO
No service member should be ALLOWED to use devices that share their location.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:00 AM (/+uur)

65 They were watching the sunset.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 05, 2026 08:01 AM (qFwJc)

66 The CIA's mission is to overthrow governments.

All of them.

They sometimes get a bit over enthusiastic with "the mission." You'd literally have to stand-up an entity with a similar mission mindset to "overthrow" the CIA.

It would be bloody.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 08:03 AM (jehhT)

67 I stopped reading Mr. Greenfield’s screed when he made it about race and talked about “white births”. So only white people can be habituated in the government of this country? What a racist argument, while I agree we should not have mass immigration and immigration must be tightly controlled, this is a dumb argument,
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 05, 2026 07:57 AM (rkhDX)
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I got a very different impression from reading the entire article.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

68 66 I think it's difficult for American soldiers to watch the sunrise over the Atlantic from Morocco.
Posted by: pawn at May 05, 2026 08:00 AM (+rSJz)


Sunset maybe.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 08:04 AM (x0n13)

69 Pentagon giving update now.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:04 AM (NpAcC)

70 Good morning Horde again Horde thx as always JJ good report.
So Wes Moore is a lying sack of Dem crap, Fauci is up to his eyeballs in the creation of COVID and the SS, like most of the the rest of our government, are incompetent dipshits
Reading about the Georgia Senate race you really get a feel of what am idiot Kemp is. He's supporting a former Tenn football coach who's polling last. On top of that Kemp is refusing to redistrict. He should be tossed from the Republican party

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 08:05 AM (gu0hJ)

71
The video of Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times interviewing Qatucker Qatarlson that was included somewhere in yesterday's posts is illuminating.

https://x.com/AllyJKiss/status/2050741110801096718

His closed body language when he's pressed for answers, to me, matches up with him say continually, "I don't know", when she pressed him for specific names and acts. He cheerfully asserts "this is a big thing" and then withdraws, turtle-like, into his shell when pressed for specific evidence.

He's a bloviating circus clown: "All blow and no show".

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:06 AM (xG4kz)

72 33 Affordability is a feeling, not a fact.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 05, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)


This, plus the Cuban Happiness Excursion, along with literally everything the Democrat-Media Complex broadcasts, is 'Politics is Perception' taken to the maximum possible false limit.

Systemic Racism will never end!
Iran is winning!
White straight men are evil!
We all know all the other false crap constantly broadcast as reality.

Posted by: Gref at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (5rh/l)

73 Happy Cinco De Mayo. 🌮

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

74 Are we all destined to sit around making macramé

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (u9LDy)

75 "All blow and no show".
_______

I don't see any problem with this.

Posted by: Willie Brown at May 05, 2026 08:08 AM (864Ya)

76 77 Happy Cinco De Mayo. 🌮
Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

Cinco meets Taco Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:08 AM (/+uur)

77 Are we all destined to sit around making macramé
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (u9LDy)


"Ooh hot!"

- - Roosevelt 'rosy' Greer

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 08:08 AM (x0n13)

78 California’s tax code relies heavily on high-income taxpayers. Households with more than $5 million in annual income account for about 0.06 percent of filers but pay about 21 percent of income taxes.

2% of Taxpayers in NY are about 70% of tax collections.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:09 AM (/+uur)

79 No service member should be ALLOWED to use devices that share their location.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:00 AM (/+uur)

So no cell phones?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 05, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

80 During a recent episode of Mark Halperin’s ‘2Way’ podcast, Mark and guest, conservative talk radio host Larry O’Connor, teased that something major is going to drop on far left Maine senate candidate Graham Platner that is so bad he will have to ‘leave the state.’

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:10 AM (u9LDy)

81 "All blow and no show" must have appeared on Hunter's performance review once or twice

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:10 AM (eSVH+)

82 "All blow and no show".
---
It'll get you a long way.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 05, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

83 59 The second I saw the headline for the massive Medicaid fraud coming out of Ohio, I knew it was the Columbus area before I even heard one word. Why? It is yet another area completely saturated with Somalis. A community of miscreants that has been growing in that area in my home state for many years. Go listen to JJ's link. It's blood boiling.

-Presided Over by Our Gov. Mike DeWeasel

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 05, 2026 08:11 AM (DgMqy)

84 "All blow and no show" - me too- Pete Buttgiggle, he speaks Norwegian you know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 08:11 AM (gu0hJ)

85 Nice to see Paul on the anti Obama care bandwagon

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:11 AM (eSVH+)

86 Morning JJ and the Horde

Posted by: Jonah at May 05, 2026 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

87 Rosie Greer was a needlepoint guy, as was Gene Rayburn, who did needlepoint on his cross country commute from Scituate, MA to Hollywood when he hosted Match Game.

Posted by: Bill Needle at May 05, 2026 08:11 AM (oftw2)

88 Sadly, I am going to class tonight so celebrating today is not a possibility.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 08:12 AM (BpO1e)

89 Mortgage foreclosures are at a 6 year high
The economy sucks
People are losing their homes
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Sh*tty haiku.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

90
That's according to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who made the comments to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."
Posted by: gnats local 678

Self-hatred quite often produces telling big reveals about oneself, Weepy. Go back and check yourself and your life against what you said.

Tell us about your hydration routine -- it has to be boss for such a human faucet as your bad self!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:12 AM (xG4kz)

91 Sunrise, Sunset....

/Fiddler

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

92 In the old days, a guy like Planter would have been protected by the legacy media before the Internet, like Klansman Robert Byrd.

New media has destroyed that premise

Posted by: Jonah at May 05, 2026 08:13 AM (YCxFk)

93
The book Oblivion by Harry Maihafer about the disappearance of Richard Colvin Cox explained a LOT about how the CIA ended up with people like Brennan: they INTENTIONALLY went out of their way to recruit people from disreputable backgrounds, Communist ties, etc. in order to have them gather intel from those groups... without thinking that those people would eventually end up promoted into positions where they got to decide who the enemies were.

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 05, 2026 08:14 AM (6so3e)

94 The Times is reporting that school children on Long Island are being intimidated by children of Republican parents who show up to school with American flags. Frankly, we were a little intimidated by rioters standing on the roofs of burning cars in Los Angeles, waving the Mexican flag, so we can relate.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:14 AM (u9LDy)

95 Let he who has not chased women in hotel hallways while naked and jacking off cast the first boulder.

Posted by: Sekrit Squirrel at May 05, 2026 08:15 AM (oftw2)

96 ICE agents have turned Nassau County’s fire stations into rest stops, pulling into parking lots to take a break from patrolling. Sandra Valencia, who runs a youth leadership program on Long Island through Rural & Migrant Ministry, an advocacy group, said that agents park outside schools after classes are released, frightening parents.

“Children of Republican parents have intimidated our kids,” Ms. Valencia said in Spanish. “They showed up to school with American flags.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:16 AM (u9LDy)

97
The next would-be John Wilkes Booth ventilated by the Secret Service in the vicinity of the White House should be carted out to the White House lawn, laid there, have a water hose jammed up its ass, and the water turned on.

Find your useful purpose as a fountain-like lawn sprinkler, dummy.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:16 AM (xG4kz)

98 Posted by: Paul at May 05, 2026 08:10 AM (RZsS2)

Bwack! All is lost. Bwack! We're all doomed. Bwack! Paul-e want a cracker.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 05, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

99 I was hesitant about the Iran engagement at first, but it seemed like it has been successful on many levels at this point. I have noticed, though, a spread of the "Derangement Syndrome" (symptoms, phrases & behaviors surrounding TDS, jew hate, transgender support, etc) pertaining to Iran effort by people who I considered political friendlies. When I see that pattern of behavior of this derangement syndrome, it makes me think that PDJT is absolutely on the right track with Iran.

Even if he is not, there is no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water! Things were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much worse the last administration.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 05, 2026 08:17 AM (cZMme)

100 “Children of Republican parents have intimidated our kids,” Ms. Valencia said in Spanish. “They showed up to school with American flags.”
Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:16 AM (u9LDy)
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Que bueno! Todos afuera!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

101 The Times is reporting that school children on Long Island are being intimidated by children of Republican parents who show up to school with American flags.

==

Insinuation: Of course it's "Republican" parents. Democrats hate America.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 05, 2026 08:18 AM (qBdHI)

102 SS Checks go to workers
Medicare pays for patients services at their doctor
Section 8 pays rent for families
EBT gives people cash to buy food
School Taxes go to Unions

See the diff?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:19 AM (/+uur)

103
People are losing their homes
Posted by: Paul

Nanzi's giving you the boot, Anvil Boy?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:19 AM (xG4kz)

104 A new documentary tries to justify one of the most depraved television shows of the medium’s history.

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Piers Morgan Uncensored?

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 08:20 AM (GD0B3)

105 102 Find your useful purpose as a fountain-like lawn sprinkler, dummy.

I would like Trump to have a board with "Number of Days Since a Democrat Tried to Kill Me" on it with a number counter attached.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 08:20 AM (BpO1e)

106 Yo, Paulie. How about a nice drive to Joisey?

Posted by: Clemenza at May 05, 2026 08:21 AM (gnkbn)

107
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
🚨🧵 BREAKING: Former DHS Chief Miles Taylor's prank site collected death threats against the President and 4,000+ people's personal data. Then exposed them through all an open API. 🚨

Two days ago, I showed you how Miles Taylor's GTFO ICE site exposed 17,000+ people's data on an open API. That site halted sign-ups and is still "under construction."

But Taylor's organization DEFIANCE[.]org didn't just build one leaky site. They built two. On the same server.

UndoTrump[.]org — launched April 1, 2026 as an "April Fools' joke" — collects names, emails, and political messages from people signing up for fictional "Removal Parties" at government buildings. The White House Ballroom. The Kennedy Center. The DOJ. Battleships.

4,000+ signup records. 3,300+ unique people. Same vulnerability. Same API. Same zero authentication.

And this one has death threats against a sitting President in the database.

The man who was deputy chief of staff for the department that houses the Secret Service couldn't secure a sign-up form. Again.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:21 AM (u9LDy)

108 He is reportedly recovering from his gunshot wounds at George Washington Hospital, and Secret Service agents recovered his firearm.

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The D.C. Judge in the case will apologize fto him for having failed in his Assassination Culture Mission and for having been wounded and so inconvenienced -- and maybe even initiate a civil lawsuit to try and personally & professionally bankrupt President Trump & the The Trump Organization, respectively.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 08:21 AM (JqXxE)

109 Stop it , people. Trolls always post fake news from legacy media.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 08:22 AM (GD0B3)

110 Cinco meets Taco Tuesday
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:08 AM (/+uur)
********
Margaritas and Tacos for lunch!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

111 Newsweek: Donald Trump Says US Will Take Over Cuba ‘Almost Immediately’

The damage to the US from this presidency is immeasurable. The president isn’t supposed to be able to unilaterally cause all of this damage. The GOP in Congress has fully ceded their responsibilities and duties.

It doesn’t help that literally brain damaged Fetterman is helping stop efforts to curtail Trump's power.

He's bored with Iran and wants to move on to something new. He finds Iran frustrating and unsatisfying. He needs something new to excite his very small attention span and continue the distraction from the Epstein mess.

"On the way back from Iran." Like it's a grocery store run? "Yeah, let's just swing the USS Abraham Lincoln by Havana, pick up some cigars, and manifest some destiny." The casualness of suggesting a regime change via a pit stop is peak 2026 timeline.

All it will take is a phone call from Ronald Lauder and the carrier group will be heading to Greenland after killing a load of Cubans. I wish the rest of the world would sanction the fuck out of warmongering fascist America.

The world should be sanctioning the US at this point.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 05, 2026 08:23 AM (uYvMy)

112 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

113 Take it easy on the SS man. At least he was just beating off on the job. That puts him in the group of good agents, who aren't setting up the President to be shot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 08:24 AM (BI5O2)

114 Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami.

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[Shamelessly stolen from Greg Gutfeld:] “It’s harder to get into Paris Hilton than the D.C. Hilton.”

Imagine if a team of well-trained Special Forces enemies had crashed the WHCD — and the potential subsequent carnage done.

I don’t call it the Secret Cervix for nothing, and Director Curran (frankly, another horrible pick by President Trump) has got to go. They’re still playing by the #Woke DEI Playbook over there. WHO HAS BEEN PUNISHED THUS FAR FOR ALL THE SCREWUPS and SECURITY FAILURES? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 08:24 AM (JqXxE)

115 o7 salty

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:25 AM (gnkbn)

116 You may well ask, given the fact that President Trump and his entire cabinet and really all of us who support and voted for him have a big fat (literal, not Mark Kelly imaginary) target painted on them, how could something like this happen, yet again?! Well how about this for starters?

Until the people funding, organizing, and giving material assistance to these assassins are arrested this will continue.

So far none of those people has been touched so...this will continue.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 08:25 AM (sKqQm)

117 Happy Cinco De Mayo. 🌮
Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

Cinco meets Taco Tuesday
Posted by: r hennigantx


*cough Tequila Tuesday cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:25 AM (xHq83)

118
"Cinco de Quatro", a phrase coined by the highest genius ever to reside at the White House. A person singularly versed in all cultures of the world, who himself was a verbal stumblebum in his own native tongue.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:25 AM (xG4kz)

119 Secret Service! Hands up or we'll squirt!

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:26 AM (gnkbn)

120 So, is Li'l Marco taking over as Pope on the 7th? Seems plausible. The high-dollar Pope Hat will make him seem taller.

Posted by: Papal Nunzio at May 05, 2026 08:26 AM (oftw2)

121 "Six Walgreens have closed on [Chicago's] South Side during the past year," reports ABC 7 Eyewitness News. "One alderman calls it pharmaceutical genocide."

Pharmaceutical genocide. That alderman is William Hall, who wants Walgreens to face charges of "corporate abandonment" in light of another location closing on June 4 because of high levels of theft and violent incidents.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:26 AM (u9LDy)

122 Mortgage foreclosure rates are well below pre pandemic levels. There are several reasons they are high the primary being a backlog of foreclosure processing that was delayed and moved into the current window largely by Covid era programs ending. The rate environment and therefore market has also greatly changed impacting some people on the margin who borrowed on the edge of their ability to repay and were only allowed to do so because the Biden administration was pressuring lenders.

Dunce.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 05, 2026 08:27 AM (rBp1O)

123 He's bored with Iran and wants to move on to something new.

One of the things I remember from Shrub's presidency is that he would continually claim he could only do one thing at a time - the WoT.

Biden, Obama, and Clinton all of course implemented multiple policy initiatives in parallel.

Trump is going the same thing here and it is as it should be

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 08:27 AM (sKqQm)

124 Of all 50 states, Indiana had the most properties in foreclosure (1,864), and West Virginia had the least (20). As for the states with the highest foreclosure rates, Florida, South Carolina, and Indiana took the top three spots.

Of IN 2,976,568 housing units, 1,864 were in foreclosure.

0.0626%

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:27 AM (/+uur)

125 There’s a reason some leftists are calling for bodycams to stop being used.

“They have been a propaganda tool.”

Meaning, bodycams are a tool that have been very inconvenient to their narratives.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (u9LDy)

126 The Times is reporting that school children on Long Island are being intimidated by children of Republican parents who show up to school with American flags."

Ok, that's funny right there...

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

127 Happy Cinco De Mayo. 🌮
Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

Cinco meets Taco Tuesday
Posted by: r hennigantx

*cough Tequila Tuesday cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:25 AM (xHq83)

working from home today, so i'm smoking corned beef at lunch for dinner tonight. could always turn that into tacos or burritos....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (v6XNT)

128 "WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can’t Prove They’re Citizens"

That's the headline from The Federalist. And it's a weaselly load of bullshit.

The conservative movement has allowed the talking heads of the Democrat/Progressive apparatus to change the conversation. It's not about people being unable to prove they are citizens, because that is a non-issue.

It is about illegals and other non-citizens voting. They can't prove they are citizens BECAUSE THEY AREN'T!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (iERP6)

129 A new documentary tries to justify one of the most depraved television shows of the medium’s history.


"Married with Children?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (qFwJc)

130 No terrorist attack at the Met Gala last night, though some protester made a run for the stage. I guess there's next year.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (gu0hJ)

131 Cinco de Mayo. A holiday commemorating a Mexican victory against the French. In Germany, it's called Dienstag.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 08:29 AM (BpO1e)

132 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

LMFAO! SecWar Pete Hegseth responds to reports Iran will deploy "kamikaze dolphins" against the US:

"I can't confirm or deny whether WE have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't!"

https://tinyurl.com/4xe33wyf

Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

133 Ah, I see the Reddit NPCs view threats to Cuba's regime as "damaging."

I can see arguments for and against toppling Canel's regime. But this is not damaging to America, at least in a first-order context. And redditors are incapable of thinking in anything but first-order terms, because they are NPCs stuck in the Eternal Present of their constantly updating Hatefeeds.

No, it's damaging to Communism, not us. It's nice when Leftists let slip where their loyalties lie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 08:30 AM (BI5O2)

134 But the Covids shot isn't pharmaceutical genocide.

🤡 🌎.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 05, 2026 08:30 AM (K4JMi)

135 Millions will be made by communities this evening as tequila imbibers weave their way home from likker establishments. Sure to be some good Youtube vids of roadside sobriety fails. Me?, I'm staying home.

Posted by: Sinko De Drunko at May 05, 2026 08:30 AM (oftw2)

136 There’s a reason some leftists are calling for bodycams to stop being used."

Hey, we believed our own bs!

/libnutz

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

137 Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.

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Too bad he isn't being held in a New York prison (instead of Leavenworth) as he might soon be released "on parole" with all the other mass-murderers held there to murder again.

I haven't been calling it A Death Cult over the last decade for nothin' ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 08:31 AM (JqXxE)

138 "Married with Children?"
Posted by: no one of any consequence

I have a more positive view of that show. Al was able to keep a roof over his family's head in the suburbs with a job field known for high turnover. And despite the sniping from his wife and children, they loved each other and stayed loyal. Al wasn't a spineless milquetoast either.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 08:31 AM (BpO1e)

139 Re: The Wrong Kind of Black

Images by Tyrone Greene …

Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking – Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L …
My land – lord …

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 05, 2026 08:31 AM (IhL8c)

140
"I can't confirm or deny whether WE have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't!"

Keeping the sharks with laser beams mounted on their heads on the down low, eh, Petey Boy? That's smart!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:32 AM (xG4kz)

141 The left wants to protect Cuba partially because they've lauded the regime there for so long but mostly because it is a cheap place for underage sex tourism.

Yes, that why Canucks and Euros like it so much.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 08:32 AM (sKqQm)

142 I saw Kamikaze Dolphins open for Suicidal Tendencies.

Real downer of a show.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:32 AM (gtcuf)

143 One day, Rabbi Yehuda bar Ilai, Rabbi Yossi and Rabbi Shimon were sitting together. Yehuda ben Geirim joined them. Rabbi Yehuda said: “Look what fine projects this nation undertakes. They built marketplaces, bridges and bathhouses.”
Rabbi Yossi remained silent and said nothing. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai replied: “They did everything for their own benefit. They set up the marketplaces for their own pleasure and good. They built bathhouses to indulge in their own pleasure. They built bridges so that they would be able to charge tolls for using them.”

--Australian Jewish news

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:34 AM (gnkbn)

144 If you'll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the U.S. and Europe — including members of Code Pink, commie activist Hasan Piker, and Ilhan Omar's daughter — flew into the crumblingly communist country and stayed in five-star hotels, enjoyed fancy meals, held concerts, and recorded podcasts, all while the Cuban people starve and live without electricity or water much of the time. They took photos with "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel and came back declaring that all was well on the island.

-----------

Sean Penn hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 05, 2026 08:34 AM (JqXxE)

145 Married with Children was a spoof of older family sitcoms that cranked things to 11. But they kept the core of a loving family.

Though I think the missed an opportunity to have the wife tell Al one night that he was a little too rough on the Beaver...err...Bud

Posted by: 18-1 at May 05, 2026 08:34 AM (sKqQm)

146 “89 percent of Democrats and 90 percent of Republicans hold qualifying citizenship documents, a difference that is not statistically significant.”

That seemingly meaningless 1 percent difference, however, would actually be state-flipping.

About 13% of New Mexico voter do not have SAFE act required documents.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:34 AM (/+uur)

147 "Married with Children?"
Posted by: no one of any consequence

I have a more positive view of that show. Al was able to keep a roof over his family's head in the suburbs with a job field known for high turnover. And despite the sniping from his wife and children, they loved each other and stayed loyal. Al wasn't a spineless milquetoast either.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 08:31 AM (BpO1e)

I'll never understand how he didn't want to bang Katy Segal nightly, and twice on sunday....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 08:35 AM (v6XNT)

148 Sean Penn hardest hit ..."

No red solo cups, so...

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

149
I have nothing but positive feelings about Married with Children. Al was an everyman, who called out radical feminism and culture war issues from the perspective of somebody being destroyed by the world that they made.

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 05, 2026 08:36 AM (6so3e)

150 declaring that all was well on the island.

Never mind the hospital that lost power because the hotel was a priority and people died. But it wasn't real communism and they were probably poors so the activists don't care.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 08:36 AM (BpO1e)

151 89 percent of Democrats and 90 percent of Republicans hold qualifying citizenship documents, a difference that is not statistically significant

-------

The illegals who vote don't have a Party registration. The Democrats don't need or want them voting in primaries.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 08:36 AM (BI5O2)

152 I saw Kamikaze Dolphins open for Suicidal Tendencies.

Real downer of a show.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:32 AM (gtcuf)

did you get a pepsi?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 08:37 AM (v6XNT)

153 Life of Brian should be taught in yeshiva.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:37 AM (gnkbn)

154
Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.

How come the press does not cover the true victim of that incident? I mean, of course, the schlub who was in the same meeting as O'Bumbles and for whom Barky just had to deliver a shout out for his excellent participation in said meeting. All this before SCOAMF said a single thing about Hasan's killing spree.

How is the shout out recipient faring these days? How is his self-esteem? His mental health?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 05, 2026 08:38 AM (xG4kz)

155 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

156 Moore’s commission was conditional, according to Spotlight. He had two requirements to fulfill as an officer in the Early Commissioning Program: complete his bachelor’s degree within 24 months of his appointment, and complete his initial officer training within 36 months.

Moore failed to meet both requirements.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)

157 “ I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”

Matthew 22:32

Posted by: Marcus T at May 05, 2026 08:39 AM (d9i2R)

158 JJ, the Jerry Springer link comes right back here.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

159 Florida will still have 28 Congressional districts.

The Republicans hold 20 of those Congressional seats.

The new map has four seats that lean Republican represented by the following Democrats:

Darren Soto
Kathy Castor
Jared Moskowitz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

AMF

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)

160 Al Bundy was 6'1". How did he sire a little sawed-off runt like Bud?
Same with Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons. He was 6'3" and all the sons were little shrimps. Every Hollywood teen actress from 4'10" to 5'2" was hired to be classmates and girlfriends to the boys.

Posted by: Tall Paul at May 05, 2026 08:41 AM (oftw2)

161 Buying commercial data for surveillance (that is not initially collected for a Govt investigation) seems similar to rooting thru someone's trash. Is it a 4th amendment violation to root thru trash without a warrant? I forget.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 05, 2026 08:41 AM (hybOl)

162 Happy Cinco De Mayo. 🌮
Posted by: redridinghood at May 05, 2026 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

Cinco meets Taco Tuesday
Posted by: r hennigantx

*cough Tequila Tuesday cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:25 AM (xHq83)
=====

The REAL No Kings Day.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 05, 2026 08:42 AM (2OYwF)

163 Why are we celebrating a day for mayonnaise?

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2026 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)

164 In response to a question about Iran's claim to possess kamikaze dolphins, SecWar says he can not confirm or deny that WE have kamikaze dolphins, but states categorically that the Iranians do not.

I love it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 05, 2026 08:44 AM (iNUL3)

165 For awhile it was a running joke that Bud couldn't get laid and then once he did, he'd get snu snued by some enormous biker chick or something

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:44 AM (gnkbn)

166 r hennigantx

This is a pattern. Unearned credentials, plus incompetent, but DEM so untouchable.

I would mandate an exhaustive exam cycle of Thomas Sowell, Hayek, and von Mises to qualify candidates.

Private property is one of the keys to prosperity, bitches.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

167 The Iranians will fear our Kamikaze penguin and otter brigades

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (gu0hJ)

168 I could never, ever get used to Fred Macmurray playing a bad guy or heavy. My only exposure was My Three Sons for the most part.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (drP55)

169 Recently read an entertaining discussion on Reddit about TV sitcom families where none of the kids look anything like each other, or their parents.

Just the Ten of Us was particularly egregious, just based on the sheer number of family members alone.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (gtcuf)

170 163 Why are we celebrating a day for mayonnaise?
Posted by: dantesed

Because I have "Twang".

Posted by: The Duke at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (oftw2)

171 California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
By Susana Guerrero,Senior News Reporter
May 5, 2026

Central California farmers are expected to gain up to $9 million in federal aid to help remove 420,000 clingstone peach trees following the closure of Del Monte Foods’ canneries earlier this year.
====

You need to buy more canned peaches at a new higher price, comrades.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

172 gKWVE

I never saw the show, but my Chinese Communist lab partner, from the Chemical Corps of the Red Army, would rather watch that show in fascination than work on experiments. She bombed out of the program.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

173 163 Why are we celebrating a day for mayonnaise?

Bring out the Best Foods, and bring out the best!

(actually I prefer Duke's, but that jingle was catchy.)

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:47 AM (gtcuf)

174 The city council of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, has approved a ban on public advertising for meat and fossil fuel products, including burgers, gasoline cars, airlines, and cruises.

Oh no. No, in this case, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

And we're just the guys to do it.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)

175 I didn’t know that Del Monte had gone bankrupt. Too bad.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

176 Our daughter's anniversary is today. Cinco De Mayo. She and her husband were married in Las Vegas about a decade or so ago. (Last time I was on a plane too.)

I will have Tequila in their honor today. And probably a taco or two.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 08:47 AM (jehhT)

177 Delurker

Saying Duke's is a quality signifier. I shun people who say Miracle Whip is best.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

178 >>Recently read an entertaining discussion on Reddit about TV sitcom families where none of the kids look anything like each other, or their parents.

Eight is Enough

Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)

179 You need to buy more canned peaches at a new higher price, comrades.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

My monthly card for canned peaches increased to 10 cans from 15.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (/+uur)

180 Sounds like your lab partner was a weapons grade autist

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (gnkbn)

181 Miracle Whip is for small children and psychopaths.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:49 AM (gtcuf)

182 It's taco and tequila Tuesday. Break out your Willard Romney sombreros and have a go at the piñata.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 08:49 AM (D1E+2)

183 San Franpsycho

Is that a water issue?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

184 Secret Service needs to aim better. A taxpayer fiscal savings plan is what these lunatics deserve.

Posted by: Indy Bill at May 05, 2026 08:49 AM (Oe2Ms)

185 Eight is Enough
Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)

Yep, totally! That one got mentioned a lot.

But man did I have the hugest crush on Elizabeth (the gorgeous Connie Needham.)

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:50 AM (gtcuf)

186 What is this Duke's ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 08:50 AM (FtULh)

187 167 The Iranians will fear our Kamikaze penguin and otter brigades
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 08:45 AM (gu0hJ)

How many penguins in your Brigade Sgt Major?
15
SQUAAAALLLKKKKKK
14 sir.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 08:50 AM (/+uur)

188 On Full House the girls looked plausibly like sisters. Maybe.

Posted by: Who Killed Bob Saget? at May 05, 2026 08:50 AM (oftw2)

189 I need help in properly observing this holiday. I need to attend a Cinco de Mayo clinic.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

190 gKWVE

She was the leading edge of Chinese fraud in STEM. Very high test scores, likely fraudulent. And no lab skills. She could not even make a 3M solution of hydrochloric acid!

Got several stories of her ineptitude. Like destroying the lab's C drive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

191 Is it a 4th amendment violation to root thru trash without a warrant? I forget."

Nein.

Posted by: man at May 05, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

192
Good morning, Hordians. Spending this morning getting Her Majesty, The Big Dummy and Rosalind on the road for points north (Lawrence, then Lincoln, then Kalamazoo, then Oklahoma City). Spare a thought for safe and uneventful travels.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 08:52 AM (HdYcL)

193 Sounds like your lab partner was a weapons grade autist
Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (gnkbn)

Lol, vegging out on the couch, watching TV and eating bonbons.

The heathen Chinee sent her here to become the next Chemical Ali, and got back a Peg Bundy. Our execrable pop culture truly is our strongest weapon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 05, 2026 08:52 AM (BI5O2)

194 Sour Cream is preferable to Mayonnaise anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 05, 2026 08:53 AM (drP55)

195 I note for the record that the Secret Service shoot, and the target is not killed. Be better.

Range time for the entire bunch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

196 Is that a water issue?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)
===
Water and over-regulation. Tastes and market changes too no doubt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

197 Cinco de Mayo. A holiday commemorating a Mexican victory against the French. In Germany, it's called Dienstag.
Posted by: NR Pax


In Germany, it's called Again?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:53 AM (xHq83)

198 Spare a thought for safe and uneventful travels.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 08:52 AM (HdYcL)
====

And soft landings.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

199 Hadrian the Seventh

May her travels be safe, fun, and free of maintenance issues. And hope she enjoys Kansas. Even Lawrence, that Beijing on the Kaw River.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

200 Since we all have permission to be overly sensitive nowadays I'll mention my beef with the Brady Bunch theme song. The females are described as lovely with hair of gold. But the males are described as simply being "all alone."
Feminist misandry put downs: the early days.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 05, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

201 197 Cinco de Mayo. A holiday commemorating a Mexican victory against the French. In Germany, it's called Dienstag.
Posted by: NR Pax

Best to stay off the road here tonight... Always have a slew of drunk driving Hispanics...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 08:55 AM (FtULh)

202 Is it a 4th amendment violation to root thru trash without a warrant? I forget."



Once it's at the curb, it's fair game.

Pulled many a trash bag working for a PI.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:55 AM (xHq83)

203 Dienstag - Tuesday

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 08:56 AM (l0Xoq)

204 Spare a thought for safe and uneventful travels.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh



Amen. 🙏🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:56 AM (xHq83)

205 Ammonia and bleach. HCl for the masses.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:56 AM (gnkbn)

206 What is this Duke's ?
Posted by: It's me donna


Best mayonnaise on the market, bar none.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:57 AM (xHq83)

207 I shun people who say Miracle Whip is best.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

and you are allowed to sit there and be wrong in your wrongness...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 08:57 AM (v6XNT)

208
Best mayonnaise on the market, bar none.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 08:57 AM (xHq83)

Never seen it here in NorCal

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 08:57 AM (FtULh)

209 Recently read an entertaining discussion on Reddit about TV sitcom families where none of the kids look anything like each other, or their parents.

Eight is Enough
Posted by: one hour sober at May 05, 2026 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)
====

My SiL is a ginger but Mrs. F. is normal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

210 Duck's, I say.

Posted by: Little Bill at May 05, 2026 08:58 AM (Q+gd/)

211 SPY Magazine used to have a feature where they'd dig through a celeb's trash, and not tell you who the celeb was. You had to try and guess from the trash. They even showed pics of the trash. iirc they did Trump's once.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 08:58 AM (gtcuf)

212 Okay I looked it up, apparently a lot.of.chloramine gas is given off too.
Probably why I didn't follow.my dad into the chem field.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 05, 2026 08:58 AM (gnkbn)

213
May her travels be safe, fun, and free of maintenance issues. 

___________

That's my concern. She had major tire issues on the last trip. A combination of vehicle weight and bad roads. We replaced all four rear tires for ones with a higher capacity, but I shudder to think what The Beast weighs fully loaded.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 08:59 AM (HdYcL)

214 Sturmtoddler

Of course. I wear the Moron Horde T-Shirt.

Been wrong, in doubt, and sometimes apologetic for decades.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

215 Used to be hard to find Duke's east of the Mississip.

I hear Wegmans stocks it now.

Whole Foods' 365 brand is pretty close to Duke's.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:00 AM (gtcuf)

216 Never seen it here in NorCal
Posted by: It's me donna



The power of Amazon compels you:

https://tinyurl.com/3ekvt48v

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:00 AM (xHq83)

217 gKWVE

I recommend your reaction to all Leftists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:00 AM (u82oZ)

218 801 and thru da links

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur)

219 Good morning!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:02 AM (5xoct)

220 And not only Duke's Mayo, but a bunch of different Duke's dipping sauces.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:02 AM (xHq83)

221 Hey, I tried to take out Beijing on the Kaw. Don’t blame me for that place.
— Zombie William Quantrill

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

222 Yes, Wegmans carries Duke’s.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

223 A million years ago, I'm in LA with a friend and we decide to drop into Madam Wong's West and who strolls in but William Faustino (Bud) and Christina Applegate. I did a double take. (I think it was William's birthday). Christina was very pretty in person.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 05, 2026 09:04 AM (hybOl)

224 Duke’s mayo is okay. Commonplace in our stores. Different than Hellman’s for sure but not “ better”. It’s just mayonnaise.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 09:05 AM (Gqar8)

225 Bulg

Quantrill sent the Lincoln voters to other parts of the state.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

226 Miracle Whip vents a lot of Chloramine Gas also when you open it. Do it by an open window or take the jar outside.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at May 05, 2026 09:06 AM (oftw2)

227 @politico
·
Follow
Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool

hahahaha

POPO demands cameras

hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)

228 Sturmtoddler

Of course. I wear the Moron Horde T-Shirt.

Been wrong, in doubt, and sometimes apologetic for decades.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

don't forget to wave next time through on your way to OBX. and tis the moron way to be wrong.

my miracle whip is just a different cut. the twang makes a sandwich. imo

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:06 AM (v6XNT)

229 We should debate mustard sometime. In fact, all of the condiments should be put before the Horde Tribunals.

Posted by: tubal at May 05, 2026 09:08 AM (Gqar8)

230 Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool

The whole bodycams thing was such a self-own for the libs. Entertained, I am.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:08 AM (gtcuf)

231

Suzi De Quatro?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:09 AM (x0n13)

232 > Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool
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Snickers....

Posted by: Flock Surveillance at May 05, 2026 09:09 AM (jehhT)

233 This is pure D unmitigated bullshit.

Active-Duty Navy Sailor Serving 20 Years Over Demilled Parts and Replicas as SAF Pushes Supreme Court for Review

WASHINGTON, DC — The Second Amendment Foundation has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, the former active-duty U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms serving 20 years in federal prison on machine gun and destructive device charges that gun rights advocates have argued for years are based on demilled equipment, non-firing replicas, and unfinished parts that are still openly sold online today.

https://tinyurl.com/4kk8ujr2

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:10 AM (xHq83)

234 >>The whole bodycams thing was such a self-own for the libs. Entertained, I am.


THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:10 AM (5xoct)

235
We should debate mustard sometime.

____________

The stuff put on soft pretzels and hot dogs must be fluorescent yellow. No alternatives acceptable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:10 AM (HdYcL)

236 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:11 AM (+sD5M)

237 Justice Alito fires back at Justice Jackson, calling her solo dissent "baseless and insulting" and "utterly irresponsible" after she accused the majority of abandoning principle for power.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:11 AM (/+uur)

238 Pray for Nick Shirley. He needs The Lord's protection. Bigly.


And it's ok to call him Shirley. It's his name.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:11 AM (+sD5M)

239 Justice Alito fires back at Justice Jackson, calling her solo dissent "baseless and insulting" and "utterly irresponsible" after she accused the majority of abandoning principle for power.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:11 AM (/+uur)


How racist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:11 AM (+sD5M)

240 Duke's mayo is also gluten-free!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:12 AM (5xoct)

241 Hantavirus kills multiple people on a cruise ship, others sickened. Don't blame me!

Posted by: Rickey the Pizza Rat at May 05, 2026 09:12 AM (oftw2)

242 In WNY where I grew up, they love Webers horseradish mustard.

Can't touch it now. That stuff wreaks havoc with my guts.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:12 AM (gtcuf)

243 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Tartar sauce at May 05, 2026 09:13 AM (2Ez/1)

244 >>"Six Walgreens have closed on [Chicago's] South Side during the past year," reports ABC 7 Eyewitness News. "One alderman calls it pharmaceutical genocide."



*shakes head in disbelief*

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:13 AM (5xoct)

245 In WNY where I grew up, they love Webers horseradish mustard.

Can't touch it now. That stuff wreaks havoc with my guts.
Posted by: Delurker


Duke's also has a horseradish mustard.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:13 AM (xHq83)

246 The stuff put on soft pretzels and hot dogs must be fluorescent yellow. No alternatives acceptable.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:10 AM (HdYcL)

the big soft pretzels need spicy ground mustard

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:13 AM (v6XNT)

247
the big soft pretzels need spicy ground mustard

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:13 AM (v6XNT)

_________

*fearfully holds out crucifix at arm's length*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:14 AM (HdYcL)

248

Egg Cream and a stick pretzel at my corner candy store.


A Brooklyn memory. Sigh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:15 AM (x0n13)

249 Duke's also has a horseradish mustard.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:13 AM (xHq83)

que? you have my attention with this.

horseradish is required for a roast beef sandwich, and mustard doesn't go amiss...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:15 AM (v6XNT)

250 > the big soft pretzels need spicy ground mustard
---------
Salt. They need lots of salt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:15 AM (jehhT)

251
Bodycam videos provide hours of entertainment. The airport ones especially. Proof that alcohol and travel do not mix well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (HdYcL)

252 Horseradish mustard goes great with Polish sausage.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (gtcuf)

253 Got the tractor out to the property over the weekend. Did a bit of mowing. Man that thing is violent and unforgiving. Gonna take some getting used to.

But, wish I had the box plow as I would've spent some time leveling out all the hog damage. That'll make things a lot easier.

Box plow will be coming soon, I hope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (+sD5M)

254 I'm a very popular condiment.
Except on Sundays.

Posted by: Chick-fil-A sauce at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

255 I’ve never liked pretzels.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)

256 Morning, Horde.

Was dutifully informed by Ventura County that my vote by mail ballot for the upcoming primary should arrive in about seven days. Problem is, I've not lived in Ventura County since last July, and have since become a registered voter in Florida. Apparently, this is not enough to prevent California from issuing mail in ballots to folks who no longer live there. The spice must flow...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 05, 2026 09:17 AM (nbLIj)

257 255 I’ve never liked pretzels.
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)

Me either

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 09:17 AM (FtULh)

258 >"Six Walgreens have closed on [Chicago's] South Side during the past year," reports ABC 7 Eyewitness News. "One alderman calls it pharmaceutical genocide."



But liberal policies and crime had NOTHING to do with it, I'm sure. It's the evil Big Convenience Store's greed.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:17 AM (+sD5M)

259 the big soft pretzels need spicy ground mustard
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

This is one of the central tents of Communism. You've been co-opted.

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ronnie at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (oftw2)

260 Horseradish mustard goes great with Polish sausage.
Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (gtcuf)

ok so that is thursday's dinner sorted.

grilled polish sausage with horseradish mustard, and perogies with sour cream and applesauce.

i'mma gain weight again....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (v6XNT)

261 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:15 AM (x0n13)

I love how egg creams contain neither eggs nor cream. It sounds like a Coffee Talk topic LOL

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (gtcuf)

262 Proof that alcohol and travel do not mix well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But when a flight attendant kindly offers you a free tequila because of the ear splitting shriek from a toddler that woke you up from a deep sleep, you approve of it.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (BpO1e)

263 255 I’ve never liked pretzels.
Posted by: Bulg
____
They're making me thirsty!

Posted by: Kramer at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (2Ez/1)

264
"On the way back from Iran." Like it's a grocery store run? "Yeah, let's just swing the USS Abraham Lincoln by Havana, pick up some cigars, and manifest some destiny." The casualness of suggesting a regime change via a pit stop is peak 2026 timeline.”

I think this is an absolutely awesome idea!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (XcvNy)

265
Horse radish or "Chrain" in Yiddish was especially nice on momma's pot roast.

Gold's brand in NYC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (x0n13)

266 ...we are still talking about Duke's mayo ??

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (GD0B3)

267 Pretzels are greatness. I used to eat the pretzel logs so much as a yute, I gave them up for Lent multiple times. It was a sacrifice, let me tell you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (+sD5M)

268 Joe Kidd

The only way voter fraud stops is if the GOPe use it to win elections.

Vote like a Democrat; early and often.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

269 the big soft pretzels need spicy ground mustard
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

This is one of the central tents of Communism. You've been co-opted.

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ronnie at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (oftw2)

not commie, kraut. look at the nic...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (v6XNT)

270 aw man I missed a pretzel thread

Posted by: Don Black at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (ZxPkt)

271 I mostly use de mayo for tuna salad or egg salad sandwiches.

Don't have time to make my own, so it's usually best foods.

I don't ever recall having a chicken salad sandwich.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (D1E+2)

272 261 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:15 AM (x0n13)

I love how egg creams contain neither eggs nor cream. It sounds like a Coffee Talk topic LOL
Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:18 AM (gtcuf)


Indeed! I often wondered how the name came about.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (x0n13)

273 Ketchup or Ketsup ??

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (GD0B3)

274
258 >"Six Walgreens have closed on [Chicago's] South Side during the past year," reports ABC 7 Eyewitness News. "One alderman calls it pharmaceutical genocide."

I wonder if that alderman realizes that there’s a name for forcing people to work when and where they don’t want to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (XcvNy)

275 Tom Servo

It's got to be the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-7. She is the CVN returning from her epic deployment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:21 AM (u82oZ)

276 the big soft pretzels need spicy ground mustard
---------
Salt. They need lots of salt.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:15 AM (jehhT)

Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps - mustard and onion flavored.

Posted by: The Donald at May 05, 2026 09:21 AM (kxLc1)

277 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (x0n13)


FYI.

The link in your nic is teh screwed up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:21 AM (+sD5M)

278 Ketchup or Ketsup ??
Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (GD0B3)


Or Catsup.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (+sD5M)

279 >>Hantavirus kills multiple people on a cruise ship, others sickened. Don't blame me!

Yeah, someone explain that one, please.
Are some of their mouse guests from Arizona aboard the ship.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (5xoct)

280 251
Bodycam videos provide hours of entertainment. The airport ones especially. Proof that alcohol and travel do not mix well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 09:16 AM (HdYcL)

Here I am again
Mixing misery and gin

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (/+uur)

281 Pixy did fix the smiles.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (u82oZ)

282 Mustard - Thomy Scharfer Senf. Nice and hot. Supplied in a tube, like toothpaste.

El-cheapo Yellow mustard is perfectly fine for burgers and such. Condiments don’t need to be a vehicle for snobbery. A classic burger needs onion, pickles, mustard and ketchup.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (Fn30I)

283 Pixy did fix the smiles.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (u82oZ)


Woof. That's been an issue for quite some time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:22 AM (+sD5M)

284 Lizzy

Evidently, lots of rats from a previous port of call. Likely in South America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:23 AM (u82oZ)

285 48 Something tells me Spillman will get off...

...with only a stiff fine.
Posted by: one hour sober

He already did hard time.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 05, 2026 07:49 AM (Kyh8Y)

He made splashy headlines.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 05, 2026 07:50 AM (wVcYX)

In late, knew I'd be...beaten to it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:23 AM (ynpvh)

286 277 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:20 AM (x0n13)


FYI.

The link in your nic is teh screwed up.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:21 AM (+sD5M)



Hmm?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:23 AM (x0n13)

287 Max Miller did a deep dive on the ketchup/catsup thing on Tasting History. iirc it's derived from a Chinese (?) word for fish sauce.

Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:23 AM (gtcuf)

288
Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps - mustard and onion flavored.
Posted by: The Donald at May 05, 2026 09:21 AM (kxLc1)


Snyder's Pretzel Bites - Jalapeno.

Addictive as hell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:24 AM (+sD5M)

289 I don't ever recall having a chicken salad sandwich.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone



Mmmmm. Diced apples & shredded chicken and iced cold.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:24 AM (xHq83)

290 >>Evidently, lots of rats from a previous port of call. Likely in South America.

Welp, there ya go!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 05, 2026 09:24 AM (5xoct)

291 How can you not love Heather MacDonald?

The video’s most memorable feature is the visual contrast between the participants’ studied downtown chic and their professed identification with what Piker calls the “masses.” Tolentino’s makeup is flawless, accentuating her exotic feline beauty; her nails gleam with shell-pink lacquer; her carefully styled waves glow with tawny highlights; her low-cut denim tank top, jeans, and high-heeled boots signal urban sophisticate. This outfit may not be ideally suited to organizing the proletarian “sabotage and, sort of, engagement with property destruction” she evokes with wistful nostalgia. But it fits perfectly in the all-white Brooklyn loft where the interview was filmed.

Piker sports a powder-blue, long-sleeved Ralph Lauren shirt, complete with polo pony logo. His tennis shoes are by Adidas, the very embodiment of the “system of global capital” that he claims to want to overthrow, complete with allegations of labor abuses in its Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indonesian factories...

Posted by: Oglebay at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (2ap+5)

292 288
Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps - mustard and onion flavored.
Posted by: The Donald at May 05, 2026 09:21 AM (kxLc1)


Snyder's Pretzel Bites - Jalapeno.

Addictive as hell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:24 AM (+sD5M)

Both sound good...Costco had pickle-flavored potato chips. Pretty darn good when eaten with a sammich...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (ynpvh)

293 Max Miller did a deep dive on the ketchup/catsup thing on Tasting History. iirc it's derived from a Chinese (?) word for fish sauce.
Posted by: Delurker at May 05, 2026 09:23 AM (gtcuf)

Rings True ! kôechiap.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (GD0B3)

294 Cinco de Mayo! The day we sit down with fat white women and drink a Margarita in honor of when the Mexicans beat the French.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (GD2xa)

295 As long as you don't put ketchup on hot dogs, I don't care what you people put on your food.

Posted by: dantesed at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (Oy/m2)

296 >>Hantavirus kills multiple people on a cruise ship, others sickened.
---------
IMO cruise ships and airplanes are bacteria infested, moving bio-labs. Germ factories. That you pay to be inside of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (jehhT)

297
Hmm?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:23 AM (x0n13)


it's got acecomments.mu.nu attached to the front of your cutjibnewsletter.com

https://https://acecomments.mu.nu/ cutjibnewsletter.com

Is how it looks (without the space).

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (+sD5M)

298 289 I don't ever recall having a chicken salad sandwich.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone



Mmmmm. Diced apples & shredded chicken and iced cold.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:24 AM (xHq83)

My chicken salad has no apples...celery, but no apples...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:26 AM (ynpvh)

299 damn....not 2 https

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:26 AM (+sD5M)

300 Testing 123!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:26 AM (x0n13)

301 IMO cruise ships and airplanes are bacteria infested, moving bio-labs. Germ factories. That you pay to be inside of.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Hospitals too!!

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)

302 Both sound good...Costco had pickle-flavored potato chips. Pretty darn good when eaten with a sammich...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (ynpvh)


There's a puffed cheese ball spicy pickle thing out there.......It's......Odd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (+sD5M)

303 My chicken salad has no apples...celery, but no apples...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:26 AM (ynpvh)

Celery and green onions...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (FtULh)

304 *except for the moving part

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)

305 Heaven:

Grilled bratwurst 🌭 with mustard & sauerkraut on a bun, hot German pretzel and an ice cold Falstaff beer.

Can get everything but the Falstaff. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (xHq83)

306 Interesting population control effort in Chicago. Allow crime to go insane driving the pharmacies out of the city. The local cannot get their meds and die. Racist!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (gu0hJ)

307 296 >>Hantavirus kills multiple people on a cruise ship, others sickened.
---------
IMO cruise ships and airplanes are bacteria infested, moving bio-labs. Germ factories. That you pay to be inside of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (jehhT)

And the cruise rooms probably would, as said by Starlord in "Guardians of the Galaxy", look like a Jackson Pollock painting under black light...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (ynpvh)

308 Testing 123!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:26 AM (x0n13)


Link still broke.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (+sD5M)

309 296 >>Hantavirus kills multiple people on a cruise ship, others sickened.
---------
IMO cruise ships and airplanes are bacteria infested, moving bio-labs. Germ factories. That you pay to be inside of.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 05, 2026 09:25 AM (jehhT)

BUT THE WOMEN!!!

I've never been on a cruise ship. Is it like a nude beach where imagination tops reality?

Posted by: Stateless at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (Sco7b)

310 So it's a food thread?

Posted by: Just got here at May 05, 2026 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)

311 303 My chicken salad has no apples...celery, but no apples...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:26 AM (ynpvh)

Celery and green onions...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (FtULh)

Yes!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:28 AM (ynpvh)

312
Can get everything but the Falstaff. 😢
Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:27 AM (xHq83)


Holy crap. Falstaff.....Haven't heard that beer name in a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:28 AM (+sD5M)

313 So...rumors Elon Musk may try to buy what's left of Spirit Airlines:

https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2051274497894826276

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 05, 2026 09:28 AM (OUMaO)

314 Holy crap. Falstaff.....Haven't heard that beer name in a while.
Posted by: Sponge


I grew up in St. Louis. It was everywhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 05, 2026 09:29 AM (xHq83)

315 313 So...rumors Elon Musk may try to buy what's left of Spirit Airlines:

https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2051274497894826276

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 05, 2026 09:28 AM (OUMaO)

Why? Did Spirit Airlines give up the ghost?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:29 AM (ynpvh)

316 Hmm. worked fine until now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (x0n13)

317 So...rumors Elon Musk may try to buy what's left of Spirit Airlines:

https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2051274497894826276

==

I approve! Musk will totally revolutionize the industry. It need a little imagination. I am tired of having to pay increased fees for constant degradation of services !

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (GD0B3)

318 315 313 So...rumors Elon Musk may try to buy what's left of Spirit Airlines:

https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2051274497894826276

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 05, 2026 09:28 AM (OUMaO)

Why? Did Spirit Airlines give up the ghost?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

And may go from an ex-airline to an X-Airline...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (OUMaO)

319 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (+sD5M)

320 Hmm. worked fine until now.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 05, 2026 09:30 AM (x0n13)


It's fixed now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (+sD5M)

321 >>So...rumors Elon Musk may try to buy what's left of Spirit Airlines:


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THIS WOULD DRIVE LEFTIES LIKE ELIZABETH WARREN, WHO ENGINEERED ITS DEMISE AND HAAATE ELON, CRAZY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (5xoct)

322 Musk knows about flying stuff, that's for sure.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (GD0B3)

323 >>And may go from an ex-airline to an X-Airline...


DAMN, MISSED THAT ONE!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 05, 2026 09:32 AM (5xoct)

324 322 Musk knows about flying stuff, that's for sure.

Posted by: runner at May 05, 2026 09:31 AM (GD0B3)

And making babies...lots of babies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (ynpvh)

325 Of all the news this morning one story jumped out at me, actress Cameron Diaz 53 (and husband) welcomed a newborn son. Alright, 53 years old so she gave birth herself or was this surrogate?

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (Qc7+O)

326 325 Of all the news this morning one story jumped out at me, actress Cameron Diaz 53 (and husband) welcomed a newborn son. Alright, 53 years old so she gave birth herself or was this surrogate?

Posted by: JROD at May 05, 2026 09:33 AM (Qc7+O)

Coulda been implanted in her too...like that grandmother who gave birth to her grandson...

On my Mom's side, she had a aunt that was over 50 when she gave birth to a kid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 05, 2026 09:35 AM (ynpvh)

327 Joe Kidd

The only way voter fraud stops is if the GOPe use it to win elections.

Vote like a Democrat; early and often.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 05, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

Sure. Listen to the howling now that we're taking the lead on redistricting. For now, I imagine my ballot will be filled out by a designated postal resource and placed in a special container that will be secured in the trunk of a large automobile, to be driven to a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and it may ask itself:

"Well, how did I get here?"

Posted by: Same as it ever was at May 05, 2026 09:36 AM (nbLIj)

328 This world is toast. Redemption is coming tho.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 05, 2026 09:41 AM (Bgs9Z)

329 There is one thing we can agree on, The Brady Bunch had the most accurate Parents to Children casting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 10:13 AM (XV/Pl)

330 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, 'Philadelphia Museum Marks America’s 250th By Dwelling on Its Faults'

Pope Leo XIV will be awarded the 38th annual Liberty Medal in Philadelphia on July 3, 2026, during the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The National Constitution Center will honor him for promoting religious liberty, freedom of conscience, and human dignity, with the Pope accepting via a virtual broadcast from Rome. The award is part of the 2026 Wawa Welcome America festivities.

This could be the worst celebration of Independence Day in the Philadelphia area ever, and it seems so in-your-face including the following, especially given the Roman Catholic Church's 'treatment' in the region:

Within just one collar county of the city, some examples:
Delco officials began eminent domain proceedings in 2021 to acquire roughly 213 acres of land in Marple Township from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia & an alleged developer to create the county's largest park. The site, the former Don Guanella Village, was targeted for preservation, preventing its development. The county tendered only $21 million as "estimated just compensation." Absurd and still open.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (NFX2v)

331 Little Flower Manor (Darby & Upper Darby), originally owned by the Sisters of the Divine Redeemer, this 37.5-acre property served as an orphanage and nursing home until its closure. Delaware County purchased the site for $1.7 million in 2016 to prevent commercial development and create a public park.

Sisters of St. Francis Property (Aston Township) transaction involved land formerly owned by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, located near Neumann University. Aston Township purchased 46 acres from the religious order for approximately $1.9 million and intends it to become a passive-use township park featuring hiking trails through meadows and woodlands.

2025, Brookhaven closed the purchase of the former Our Lady of Charity school property located on Upland Road. The 7.4-acre parcel was appraised at $1.55 million.

In September 2019, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia sold the historic Archbishop Prendergast High School building and 8.5 acres in Drexel Hill to Delaware County Community College (DCCC) for $3 million. The new campus is designed as a $66.5 million project aimed at providing education, workforce training, and community resources.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (NFX2v)

332 (Note, the new community college campus also sits on the border of Philly while the entire county community college system is now supported by far fewer school districts than the original 21 county signers/supporters decades ago.)

AI - These actions reflect a trend of the cash-strapped Archdiocese selling land, while local government seeks to convert large, open Catholic tracts into public, green space.

And it is shocking to see the Roman Catholic Church so cash strapped in PA - it HAS done a lot of good - now joining many of the historic, mainline protestant denominations rapidly fading away.

And in county, rather than Greening, the true goals seem to be for Democratic county council - and pals - to control large land buffers that also keep certain schools at desirable educational levels, local taxes manageable, and any residential building appropriate for the surrounding towns.

After all, it's quite the deal as ALL the county is taxed to pay for county parks & security even when they're just sitting with little to no park development.

Democrats 🤬 but they give away diapers, tampons, Narcan & lots of $ to hinkey non-profits.
--
Good day! 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 10:29 AM (NFX2v)

333 The attempted assassin’s lawyer tried to cancel this hearing because the issue was solved but the judge REFUSED to cancel it because he wanted to put this performative show on where he apologized to a guy who tried to kill the President last week. That’s how crazy Democrats are.

Posted by: SMOD at May 05, 2026 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

334 Bruce Springsteen’s Philadelphia concert ('Land of Hope and Dreams' - for BFF Obama - and 'No Kings' - for the Indivisibles and Occupies) on May 8, 2026, at the Xfinity Mobile Arena is rescheduled to Saturday, May 30, 2026, due to NBA/NHL playoff conflicts.

👏

Will take a small win but would like to see the entire tour cancelled.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

335 The world should be sanctioning the US at this point.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 05, 2026 08:23 AM

They must ban imports of US petroleum and exports of products as well.

It's the only moral thing to do.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 11:15 AM (4NO2D)

336 I'm going to be politically incorrect here (surprise!).
If the guy who got shot yesterday was white, it was probably a half-assed assassination event. If he was black, he was probably just a bog-standard local criminal who didn't have his piece well concealed.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 12:51 PM (TNGIV)

Daily Tech News 5 May 2026

Top Story



Tech News

  • The "audio industry" is grappling with the rise of podslop. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

    Where by audio industry they mean, basically, Spotify.

    The problem is a company called Inception Point, that is spewing out 3000 podcasts a week using AI-generated voices.

    Does anyone listen to them?

    Well, the number is probably not zero. I listened to an AI-generated science fiction story that was tolerable if not particularly original. But when I was automatically forwarded to the next story on the channel it was exactly the same with a few names and details changed.

    Slop is right.


  • You could turn your classic 1966 Mustang into a Tesla. (Electrek)

    Or, alternately, you could not do that.


  • Ask.com, which was in the natural language search query business before it was cool - or indeed, worked - has closed its doors. (The Register)

    The site racked up 245 million visits over 25 years... Which is not remotely enough for a business to survive on. Which makes me wonder a little how they did.


  • Intel's TPU bet hinges on increasing yield from 90% to 98%. (WCCFTech)

    Counterpoint: No it fucking doesn't. Are you stupid or what?
    The analyst adds that not only is jumping from a 90% yield to a 98% yield significantly more difficult than achieving 90% from 0%, but also that the 90% yield is a validation figure instead of a production figure. As a result, he believes cautious optimism is the better approach when following the packaging technology.
    Getting from 0% to 90% yield is taking a process that simply doesn't work and making it into a reliable production line. Getting it to 98% is nice, but irrelevant on the broader scale.


Musical Interlude



And since the audio on that version is a little muddy:

>



Disclaimer: Fly, be free! (Splut.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:20 AM




Comments

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1 I'll let the others know.

Mornin' Pixy.

Glad you're out of the meeting heck.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

2 G'Day everyone
Seems no end to long commutes
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2026 05:23 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Mornin' Skip. May your conveyance to and from work continue to work well.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 05:25 AM (sAmhv)

5 good morning.

Who is the Nazi ?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 05, 2026 05:25 AM (qFwJc)

6 BOING!

Meeting shmeeting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 05:30 AM (N12hz)

7 Beautiful psalm of praise read by David Suchet:

Psalm 145:

https://tinyurl.com/3bkvaety

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:30 AM (2sfNr)

8 You could turn your classic 1966 Mustang into a Tesla. (Electrek)

Or, alternately, you could not do that.


No. Just no.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 05:30 AM (sAmhv)

9 @Pixy: "Or, alternately, you could not do that."

Too late. He did it. And now his classic car is a classic car body on a modernish something. It's a Frankencar. No longer a classic.

What a shame.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

10 w00t

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 05:31 AM (RtN13)

11 First there was The Mamas & The Papas, and then there was The Mamas & The Papas & A Ham Sandwich.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 05:33 AM (D1E+2)

12 Somebody made a Clippy Codex Pet:

https://codex-pets.net/#/?sort=popular

And Pepe the Frog, and Doge the dog.

There's even a Xi Jinping, who, unfortunately, is not in the shape of a Pooh.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 05:33 AM (6ydKt)

13 I want to find this dude and buy up his leftover parts so I can put a tesla body on a 66' mustang chassis.

That ought to help keep people from trying to interact with me, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 05, 2026 05:34 AM (Ot/FD)

14 from the ONT:

156 I got the 2026 Canadian Census form last night. First I verified it wasn't a scam, because so much is. Then I started the online process of filling it out.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:20 AM (O7YUW)

How did you verify that it wasn't a scam? (You might have said this earlier; if so, I missed that.)

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 05:35 AM (RtN13)

15
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 05, 2026 05:36 AM (GFMEh)

16 Morning friends

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 05, 2026 05:37 AM (hybOl)

17 >>>Counterpoint: No it fucking doesn't. Are you stupid or what?

Language!

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 05:37 AM (RtN13)

18 Dear "Not so Grumpy and Recalcitrant"

I saw a post of yours yesterday about your disappointment and/or with Pope Leo for appointing the guy to be Bishop in WV who is an illegal alien and that you had decided not to go back to the RCC

Please, brother, Reconsider that.Popes come and go but the Lord stands forever. Here is a bit that Former Pope Benedict wrote about St. Catherine of Sienna and her life of faith

And we can all let our hearts be transformed and learn to love like Christ in a familiarity with him that is nourished by prayer, by meditation on the Word of God and by the sacraments, above all by receiving Holy Communion frequently and with devotion

I think if you felt a yearning to go back to church that comes from God.

If is not a requirement to be a RC that with political announcements of the Pope. Hadrian woukd tell you the same thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:38 AM (2sfNr)

19 18- meant disappointment and anger

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:39 AM (2sfNr)

20 You could turn your classic 1966 Mustang into a Tesla.

This happened because we stopped burning heretics at the stake.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 05:45 AM (BpO1e)

21 @FenelonSpoke: I did not post about going back (or not going back) to the RCC. You've got the wrong person, my dear.

Might have been a similar sounding name perhaps?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

22 21 @FenelonSpoke: I did not post about going back (or not going back) to the RCC

That might have been me. I've been getting more and more annoyed with various churches and to have the Pope condemn us for having borders when he lives behind walls is hypocrisy .

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 05:49 AM (BpO1e)

23 Oh, sorry G & C

I hope whoever that was reads this -and I don't tink there is another handle quite that handle of yours 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:49 AM (2sfNr)

24 Our Lady at Garabandal predicted two anti-popes in succession. The one after them will be saintly.

You don't have to believe in private revelations. But you don't need to be a seer to see that Francis and Leo are heretics, apostates, and anti-popes.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 05, 2026 05:50 AM (qFwJc)

25 Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 05:49 AM (BpO1e

Of sorry. I was having a senior moment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:50 AM (2sfNr)

26 @14/m: "How did you verify that it wasn't a scam?"

Went to Statistics Canada's site to verify that yes indeed a Census was on and it was in fact yesterday that they launched it.

(And yes, they have the power to ensure that the forms, overall, hit mailboxes on the start day.)

Physical form's URL matched the base URL of Statistics Canada's web site.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

27 Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 05:49

It's quite understandable to be annoyed at the Pope, but he's unlikely to visit your local church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:52 AM (2sfNr)

28 Unanswered questions, unshakeable faith. Nice op ed from "Christian Post:

https://tinyurl.com/mv5ukram

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:55 AM (2sfNr)

29 FML.

It's middle of the night:51, and someone's septic alarm has been going off for the last hour. Intermittently, as if he keeps restting the alarm, instead of silencing it and running the pump in hand.

At least my life is better than that guy's.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 05:55 AM (dK+Kv)

30 Duo sings old time hymn, "Great is thy faithfulness ":

https://tinyurl.com/4xvk8rtw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:57 AM (2sfNr)

31 You don't have to believe in private revelations. But you don't need to be a seer to see that Francis and Leo are heretics, apostates, and anti-popes.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

I'm not RC, but it seems the cardinals missed a golden opportunity to elevate I think his name is Sarah. African and from what I read a very good catholic. How cool would that have been?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 05, 2026 05:57 AM (l26NL)

32 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 05, 2026 05:59 AM (VyBeY)

33 “ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Matthew 6:33

Posted by: Marcus T at May 05, 2026 05:59 AM (EJWxb)

34 Reposted from ONT.

Such a nice interview with the policeman who stopped a young man from jumping off a bridge in Jacksonville, FL:

https://tinyurl.com/3zc3cvb3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 06:00 AM (2sfNr)

35 Thank the maker. He seems to have figured it out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 06:02 AM (dK+Kv)

36 Would the church have multiple corrupt popes if the church itself was not corrupt? The point of joining a church is to find spiritual guidance, I think. So, if the church is fallen, how can it lead to salvation? There are Christian alternatives to the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 05, 2026 06:04 AM (EcHpA)

37 There's a teenage Kurt Russell in a 1967 episode of Daniel Boone on the background noise TV at the moment.

Must've been a few years before he played in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 06:06 AM (6ydKt)

38 It's quite understandable to be annoyed at the Pope, but he's unlikely to visit your local church.

True. But the policies of the local church would likely reflect his pronouncements.

Fun trivia about me. Back in 198(censored), I was at a Catholic School in Montana. Monsignor Joseph Gluszek lived in the rectory. He was a friend of Pope John Paul II since seminary school. Nice guy too. Really patient with us young pups.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 06:08 AM (BpO1e)

39 @Pixy:

From the ONT, my comment # 153 there:

@143/Pixy: "Trapped in meeting heck."

Blink twice if Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light is in the room with you.

(I hope you get that reference)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

40 G&R, the other night you mentioned thinking about dual booting, because Windows still had you for games.

I'd recommended putting Win 11 on a VM on a Linux host and give gaming on Steam/Proton a try. Except for games requiring kernel-level anticheats, such as FPS games, the results are shockingly good.

Plus you get the benefits of Windows in a VM, rather than dual boot, such as snapshots that can easily and quickly remedy a borked Windows update, Windows not working your bootloader, etc.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 06:10 AM (dK+Kv)

41 Mustang story takes me back to the one I had, '66 baby blue. Only a four cylinder. I bought it used. Installed an eight track tape player, hidden in the center console. Fun for a while.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 05, 2026 06:11 AM (3y5S4)

42 I think the Vatican went hard left when it lost most Europeans to secular atheism and their most die-hard faithful congregations were located in Latin America.

So they got rid of Benedict and went full Marxist Liberation Theology with Francis to satisfy the Latinos.

American Catholics are only considered as a reliable income stream but also have very little growth potential.

Now they have Leo to balance out Trump, but still have a bit of a Marixst running the show.

I'd expect another Latin/Asian (a Filipino would be perfect), or African pope next as that's where their largest growth potential is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 06:13 AM (6ydKt)

43 Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 06:08 AM (BpO1e

I don't think so. I think priests vary in their political views while still believing in the doctrine and the efficacy of the Sacraments. I've sat in various RC churches ( and no, dear RC morons and ettes, I don't take the Eucharist) and no priest said anything that veered off from the Scriptures of the day and I doubt they would be doing a "campaign appearance" for Pope Leo. As one guy said yesterday " I don't give money to the Bishops appeal" or whatever it is called .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 06:13 AM (Yl2Ob)

44 There's a teenage Kurt Russell in a 1967 episode of Daniel Boone on the background noise TV at the moment.

Must've been a few years before he played in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
****
I was watching some old Lost in Space episodes last December and teenage Kurt Russell popped-up in one of those. That guy has had a heckuva career.

Posted by: Biergood at May 05, 2026 06:14 AM (PwgSL)

45 @40/Comrade Flounder: Windows in a VM only is a good end-goal, I'll definitely consider it. For now though, dual boot so I can maintain (without modification) any game I CAN'T get working on the Linux side through Proton.

Also I have a laptop with Windows 11 and Linux Mint 22.3 (dual boot) that I do a FULL drive backup of using CloneZilla before I load Windows every year to do the taxes. As part of that I start with a Windows Update, and if it borks things, I'd just restore the entire drive and start doing research.

Once the update is done and I prove I can still dual boot to Linux, THEN I start the taxes.

Excellent idea for tax purposes though. That software should run on Windows in a VM without issue. Thank you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

46 John Carpenter loved working with Kurt Russell.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 06:15 AM (O7YUW)

47 Evening and morning, all! I see we had a "substitute" ONT after all.

Mustang story takes me back to the one I had, '66 baby blue. Only a four cylinder. I bought it used. Installed an eight track tape player, hidden in the center console. Fun for a while.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 05, 2026

Ford offered a four in the Mustang? I thought there were only the sixes and V-8s. Was yours a manual?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

48 I just rewatched The Thing with the little. Gotta rewatch Escape From NY.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 06:17 AM (dK+Kv)

49 And intermittent septic alarm is back.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 06:17 AM (dK+Kv)

50 I was watching some old Lost in Space episodes last December and teenage Kurt Russell popped-up in one of those. That guy has had a heckuva career.
Posted by: Biergood

If you remember the famous Phoenix Lights UFO sighting, the first person to alert authorities to it was Kurt Russell. He's evidently a private pilot and was flying his son to college (or back maybe).

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 05, 2026 06:18 AM (l26NL)

51 Good morning horde. Interesting youtube travels so far this A.M.

It all started with the Mommas and Poppas video Pixy posted. Somehow, I made may way through several different bands and now the Allman Brothers got served up, and I am listening to Live at Fillmore East. Not a bad start to the day, since coffee is also included.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 05, 2026 06:18 AM (Yk3/2)

52
Well! What happened last night? I do declare, this place has gone plumb to the devil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 06:19 AM (HdYcL)

53 Going to take a walk, now, dear fellow posters and look at some lovely flowers and hear some birds.

Have a great day, everyone. You are valued by more people than you may realize.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 06:20 AM (Yl2Ob)

54 There's a teenage Kurt Russell in a 1967 episode of Daniel Boone on the background noise TV at the moment.

Must've been a few years before he played in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
****
I was watching some old Lost in Space episodes last December and teenage Kurt Russell popped-up in one of those. That guy has had a heckuva career.
Posted by: Biergood at May 05, 2026

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Kurt, age twelve or so, was in the very first Man From U.N.C.L.E. I ever watched, as the "innocent" (non-spy) character in 1964's "The Finny Foot Affair" -- a very good script, too. It may be on YooToob and is worth your time. Prior to that he'd been Dan O'Herlihy's co-star in the Western The Travels of Jamie McPheeters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

55 @53/FenelonSpoke: Enjoy your walk!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

56 Excellent idea for tax purposes though. That software should run on Windows in a VM without issue. Thank you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

Most things work that way, except games, unless you can get GPU passthroughto VM working, but that requires pretty new hardware, and it is more than I am wanting to spend.

The only downside is memory overhead of the host. I used to clonezilla, a lot, because Microsft. And, frankly, Windows in a VM feels like the first breath of fresh air after prison. I haven't touched clonezilla since, simply backing up my user data.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 06:24 AM (dK+Kv)

57
You are valued by more people than you may realize.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 06:20 AM (Yl2Ob)

Thanks. I know Her Majesty would never be able to get anything off the top shelf if it wasn't for me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 06:24 AM (HdYcL)

58 I have backed up my VMs, too, from time to time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 06:26 AM (dK+Kv)

59 I was watching some old Lost in Space episodes last December and teenage Kurt Russell popped-up in one of those. That guy has had a heckuva career.

Posted by: Biergood at May 05, 2026 06:14 AM (PwgSL)

He's still working, too.
Currently working on the Monarch show on Apple TV. with his son Wyatt playing the character's younger self, about an agency that fights huge monsters; Godzilla, King Kong, etc.

He and Michelle Pfeiffer are also in The Madison on Paramount+ which is another Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone spin-off.

Kurt was MIA for about a decade or so, but apparently his family needs some cash because I've been seeing Goldie Hawn pop up in articles lately like she's looking for work, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

60 If you were going to update a '66 Mustang (to me, the best-looking year of the first gen), give it modern power brakes, starter, battery, ignition system, suspension components, and tires -- if you can find whitewalls! -- all the things that either don't show or don't look radically different from the originals, while updating the car's safety and reliability. It might be possible to boost the engine's power and update the transmission too.

No, it won't be "all-original." But to me a car is to be used and driven, and those things would make it far more enjoyable to drive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

61 I seem to recall Kurt took a break from Hollywood after his Disney movies, and played minor-league baseball (?) for a time. His real comeback was in the very late '70s when he played Elvis, a couple of years after the latter's demise, in a TV-movie and garnered positive reviews. He did have the right Elvis look about his face for sure.

His fireball phase began with Escape and The Thing, I thought.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

62 I remember the Phoenix lights incident, had friends who saw it (half the city did). Bizarre not just for the lights themselves, but because the military spent a month or two saying they had no operations there and had no idea what they were, then suddenly pivoted and said “oh yeah that was a helicopter exercise of ours.”

If it was just a helicopter exercise, why deny it for two months? On the other hand, if it wasn’t, why suddenly say that it was? Neither explanation makes any sense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 05, 2026 06:33 AM (XcvNy)

63 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at May 05, 2026 06:34 AM (V0/Sp)

64
Because, there was no ONT last night!!! I missed out on a belated 29th anniversary (May 3, 1997) of one of the great set-tos in NHL history, covered by one of the great announcers for set-tos.

"And here comes Shields! Shields says, 'No you don't. I want a little piece of this action.' And Shields wants Snow!"

https://youtu.be/Nm6L5tCoLyo?si=wB-IeqKiORPYg3IS

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 06:34 AM (HdYcL)

65 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 05, 2026 06:35 AM (2Ez/1)

66 "If you were going to update a '66 Mustang"

Just don't change the headlights to those ugly ass rectangular ones.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at May 05, 2026 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

67 How did Kurt and Goldie meet? Did they work together in something, or were they just in the same circles in Hollywood? He's a few years younger than she is, I believe. When she first made a splash on Laugh-In as a young adult, he'd have still been about sixteen or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

68 Okay: That Elvis TV-movie that kicked off Kurt's return to films was directed by John Carpenter. He met Goldie when they worked on a 1968 film (he was seventeen), and then met her again when they did Swing Shift in 1984.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

69 Russell was in a couple of pretty decent Fugitive episodes as well; in one of 'em (Nemesis, 3d season I think) he played Lt Gerard's son.

He also did a TV movie based on the Charles Whitman-Texas Tower shootings, and played Whitman. Scary in that one as I recall.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 05, 2026 06:42 AM (q3u5l)

70 "If you were going to update a '66 Mustang"

Just don't change the headlights to those ugly ass rectangular ones.

mornin yall
Posted by: fd at May 05, 2026

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No, don't change any of the iconic exterior bits, just the safety and reliability ones. Maybe soup it up a little under the hood and make sure the transmission can handle it. If it were possible to have brighter headlights, to put brighter E-code bulbs into the housings while keeping the same look, that would add to the value as a *car.*

Of course, one of the great things about headlights back then were the simple sealed beam units. You bought a pair at K-Mart and installed them yourself; done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

71 He also did a TV movie based on the Charles Whitman-Texas Tower shootings, and played Whitman. Scary in that one as I recall.
Posted by: Just Some Guy

He was in a recent Western called Bone Tomahawk that is unsettling. He filmed it about the same time as the Hateful Eight, so he looks similar (same beard anyway). Not for the squeamish.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 05, 2026 06:46 AM (l26NL)

72 Didn't Kurt play a monkey boy on Gilligan's Island?

Posted by: fd at May 05, 2026 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

73 I always wanted an original Lincoln Continental, the '61-'66 generation. The gas mileage on that heavy V-8 beast would be horrendous in our day, though. Or a '64-'66 T-Bird, likewise, though I expect it was not quite as heavy a vehicle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9)

74
I always wanted an original Lincoln Continental, the '61-'66 generation.

Unfortunately, SSX-100 is now at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

https://tinyurl.com/9fcjhtm3

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026 06:57 AM (HdYcL)

75 67 How did Kurt and Goldie meet? Did they work together in something, or were they just in the same circles in Hollywood? He's a few years younger than she is, I believe. When she first made a splash on Laugh-In as a young adult, he'd have still been about sixteen or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

I believe, but wouldn't bet the farm on it, that Kurt and Goldie got together after they did the original Overboard movie in the mid-80s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

76 Ahh, yes, I'd forgotten about Swing Shift
So yeah, they coupled up (don't think they ever got married officially) in the 80s.

Then they moved out to Idaho, or something, to get away from L.A. after they started having kids.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 06:59 AM (6ydKt)

77 The Sixties cars were designed to run on leaded gas, though. I understand there is an improvement -- "hardened" valve seats? -- that makes it possible for them to run on unleaded. The V-8s would require premium, I'm sure. Maybe a Mustang with the six could run on regular or on 89 octane.

I always regret that I never had a chance to put premium ethanol-free gas in the 2015 BMW 3 Series. It got great mileage, ca. 27 city and highway mixed, on the E10 premium. I can only imagine that E0 would have yielded close to 30 mpg in everyday driivng.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

78 I want to get a new laptop. Need it for doing jobs with an architecture app I use and to produce the photorealistic camera views a fast card like an RTX4070 is desirable. I now run an older MSI with an RTX3070.

It's amazing the premium you need to pay to go just one notch up at or near the top end, such as going from a 5060 to a 5070.

Posted by: M. Gaga at May 05, 2026 06:59 AM (KiBMU)

79 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

80 Good morning everyone. Maybe some rain tomorrow and Thursday. Probably just jinxed it, I hope not. Have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 05, 2026 07:01 AM (DW+p+)

81 https://tinyurl.com/9fcjhtm3
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 05, 2026

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I once got to sit in a used Continental limo. Dark green, with black leather everywhere inside except the rear-facing jump seats, which were light tan. An impressive vehicle. I've only ever seen it on TV or in a movie in the pilot for Get Smart. Probably not that many were made; a standard Lincoln C. was a pretty darn roomy car all by itself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)

82 Kurt must've been one of the very rare child actors that didn't lose his mind and went bad living in L.A. rich & famous.

I think he said he moved away after having kids because he didn't want his children growing up in that environment because he knew what happened to wealthy kids there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

83 Oops! Time to feed he furry thugs on their new schedule. Last night I forgot to feed them for forty-five minutes, and little Dagny was jumping up near me and bumping me with her head -- an uncharacteristic behavior for that generally aloof little cat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

84 That damn dyke at Advance Auto parts pissed me off for the last time yesterday. From now on I will be going to a different store that's only a couple of miles further away. I could live with the tats and piercings but her SFA (shitty fucking attitude) I cannot.

Posted by: fd at May 05, 2026 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

85 It's amazing the premium you need to pay to go just one notch up at or near the top end, such as going from a 5060 to a 5070.

Posted by: M. Gaga at May 05, 2026 06:59 AM (KiBMU)

Nvidia is putting out new versions of the 5070 laptop chip soon.
Going from 8GB to 12GB VRAM.
They had complaints because both the 5060 & 5070 had 8GB and there wasn't much of a difference between the two because of it.

If you can still find an older laptop with a 4080 in it you'd save some cash that way, but I don't know if any are still for sale new.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

86
Stupid local news for Huntsville, AL is racisty rasiss racist. Just had a report that high supplier costs of chicken, beef, rice, and flour are driving up costs for Mexican restaurants.

Completely ignoring the fact that ALL restaurants use those same ingrediants. Dumb dumbs.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 05, 2026 07:07 AM (QVmho)

87 Today I have to install the new toilet seat I bought at Lowe's. I'd originally bought a round model. I'd forgotten that the apartment mismanagement had installed an entirely new commode since I last changed the seat -- and the new one has the elongated bowl style, so I needed to get a 18" one. With any luck I've got it right this time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

88 Speaking of laptops, my mom had to send hers in for repair. Given that she is not very tech savvy, I'm preparing to invest in a new laptop for her and paying the tech dude to get it up and running with what she needs.

There have been times she grumbles about being stupid on things like this. I pointed out that I could call her at three in the morning, give her a hypothetical about a patient's symptoms and she'd know what was wrong before she completely woke up. Whereas for me, I know "Apply pressure, grab a band aid or give them water."

Posted by: NR Pax at May 05, 2026 07:11 AM (BpO1e)

89 That damn dyke at Advance Auto parts pissed me off for the last time yesterday. From now on I will be going to a different store that's only a couple of miles further away. I could live with the tats and piercings but her SFA (shitty fucking attitude) I cannot.
Posted by: fd at May 05, 2026

***
I gave up on them after the officious SS Obersturmbannfuhrer, aka "manager," at the nearby AAP harassed me roughly about not wearing a face diaper in 2022 -- while not even wearing one himself. I complained to higher management about his rudeness and got him and his employees in trouble. Heh, heh, heh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:12 AM (wzUl9)

90 Voted for Steve Hilton yesterday in my quadrennial exercise in futility.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

91 Morning Horde thx Pixy.
The interesting Kurt Russell story was him befriending Charles Bronson by giving him a gift . Bronson became a mentor and protector of the young Russell. Probably had a significant impact on how Russell turned out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026 07:13 AM (gu0hJ)

92 The interesting Kurt Russell story was him befriending Charles Bronson by giving him a gift . Bronson became a mentor and protector of the young Russell. Probably had a significant impact on how Russell turned out.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 05, 2026

***
That might have been when they did the Jamie McPheeters show. There is a movie version of a two-parter from the show that has aired on Grit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

93

I always regret that I never had a chance to put premium ethanol-free gas in the 2015 BMW 3 Series. It got great mileage, ca. 27 city and highway mixed, on the E10 premium. I can only imagine that E0 would have yielded close to 30 mpg in everyday driivng.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The modern 2015 - 2023ish Chargers and Challengers run great on premium ethanol free fuel. My 2016 Charger would scream while averag___ 23mpg in the city and ~30 on the highway @75. Big 5.7 liter (it's a damned 350 Dodge, get with the freedom units) with variable valve timing and multi-displacment. I miss that car, lots of fun to force it to get 2mpg.

The Multistrada only runs the premium ethanol free. It will kill the rear (vertical) two cylinders at stop lights, to reduce heat. When I get on the throttle, a baffle opens in the exhaust deleting the muffler. Whoa baby. Sounds like a dream forcing it to get 20mpg.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 05, 2026 07:15 AM (QVmho)

94 I thought about speaking to the manager about that woman behind the parts counter but then I figured everyone that worked there already knew she's an asshole.

Posted by: fd at May 05, 2026 07:15 AM (vFG9F)

95 Time I changed and had some breakfast. Later, shower and shave, the toilet seat business, and a trip to the library and the cleaners. Also I need to touch up some paint chips on the Buick and polish its front bumper and the mirror housings, which have collected some filth from my Kansas road trip.

How *did* I ever get all my errands and chores done when I was working??? (Answer: They filled up my Saturdays and Sundays, that's how.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

96 How *did* I ever get all my errands and chores done when I was working??? (Answer: They filled up my Saturdays and Sundays, that's how.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)
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One of the perks of working from home is that I can work in little chores here and there during a "break time."

It's kind of nice.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 05, 2026 07:20 AM (gnNyN)

97 My oldest friend called me while I was in Kansas, saying he plans to be in town this week to visit his 94-year-old mother. If he and his wife visit Casa Wolfus, I want the place to look shipshape. Time to vacuum and dust a few surfaces.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

98 ne of the perks of working from home is that I can work in little chores here and there during a "break time."

It's kind of nice.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 05, 2026

***
Same here. During the Sniffle Scare, I managed an afternoon nap nearly every day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 05, 2026 07:21 AM (wzUl9)

99 Girl F.'s FiL is in town so I will take him to breakfast in Nopa. If I am lucky that means mandarin orange pudding.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:21 AM (RIvkX)

100 Excellent idea for tax purposes though. That software should run on Windows in a VM without issue. Thank you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

Make sure to drop a review with the manager or corporate.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 07:21 AM (dK+Kv)

101 CP fail. That was to the AAP dyke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 07:22 AM (dK+Kv)

102 I see reports everyone seems to expect resumption of major operations in Iran in the next 24 hours.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 05, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

103 Noodlum

Posted by: Noodist at May 05, 2026 07:27 AM (2Ez/1)

104 Experts?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 05, 2026 07:27 AM (dK+Kv)

105 26 @14/m: "How did you verify that it wasn't a scam?"

Went to Statistics Canada's site to verify that yes indeed a Census was on and it was in fact yesterday that they launched it.

(And yes, they have the power to ensure that the forms, overall, hit mailboxes on the start day.)

Physical form's URL matched the base URL of Statistics Canada's web site.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

Got it!

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 08:30 AM (RtN13)

Monday Night Substitute ONT

Uh-oh. Just noticed.

Been mesmerized by some random misinformation sites. So strange. Seems to be spreading. Another shooting near the White House . . .

But let's not get upset and do foolish things under the influence:

bought elephant.jpg


Because we have some villains to deal with. How does this guy survive in politics?

adam schiff bigger hoax.png


- - - - - -

Heard about the new cars that won't drive if they can't read your eye characteristics?

Pleasant memories via Donald Sensing:

Donald sensing appliances.jpg

Happy rest of the night.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:06 AM




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Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 01:06 AM (XV/Pl)

2 Second

Posted by: Methos at May 05, 2026 01:06 AM (vSvIl)

3 Haha take that Blade!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 01:06 AM (XV/Pl)

4 Instead of denying that he's a Nazi, why didn't he claim that totenkopf tattoo was from a motorcycle gang?

If K.T. was hoping to be the first to put up a zero comment post, I just wrecked it.

Goodnight.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 05, 2026 01:07 AM (bufu1)

5 G-d bless you, KT.

Posted by: gdgm+ at May 05, 2026 01:07 AM (C5GSe)

6 It's never a good or healthy thing
To trip and to stumble and fall
Be careful when out in the wilderness
And when you just walk down the hall.
-Karma Shave

Posted by: mindful webworker - cute at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (k0Y0k)

7 The random people near the WH or in FL with guns sure seem stupid. Suicide by cop much?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (WONhk)

8 It's not just that appliances are shit now, they're expensive and shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (XV/Pl)

9 Yo, all.
Got a nibble on a job application this afternoon, here's hoping that it or something else comes through soon. There's a world of difference between 'can't afford to keep the house' vs 'selling to move to a new job'.

Posted by: RandomDave at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (aJQbY)

10 Yay! Thanks, KT!

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:09 AM (rdVOm)

11
RandomDave,

I wish for you good luck.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:10 AM (3ek7K)

12 @9

>>Got a nibble on a job application this afternoon, here's hoping that it or something else comes through soon.

Good luck, wife's friend has been out of work for 6 months with nary a nibble.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 01:10 AM (XV/Pl)

13 Today, my second-oldest cat forgave me for releasing the mom and four kittens (after neutering) from the garage and showed herself at feeding time. A relief.

Treats all around.

Posted by: KT at May 05, 2026 01:11 AM (7vIsy)

14 Already said my g'nite on the cafe thread. Not gonna repeat it here. G'nite ^3

Posted by: mindful webworker - acute at May 05, 2026 01:11 AM (k0Y0k)

15 I'll buy the drinks for these Morons, too, JQ. Just keep.the spicy Margaritas for me, por favor.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:12 AM (U94Dl)

16 Well, not going to make800 on the cafe tonight. Too bad.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 01:13 AM (TNGIV)

17 Thanks KT, I just had to run downstairs and grab my spicy margarita.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 01:13 AM (0nHVk)

18 Odd time to be willowed.....

But. I'll leave it to the Wyomans. Wyomingans?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Wyomingites, believe it or not.

Wyomans would be betterer, though. They should change it.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:15 AM (VHUov)

19 What does K.T. stand for?

Some likely possibilities:

Kangaroo Terrorist

Killer Toad

Kamikaze Tuna

Kleptomaniac Toes

Kryptonian Toddler

Posted by: Ask the Important Questions at May 05, 2026 01:16 AM (ERSvt)

20 Howdy all. I liked Jesse's comment about Pocahontas...she has no "reservations" about killing the merger that led to Spirit's demise.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at May 05, 2026 01:16 AM (55Qr6)

21 It's not just that appliances are shit now, they're expensive and shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (XV/Pl)

We have a 16 year old Samsung dryer acting out. Hubby is buying parts. I bought a drying rack from Walmart .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:16 AM (U94Dl)

22 Woohoo, BScaryMary!

Thinking about visiting Japan, right? What time of year will you likely go?

I went with XH for his tour of duty there. Only wish we'd had more time to prepare! I mean, he was fresh out of training school and we only found out where he was going next, a couple of WEEKS in advance. I'd like to have been able to study/gain some basic language skills beforehand. Sheesh.

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

23 Once he gets that Raspberry Pi and AI interface wired into the elephant's brain, we'll really have some fun. Everybody loves a smartass elephant.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:19 AM (rzCjW)

24 Ask the Important Questions at May 05, 2026 01:16 AM

You are closer than you think with the first one. Except for the terrorist part.

Posted by: KT at May 05, 2026 01:20 AM (7vIsy)

25 May 4 1070 Kent State. Revenged April 30 1975 saigon now Ho Chi Minh City. Those killed by ice in Minnesota will be revenged next! Revenge is a dish best eaten KOLD. Kleon saying.

Posted by: raimondo at May 05, 2026 01:20 AM (NK/B9)

26 Go back to bed, rainmandodo. Your mama's waiting for you.

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

27 Eveni.....

(looks at clock)

Well nuts.

youtu.be/RdjBrnV-U9M


Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 01:22 AM (sAmhv)

28 Monday Night Substitute ONT

Monday Night Substitute mystery click?

https://youtu.be/Q98uUWzrb8k

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:23 AM (VHUov)

29
JQ,

The assholes never rest.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:23 AM (3ek7K)

30 It's almost time for Bloody Marys. Poached eggs and pancakes. Brunch will be served early. Menudo, sirloin steak street tacos with tequila shooters. Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 01:24 AM (IYDXm)

31 4 Instead of denying that he's a Nazi, why didn't he claim that totenkopf tattoo was from a motorcycle gang?

If K.T. was hoping to be the first to put up a zero comment post, I just wrecked it.

Goodnight.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 05, 2026 01:07 AM (bufu1)

Yuz Guyz bettah knock it off... or I'll give ya duh fingah!

Posted by: Eric Von Zipper at May 05, 2026 01:24 AM (mP0Kj)

32 Thinking about visiting Japan, right? What time of year will you likely go?

I went with XH for his tour of duty there. Only wish we'd had more time to prepare! I mean, he was fresh out of training school and we only found out where he was going next, a couple of WEEKS in advance. I'd like to have been able to study/gain some basic language skills beforehand. Sheesh.

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

JQ, we are just thinking. Our anniversary is in May, which seems a high season for Japan. I was thinking fall. We don't mind heat or humidity. I'm thinking of when it would be less crowded. Hokkaido is most interesting to me. Hubby hasn't looked at much yet. We like hiking a lot. Nature.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:24 AM (U94Dl)

33 Thanks, K.T. 👍

Posted by: L -No nic, another fine day at May 05, 2026 01:26 AM (NFX2v)

34 We have a 16 year old Samsung dryer acting out. Hubby is buying parts. I bought a drying rack from Walmart .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:16

Last appliance guy we had out said keep the old ones as long as possible, keep fixing em. New ones are sheeet.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at May 05, 2026 01:26 AM (55Qr6)

35 Last appliance guy we had out said keep the old ones as long as possible, keep fixing em. New ones are sheeet.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at May 05, 2026 01:26 AM (55Qr6)

Yes sir. We are trying . Next time, I'm going with commercial Speed Queen.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:28 AM (U94Dl)

36 Thank you, KT. Working on a bit for the Pet Thread.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 05, 2026 01:29 AM (CHHv1)

37 >>>It's not just that appliances are shit now, they're expensive and shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

>I bought my washer and dryer from my brother after 15 years of service. They both ran great for 5 years and then died within the same week. The new ones didn't last 3 years before the electronics and sensors took a shit.

Appliance tech told me it would be cheaper to buy a new appliance.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 01:30 AM (IYDXm)

38 Except the Vietnamese just call it Saigon and they are pro free markets. If they are communist at all, it's a pose.

K.T. = Kilo Tango

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 01:30 AM (sAmhv)

39 For tonight's musicians birthdays, you get three bassists. They also do other things, but that's the common theme. You don't have to hunt for it.

First is Darryl Hunt of The Pogues, who was born on this date in 1950 and passed on August 8, 2022. He started out as the band's roadie, took over as bassist when Cait O'Riordan left in 1986, and even had sole writing credit for a track on their final album, Pogue Mahone (1996):

The Pogues - Love You 'Till the End (2006 Remaster) [Audio]
https://youtu.be/bbrMw89di2k

Mike Dirnt, who turned 54 today, is co-founder, bassist, and backing vocalist for Green Day. No deep cut here; for a showcase, Brave AI recommended their first major-label single (off their 1994 breakout third studio album Dookie), where his iconic bassline is the song's primary hook:

Green Day - Longview [Official Music Video] (4K Upgrade)
https://youtu.be/42BBdzzgPNM

It's also the 57th birthday for Chuck Folds, younger brother of Ben (of the Ben Folds Five). He played bass for a Greensboro, NC band, and here's a nice chill jazzy pop track off their second album, A Little Faster (1993):

Bus Stop - Come Back Home (Audio)
https://youtu.be/B2rve2gbMQ8

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 01:30 AM (Sy6m/)

40 Subliterate and drunk is no way to go through life.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:30 AM (rzCjW)

41 Raimondo is a retard. I hope he dies in a fire.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:31 AM (U94Dl)

42 Yay, ONT!

Now I can go to sleep.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at May 05, 2026 01:31 AM (+9wcF)

43
Our dishwasher crapped out the week before Thanksgiving.

The store we bought it from will not do installation. Insurance probably.

We live in rural Wyoming and no one will install it.

We have a dishwasher in the garage and no one will install it.

We have gone back to washing everything by hand.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:34 AM (3ek7K)

44 What does K.T. stand for?
Some likely possibilities:
Kangaroo Terrorist
Posted by: Ask the Important Questions

You are closer than you think with the first one. Except for the terrorist part.
Posted by: KT

Kangaroo..... Terrier?

Theocracy? Tranquilizer? Trampoline? Traditions? Threesome? Troubador? Telescope? Tapdance? Travelogue?

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:35 AM (VHUov)

45 We have a 16 year old Samsung dryer acting out. Hubby is buying parts. I bought a drying rack from Walmart .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

I had an LG front load washer. Thou plus. SS tub, cast aluminum spindle. In an alkaline chemical bath. Guess which part corroded? Guess who aced both electro-chemistry class and business econ, then got a job designing consumer, er, consumable, appliances? Guess which part they stopped selling 10 years later? Guess which kind the boss wanted? FML. 10 more years ro same problem.

I wish Godzilla upon their tyne Korean ballz. Fucking cocksuckers.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 05, 2026 01:36 AM (sA3Xn)

46 Next appliances I want will have "International Harvester" name plates...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 05, 2026 01:38 AM (sA3Xn)

47 @FaytuksNetwork - 5h

The Iranian attack on the UAE, Oman, and in the Straight of Hormuz was done by the IRGC without the knowledge or coordination of the Iranian government.

Iranian President Pezeshkian is "extremely angry" at the actions of Ahmad Vahidi, the commander of the IRGC, and has called for an urgent meeting to stop attacks on Persian Gulf countries.
--

hahahahahah

Kill him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 01:38 AM (NaHHR)

48 We have a dishwasher in the garage and no one will install it.

We have gone back to washing everything by hand.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:34 AM (3ek7K)

We would install your dishwasher I'd we were close. Are you on the Utah side of Wyoming, lol. We love that area.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:39 AM (U94Dl)

49 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:24 AM

I was at Misawa, Aomori prefecture. It's not terrible in summer, in the northern part. Never got to go to Hokkaido, and that's a shame.. always wanted to go to the snow festival. We drove to Towada, following the Oirase River, many times. Gorgeous in autumn! And Lake Towada had boat cruises in summer.. Hachinohe was good for shopping, ended up with a calico cat (good luck kitty) "presento" one time. She was a good kitteh, LOL.

If you hike, beware of venomous Mamushi snakes. Wiki has a good page on it.

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

50 Who unchained Raimondo from the truck stop glory hole?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 05, 2026 01:42 AM (sA3Xn)

51 I wish Godzilla upon their tyne Korean ballz. Fucking cocksuckers.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings
---

They laughing at you round eye.
Go to Homely Depot and buy a cheap GE with...
...KNOBS.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 01:43 AM (NaHHR)

52 We live in rural Wyoming and no one will install it.

_-_
My younder sis has that trouble right now, but with bathroom drain in the crawl space. Called out a plumber from town (about 20 miles away), said they'd be out last Tuesday, then called on Tuesday and said they'd be out Thursday, no show no call on Thursday, so oldest boy and I are headed to rural Texas this weekend to help. She's used to just working on her own stuff, but this one is going to be a big mess.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:43 AM (rzCjW)

53 "Iranian President Pezeshkian is "extremely angry" at the actions of Ahmad Vahidi"

Well?! We're waiting!!

Posted by: Drink Like Judge Smails at May 05, 2026 01:44 AM (sA3Xn)

54 I made sure I didn't get any smart appliances in the new kitchen. They are the stooooopidest frigging things. Yeah I need my fridge to give me a shopping list. My list is Mrs B, she runs records like the nazis, she knows what to buy. And nooooo I don't need to use my smart phone to turn my oven on before I get home. Just not into burning the fucking house down while nobody is home. Who thinks of this shit???

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 01:46 AM (snZF9)

55 I had an LG front load washer. Thou plus. SS tub, cast aluminum spindle. In an alkaline chemical bath. Guess which part corroded? Guess who aced both electro-chemistry class and business econ, then got a job designing consumer, er, consumable, appliances? Guess which part they stopped selling 10 years later? Guess which kind the boss wanted? FML. 10 more years ro same problem.

I wish Godzilla upon their tyne Korean ballz. Fucking cocksuckers.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 05, 2026 01:36 AM (sA3Xn)

I wish that my hubby Mr Scary posted here. He would find help. Or at least, consolation. I just shit post jolly videos. We will manage

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:47 AM (U94Dl)

56 I believe I've mentioned before that my inlaws bought a washer/dryer when they bought the house. That one lasted around 50 years (a couple of repairs along the way... these were Sears Kenmore and Sears used to keep parts forever). Finally the tranny went out (which has nothing to do with Dylan Mulvaney's Saturday night). Sears was bankrupt by then. No parts to be had. Second one lasted about 4 years. Current one has two years on it. We'll see how long it lasts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 05, 2026 01:47 AM (qpyNK)

57 We have a dishwasher in the garage and no one will install it.
Posted by: four seasons
------
The real.problem is getting the correct size "hole".
If the new dishwasher is the same size as the old one (width, height, depth) it's not that difficult to install. The instructions that came with it will spell out what has to.be done. This is one place where I give YouTube props.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 01:47 AM (TNGIV)

58 We have a dishwasher in the garage and no one will install it.

We have gone back to washing everything by hand.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:34 AM (3ek7K)


Do you have a dishwasher now? If so, installing it would be easy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 01:47 AM (snZF9)

59 On the appliance thing - I talk about this when I am addressing audiences in the cyber security area (I work in insurance) - I usually say: "I don't want my appliance to be 'smart!' I don't want it connected to the internet - why the hell does my washing machine need to surf the WWW? Wth? Its just another threat vector for cyber criminals. No, don't give me a 'smart' appliance give me a 'stupid' one. I want my washing machine to do one thing: wash clothes. Period. end of story."

And frankly, between the hord and me, let's get rid of the computer circuit board on all appliances, let's go back to analog toggles, switches and dials. I suggested to a friend recently that we should start a company for appliances called "Just Appliances Ltd." That makes appliances like washing machine designed with similar workings (modern materials safety etc.) to those of the 1970s. They would be retro/analog and simply "just" wash or "just" refrigerate or "just" dry etc.

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2026 01:49 AM (/aZwr)

60 Who thinks of this shit???
_-_
The world is automating things that should never be automated.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:49 AM (rzCjW)

61
Mary,

We are in SW Wyoming.

If you and your hubby ever want visit to this area you are welcome to stay in our home.

Hubby and I are easy and we have room for you.

We would be delighted to have you visit.

Plus you will meet the most awesome grandchildren ever.


Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:49 AM (3ek7K)

62 Just Appliances Ltd
_-_
Next do Automobiles.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:50 AM (9Rvz4)

63 If you hike, beware of venomous Mamushi snakes. Wiki has a good page on it.

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

Thanks ! Will look them up. If they are no worse than rattlesnakes we will ne fine. So many snakes on our property, so immune to that idea

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:51 AM (U94Dl)

64 Kangaroo..... Terrier?

Theocracy? Tranquilizer? Trampoline? Traditions? Threesome? Troubador? Telescope? Tapdance? Travelogue?
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:35 AM

The "Kangaroo" part is from a childhood nickname.

The "T" goes with "bar the door". Because who needs kangaroos in the house?

Posted by: KT at May 05, 2026 01:54 AM (7vIsy)

65 New appliances? Repair guys call them "Yang Poon."

My 4 year old furnace is acting up.. Probably the bloody igniter..

Can't have a foolproof pilot light---O no!!

Posted by: Beverly at May 05, 2026 01:56 AM (reMys)

66 Burn trumpsters not oil. Oldie from 1973.

Posted by: raimondo at May 05, 2026 01:56 AM (NK/B9)

67 I get home. Just not into burning the fucking house down while nobody is home. Who thinks of this shit???
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
---

And the big secret, no matter the price, inside the oven the temperature will be the same, 425° is 425°.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 01:56 AM (NaHHR)

68 foolproof pilot light---O no!!
_-_
Been nursing along a Myson tankless water heater that is 30 years old just because it has a pilot light and uses zero electricity. Nearly impossible to find parts, though.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:58 AM (rzCjW)

69 Is too funny.
No one understands, gettin up off the floor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 01:59 AM (NaHHR)

70 I can tell raimondo's been burning something all right. "Whoa, Dude! Look! A keyboard!"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 02:01 AM (9Rvz4)

71 I actually had an International Harvester refrigerator in my first apartment, that thing was a beast and it was really old too. I prefer that any appliance in my house not be smarter than I am.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 02:01 AM (0nHVk)

72 @JoumannaTV - 2h Overnight updates day 67:

* UAE says it has intercepted 15 missiles, 4 drones in the last day. Iranian drone strike caused a large fire at its Fujairah industrial port that hospitalized 3 people.

* An oil tanker owned by the UAE’s state oil company ADNOC was also struck by Iranian drones in a separate episode outside the Strait

* US CentCom chief Adm Cooper says US military fought off attacks from Iranian drones and missiles as it facilitated the passage of TWO US-flagged navy destroyers through the Strait. (CBS saying these vessels were not struck)

* a South Korean ship has been damaged going through the Strait. Trump urges S Korea to join in on Project Freedom

* Asked about Iranian sea mines in Hormuz, Centcom’s Cooper said “it’s not so extensive”

* Trump on TS “We’ve shot down seven small Boats or, as they like to call them, ‘fast’ Boats" that attempted to interfere

* Trump to Fox: if Iran attacks any US ships around the Strait of Hormuz, they will be “blown off the face of the earth.”

* 2 people injured in Oman, on its coast along the Strait , when a residential building was targeted (state media)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 02:02 AM (NaHHR)

73 I suddenly realized I hadn't smoked my pipe (tobacco only, sorry) today. Thanks to this ONT, I have a reason to stay up and fix that situation. Thanks, KT!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 05, 2026 02:02 AM (mjROD)

74 25 Sorry i was late. I was naked. Then squirrels showed up...

Posted by: raimondo at May 05, 2026 01:20 AM (SKZNX!) geshundheit!


George Takei: Oh myyy! And then what happened?

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at May 05, 2026 02:02 AM (xbXDr)

75 Mary,

We are in SW Wyoming.

If you and your hubby ever want visit to this area you are welcome to stay in our home.

Hubby and I are easy and we have room for you.

We would be delighted to have you visit.

Plus you will meet the most awesome grandchildren ever.


Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:49 AM (3ek7K)

Oh four seasons! You could be in trouble. We might actually visit. I do love that part of the country.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 02:03 AM (U94Dl)

76 41 Raimondo is a retard. I hope he dies in a fire.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:31 AM (U94Dl)

That's not a Christian response to a retard. Maybe just notice his pointed little head and explain how to comb his hair differently?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2026 02:06 AM (DwqWV)

77 My parents had an old International Harvester deep freezer. Man, that thing could hold A LOT of stuff! Was grandma's, but then she moved to a smaller house & had no room for it.

There was a power outage, and then it wouldn't come back on. Surprised Dad didn't repair it, I'm sure it was just a motor/capacitor issue. Maybe couldn't find parts?

Mom was heartbroken-- that freezer could hold a half-beef, cut & wrapped, plus other goodies...

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

78 The one thing I didn't do is match the appliances. Some people go with one brand for everything. Years of doing kitchens and baths in a former life taught me that some companies just can't make certain appliances for shit. Some make great stoves, other make great dishwashers, etc. As long as every piece was the same color I was good. What used to be good isn't good anymore. I remember my mom having a kitchen aid dishwasher that was made by hobart. My father did that kitchen in 1970, and that dishwasher went over 30 years and was still working when he removed it to do a new kitchen in the early 90's. I went through 3 dishwashers in 30 years starting on 1990 when I did the kitchen in my first house. By the time I sold it 5 years ago it was on the 3rd, and the second stove, and was just about ready for the 3rd fridge. When I did this kitchen a few years ago I called my brother to see what was good since he's still doing kitchens. He says, "buy what you want, just get the insurance because everything is shit". Ok, that was a lot of help. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 02:10 AM (snZF9)

79 >>>Next do Automobiles.

Posted by: Don in SoCo

>>Electric door windows. Why do I need that? I loved my hand crank windows and they never failed. Now I have to replace the switches every two years because the rain drips in exactly at that location.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 02:10 AM (IYDXm)

80 @chrisman - 4h --- this trial is wild.

elon: they stole a non profit to make themselves billionaires.

openai founder: no way.

openai founders journal: man i can’t believe we are stealing this non profit. feels unethical but at least i’ll be a billionaire.
---

Musk will win this one and Sam Altman will be wearing a big diaper.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 02:10 AM (NaHHR)

81 Raimondo is a retard. I hope he dies in a fire.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:31 AM (U94Dl)

That's not a Christian response to a retard. Maybe just notice his pointed little head and explain how to comb his hair differently?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2026 02:06 AM (DwqWV)


Is it okay that I wish him to be anally raped by the followers of MoMo ? That seems to be accepted by the cool kids.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 02:12 AM (U94Dl)

82 Four Seasons, at the Cafe you said that you're hesitant to click on links.

For TinyURL and some other short link services, you can append a "+" sign to the link and you will get a notification page (from TinyURL, for example) showing you the full URL.

Try it:

https://tinyurl.com/4s5nxvbp+

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 02:13 AM (kN4PS)

83
You all are welcome here.



Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 02:15 AM (3ek7K)

84 I suddenly realized I hadn't smoked my pipe (tobacco only, sorry) today. Thanks to this ONT, I have a reason to stay up and fix that situation. Thanks, KT!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 05, 2026 02:02 AM (mjROD)


My bass player has a tobacoo fetish. He bounces from cigarettes, to cigars, to pipes, and vapes. I never know what he'll pull out. This last saturday he pulls out a church warden pipe from some lord of the rings collection. he managed to find a place that had pipe tobacco. Old world style where they got the huge glass jars with different blends. Not some bullshit stuff in a pouch or can. Frigging church warden, that was some radical shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 02:17 AM (snZF9)

85 Thanks four seasons. I don't wish ill of anyone, besides the Islamist goat fuckers who would do us all harm.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 02:18 AM (U94Dl)

86 There's no need to go back to complicated mechanical timers, etc.
Electronics are not intrinsically less reliable or long lived as mechanical parts. Just keep the marketing guys in check demanding "features" and a simple control board with reliable relays can be produced cheaper than mechanical parts doing the same thing that will last 25 years.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 02:19 AM (TNGIV)

87 We're planning a big trip for Pookette this summer, but I might need help with specifics. I want to make a loop through wesrern South Dakota (Pookette desperately wants to go to the Petrified Forest), and hit Estes Park, Colorado (my family went there a few times when I was a kid and it's the scene of The Thumb-Biter Incident). I don't know what stops we'll do in-between. I know we'll be going through eastern Wyoming and allllll across Nebraska.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs ideas at May 05, 2026 02:20 AM (Wt5PA)

88 @RandPaul - 9h

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.

He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died.

Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs.

I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.

RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 02:22 AM (NaHHR)

89 Mornin', Horde. S'up?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2026 02:25 AM (l6rhB)

90 62 Just Appliances Ltd
_-_
Next do Automobiles.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 05, 2026 01:50 AM (9Rvz4)

Yeah - Thought of that too: Just Motorworks Ltd. or Just Automobiles Ltd.

Great engine, suspension, power breaks and windows, (and a manual window version for true purists) AC, a radio and that's it - all dashboard displays would be analog. No video screens. But all would be made with modern materials and safety features and there would be two versions: a manual and and an automatic for each of the following models:

2 door sports
2 door coupe
4 door coupe
2 door sedan
4 door sedan
Station Wagon (4 door)
Pickup Truck



Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2026 02:25 AM (/aZwr)

91 For a dedicated pipe smoker, the internet is your friend. There are a couple of distributors who are happy to sell you bulk pipe tobacco by the pound.

A quart Mason jar will hold 8 ounces of pipe tobacco. I stocked up a few years ago, when I was worried that internet cigar and pipe tobacco sales would be banned "for the children."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 05, 2026 02:27 AM (mjROD)

92 Fauci was pardoned by Biden's auto pen.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 02:27 AM (sAmhv)

93 New York Post columnist Miranda Devine reveals that old Twitter leadership worked with the FBI so closely to suppress the Hunter Biden Laptop story, that they classified all links to the story as “child porn” to stop it from being shared

“It was completely blacklisted on Twitter in 2 hours. It was classified as child porn internally, if you like, sent it in a private, like if I DM'd you privately, the link, it would disable as it would if you were sending something criminal. The reason why it was so immediate and so severe was because the FBI was briefing Twitter executives”

This would instantly flag the DMs and stop them from being sent, it would make the links inactive

She also reveals that the FBI knew about the laptop all the way back before the first Trump impeachment

Literally treason. No one in old Twitter has been held accountable either
---

That's why they want to kill Giuliani, he has a copy of the original HD.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 02:29 AM (NaHHR)

94 Time for me to sign off. Thanks again, KT!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 05, 2026 02:30 AM (mjROD)

95 My summer car is a 1961 Ford Falcon Coupe, two-door, and the fancy kind with automatic transmission. It cures me of electronics, back up cameras, beeps for no good reason, flashing idiot lights, etc.

Plus I look good driving all that chrome around town.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2026 02:30 AM (DwqWV)

96 Pookysgirl. That sounds like a great trip. I wish I could give you ideas.. we saw a lot of Wyoming but want to see the Dakotas.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 02:30 AM (U94Dl)

97 92 Fauci was pardoned by Biden's auto pen.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 02:27 AM (sAmhv)

Indict his ass anyway and prove the pen was non-sentient.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 05, 2026 02:31 AM (DwqWV)

98 We're planning a big trip for Pookette this summer, but I might need help with specifics. I want to make a loop through wesrern South Dakota (Pookette desperately wants to go to the Petrified Forest), and hit Estes Park, Colorado (my family went there a few times when I was a kid and it's the scene of The Thumb-Biter Incident). I don't know what stops we'll do in-between. I know we'll be going through eastern Wyoming and allllll across Nebraska.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs ideas at May 05, 2026 02:20 AM (Wt5PA)

if you're doing western S Dakota you seriously want to see Mt Rushmore in the black hills. The loop will bring you through deadwood, past the crazy horse monument, and into Custer. Then grab the needles highway and iron mountain road, and it brings you right into Mt Rushmore. Can do that all in a day easy. Devils tower is right in eastern Wyoming, maybe an hour in from the S Dakota border.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 02:31 AM (snZF9)

99 We're planning a big trip for Pookette this summer, but I might need help with specifics. I want to make a loop through wesrern South Dakota (Pookette desperately wants to go to the Petrified Forest), and hit Estes Park, Colorado (my family went there a few times when I was a kid and it's the scene of The Thumb-Biter Incident). I don't know what stops we'll do in-between. I know we'll be going through eastern Wyoming and allllll across Nebraska.
Posted by: pookysgirl
------
Uhhhh...
I live about 40 miles away from the Petrified Forest National Park.
I live in northeast Arizona.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 02:32 AM (TNGIV)

100 Well the hour grows late, sweet dreams Horde.

RMBS, I hope that you have another fine day of adventure in Greece.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 02:34 AM (0nHVk)

101
I count drone and missile attacks, sea mines, and attempts from 7 small boats. So when is this going to happen?

* Trump to Fox: if Iran attacks any US ships around the Strait of Hormuz, they will be “blown off the face of the earth.”

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2026 02:35 AM (n7rxJ)

102 71 I actually had an International Harvester refrigerator in my first apartment, that thing was a beast and it was really old too. I prefer that any appliance in my house not be smarter than I am.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 02:01 AM (0nHVk)

MY best friend growing up (early 80s) bought an old (1967) International Harvester Scout truck for $500, which we fixed up a little, promptly took the hard top off and then drove for almost 10 years until it literally fell apart. We loved it and so, shall we say, did the "chicks" (chicks, man!).

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2026 02:36 AM (/aZwr)

103 There's a little petrified forest park near Rapid City that we discovered last year. A few years ago, we took Pookette along to the Black Hills and did all the Rushmore/Crazy Horse/Deadwood stuff.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs ideas at May 05, 2026 02:37 AM (Wt5PA)

104 I live about 40 miles away from the Petrified Forest National Park.
I live in northeast Arizona.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 02:32 AM (TNGIV)

That is a cool place. We found a little hammer outside the gate. Some douchebag came to dig up petrified wood.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 02:38 AM (U94Dl)

105 MY best friend growing up (early 80s) bought an old (1967) International Harvester Scout truck for $500, which we fixed up a little, promptly took the hard top off and then drove for almost 10 years until it literally fell apart. We loved it and so, shall we say, did the "chicks" (chicks, man!).

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2026 02:36 AM (/aZwr)

Did you feel like Daktari and shit? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 02:39 AM (snZF9)

106 2 door sports
2 door coupe
4 door coupe
2 door sedan
4 door sedan
Station Wagon (4 door)
Pickup Truck



Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2026 02:25 AM (/aZwr)

How do you distinguish between a 4 door coupe, and a 4-door sedan? Where I come from, 4-door coupe does not exist. All coupes are 2 doors. There should not be enough room on coupe body for rear doors. Sedans can be 2 doors or 4, but there is enough room on the 2-door body for rear doors.
My body list: coupe, hardtop coupe, convertible coupe, 4 door sedan, 4-door hardtop, station wagon, pickup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 02:41 AM (utfVc)

107 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 02:31 AM (snZF9

My friend is in South Dakota now with an outfit called "Roads Scholar".. They have a lecture.a day about the history , surroundings, etc. she has been on other of their trips and is enjoying it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:41 AM (2sfNr)

108 >>>Uhhhh...
I live about 40 miles away from the Petrified Forest National Park.
I live in northeast Arizona.

Posted by: buddhaha

>There's a nice little place called the Tom Miner Basin north of Yellowstone that provides access to a petrified forest. But you have to be mindful of the grizzlys because they rule.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 02:42 AM (IYDXm)

109 We're going to need a bigger hoax." LOL. Thanks, KT

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:43 AM (2sfNr)

110 RMBS, I hope that you have another fine day of adventure in Greece.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 02:34 AM

Thanks, DDS. Sleep hard.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2026 02:45 AM (l6rhB)

111 Blonde Morticia it's a pertinent question. And you're not the only one asking it.

My preferred, and assumed, strategery here was to pause (ceasefire) to rest, resupply, and augment our forces (this has been done, and it's a pretty massive fist we have). Meanwhile, the blockade would do its thing, along with the global financial assault on Iranian assets. Finally, force the Strait open, forcing Iran to try to respond militarily - this leading to a comprehensive degradation of their anti-shipping capabilities.

Thus shredding their only remaining "card".

Things track with the above, so far. Question is will we (my preference) use Iranian interference in the Strait as the go-signal to obliterate their last significant remaining kinetic tool*. Or continue with the dance - downplaying attacks as long they're thwarted or blunted, bluster about destroying their military, with very limited military response. We're all about to find out.

* ballistic missiles remain a threat to the region, but a crude and largely ineffective one to date

Posted by: rhomboid at May 05, 2026 02:46 AM (U/Byj)

112 It must be post breakfast time in Greece. Have a great day with your mom, RMBS.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:47 AM (2sfNr)

113 I live about 40 miles away from the Petrified Forest National Park.
I live in northeast Arizona.

Posted by: buddhaha

>There's a nice little place called the Tom Miner Basin north of Yellowstone that provides access to a petrified forest. But you have to be mindful of the grizzlys because they rule.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 02:42 AM (IYDXm)

I know of a site near Edson, Alberta, where I saw a petrified tree stump in growth position exposed in a cut bank. Quite a lot of petrified wood can be collected there. I have a bunch of it. It's actually silicified wood intermingled with coal. I am guessing it is of Tertiary age.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 02:48 AM (utfVc)

114 Had the same V8 in one of my mid-range IH's.
Monster strong engine. Never missed a beat... until it dropped a valve, the bane of that engine.
IH replaced it over the weekend. They understood downtime.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 02:48 AM (NaHHR)

115 Thanks, Fen. Heading out for coffee with the cousins, then on to Thessalonika.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2026 02:48 AM (l6rhB)

116 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 05, 2026 02:48 AM (l6rhB)

Enjoy your coffee and what a great way to combine family history and Biblical history and scenery. God bless your travels!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 02:51 AM (2sfNr)

117 Ok, I.didn't realize that there was any local "petrified" park. Avoid the Black Hills Aug 6-17, when half the Harleys in the US show up. Jewel Cave is a great visit in that general.area.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 02:52 AM (TNGIV)

118 How do you distinguish between a 4 door coupe, and a 4-door sedan? Where I come from, 4-door coupe does not exist. All coupes are 2 doors. There should not be enough room on coupe body for rear doors. Sedans can be 2 doors or 4, but there is enough room on the 2-door body for rear doors.
My body list: coupe, hardtop coupe, convertible coupe, 4 door sedan, 4-door hardtop, station wagon, pickup.
Alberta Oil Peon

Agree AOP - meant to delete the 4 door coupe.

It should have read:

2 door sports - Like a pure sports car model
2 door coupe
2 door sedan
4 door sedan
Station Wagon (4 door)
Pickup Truck

But I like your list better (except I do like those old 2 door sedan length cars like the old Cadillacs 1969-70) and I hadn't thought about convertibles so let's say :

Pure performance sports car model (hard top and convertible); coupe (hardtop coupe, convertible coupe)
2 Door sedan; 4 door sedan; 4-door hardtop; Station wagon; pickup

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 05, 2026 02:56 AM (/aZwr)

119 Almost 0100 here. Getting real sleepy. Time to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 02:58 AM (utfVc)

120 @visegrad24 -

Christians in Sudan have been particularly targeted by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and views Christians as its ideological enemy.

Rafat Samir, general secretary of the Sudan Evangelical Alliance, told Fox News that “opposing Christians is their religious duty.

Whoever does something to harm Christians is considered favourable to the law or to Allah.”
---

They want to kill us. People over here take that lightly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:05 AM (NaHHR)

121 Happy Passo de Mayo everyone!

Hope you enjoyed your Star Wars Day!

Thank you for stepping in KT!

I resolved my tire pressure monitoring system issue on Friday last.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2026 03:15 AM (QGaXH)

122 25 May 4 1070 Kent State.

I don't think Kent State was around in the year 1070.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2026 03:17 AM (QGaXH)

123 Did you pull the stems and put in dumb one's?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:18 AM (NaHHR)

124 @DefiantLs - May 4

Ilhan Omar:
"The idea that America is a White nation that must be preserved is disgusting."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:29 AM (NaHHR)

125 87 We're planning a big trip for Pookette this summer, but I might need help with specifics. I want to make a loop through wesrern South Dakota (Pookette desperately wants to go to the Petrified Forest), and hit Estes Park, Colorado (my family went there a few times when I was a kid and it's the scene of The Thumb-Biter Incident). I don't know what stops we'll do in-between. I know we'll be going through eastern Wyoming and allllll across Nebraska.
Posted by: pookysgirl needs ideas at May 05, 2026 02:20 AM (Wt5PA)

I thought Petrified Forest was in northern Arizona off I-40. Jumping off point is Holbrook, Az. Is there another in SD?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2026 03:31 AM (QGaXH)

126 Whoever does something to harm Christians is considered favourable to the law or to Allah.”
---

They want to kill us. People over here take that lightly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:05 AM (NaHHR)

Was just on U tube, and listened to a first react video from a Brit to Battelhymn of the Republic.

We've forgotten our mission, to set Men free.... there are an estimate 30 Million slaves currently in Africa and the Mid East... The US Civil War? 4 Million slaves.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 05, 2026 03:35 AM (mP0Kj)

127 124 @DefiantLs - May 4

Ilhan Omar:
"The idea that America is a White nation that must be preserved is disgusting."

Posted by: Braenyard


Whatever. You're a fraud! Get out!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 03:38 AM (sAmhv)

128 >>>Ilhan Omar:
"The idea that America is a White nation that must be preserved is disgusting."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

>11han Omar must be jettisoned like the vermin she chooses to be. Nasty, angry, - a person who chooses to divide this country and create havoc.

Democrats, - woke, - but haven't waken the fuck up yet.

Self awareness is difficult when your IQ is less than 75.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 03:39 AM (IYDXm)

129 123 Did you pull the stems and put in dumb one's?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:18 AM (NaHHR)

No. I took it back again to the big box membership store and they said they had just received an alternate part number, but still insisted the part they put in covered all years. Whatever they did, the system works like it should now so I'm happy and they didn't charge me anything additional.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2026 03:41 AM (QGaXH)

130 Good Nite all....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 05, 2026 03:43 AM (QGaXH)

131 American bought a brand new printer. She bought the ink for the printer, she bought the paper for the printer, now she’s at home and is ready to print

She can’t print

“They remotely shut off my printer until I paid $7.50 cents to print in my own home, to print on my printer, that I own in my home”

This is the new $7.50 subscription plan by HP Printers

Here’s how the plans work

HP’s Instant Ink and newer All-in Plan programs are subscription services options:

- You pay a monthly fee based on pages printed (not ink used).
- Plans start low, from $1.79–$7.99 per month for 10–100 pages
- $7–$8 per month plans are for around 100 pages

If your payment fails. HP will remotely shutoff your printer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:46 AM (NaHHR)

132 Don't buy HP. My last HP was thrown out due to HP turning it to a brick and this was 5+ years ago. I've hadn't had a printer since.
I need to get one sometime. I'll get a laser printer next time. Maybe a Brother. Haven't heard any nightmare stories about them, yet.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 03:50 AM (sAmhv)

133 There are many areas with "petrified" wood.
The thing about the Petrified Forest NP is the sheer area and amount. There are acres covered with "stumps" and "logs" of 2 to 3 feet in diameter, and lengths up to 15'.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 03:52 AM (TNGIV)

134 I have a Brother laser - it uses a toner cartridge-
Owned it for 8 years and until last week not a flaw.
H/T, don't use DDG AI to help. It was a little problem that a human could resolve in minutes. After four hours I was ready to hurt something.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:56 AM (NaHHR)

135 I don't want to get up

Posted by: Skip at May 05, 2026 03:59 AM (Ia/+0)

136 I'm b&w none of this dry ink bs. There's no ink to dry. the cartridge can sit for 3 months and it's ready to go. If the toner has settled, take the cartridge out and gently shake it and stick it back in. Bam.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 03:59 AM (NaHHR)

137 >>>If your payment fails. HP will remotely shutoff your printer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

>Everything is like this with this generation. The IRS sent me a letter for my tax refund demanding a drivers license, selfie, new account, etc before they would place my refund in the account that I gave my CPA. They could have just sent me a live check instead of a bullshit notice letter.

IT has gone off its rails.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 04:01 AM (IYDXm)

138 AmyMek @Johngalt196@EDSecMcMahon @LeoTerrellDOJ @FBIDirectorKas @SenTedCruz

You need to listen to these two brave, boys from Wylie Texas...

Islam is infiltrating in our public schools to indoctrinate our youth. This has to stop now. Thank you Marco and Leland! God bless you both!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 04:03 AM (NaHHR)

139 Such a nice interview with the policeman who stopped a young man from jumping off a bridge in Jacksonville, FL:

https://tinyurl.com/3zc3cvb3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 04:03 AM (2sfNr)

140 They sent me a check last year I expect a check this year. If I don't get a check there will be letters.
--

There's so much crap going on I'm going to bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 04:06 AM (NaHHR)

141 Until recently, I had a Brother all-in-one. Loved it. It stopped communicating with my computer. It would scan but wouldn't print; whatever was sent from the computer to the printer would die. Tried everything. Bought another Brother and it works fine. Oh, the first one lasted almost 20 years.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 05, 2026 04:13 AM (W5mpo)

142 Law should require any company doing business in the US must have customer service reps fluent in English.

Posted by: Going deep. Out at May 05, 2026 04:19 AM (x69Nb)

143 Trapped in meeting heck. Tech thread will be up eventually.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 05, 2026 04:33 AM (BLOW1)

144 Don't let those wombats push you around, Pixy!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 04:42 AM (sAmhv)

145 Puddlegum, I've got an Epson EcoTank printer. No cartridges, instead you fill up the CMYK tanks with liquid ink.

I've had it for several months, and I don't print much, but no problems with it yet, and no subscriptions.

Epson makes other inkjets that use cartridges, too.

Brother is also an option.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 04:50 AM (6ydKt)

146 *adds an L to Puddleglum*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 04:51 AM (6ydKt)

147 Trump has managed to maneuver around Congress and the War Powers Act.

Since he declared hostilities over before the sixty day deadline, he no longer has to report to Congress.

Instead he declared the mission in the Strait of Hormuz a "humanitarian mission" which requires no report to Congress under War Powers.

But now, if Iran attacks a U.S. ship it becomes a defensive operation against Iran when we respond with force, which can be open-ended as defensive operations don't fall under War Powers either.

Quite a smooth move, and Trump was counting on the IRGC to start doing exactly what they've done.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 05:00 AM (6ydKt)

148 >>>Trapped in meeting heck. Tech thread will be up eventually.

Posted by: Pixy Misa

>Never offer anything unless directly asked. The narcissists and sociopaths will contradict everything you say.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 05:00 AM (IYDXm)

149 Man from FL reflects on giving thanks and Luke 17:11-19:

https://tinyurl.com/yz233273

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 05, 2026 05:05 AM (Yl2Ob)

150 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 05:05 AM (RtN13)

151 The ONT was late?

Pixy's late.

But I. I am not late. At least not yet. And when I am finally late, I doubt I'll care anymore.

G'mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:05 AM (O7YUW)

152 146 *adds an L to Puddleglum*
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 04:51 AM (6ydKt)

Puddlegluml?

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 05:07 AM (RtN13)

153 @143/Pixy: "Trapped in meeting heck."

Blink twice if Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light is in the room with you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:10 AM (O7YUW)

154 Mornin' m.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:13 AM (O7YUW)

155 Puddlegluml?

Posted by: m at May 05, 2026 05:07 AM (RtN13)

I originally typed Puddlegum without the second L.

Corrections had to be made just to soothe my semi-perfectionist mind.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 05:13 AM (6ydKt)

156 @SpeakingOf: I'm living up to my moniker this morning. I got the 2026 Canadian Census form last night. First I verified it wasn't a scam, because so much is. Then I started the online process of filling it out.

An hour later, I'm only 42% into the process, and on question 36, and it's asking about the family member's sexual orientations.

I opted to save it for later, because I was too angry at that point to continue.

And I noticed a little thing after creating the password and challenge/response question it demanded I do so I could "come back to this later".

It told me that if I didn't submit anything further by Thursday, March 14, that my responses so far would be submitted as an incomplete survey.

Now maybe they meant that to scare people into completing it, but I'm seeing a loophole.

I answered your stupid census. You got the important information already (number of people, names, citizenships, languages spoken.) Anything else isn't really "need to have" it's just "want to have".

Bottom line: I responded, as I needed to, by law, so I'm in the clear, and I think that yeah, I'm done with that nonsense.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:20 AM (O7YUW)

157 .
NOOD

Pixy's up!

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

158 Bottom line: I responded, as I needed to, by law, so I'm in the clear, and I think that yeah, I'm done with that nonsense.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:20 AM (O7YUW)

We like to call that "malicious compliance" these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 05, 2026 05:30 AM (6ydKt)

159 @158/SpeakingOf: Well I'm liking me some malicious compliance, then. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 05, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

Demanding Doggos Cafe

pienzamaxmorriconi.jpg
Pienza, the so-called "ideal city" in Tuscany
by Max Morriconi
More here.
There's a short video here.


Jets vs. Sharks but more butch.

Kittens being lazybones.

Handing out toys to rando dogs.

Straight from the tap.

DID YOU KNOW? Baby goats make outstanding mechanic's assistants.

Cat won't get hustled by some street haggler.

Don't give me that static.

Providing a booster chair for ducklings.

For the discriminating connoisseur of toe beans.

That's the mustard.

I've got something to say!

Is it play time yet?

Are you coming already?!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:55 PM




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1 Cafe! Woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:56 PM (VyBeY)

2 Thanks, Ace!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:56 PM (VyBeY)

3 nooded

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (VyBeY)

4 and the trifecta!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (VyBeY)

5 Do they have unhoused people in an ideal city?

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

6 Nooded, and good night, all 'Rons, 'Ettes, and other reprobates!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 07:59 PM (NcvvS)

7 everyone's having too much fun on the previous thread, I guess ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:59 PM (VyBeY)

8 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (VyBeY)

Hah! beat you to the nood, amigo!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 08:02 PM (NcvvS)

10 Good evening from a very pleasant locale in Portland! Doggeh clips are the best clips!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 04, 2026 08:02 PM (rjSw7)

11 handing out dog toys video is so fun!

I might try that myself ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 08:02 PM (VyBeY)

12 We're all good. Peaceful evening, sock_rat_eez!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 08:03 PM (NcvvS)

13 that you did, Nazdar! that you did! probably a better typist overall ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 08:03 PM (VyBeY)

14 DID YOU KNOW? Baby goats make outstanding mechanic's assistants.

* ponders ISO standard goat behavior *

I bet those lamps on their foreheads don't last very long.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 08:03 PM (VHUov)

15 Top picture, it's only a model.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:03 PM (2GVsD)

16 handing out dog toys video is so fun!

I might try that myself ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 08:02 PM (VyBe

I like he left the tags on the toys which made the owners feel more comfortable.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 08:04 PM (kxLc1)

17 and yes, all good! same to you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 08:04 PM (VyBeY)

18 In Italy if a pigeon shits on you it is good luck. React accordingly.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:05 PM (z2aPa)

19
Baths for Diana, Rosalind and The Big Dummy today. Everyone else got their nails ground. Still have to load Her Majesty's clothes and food in the RV.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:05 PM (HdYcL)

20 16, yeah, handing out used dog toys would be extremely poor form.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 08:06 PM (VyBeY)

21 BTW

Kelly Neumann looks like she is the product of Lebensborn. How do we know she is really gay, it may all be an act.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

22 Yeah, OK, booster chair for ducklings.

____________________

Not good for either party. Ducks poop more regularly than just about any animal out there. They are, definitely, pooping in that pool. Anybody using that pool runs a high risk of conjunctivitis (pink eye)...which isn't fun.

Chorine is, likely, in that pool, and guess what. Chlorine is bad for ducks and can cause significant health issues if they swim in or drink it regularly. It strips the natural oils from their feathers, leading to waterlogging, and can damage their kidneys if consumed.

I have a pool. I regularly have to contend with the errant Canadian goose who likes to explore up from the pond down in the pasture. Some people think fences around pools are to keep the kids in the neighborhood from drowing accidentally. I could care leas about those brats. I just want to keep the geese out of my pool.

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (dIske)

23 >>probably a better typist overall ...

Summer school typing teacher would collapse into V-Fib, especially since my physical state includes essential tremour - even 45 years in IT hasn't solved it.

And now, truly, tomorrow starts in 7 hours.

Bless you all!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (NcvvS)

24 Are dog toys treated with some chemical that dogs like to smell?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (Cqx++)

25 just saw this: raw story: the headline

This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

text:
Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time.

Governor Janet Mills suspended her Senate campaign Thursday, leaving Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner as the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in November.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 08:08 PM (CWTWj)

26 Kelly Neumann looks like she is the product of Lebensborn. How do we know she is really gay, it may all be an act.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

Are you saying this is an Apt Pupil situation?

Kind of a shit movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:10 PM (zZu0s)

27 All this talk of Nazis. I wonder if in 2000 years will they be thought of like the Romans, every day.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

28 Looks more like a small burg than a "city."

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:11 PM (XMwZJ)

29 Wasn't Apt Pupil by Paul "Pedobear" Singer?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 08:11 PM (gKWVE)

30
What percentage of Maine's population are "immigrants"? Maybe a Nazi is just the guy they want.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:11 PM (HdYcL)

31 *Bryan Singer.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 08:12 PM (gKWVE)

32 Pienza, the so-called "ideal city" in Tuscany

Far from ideal! I see way too many single-family homes, and not a single solar panel! And that car in the foreground is not electric.....

Posted by: any random socialist at May 04, 2026 08:12 PM (VHUov)

33 I just threw up in my mouth. No idea who Jack Watts is.
Supposedly:

So, Spartacus and AOC did the deed, at least according to Swallwell, who has just outed them.

Here's my question: Which is more nauseating, the thought of having sex with Corey Booker or AOC?

I think Booker would be worse. What do you think?

—Jack Watts

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:13 PM (DSLf3)

34 28 Looks more like a small burg than a "city."
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:11 PM (XMwZJ)
________________

I thought the same, and looked up the population. About 2,000. That's not a city. That's a very small town.

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 08:13 PM (dIske)

35 Spartacus don't swing that way...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:14 PM (XMwZJ)

36 How can it be ideal without a Walmart?

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

37 I could use a goat helper

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 08:15 PM (Ia/+0)

38 All I can say is, I hope is her entire family history is getting audited with the hot needle of inquiry.

I doubt the family really was poor when they came to the US. How did they come to the US from Brazil anyway?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:15 PM (2GVsD)

39 I would not have thought that AOC was man enough for Booker.
Swalwell's credibility is not high.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 08:15 PM (gKWVE)

40 28 Looks more like a small burg than a "city."
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:11 PM (XMwZJ)

Another of the pictures in the link definitely looks like a city. I'd like a place out in the country surrounding it, where I could admire the city from a distance.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 04, 2026 08:16 PM (zYpTz)

41 All this talk of Nazis. I wonder if in 2000 years will they be thought of like the Romans, every day.
Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

doubtful - Rome itself lasted more than a thousand years and Byzantium another thousandish beyond that.

Hitler's blip lasted less than 15.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:16 PM (8avO+)

42 I could use a goat helper
Find it next to the Hamburger Helper at your local grocer.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:16 PM (XMwZJ)

43
I could use a goat helper
Posted by: Skip

It's on the shelf next to Hamburger Helper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 08:17 PM (Cqx++)

44 Are dog toys treated with some chemical that dogs like to smell?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (Cqx++)

Yes. A lot of them are supposed to be bacon or peanut butter or cheese flavored.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:18 PM (zZu0s)

45 Although I guess reefs cow hoof is beef flavored.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

46 Here's my question: Which is more nauseating, the thought of having sex with Corey Booker or AOC?

I think Booker would be worse. What do you think?

—Jack Watts

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:13 PM (DSLf3)

This dude even had to frigging ask? Any..any dude would be worse than AOC. Letting AOC talk while munching my junk is light years better than sex with a dude. Did this dude have the swing set too close to the house as a kid?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 08:19 PM (snZF9)

47 Speaking of pillowbiters named Brian, Gov. Kemp is not redrawing Georgia's map. It remains racially gerrymandered and the GOP will not be competing in three seats it might otherwise get.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 08:19 PM (gKWVE)

48 35 Spartacus don't swing that way...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:14 PM (XMwZJ)

____________________

The portrayal of Spartacus by Hollywood is always amusing. He was a Thracian....who were tattooed barbarians known for drinking rituals to their God of Wine. Even the Thracian women had full body tattoos, and very few morals. They were always fragmented because they chose fighting over farming every single time. Spartacus was a thug.

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 08:19 PM (dIske)

49 Did I miss all the Star Wars/May the Fourth jokes today?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2026 08:20 PM (mjROD)

50 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0)

51 We knew Kemp was bought and paid for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

52 Did this dude have the swing set too close to the house as a kid?
Posted by: Berserker

I never heard that one before, and it's hilarious. I've got the animated gif of it playing in my head, now.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

53 Idaho Spudboy, you did but you're early for Cinco de Mayo.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:23 PM (z2aPa)

54 Did I miss all the Star Wars/May the Fourth jokes today?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I've got a bad feeling about this comment.....

Posted by: mikeski solo at May 04, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

55 The portrayal of Spartacus by Hollywood is always amusing. He was a Thracian....who were tattooed barbarians known for drinking rituals to their God of Wine. Even the Thracian women had full body tattoos, and very few morals. They were always fragmented because they chose fighting over farming every single time. Spartacus was a thug.
Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 08:19 PM (dIske)

Thracian was also one of the fighting styles gladiators used - sword and buckler. It has been tossed around that saying he was 'a thracian' was a cover for a Roman who had been broken down to the gladiator ranks which would explain why he was able to lead his slave army with such success.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:24 PM (8avO+)

56 Orson, I find your comments re Thracian fascinating. I only know their jewelry, but their gold work was so, so good. Perhaps later in a later period of their history they became more civilized?

Posted by: Wenda at May 04, 2026 08:24 PM (dXTLm)

57 1933 to 1945

12 years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:25 PM (2GVsD)

58 I could use a goat helper
Posted by: Skip


I've had hamburger helper, squirrel helper, possum helper, but I've never had goat helper.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:25 PM (DSLf3)

59 Kemp plays for the other team, I don't mean he's gay. Well, maybe that too...

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 08:26 PM (YwEeS)

60 I never heard that one before, and it's hilarious. I've got the animated gif of it playing in my head, now.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

I picture either Bart Simpson or a young Peter Griffin.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 08:26 PM (snZF9)

61 1933 to 1945

12 years.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:25 PM (2GVsD)

I rounded up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:26 PM (8avO+)

62 "Hitler's blip lasted less than 15.
Posted by: Oldcat "

He's the ultimate villain though. People may still speak of Stalin and Mao, Pol Pot and Idi Amin, but Hitler is 20th Century gold standard.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 08:26 PM (vFG9F)

63 How can it be an ideal city? It's full of Italians.

Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee Since 1966 at May 04, 2026 08:26 PM (oftw2)

64 I just saw a picture of Plantner's new tattoo to cover up the Totenkopf.

It looks like the Picts or Celts are about to have boiled dog for dinner.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:28 PM (2GVsD)

65 Kathleen Kennedy has killed May the Fourth Be With You.

And no baby Yoda can save it now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 08:30 PM (2GVsD)

66 Did I miss all the Star Wars/May the Fourth jokes today?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2026 08:20 PM (mjROD)

I am waiting for the "July Sixth Park" day on 7/6. Got my inflatable dino costume and logo'd jeep, and everything.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 08:31 PM (rbvCR)

67 Well, Disney has done something truly remarkable, they took a vital, thriving Fandom and destroyed it in the name of chasing an audience that never would have watched it anyway.

Everything sacrificed at the altar of Kathleen Kennedy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

68 Oh and Marvel too.

And the Disney brand in general.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

69 Orson, I find your comments re Thracian fascinating. I only know their jewelry, but their gold work was so, so good. Perhaps later in a later period of their history they became more civilized?
Posted by: Wenda at May 04, 2026 08:24 PM (dXTLm)

The Romans were incredible chauvinists, and rarely gave credit to their enemies. It could also be bad press for not being like Romans

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (rbvCR)

70 Well, Disney has done something truly remarkable, they took a vital, thriving Fandom and destroyed it in the name of chasing an audience that never would have watched it anyway.

Everything sacrificed at the altar of Kathleen Kennedy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)
----
She's hardly alone in that. Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Lord of the Rings are effectively dead as well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (gnNyN)

71 Orson, I find your comments re Thracian fascinating. I only know their jewelry, but their gold work was so, so good. Perhaps later in a later period of their history they became more civilized?
Posted by: Wenda at May 04, 2026 08:24 PM (dXTLm)

The Romans were incredible chauvinists, and rarely gave credit to their enemies. It could also be bad press for not being like Romans
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (rbvCR)

The Gauls were also noted for good metalcrafting.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:36 PM (8avO+)

72 Well, Disney has done something truly remarkable, they took a vital, thriving Fandom and destroyed it in the name of chasing an audience that never would have watched it anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Wokeism, summed up in a 4-panel comic:

https://is.gd/DAlolb

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 08:37 PM (VHUov)

73 I think the most villainous ideology of all is the one that killed 100 million and the adherents somehow get to pretend it never happened and actively want it to happen again.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 08:37 PM (vE0+H)

74 She's hardly alone in that. Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Lord of the Rings are effectively dead as well.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (gnNyN)

It's surprising what turning over 250 million dollars to insane people who hate your IP and your customers and can't write for beans can do....wait, it isn't surprising at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:38 PM (8avO+)

75 Wow... Somali plead GUILTY to $11 million in fraud... but due to deal with AG, will serve NO FUCKING JAIL TIME.

5 years probation.... and I would guess they get to stay in the US?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2026 08:38 PM (mP0Kj)

76 She's hardly alone in that. Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Lord of the Rings are effectively dead as well. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (gnNyN)

It is shocking, isn't it? How many billions of $ in shareholder value they just...lit on fire. And Nobody stopped them.

One. I could see there being ONE bad Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Lord of the Rings. ONE bad Star Wars movie. It went on for literally years, with fans screaming the whole time, and profits in the toilet.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 04, 2026 08:39 PM (eloIc)

77 I think the most villainous ideology of all is the one that killed 100 million and the adherents somehow get to pretend it never happened and actively want it to happen again.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 08:37 PM (vE0+H)

It's hardly where you need to name 1 winner. All of the big three Naziism, Communism and Maoism are left wing Socialist movements.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:39 PM (8avO+)

78 ellipsis, well, obviously, Communism only went so bad because the Russians were running it... now if only it had some nice German efficiency...
/sarc

Posted by: RandomDave at May 04, 2026 08:40 PM (aJQbY)

79 74 She's hardly alone in that. Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Lord of the Rings are effectively dead as well.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (gnNyN)

It's surprising what turning over 250 million dollars to insane people who hate your IP and your customers and can't write for beans can do....wait, it isn't surprising at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:38 PM (8avO+)

Hmm.... series.... Woke, Woker, Wokier? now add in Watch her, I mean Witcher... and a bit of Reacher?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2026 08:40 PM (mP0Kj)

80 Hmm.... series.... Woke, Woker, Wokier? now add in Watch her, I mean Witcher... and a bit of Reacher?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2026 08:40 PM (mP0Kj)

Bond, Indiana Jones, the live action Disney movies... all the same cause and result.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)

81 All this talk of Nazis. I wonder if in 2000 years will they be thought of like the Romans, every day.
Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)
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Americans have a unique obsession with Nazis. In Europe, the Nazis have lots of competition and there were many countries where the Communists were much, much worse, and so (I'm talking about the Baltics specifically) their "honored veterans" were in the SS.

More Danes and Dutch died fighting for Germany than against it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:41 PM (ZOv7s)

82 #63-jealous much?

Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2026 08:43 PM (OFw3k)

83 Hmm.... series.... Woke, Woker, Wokier? now add in Watch her, I mean Witcher... and a bit of Reacher?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2026 08:40 PM (mP0Kj)

Wheel of Time (thank God I never watched it.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

84 ellipsis, well, obviously, Communism only went so bad because the Russians were running it... now if only it had some nice German efficiency...
/sarc
Posted by: RandomDave at May 04, 2026 08:40 PM (aJQbY)
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It isn't a political or economic system, it is a religious heresy built on the sins of pride, envy, and wrath, and that it why it never loses its appeal. It says that "You ARE the best, society is unfair, and all the people with things you want must given them to you, and the people you hate DESERVE to be hated."

It's really quite simple.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:45 PM (ZOv7s)

85
Frankly, in a list of Republican senators I'd like to see lose their seat, Susan Collins is near the top of the list.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:45 PM (HdYcL)

86 Frankly, in a list of Republican senators I'd like to see lose their seat, Susan Collins is near the top of the list.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:45 PM (HdYcL)

Not as much as Murk, Thune or McConnell right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

87 I'm anticipating a Bee headline

Platner Covers Up Nazi Tattoo with a Burning Cross.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 08:46 PM (kxLc1)

88 >> I just saw a picture of Plantner's new tattoo to cover up the Totenkopf.

Vie are not Nazis. Vie are Swiss.

Posted by: The Crow at May 04, 2026 08:46 PM (f4tQo)

89 77 - I read that 270 million people were killed during the scope of Muslim conquests. maybe its "the Big Four?"

Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (OFw3k)

90 Americans have a unique obsession with Nazis. In Europe, the Nazis have lots of competition and there were many countries where the Communists were much, much worse, and so (I'm talking about the Baltics specifically) their "honored veterans" were in the SS.

More Danes and Dutch died fighting for Germany than against it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:41 PM (ZOv7s)

Just about every Euro country had volunteers for the SS. Yes even Finland. Spain sent a division of regular troops to fight the USSR.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (8avO+)

91 Hell, the woke translators even perverted a lot of anime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

92
g'early evenin', 'rons

greetings from Warren, Ohio

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 04, 2026 08:48 PM (GFMEh)

93 Frankly, in a list of Republican senators I'd like to see lose their seat, Susan Collins is near the top of the list.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:45 PM (HdYcL)

She's had some crucial favorable votes unlike Murkowski.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 08:48 PM (kxLc1)

94 That's the mustard.

That dog is bloody huge. It's like the gamma Pit Bull from the Ang Lee Hulk movie.

Posted by: Happy looking face-ripper-offer at May 04, 2026 08:49 PM (TbWk/)

95 Just about every Euro country had volunteers for the SS. Yes even Finland. Spain sent a division of regular troops to fight the USSR.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (8avO+)
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Finland had it's own White Terror. Tough neighborhood and all that.

And yes, Franco paid his debts to Adolf. He also fought Commies before it was fashionable. Ike respected that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:52 PM (ZOv7s)

96 77 - I read that 270 million people were killed during the scope of Muslim conquests. maybe its "the Big Four?"
Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (OFw3k)

The original ones were pretty quick and clean, as far as conquering ground goes. Maybe things add up over 1300ish years after that but it seems like a high number.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:52 PM (8avO+)

97 92
g'early evenin', 'rons

greetings from Warren, Ohio
Posted by: AltonJackson
....................................
Lose a bet?

I kid! I grew up in New Castle, about 30-40 min east.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2026 08:52 PM (sAmhv)

98 >>>Play with me..

And this clip demonstrates why your pets do NOT need squeaky toys.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 04, 2026 08:53 PM (syz1S)

99 Frankly, in a list of Republican senators I'd like to see lose their seat, Susan Collins is near the top of the list.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:45 PM (HdYcL)
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I give Collins a pass because she is from a blue state. I'll accept her 50-50 voting record because it beats a 0% one.

But guys like McConnell have no excuse. Same with Thune.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:54 PM (ZOv7s)

100
Lose a bet?

I kid! I grew up in New Castle, about 30-40 min east.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2026 08:52 PM

no, travelling for work

gots to go to the plant in Kinsman tomorrow

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 04, 2026 08:54 PM (GFMEh)

101 Spain sent a division of regular troops to fight the USSR.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (8avO+)
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Can you think of a better way to get rid of your die-hard Nazi types?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 08:54 PM (xvhJH)

102 The original ones were pretty quick and clean, as far as conquering ground goes. Maybe things add up over 1300ish years after that but it seems like a high number.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:52 PM (8avO+)
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Let me tell you about what happened to India...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)

103 Pienza, the so-called "ideal city" in Tuscany
by Max Morriconi

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Any relation to Ennio?

* cue the Main Theme to "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)" *

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 08:56 PM (JqXxE)

104 Can you think of a better way to get rid of your die-hard Nazi types?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 08:54 PM (xvhJH)
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Yeah, Franco himself was apolitical, but the True Believers in the Phalange wanted more radical change, and there is a credible case that he packed them all off to the Eastern Front in the Blue Division for a reason.

Solved two problems at once - kept Hitler off his back and got rid of the radicals.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:57 PM (ZOv7s)

105
One hundred years ago, who would have thought New England would be solidly Democratic and the South would be solidly Republican?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:58 PM (HdYcL)

106 Spain sent a division of regular troops to fight the USSR.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:47 PM (8avO+)
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Can you think of a better way to get rid of your die-hard Nazi types?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 08:54 PM (xvhJH)

And Spanish commies were a big part of other countries resistance forces against Nazi occupation. The French resistance was mostly made up of commies.

Also Franco basically ghosted Hitler.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 08:58 PM (kxLc1)

107 One hundred years ago, who would have thought New England would be solidly Democratic and the South would be solidly Republican?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:58 PM (HdYcL)
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New England is "solid" because of gerrymanders. It remains 40% Republican and Republicans have won statewide office even amongst the Massholes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:59 PM (ZOv7s)

108 So, there was a horrible hate incident. Swastikas with 'Hitler' printed beside them in Queens.

And everyone had prepared statements.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

109 And Spanish commies were a big part of other countries resistance forces against Nazi occupation. The French resistance was mostly made up of commies.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 08:58 PM (kxLc1)
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The International Brigades were a training ground for future Communist leaders. Just about every Warsaw Pact government was populated with veterans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 09:02 PM (ZOv7s)

110 So, there was a horrible hate incident. Swastikas with 'Hitler' printed beside them in Queens.

And everyone had prepared statements.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

I didn't think the Left used Hitler and Swastikas for fake hate crimes now since their Muslim allies do it for real.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:03 PM (kxLc1)

111 Judge zia faruqui is a member of the Muslim Bar Association of NY.

Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2026 09:03 PM (OFw3k)

112 Bond, Indiana Jones, the live action Disney movies... all the same cause and result.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)

Don't know if any of you follow video games but this was done to the Assassin's Creed series as well by the company that created it, Ubisoft. Just took their company value and flushed it down the toilet. How you might ask? Their game set in feudal Japan; the male protagonist was a g*y black man. Criminal creative negligence.

Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 09:03 PM (6+ehB)

113 I didn't think the Left used Hitler and Swastikas for fake hate crimes now since their Muslim allies do it for real.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:03 PM (kxLc1)

Could very well be, I dunno. Four 'youths' in hoodies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:04 PM (zZu0s)

114 Judge zia faruqui is a member of the Muslim Bar Association of NY.

Posted by: vivi


We're going to lose this country.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:04 PM (DSLf3)

115 I was never that big of a fan of Assassins Creed, but yeah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:05 PM (zZu0s)

116 Judge zia faruqui is a member of the Muslim Bar Association of NY.

Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2026 09:03 PM (OFw3k)

An ignorant lying Muslim. What's new. Bringing up J6 prisoners and then lying about their incarceration situation and slandering them is the lowest of low.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:06 PM (kxLc1)

117 We're going to lose this country.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:04 PM (DSLf3)
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Was it over when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 09:08 PM (ZOv7s)

118 Bond, Indiana Jones, the live action Disney movies... all the same cause and result.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)

Don't know if any of you follow video games but this was done to the Assassin's Creed series as well by the company that created it, Ubisoft. Just took their company value and flushed it down the toilet. How you might ask? Their game set in feudal Japan; the male protagonist was a g*y black man. Criminal creative negligence.
Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 09:03 PM (6+ehB)

Yes, the wokification of Gamers was a little earlier and the purges led to the creation of counter-revolutionaries like Sargon of Akkad who were all veterans when the culture war came to Hollywood a few years later. That's why the reaction was so fast and complete, we had effective antibodies ready to go.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 09:08 PM (8avO+)

119 Americans have a unique obsession with Nazis. In Europe, the Nazis have lots of competition and there were many countries where the Communists were much, much worse, and so (I'm talking about the Baltics specifically) their "honored veterans" were in the SS.

More Danes and Dutch died fighting for Germany than against it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:41 PM (ZOv7s)


Italy seems to get a pass. Mussolini is remembered as a clown who had a moment and no one blames Italians.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 09:10 PM (lCppi)

120
This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

Posted by: gnats local 678

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Trying to figure out how that connects.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 09:12 PM (n7rxJ)

121 The Romans were incredible chauvinists, and rarely gave credit to their enemies. It could also be bad press for not being like Romans
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 08:35 PM (rbvCR)

The Gauls were also noted for good metalcrafting.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:36 PM (8avO+)

They might put an Asterix next to that claim.

Posted by: Wait for it at May 04, 2026 09:12 PM (TbWk/)

122 Americans have a unique obsession with Nazis"

Before June '41?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:13 PM (XuXeR)

123 Italy seems to get a pass. Mussolini is remembered as a clown who had a moment and no one blames Italians.
Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 09:10 PM (lCppi)

To his credit El Duce was never gung-ho on the Jewish Holocaust IIRC. When the Germans took over in 43 they made up for the lost time because a three front war apparently wasn't enough to do.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 09:13 PM (8avO+)

124 They might put an Asterix next to that claim"

Golf clap

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:14 PM (XuXeR)

125 This phony Democrat got blown out of the water -- and that's terrifying for Trump

Posted by: gnats local 678

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Trying to figure out how that connects.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 09:12 PM (n7rxJ)

Wasn't that phoney Dem the governor?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 09:14 PM (8avO+)

126 Italy seems to get a pass. Mussolini is remembered as a clown who had a moment and no one blames Italians.
Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 09:10 PM (lCpp

He was in power from 1922 until 1943. Not quite a moment. To be fair Italy had been a political mess for a long time which allowed him grab power.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:14 PM (kxLc1)

127 Judge zia faruqui"

Farquart?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:15 PM (XuXeR)

128
Judge zia faruqui is a member of the Muslim Bar Association of NY.

Posted by: vivi


We're going to lose this country.
Posted by: rickb223

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Step one: claw it back from the ABA. That's starting to happen. Florida and Texas shut them out for accreditation of their law schools. Yeah, only 48 states to go...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 09:15 PM (n7rxJ)

129 What did Churchill say of the Italians?
We had them last time it's their turn.
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Japanese were our allies in WWI, yellow devils in WWII and now we're friends.

Picking at healed wounds is for the problem child.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 09:16 PM (NaHHR)

130 Italy seems to get a pass. Mussolini is remembered as a clown who had a moment and no one blames Italians.
Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 09:10 PM (lCppi)

Need to rewatch What Did You Do In The War, Daddy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 09:16 PM (DwqWV)

131 Italy seems to get a pass. Mussolini is remembered as a clown who had a moment and no one blames Italians.
Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 09:10 PM (lCpp

He was in power from 1922 until 1943. Not quite a moment. To be fair Italy had been a political mess for a long time which allowed him grab power.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:14 PM (kxLc1)

WWI in Italy was like France but more so. Eleven? Twelve? Thirteen? Battles on the Isonzo River line for no purpose, and when that wasn't dumb enough they did some offensives in the Alps for added futility. Then the Germans popped in and bounced the whole line back about 4 river lines in a flash.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 09:17 PM (8avO+)

132 What is this "Met Gala" and why should I care? I barely heard of it until this year and now it's all over my feed

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

133
I really try not to be doom and gloom.

I do think our country is lost.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 09:19 PM (3ek7K)

134 What is this "Met Gala" and why should I care? I barely heard of it until this year and now it's all over my feed
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

Charity for designer gowns makers by people with more money than sense.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 09:19 PM (8avO+)

135 Finally home! What a day. How is everyone doing?

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 09:19 PM (Wmg4n)

136 Judge zia faruqui is a member of the Muslim Bar Association of NY.

Since Muslims hold shariah law to be above all the laws of man, no Muslim can truthfully and in good faith take the oath of admission to any legal bar.

Posted by: It's ok, lying is part of their religion at May 04, 2026 09:20 PM (TbWk/)

137 128
Judge zia faruqui is a member of the Muslim Bar Association of NY.

Posted by: vivi

We're going to lose this country.
Posted by: rickb223
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has created a special team of criminal investigators to root out immigration fraud, equipping newly designated special agents with expanded law enforcement powers to investigate, arrest and prosecute violators and even denaturalize cheaters.

"We're going to get to a place where people are going to know that if they file, and they're going to file something fraudulently, or they're not giving us their full story, we're going to find that," United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow told Just The News.
...

Edlow announced the initiative in September under a final rule that allows the agency to hire and train 1811-classified officers who can carry firearms, execute warrants and handle cases from start to finish without always referring them to ICE.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 09:20 PM (NaHHR)

138 27 All this talk of Nazis. I wonder if in 2000 years will they be thought of like the Romans, every day.
Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

The Romans could be bastards, too, but at least they built for the long haul.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 09:20 PM (DwqWV)

139 What is this "Met Gala" and why should I care? I barely heard of it until this year and now it's all over my feed
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

Only reason to keep up is I still like looking at hot females . They definitely go all out at this shing ding to look their hottest.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:20 PM (kxLc1)

140 What is this "Met Gala"

GLP 1 guzzling types wearing...something. Sometimes.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:20 PM (XuXeR)

141 Almost forgot, Happy Cinco de Quattro.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 09:21 PM (DwqWV)

142 I really try not to be doom and gloom.

I do think our country is lost.

Posted by: four seasons


We can win it back. But it's going to be ugly and the things required, unmentionable.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:21 PM (DSLf3)

143 18 In Italy if a pigeon shits on you it is good luck. React accordingly.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:05 PM (z2aPa)

On Foo Island, if a bird shits on you, and you wash it off, you will disappear.

Moral of the story: If the foo shits, wear it!

Posted by: Insensitive Clod at May 04, 2026 09:21 PM (1UudH)

144
rickb223,

I have hope

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 09:22 PM (3ek7K)

145 I really try not to be doom and gloom.

I do think our country is lost"

*shrugs*

History is a bitch.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (XuXeR)

146 Italy gets a pass because when it all started to go bad, they all said “Hey this isn’t fun anymore! In fact it sucks. Well we’re not crazy, we quit!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (XcvNy)

147 Only reason to keep up is I still like looking at hot females . They definitely go all out at this shing ding to look their hottest.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:20 PM (kxLc1)


First I read this as hot tomales.
Then I thought about phrasing.
Then I realized I didn't know what the hell it is either.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (2WIwB)

148 https://youtu.be/nMQZEfC4Xv0?
si=aE4NAIVaQRv1LDsi

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

149 I didn't think the Left used Hitler and Swastikas for fake hate crimes now since their Muslim allies do it for real.

What makes you think it's fake?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 09:24 PM (vTZFs)

150 Italy gets a pass because when it all started to go bad, they all said “Hey this isn’t fun anymore! In fact it sucks. Well we’re not crazy, we quit!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (XcvNy)

The Heirs to the Sons of Mars, folks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:25 PM (zZu0s)

151 WWI in Italy was like France but more so. Eleven? Twelve? Thirteen? Battles on the Isonzo River line for no purpose, and when that wasn't dumb enough they did some offensives in the Alps for added futility. Then the Germans popped in and bounced the whole line back about 4 river lines in a flash.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 09:17 PM (8avO+)

We tend to forget that neither Italy nor Germany were what we think of those two countries today. Italy in particular had the Papal States, the Southern Districts, the Alpine Districts, Venice, and a couple of other city-states, none of whom particularly cared for the other and often times were at war internally as well. "Ruling" Italy was a crap shoot at best. Germany had parts of Prussia, parts of France, and who knows what all, and they likewise did not necessarily get along well. Sometimes it was Catholic vs. Protestant, but more often it was this ruling duchy against that one.

Each was a microcosm of the rest of Europe. More tribal than pre-Columbian America.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 09:25 PM (DwqWV)

152 Each was a microcosm of the rest of Europe. More tribal than pre-Columbian America.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 09:25 PM (DwqWV)

Except they got really good at it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:27 PM (zZu0s)

153 146 Italy gets a pass because when it all started to go bad, they all said “Hey this isn’t fun anymore! In fact it sucks. Well we’re not crazy, we quit!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (XcvNy)

Followed by sharing a bottle of wine and a really good plate of pasta.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 09:27 PM (DwqWV)

154 Need to rewatch What Did You Do In The War, Daddy.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Hilarious, first time out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 09:28 PM (NaHHR)

155 It isn't a political or economic system, it is a religious heresy built on the sins of pride, envy, and wrath, [ . . .]
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 04, 2026 08:45 PM (ZOv7s)]/i]

It is a procrustean economic theory that attempts to bend humanity around it at any cost to achieve its end, as the most important element of a society could be a hypothesis about how it should work, not the people who actually live in it.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

156 Catching up with Met Monday. Katie Perry covered up her face. That was nice of her!

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 09:30 PM (Wmg4n)

157 Missed this -

Yet Another Deranged Democrat (One Assumes) Has Been Shot for Approaching the White House While Brandishing a Gun

- does that count as another assassination attempt or a general disturbance in the hood?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2026 09:30 PM (/lPRQ)

158 When Dad's friend got shot out of the sky, Italian farmers took him in, nursed him to health and made arrangements for him to get back to the other side of the fence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 09:30 PM (NaHHR)

159 Can you think of a better way to get rid of your die-hard Nazi types?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 08:54 PM (xvhJH)

The Spanish troops got to the end of their agreed service and the Germans sent them home. The Italian troops got to stay on the Eastern front until the end.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

160 I really try not to be doom and gloom.

I do think our country is lost"

*shrugs*

History is a bitch.
Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (XuXeR)

The partisan political issues and the leftist lawfare don't bother me because that can be defeated.

What has me pessimistic is this trans bullshit and gaslighting about what makes a female. It's absolute insanity and you can't negotiate with insanity.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:32 PM (kxLc1)

161 @Harry Vandenburg - the theme is costume art- take a look at Kim Kardashian. She is being provocative, but not in your face about you. You really have to know what she is wearing and why.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 09:33 PM (Wmg4n)

162 The Clovis People wove intricate reed baskets for trapping wild ass. The ancient traps are quite rare outside museums today, but remarkably, Olivia Wilde managed to get her skinny ass caught in one recently. Go here and scroll down:
https://tinyurl.com/46x3399c

Posted by: gp at May 04, 2026 09:33 PM (N8ZBc)

163 think the most villainous ideology of all is the one that killed 100 million and the adherents somehow get to pretend it never happened and actively want it to happen again.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 08:37 PM (vE0+H)

It's hardly where you need to name 1 winner. All of the big three Naziism, Communism and Maoism are left wing Socialist movements.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 08:39 PM (8avO+)

***

Don't forget DDT!

Posted by: Jimmy C at May 04, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)

164 Many years ago muldoon would post his dad's diary entries from the war.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 09:33 PM (RIvkX)

165
Harry,

I agree with you.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 09:33 PM (3ek7K)

166 "I'd rather be a prince in Prussia than King of Germany", Frederick the Great.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 09:35 PM (NaHHR)

167 Bavarian brewer > prince in Prussia > King of Germany

Posted by: gp at May 04, 2026 09:37 PM (N8ZBc)

168 9 I didn't think the Left used Hitler and Swastikas for fake hate crimes now since their Muslim allies do it for real.

What makes you think it's fake?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 09:24 PM (vTZFs)

I think the post says it wasn't fake by saying the Left doesn't do fake hate crimes using the Swastika right now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:38 PM (kxLc1)

169 It's not Perry's face that seems to be the problem.

Posted by: let's just say she's banned from the book thread at May 04, 2026 09:38 PM (gKWVE)

170
The partisan political issues and the leftist lawfare don't bother me because that can be defeated.

What has me pessimistic is this trans bullshit and gaslighting about what makes a female. It's absolute insanity and you can't negotiate with insanity.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

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

Odd, I see it the opposite. The transanity is so far out that it simply can't last. It will self-combust. The leftists OTOH have tapped into something much deeper and more persistent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 09:38 PM (n7rxJ)

171 ***

Don't forget DDT!
Posted by: Jimmy C
---

Jimmy C, murderer of millions by depriving them of pesticides, murderer of millions by anointing the Muslim renaissance.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 09:39 PM (NaHHR)

172 Bavarian brewer > prince in Prussia > King of Germany
Posted by: gp at May 04, 2026 09:37 PM (N8ZBc)


Excellent!

Posted by: Bavarian Bier Consumer at May 04, 2026 09:39 PM (2WIwB)

173 I think Rudy died.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 09:39 PM (XV/Pl)

174 "The Clovis People wove intricate reed baskets for trapping wild ass."

Oh My!

Posted by: George Takei at May 04, 2026 09:39 PM (Q+gd/)

175 And yes, Franco paid his debts to Adolf. He also fought Commies before it was fashionable. Ike respected that.
——


Franco respected the $10,000,000 bribe paid by FDR too, I reckon.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 04, 2026 09:40 PM (WXiAd)

176 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 09:38 PM (n7rxJ)

I still think it was worse in the mid 60's and 70's. And those are the Leftist retards in power now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:41 PM (kxLc1)

177 Olivia Wilde managed to get her skinny ass caught in one recently. Go here and scroll down:
https://tinyurl.com/46x3399c
Posted by: gp at May 04, 2026

***
Always glad to see her. I wouldn't call her "skinny" -- "enticingly slim" is closer to the mark.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:42 PM (wzUl9)

178 ***
Always glad to see her. I wouldn't call her "skinny" -- "enticingly slim" is closer to the mark.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

Have you seen her recently? She is looking awful.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 09:43 PM (OoFl2)

179 Iran is begging for more bombing. I hate to see a country beg so let's give it to them. About two weeks worth.

Posted by: Case at May 04, 2026 09:44 PM (9lqZe)

180 I think Rudy died.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 09:39 PM (XV/Pl)


Any over/under on how big the lefty celebration will be?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 09:44 PM (2WIwB)

181 Italy gets a pass because when it all started to go bad, they all said “Hey this isn’t fun anymore! In fact it sucks. Well we’re not crazy, we quit!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 09:23 PM (XcvNy)

The Mussolini supporters were the problem. My grandmother got out of there in 1938 when in her words "Mussolini became in love with hitler". Not that he was great before that, but it definitely went to shit after that. Italy then had the civil war when the allied backed southern partisans fought against the northern german backed pro mussolini fascists. My relatives were on the anti Mussolini side. Well, the ones who stayed behind anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:44 PM (snZF9)

182 The thing that I do not get about the Ozempic zombies in Hollywood is:

1) use ozempic to get rid of what you consider to be problem fat.

2) doesn't this mean you have an exit strategy for after the weight is lost. Go off and keep exercising? See if it comes back or you can keep it off?

3) or is this plastic surgery psychosis on a massive scale where they get lost in it?

4) this cannot be good for their brains

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

183 Trump has screwered up with that's Irun place and we be needs Presdent Obama back too fix these mess.

Impeech Trump now ant brings back Presdent obno befoor WW 3 strats.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at May 04, 2026 09:45 PM (3SMvW)

184 I think Rudy died.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 09:39 PM (XV/Pl)


Damn.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:46 PM (snZF9)

185 Always glad to see her. I wouldn't call her "skinny" -- "enticingly slim" is closer to the mark.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:42 PM (wzUl9)

She literally looks like the undead, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

186 Never was an Wilde fan. Kate Beckinsale and Elizabeth Hurley still have it going on though.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:46 PM (kxLc1)

187 During history courses I quickly tired of trying to separate the fly shit from the pepper over communists and nazis or whatever. I mentioned this in papers or essays, and the professors didn’t argue the point.

Collectivist, Totalitarian regimes. Gangsters, basically. They should have nuked Berlin, but the Nazis were spent by the time the bomb was ready. Moscow, on the other hand….

Posted by: Common Tater at May 04, 2026 09:46 PM (F3yTM)

188 Never was an Wilde fan. Kate Beckinsale and Elizabeth Hurley still have it going on though.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:46 PM (kxLc1)

All three were beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:47 PM (zZu0s)

189 FOX says Rudy is out of ICU and breathing on his own.

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 04, 2026 09:47 PM (S5Tk/)

190 NYC was never better place to live than when Rudy was mayor.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:48 PM (kxLc1)

191 Sabrina Carpenter looking awfully cute in a Dior dress made entirely of film!

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 09:48 PM (Wmg4n)

192 Vat is 'life', anyvay?

Posted by: Erwin Schroedinger at May 04, 2026 09:49 PM (gKWVE)

193 this cannot be good for their brains
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)


Well...Hollywood.
So...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 09:49 PM (2WIwB)

194 Iran is begging for more bombing. I hate to see a country beg so let's give it to them. About two weeks worth.

Posted by: Case at May 04, 2026 09:44 PM (9lqZe)

Fuck it, make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:49 PM (snZF9)

195 I know CNN is hoping Rudy gets worse.....

Commie Bastards .........

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 04, 2026 09:50 PM (S5Tk/)

196 Trump is a merciful and religious man....

So, if the Ragheads want to meet Allah he should do the right thing ..........

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 04, 2026 09:51 PM (S5Tk/)

197 What sucks is my wife was using Ozempic for its original purpose, treating type ii diabetes. She took a very low dose, and it was helping much more than metformin, which messes with her innards. She coaxed her DR to get the process going so she can go back on it, but the insurance company could be truculent about it. We shall see.

Kind of like Viagra originally made to alleviate hypertension or something.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at May 04, 2026 09:52 PM (0aYVJ)

198 Impeech Trump now ant brings back Presdent obno befoor WW 3 strats.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at May 04, 2026 09:45 PM (3SMvW)

We're up to WW12 now, you stupid scrunt. Please keep up.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 09:52 PM (U94Dl)

199 @184

>>Damn.

My bad, I started reading a post that talked about Rudy in the past tense, didn't finish reading it before I posted.

As the say, RTFTC.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 09:53 PM (XV/Pl)

200 Always glad to see [Olivia Wilde]. I wouldn't call her "skinny" -- "enticingly slim" is closer to the mark.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
*
Have you seen her recently? She is looking awful.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026

***
Just that pic at the Met Gala. Aside from that whatever-it-is on her rear, she looks pretty good. Is she looking anorexic or something?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:57 PM (wzUl9)

201 Olivia Wilde managed to get her skinny ass caught in one recently. Go here and scroll down:
https://tinyurl.com/46x3399c
Posted by: gp

* scrolls all the way down *

dafuq is Cardi B wearing? Looks like the noodle man outside the used car dealership, but just filled with Great Stuff(TM) foam, rather than being blown around by a fan.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 09:58 PM (VHUov)

202 Never was an Wilde fan. Kate Beckinsale and Elizabeth Hurley still have it going on though.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026

***
In her The O.C. and House days, at least, Olivia had a feline look to her face that was magnetic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:58 PM (wzUl9)

203 Just that pic at the Met Gala. Aside from that whatever-it-is on her rear, she looks pretty good. Is she looking anorexic or something?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:57 PM (wzUl9)

She bearded for that queer Harry Styles guy for a while. That takes a lot out of a gal.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 09:59 PM (U94Dl)

204 ONT in 5 4 3 2 1....

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 09:59 PM (kxLc1)

205 Just that pic at the Met Gala. Aside from that whatever-it-is on her rear, she looks pretty good. Is she looking anorexic or something?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:57 PM (wzUl9)

Yes. I will find a pic.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:00 PM (OoFl2)

206 203 Just that pic at the Met Gala. Aside from that whatever-it-is on her rear, she looks pretty good. Is she looking anorexic or something?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:57 PM (wzUl9)

She bearded for that queer Harry Styles guy for a while. That takes a lot out of a gal.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May

He is engaged to Zendaya and Olivia is losing her shizzle over it.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:01 PM (OoFl2)

207 He is engaged to Zendaya and Olivia is losing her shizzle over it.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:01 PM (OoFl2)

Oh snap!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:02 PM (U94Dl)

208 ONT in 5 4 3 2 1....
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

0.9 ... 0.8... 0.75...

Posted by: mindful webworker - tappity tappy foot at May 04, 2026 10:02 PM (k0Y0k)

209 164 Many years ago muldoon would post his dad's diary entries from the war.

Some of them are included in his book.

https://is.gd/LibwTS (Amazon)

Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 10:03 PM (vTZFs)

210 205 Just that pic at the Met Gala. Aside from that whatever-it-is on her rear, she looks pretty good. Is she looking anorexic or something?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 09:57 PM (wzUl9)

Yes. I will find a pic.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:00 PM (OoFl2)

Looks like an old-fashioned bustle.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 04, 2026 10:03 PM (y171U)

211 The Monday ONT guys always take their sweet time.

Posted by: mindful webworker - is always watching at May 04, 2026 10:03 PM (k0Y0k)

212 ONT in 5 4 3 2 1....
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

0.9 ... 0.8... 0.75...
Posted by: mindful webworker - tappity tappy foot at May 04, 2026 10:02 PM (k0Y0k)

Should have had bigger spaces between my count down.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:03 PM (kxLc1)

213 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:04 PM (utfVc)

214 Rudy is still alive and awake at last report

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 10:04 PM (gu0hJ)

215 197 What sucks is my wife was using Ozempic for its original purpose, treating type ii diabetes. She took a very low dose, and it was helping much more than metformin, which messes with her innards. She coaxed her DR to get the process going so she can go back on it, but the insurance company could be truculent about it. We shall see.

Kind of like Viagra originally made to alleviate hypertension or something.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at May 04, 2026 09:52 PM (0aYVJ)

I don't get the hate for drugs that help.

Part of treating Type II diabetes is removing weight from the equation. I'm on Mounjaro to control my AIC, but it also kills off hunger, so I suspect I'm losing some weight. I know lots of people just use it to lose weight, but if it works, who are we to judge that?

For reference, I've been on 1400 cal/day for three years and haven't lost an ounce. Now I'm on Mounjaro and 1400 cal/day, and I've lost about three pounds, and my AIC is way low at long last. Nothing was budging before, and lower than 1400 cal is not healthy or sustainable in the long run. So, there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 10:05 PM (DwqWV)

216 Rudy is still alive and awake at last report
Posted by: Smell

He's waiting for the ONT.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:05 PM (sl73Y)

217 He is engaged to Zendaya and Olivia is losing her shizzle over it.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:01 PM (OoFl2)

Damn he likes them skinny and flat chested. He may be gay.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:05 PM (kxLc1)

218 Harry Styles is gayer than the daisies in May. Is he one of Taytays cast-off? I forget.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:08 PM (U94Dl)

219 I'm starting to wonder what will come first? The ONT or my tee time in the morning with the Geezer Golfers?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:09 PM (2WIwB)

220 Part of treating Type II diabetes is removing weight from the equation. I'm on Mounjaro to control my AIC, but it also kills off hunger, so I suspect I'm losing some weight. I know lots of people just use it to lose weight, but if it works, who are we to judge that?

For reference, I've been on 1400 cal/day for three years and haven't lost an ounce. Now I'm on Mounjaro and 1400 cal/day, and I've lost about three pounds, and my AIC is way low at long last. Nothing was budging before, and lower than 1400 cal is not healthy or sustainable in the long run. So, there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 10:05 PM (DwqWV)

My A1C was 7.0 last blood work, but I was using sugar as a food group. I cut out all the stupid stuff and will see what happens.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:09 PM (snZF9)

221 Was there any mention of what that car is in the top pic?

Pretty place.

Posted by: mindful webworker - is everywhere is everywhere at May 04, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)

222 Looks like an old-fashioned bustle.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 04, 2026

***
But what about her hedgerow?

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

223 Diogenes, embrace the power of "and". You will find peace

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:11 PM (U94Dl)

224 Was there any mention of what that car is in the top pic?

Pretty place.
Posted by: mindful webworker - is everywhere is everywhere at May 04, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)

Made me think of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at May 04, 2026 10:12 PM (0aYVJ)

225 I'm starting to wonder what will come first? The ONT or my tee time in the morning with the Geezer Golfers?
Posted by: Diogenes

I'm betting we get an ONT before the Tech Report...!

Posted by: mindful webworker - seize all nose all at May 04, 2026 10:13 PM (k0Y0k)

226 Was there any mention of what that car is in the top pic?

Pretty place.
Posted by: mindful webworker - is everywhere is everywhere at May 04, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)

I am guessing some Italian vintage job from the 1920's?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:13 PM (utfVc)

227 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for closing (over a shoplifting crisis)

-
Who they gonna rob now?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:13 PM (ndZc7)

228 Oh, it's one of THOSE Mondays, where I have to wait around a while before I can be late.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:13 PM (crO/W)

229 Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 10:05 PM (DwqWV)

I do not have anything against the drug at all, used properly. Its just it seems like people are abusing it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

230 He is engaged to Zendaya and Olivia is losing her shizzle over it.
Posted by: Piper

Zoe Kravitz not Zendaya. Zendaya is engaged to some English actor, Tom Holland I think his name is.

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 10:15 PM (lJ0H4)

231
QUACK

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at May 04, 2026 10:16 PM (b3Yos)

232 When the ONT is late, assume a CBD or someone else post. I wonder if there's one ready to go, or does it get made on the fly once the scheduled post isn't going up?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 04, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

233
It's hilarious. If the ONT is late, so what.

We're going to talk about the same shit.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 10:16 PM (3ek7K)

234 We're going to talk about the same shit.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 10:16 PM (3ek7K)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

235 Zoe Kravitz not Zendaya. Zendaya is engaged to some English actor, Tom Holland I think his name is.
Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 10:15 PM (lJ0H4)

All delightfully obscure, worthless people.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:18 PM (utfVc)

236 All delightfully obscure, worthless people.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:18 PM (utfVc)

You know how all the celebs have their own alcohol and other merch? Tom Holland has a non-alcoholic beer.

What a retard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:19 PM (zZu0s)

237 218 Harry Styles is gayer than the daisies in May. Is he one of Taytays cast-off? I forget.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10

Yes

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:19 PM (OoFl2)

238 233
It's hilarious. If the ONT is late, so what.

We're going to talk about the same shit.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 10:16 PM (3ek7K)

We're just wondering what CBD is going to inspire us to pun about.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:19 PM (crO/W)

239 235 Zoe Kravitz not Zendaya. Zendaya is engaged to some English actor, Tom Holland I think his name is.
Posted by: Tuna at May 04,

You are correct. I mashed them up.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:20 PM (OoFl2)

240 I think that I shall never see
Nothing much later than this ONT.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

241 I know what to do

CBD CBD CBD!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:21 PM (RIvkX)

242
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 10:21 PM (3ek7K)

243 Pretend I'm MisHum and have just posted a lovely landscape painting involving a stream, trees and mountains.

A. Where is the sniper?

2. How many gubs are on the bottom of the waterplace?

Posted by: LRob in OK at May 04, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr+re)

244 231
QUACK
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at May 04, 2026 10:16 PM (b3Yos)

Nothing to add, I just want to re-inforce this message.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:22 PM (crO/W)

245 CBD to MisHum: I thought YOU were doing the ONT tonight.
MisHum to CBD: I thought YOU were....

and the Horde rambles on

Posted by: mindful webworker - this is now at May 04, 2026 10:22 PM (k0Y0k)

246 239 235 Zoe Kravitz not Zendaya. Zendaya is engaged to some English actor, Tom Holland I think his name is.
Posted by: Tuna at May 04,

You are correct. I mashed them up.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:20 PM

Everything is fake and gay.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:22 PM (U94Dl)

247 Pretend I'm MisHum and have just posted a lovely landscape painting involving a stream, trees and mountains.

A. Where is the sniper?

2. How many gubs are on the bottom of the waterplace?
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 04, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr+re)


Are there crappie in the crappy stream?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

248 Wasn't Piper going to do a Met Gala Fashion ONT tonight?

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

249 QUACK...
Nothing to add, I just want to re-inforce this message.
Posted by: tankdemon

Huh. I thought duck quacks didn't echo

Posted by: mindful webworker - echho at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (k0Y0k)

250 ellipsis, well, obviously, Communism only went so bad because the Russians were running it... now if only it had some nice German efficiency...
/sarc
Posted by: RandomDave at May 04, 2026 08:40 PM (aJQbY)

Sarc noted, but East Germany for the counterexample.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

251 Honk!

Posted by: Goose at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (Q+gd/)

252 Well, let's see if this works for an ont as well as it does for the tech thread...

Push the button, Max!

Posted by: clarence at May 04, 2026 10:25 PM (ZhkYm)

253 245 CBD to MisHum: I thought YOU were doing the ONT tonight.
MisHum to CBD: I thought YOU were....

and the Horde rambles on
Posted by: mindful webworker - this is now at May 04, 2026 10:22 PM (k0Y0k)

MisHum was last week.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:25 PM (crO/W)

254 I want my
I want my
I want my ONT

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 04, 2026 10:25 PM (FIwBs)

255
Any volunteers to post the Monday ONT?

I don't think so. Much better to whine.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 10:26 PM (3ek7K)

256 Ain't no time like the present.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 10:26 PM (NaHHR)

257 It is such a shame that Start Trek TOS stands for Star Trek The Only Series, and that there only three Star Wars movies!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 10:27 PM (ZVgZ4)

258 Glp-1s attack muscle and hearts are muscle. It’s over use is causing issues with this, there are other side effects like vision loss, gastrointestinal issues that do not reverse, bone density loss and more. For its intended use with diabetics, it can be helpful. There are significant risks for its use outside of this, especially with vanity weight. The risk needs to outweigh the reward, if it’s used to kick start, it makes sense for very, very obese people. But then that needs to be weaned and learning how to eat needs to be the priority. I have all the sympathy in the world for how hard it is to lose weight. I have lost over 80 pounds and have kept it off. I have turned flab into muscle. I have worked my tail off. It’s not easy or fun, but it can be done.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

259 Biggest advantage of the ONT finally going up:
We quit talking about when the ONT will go up.

Posted by: mindful webworker - theoretically at May 04, 2026 10:27 PM (k0Y0k)

260 Honk!
Posted by: Goose
......

Are you for Trump?

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 10:27 PM (b3Yos)

261 FREE CHARLIE BROWN('s dildo)!!
FREE CHARLIE BROWN('s dildo)!!
FREE CHARLIE BROWN('s dildo)!!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 04, 2026 10:28 PM (6lIrI)

262 Wasn't Piper going to do a Met Gala Fashion ONT tonight?

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)


We've already discussed Olivia Wilde. Perhaps he Horde needs to be more interactive? Beyond "i'd hit that", or "she needs a sammich."

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:28 PM (U94Dl)

263 Any volunteers to post the Monday ONT?
****

You need permission to push the button. It's a small club and we ain't in it.

Posted by: clarence at May 04, 2026 10:28 PM (ZhkYm)

264 248 Wasn't Piper going to do a Met Gala Fashion ONT tonight?
Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

It’s on my x feed! 😊

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:28 PM (OoFl2)

265 You quackers...
You honkers...
I'm waiting for the owls!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:29 PM (2WIwB)

266 I guess I could still be first to comment on the ONT.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 04, 2026 10:29 PM (Xqite)

267 ONT should start with...

Sorry I'm late. Wanted to make sure tankdemon would be here on time....

Posted by: mindful webworker - there's a fly in the ointment at May 04, 2026 10:30 PM (k0Y0k)

268 So, who's celebrating Taco Tuesday tomorrow, and who's celebrating Cinco de Mayo?

And, is it true that Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo because they had a huge order of Mayonnaise on the Titanic, so it started as Sink-o the Mayo?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (qx7Zg)

269
HOOt

Posted by: Owls for Trump at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (b3Yos)

270 251 Honk!
Posted by: Goose at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (Q+gd/)

Now we just have to hear from the Swans

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (crO/W)

271 Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

Preach it, Sister!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (U94Dl)

272 I guess I could still be first to comment on the ONT.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 04, 2026 10:29 PM (Xqite)
----
We're all hitting F5 like a bunch of rats pressing the lever to dispense a treat at random...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (gnNyN)

273 Just noticed my hash is very close to Mrs Lennon

Posted by: mindful webworker - is a yoke dah at May 04, 2026 10:32 PM (k0Y0k)

274 Any volunteers to post the Monday ONT?
****

You need permission to push the button. It's a small club and we ain't in it.
Posted by: clarence at May 04, 2026 10:28 PM (ZhkYm)


*looks at tin foil membership*
*kicks dirt*
*slinks off*

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:32 PM (2WIwB)

275 "Post the Monday ONT, Hal!"

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 10:32 PM (nvRZF)

276 HOOt
Posted by: Owls for Trump at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (b3Yos)

You heard about the constipated owl? He couldn't give a hoot, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:32 PM (utfVc)

277 I am guessing some Italian vintage job from the 1920's?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026

***
Bugatti or Alfa-Romeo, maybe. Isotta-Fraschini I think specialized in bigger cars, limos like Norma Desmond's in Sunset Boulevard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:33 PM (wzUl9)

278 Just noticed my hash is very close to Mrs Lennon

Posted by: mindful webworker - is a yoke dah at May 04, 2026 10:32 PM (k0Y0k)

It's also the first palindrome hash I can recall seeing.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

279 Oh boy! Another thread about hooters!

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 10:33 PM (nvRZF)

280 HOOt
Posted by: Owls for Trump at May 04, 2026 10:31 PM (b3Yos)


Finally! Hooters!
We never talk about hooters here.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

281 Cinco de Mayo? The Mexicans beat the French? OK dude.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:34 PM (U94Dl)

282 279 280

This place.....

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)

283 Since we were in town for my morning dental appointment, we had lunch at the Mexican place.

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo eve.

Or, as Obama said, Quatro de Mayo.

Posted by: mindful webworker - aging gracefooly at May 04, 2026 10:35 PM (k0Y0k)

284 We've already discussed Olivia Wilde. Perhaps he Horde needs to be more interactive? Beyond "i'd hit that", or "she needs a sammich."
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026

***
Olivia has very nice hind paws, so there's that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:35 PM (wzUl9)

285 Did Katy "Space Ho" Perry have Justine Castreau on her arm at the Met Gala?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (utfVc)

286 This thread is making us hungry.

Posted by: Haitians at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (b3Yos)

287 The night without an ONT…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (ZVgZ4)

288 Is it "Entertain yourselves Damnit!' Night?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (Sco7b)

289 They did a survey on how to increase business traffic. The number 1 answer was, stay open.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (NaHHR)

290 *CBD to MisHum: I thought YOU were doing the ONT tonight.
MisHum to CBD: I thought YOU were....*

The Horde version of
*Tastes Great!*
*Less Filling!*

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 04, 2026 10:37 PM (yl9wi)

291 Is it "Entertain yourselves Damnit!' Night?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (Sco7b)


Well...haven't done that in awhile...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:37 PM (2WIwB)

292 They did a survey on how to increase business traffic. The number 1 answer was, stay open.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 10:36 PM (NaHHR)

I so miss 24 hour stores.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:37 PM (zZu0s)

293 Right now, I'm just happy that last night's Spectrum upgrade didn't break my Internet today.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)

294 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/4shaxdyj

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (OoFl2)

295 Has a search party been sent out?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (w3u3d)

296 I've been tasked with the duty to inform the Horde that there has been a terrible accident involving an agricultural thresher and scrotal tissue, and for this reason the ONT will be delayed tonight.

The HQ apologizes for any inconvenience that this unexpected event may cause.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Propriety Review Referee at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (CybdD)

297 >>>Almost forgot, Happy Cinco de Quattro.

Posted by: tcn in AK

>Wasn't this our former president? Almost a smart as Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (IYDXm)

298 Bezo's wife looked pretty good pre-gala festivities.

I know she's not a horde favorite but I think she's hot and can fly a helicopter.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (kxLc1)

299 Canadian Census today done.

My gender is Ewokian Hordian Hobomoron. I have a desire to have 5 penises and 2 vaginas.

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (Sco7b)

300 Is it "Entertain yourselves Damnit!' Night?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog


It always is. I'lll send you a video.

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (b3Yos)

301 Or the car in the top pic could be a Fiat, or a Lancia. Those marques existed in the 1920s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

302 I've been tasked with the duty to inform the Horde that there has been a terrible accident involving an agricultural thresher and scrotal tissue, and for this reason the ONT will be delayed tonight.

The HQ apologizes for any inconvenience that this unexpected event may cause.
Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Propriety Review Referee at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (CybdD)


Well...Nuts!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

303 >>>Almost forgot, Happy Cinco de Quattro.

Posted by: tcn in AK

>Wasn't this our former president? Almost a smart as Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (IYDXm)

I'd love to see Kamala juggling four unopened glass jars of mayonnaise.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)

304 Bezo's wife looked pretty good pre-gala festivities.

I know she's not a horde favorite but I think she's hot and can fly a helicopter.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (kxLc1)

She had the best dress of any of the wimmenz pictured.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:41 PM (utfVc)

305 I've been tasked with the duty to inform the Horde that there has been a terrible accident involving an agricultural thresher and scrotal tissue, and for this reason the ONT will be delayed tonight.

The HQ apologizes for any inconvenience that this unexpected event may cause.
Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Propriety Review Referee at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (CybdD)


Well...Nuts!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)


Can they slap a hot iron on it and carry on?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:41 PM (U94Dl)

306 Here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/4shaxdyj
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026

***
Yeah, she is looking pretty gaunt, to use the word in the article. Or "spooky."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

307 Lena Dunham looks worse than normal, if that can be believed.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (OoFl2)

308 I'd love to see Kamala juggling four unopened glass jars of mayonnaise.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)

It can be a challenge.

Posted by: Debbie Wasserman Dober at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (yl9wi)

309 On 5/4, how about some music played in 5/4 time?

https://youtu.be/buVpqwraap0

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (crO/W)

310 Polymarket odds at 75% that ONT thread is posted after 11PM.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (y171U)

311 I feel we are not talking enough about the outbreak of Santa virus on the cruise ship.

So, thats why I commented on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (zZu0s)

312 Lena Dunham looks worse than normal, if that can be believed.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (OoFl2)

The dress did do a good job of hiding the rolls of fat, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (utfVc)

313 I'd love to see Kamala juggling four unopened glass jars of mayonnaise.

--------

Tubes of mayonnaise are more her specialty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (CybdD)

314 That Kardashian chick won the award for Pointiest Nipples and Most Ribs Removed.

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (b3Yos)

315 Wow.

A late ONT and y’all are only
At 300 comments?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (A5RD0)

316 I'd love to see Kamala juggling four unopened glass jars of mayonnaise.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)

It can be a challenge.
Posted by: Debbie Wasserman Dober at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (yl9wi)

We know she can juggle two balls.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)

317 Did someone forget to pay the ONT rent?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (Kyh8Y)

318 feel we are not talking enough about the outbreak of Santa virus on the cruise ship.

So, thats why I commented on it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (zZu0s)

Keep it in Africa and don't let that ship anywhere near North or South America.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:44 PM (kxLc1)

319 Fixing the mayo disaster nic.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 04, 2026 10:44 PM (yl9wi)

320 Here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/4shaxdyj
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026


Sheesh!
Won't be long and she'll be doing medicine ads for people with bulging eyes.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:44 PM (2WIwB)

321 Was there any mention of what that car is in the top pic?

Pretty place.
Posted by: mindful webworker - is everywhere is everywhere at May 04, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)


My first thought was MGTC, MDTD. Maybe some Italian version, a one T Bugati or something.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (sl73Y)

322 On 5/4, how about some music played in 5/4 time?
https://youtu.be/buVpqwraap0
Posted by: tankdemon

One song is never enough.
https://youtu.be/8pavnAi7lNk

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (VHUov)

323
I so miss 24 hour stores.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026

***
We had several around here, groceries and pharmacies both. One regular (as opposed to Neighborhood Market) Walmart was open 24/7; there was another grocery chain where I'd stop after my late-night radio shift, and a lot of the Walgreens stores were 24-hour. Now we have one Walgreens on this side of the river that is open all night, and it's staffed even in the daytime with some of the rudest and stupidest clerks I've ever encountered; so I never go in there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (wzUl9)

324 https://youtu.be/buVpqwraap0
Posted by: tankdemon

Just what the doctor ordered, thanks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in 9/16 time at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (k0Y0k)

325 And that TD license plate may be a tell.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (sl73Y)

326 311 I feel we are not talking enough about the outbreak of Santa virus on the cruise ship.

So, thats why I commented on it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (zZu0s

For some reason, I imagine most Morons as people who want to be able to leave a place as quickly as possible if necessary.

Trapped on a ship....ughhh

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (Sco7b)

327 The ghost on Jordan Rothy’s dress needs googly eyes.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (OoFl2)

328 *Roth

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:46 PM (OoFl2)

329 Did someone forget to pay the ONT rent?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (Kyh8Y)

Check's in the mail!

Posted by: Feck, bleeding on his filthy living room floor at May 04, 2026 10:46 PM (0aYVJ)

330 I feel we are not talking enough about the outbreak of Santa virus on the cruise ship.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Looks like there was an outbreak at the Met Gala, too, because there's a lot of Ho Ho Ho's.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

331 Evidently there is a new feature for living room chairs and sofas, just for people who wear masks while alone in the car - seat belts.

(Above does not apply to traveling medical professionals or in-home aides)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

332 295 Has a search party been sent out?
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 04, 2026 10:38 PM (w3u3d)

Search "party." They were all wearing festive little hats and were moving in a conga line.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:47 PM (crO/W)

333 I feel we are not talking enough about the outbreak of Santa virus on the cruise ship.

So, thats why I commented on it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026

***
I was careful to wash and disinfect my hands after accidentally touching Stirling's mouse kill this morning. In the dim light of the bedroom, I thought it was one of the cats' toys lying on the floor. Oops, no!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:47 PM (wzUl9)

334 For some reason, I imagine most Morons as people who want to be able to leave a place as quickly as possible if necessary.

Trapped on a ship....ughhh
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (Sco7b)

I can swim. I can also drop a life raft. But it might be difficult to get my luggage off the ship....

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 10:47 PM (6pIoG)

335 And that TD license plate may be a tell.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (sl73Y)

The car has cycle fenders. Not directly attached to the body. Not a characteristic of T-series MG's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:48 PM (utfVc)

336 MGTD, early fifties. Wood frame I think.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:48 PM (sl73Y)

337
You've got to love NASA (and JPL, etc). They just dumped 12K+ of full resolution photos from Artemis II over the weekend. No fanfare, just a big dump and like this:

https://is.gd/ZyRybG

Warning, that page will take a while to load. It's 12,000 photo thumbnails just all dumped at once....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 04, 2026 10:48 PM (w6EFb)

338 Immona go over here now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)

339 I can swim. I can also drop a life raft. But it might be difficult to get my luggage off the ship....
Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 10:47 PM (6pIoG)

---------

And don't even think about going overboard without spilling your Old Fashioned.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:49 PM (CybdD)

340 For some reason, I imagine most Morons as people who want to be able to leave a place as quickly as possible if necessary.


Usually just before the waiter brings the check.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

341 One song is never enough.
https://youtu.be/8pavnAi7lNk
Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (VHUov)

Very cool. I'm going to use it to store my perishables.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 10:50 PM (crO/W)

342 Warning, that page will take a while to load. It's 12,000 photo thumbnails just all dumped at once....
Posted by: publius

Gotta give NASA one thing, their server hampsters are beefy.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

343 The tag looks like TO to me, rather than TD. Fenders are too rounded for an MG, I think.

Posted by: LRob in OK at May 04, 2026 10:50 PM (Jr+re)

344 In the land of server hamsters, I would be king.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:51 PM (CybdD)

345 So, who's celebrating Taco Tuesday tomorrow, and who's celebrating Cinco de Mayo?
====

Any specials at Taco Bell ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 04, 2026 10:51 PM (/lPRQ)

346 Have to admit Kris Jenner looks pretty damn good for her age.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:51 PM (kxLc1)

347 MGTD, early fifties. Wood frame I think.
Posted by: From about That Time

Did the Lucas electrical components suck even then also?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:51 PM (Kyh8Y)

348 MGTD, early fifties. Wood frame I think.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026

***
Maybe a Mergan. Don't they have wooden frames, or used to?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:52 PM (wzUl9)

349 The car has cycle fenders. Not directly attached to the body. Not a characteristic of T-series MG's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil

You're right. Maybe some sort of kit car.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:52 PM (sl73Y)

350 I'd love to see Kamala juggling four unopened glass jars of mayonnaise.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)

It can be a challenge.
Posted by: Debbie Wasserman Dober at May 04, 2026 10:42 PM (yl9wi)

We know she can juggle two balls.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)

She gargles them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:52 PM (snZF9)

351 Morgan, not "Mergan."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:52 PM (wzUl9)

352
What will you say on the ONT that you can't say here?

Get a grip people.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 10:53 PM (3ek7K)

353 ICYMI: Cat-eared comedienne Saaniya Abbas on scientific names for hominids:
youtube.com/shorts/s3B-E4KQ9w0

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 10:53 PM (Sy6m/)

354 Ace is at the gala right now administering fat jabs to Lizzo?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 10:53 PM (IYDXm)

355 For some reason, I imagine most Morons as people who want to be able to leave a place as quickly as possible if necessary.

Trapped on a ship....ughhh
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (Sco7b)


Not my favorite idea for a trip. I can swim, but don't like crowds of people. An 'ette once posted about a cool cruise around South America that involved Antarctica and seeing icebergs.
That seems fascinating. Maybe that would be worth a shot. But going to the Bahamas with the Carnival cruise. Oh, Hell no.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:54 PM (U94Dl)

356 As of one hour ago, Rudy Guliani’s medical team said he was fighting pneumonia and had come off the ventilator he was on just yesterday. My comment: he appears to be slowly improving but is still in critical but stable condition.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 10:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

357 Jesus, black coffee sucks. I'm gonna need a sugar free creamer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:54 PM (snZF9)

358 Good night all, I have a 6a class mañana. And a 430 and 545p. And I was just told it looks like I borrowed my pjs from an 80 year old lunch lady. That person can bite my left toe. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (OoFl2)

359 What will you say on the ONT that you can't say here?...
Posted by: four seasons

"Hey, that was a really great ONT tonight."

Posted by: mindful webworker - for example at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (k0Y0k)

360 So to put some controversy on the thread I never thought Margot Robbie is all that. She did look good I the short shorts in Suicide Squad though.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (kxLc1)

361 That seems fascinating. Maybe that would be worth a shot. But going to the Bahamas with the Carnival cruise. Oh, Hell no.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:54 PM (U94Dl)

Carnival is the walmart of cruises.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (snZF9)

362 You're right. Maybe some sort of kit car.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:52 PM (sl73Y)

There were some Alfa Romeos of that era that had cycle fenders.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (utfVc)

363 356 As of one hour ago, Rudy Guliani’s medical team said he was fighting pneumonia and had come off the ventilator he was on just yesterday. My comment: he appears to be slowly improving but is still in critical but stable condition.

---------

Ventilators will kill you, man. Big Ventilator makes bank. You die.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (CybdD)

364 As of one hour ago, Rudy Guliani’s medical team said he was fighting pneumonia and had come off the ventilator he was on just yesterday. My comment: he appears to be slowly improving but is still in critical but stable condition.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026

***
"Dear Lord, get him off that ventilator, stat!"
(-- All the dead people who croaked while on ventilators, 2020-2023)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (wzUl9)

365 That seems fascinating. Maybe that would be worth a shot. But going to the Bahamas with the Carnival cruise. Oh, Hell no.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:54 PM (U94Dl

Yeah me too.

Just the idea of being trapped if something goes wrong. Then again, you get airplane stories too.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (Sco7b)

366 Good night all, I have a 6a class mañana. And a 430 and 545p. And I was just told it looks like I borrowed my pjs from an 80 year old lunch lady. That person can bite my left toe. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (OoFl2)

Why would Saijo say that? I thought he likes you.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (qx7Zg)

367 Ok Morons. Margot Kidder or Margot Robbie? Discuss.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (U94Dl)

368 Have to admit Kris Jenner looks pretty damn good for her age.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

We can rebuild her.
We have the technology.

Posted by: The Six Million Dollar Woman at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (b3Yos)

369 Ok Morons. Margot Kidder or Margot Robbie? Discuss.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (U94Dl)

Margot Robbie all day long.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:57 PM (snZF9)

370 Ok Morons. Margot Kidder or Margot Robbie? Discuss.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026

***
1974 Margot Kidder, maybe. 1982? Uh, no. And at neither time was she in Margot Robbie's looks or talent classes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

371 Haven't been to Taco Bell in a very long time. Del Taco has good crispy tacos, and not too pricey. I do not do the fries, though. sounds weird.

Actually, tomorrow I am making tacos. Wife is staying away from some foods, so hers will be a taco salad.

Ther will be avocado, but I cannot eat them in the taco. Too slippery. I just slice it up and eat it right there. Or scoop it with a spoon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 10:58 PM (0aYVJ)

372 Carnival is the walmart of cruises.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (snZF9)

----------

That makes Margaritaville at Sea the Dollar General of cruises.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:58 PM (CybdD)

373 Ok Morons. Margot Kidder or Margot Robbie? Discuss.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (U94Dl)

It's like you are new here.

Embrace the power of *and*.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 04, 2026 10:58 PM (yl9wi)

374 Superman could have done much better than Margot Kidder.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 10:59 PM (kxLc1)

375 I do not think I have ever seen ace post an ont.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 10:59 PM (zZu0s)

376 Do any of these low-T posers at the gala have access to a razor? Shave your fucking face, you bum.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 10:59 PM (IYDXm)

377 Actually, tomorrow I am making tacos. Wife is staying away from some foods, so hers will be a taco salad.

Ther will be avocado, but I cannot eat them in the taco. Too slippery. I just slice it up and eat it right there. Or scoop it with a spoon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026

***
Nacho cheese taco shells are great with scrambled eggs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:59 PM (wzUl9)

378 Not my favorite idea for a trip. I can swim, but don't like crowds of people. An 'ette once posted about a cool cruise around South America that involved Antarctica and seeing icebergs.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

That's actually what this Hantavirus cruise was. Antarctic-capable ship, but run by a company with a case of Woke. Not as bad as Oceangate, or whatever that collapsible-sub company was, but.....

Part of my post from the food thread, where it was first mentioned, from cruise ship's own website:

Happier polar passengers, healthier polar environment

Not only will the numerous amenities and on-board entertainments help make your Hondius voyage truly memorable, this ship also gives you the peace of mind that comes with choosing one of the most environmentally friendly vessel on the polar seas. Hondius uses LED lighting, steam heating, bio-degradable paints and lubricants, and state-of-the-art power management systems that keep fuel consumption and CO2 levels minimal. This means that when you sail aboard Hondius, you get to enjoy the exotic landscapes and wildlife as much as possible while impacting them as little as possible.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)

379 Wow, where’s the ONT?

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)

380 Spirit Airlines shut down? Dammmmm! We'll guess we'll just get on a cruise ship then.

Posted by: The People You Don't Want To Go On A Cruise With at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (mjROD)

381 365 That seems fascinating. Maybe that would be worth a shot. But going to the Bahamas with the Carnival cruise. Oh, Hell no.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
--

Think of all the excitement you'll miss.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (NaHHR)

382
At any rate, from those 12K high resolution photos dumped, somebody put this together:

https://is.gd/C8JrJT

That sequence was taken maybe 40 minutes or so after TLI, and that is indeed how fast the earth was shrinking over less than a minute, so fast were they going then. And see all the little dots of light? Those are satellites reflecting sunlight. You can see the north and south aurora flickering. And it's claimed you can see lightning flashes all over, but I can't really tell.

That's the night side of earth, camera ISO turned way up. The Sun is on the other side, and the earth is being lit by moonlight. This was not possible back in the Apollo days with film.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

383 Why would Saijo say that? I thought he likes you.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026

Saijo would never. He loves his mama. Even in sweatpants.

Goodnight, all. Sweet dreams.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (OoFl2)

384 1974 Margot Kidder, maybe. 1982? Uh, no. And at neither time was she in Margot Robbie's looks or talent classes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

Margot Kidder all day long, if you want your bunny boiled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:01 PM (utfVc)

385 Ok Morons. Margot Kidder or Margot Robbie? Discuss.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (U94Dl)

Margot Robbie all day long.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:57 PM (snZF9)

This.
A pity Kidder got wrapped up in Jane Fonda socialist bullshit and lost her career and most of her money.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 11:01 PM (2WIwB)

386 For some reason, I imagine most Morons as people who want to be able to leave a place as quickly as possible if necessary.

Trapped on a ship....ughhh
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 10:45 PM (Sco7b)

I prefer to keep enough cash on hand that I cannot be held hostage by bad service, since I would always have the option to just put an appropriate number of $20s under the water glass and go. (I have been pushed to that extremity before; extremely rare, but not unthinkable.)

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 11:01 PM (Sy6m/)

387 Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUo

Apparently they are a no kill ship and let rats roam free.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:01 PM (kxLc1)

388 Carnival is the walmart of cruises.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:55 PM (snZF9)

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That makes Margaritaville at Sea the Dollar General of cruises.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:58 PM (CybdD)

I've done around 16 cruises if I remember right, 4 different lines. Royal Caribbean was always great.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:02 PM (snZF9)

389 Margot Kidder all day long, if you want your bunny boiled.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:01 PM (utfVc)

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Margo Kidder was found naked in somebody's bushes. She could be kicky.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:02 PM (CybdD)

390 >>>Superman could have done much better than Margot Kidder.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

>I knew Margot Kidder before she went completely bonkers. She was a kick. Even after. Interesting character.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 11:02 PM (IYDXm)

391 Now that Spirit Airlines has shut down, how will mediums get to their seances?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 11:02 PM (qx7Zg)

392 Another Trump threat against Iran - FoxNews...

Yawn

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 11:03 PM (Sco7b)

393 Margot kidder always look like she had a reconstructed jaw.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:03 PM (snZF9)

394 368 Have to admit Kris Jenner looks pretty damn good for her age.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

We can rebuild her.
We have the technology.
Posted by: The Six Million Dollar Woman at May 04, 2026 10:56 PM (b3Yos)perishable.

Are you implying that she has had as much work done as Bruce?

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 11:03 PM (crO/W)

395 Yeah, I never got the Margot Kidder thing.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:04 PM (77rzZ)

396 379 Wow, where’s the ONT?
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)

We're keeping it locked away in a safe place to ensure it isn't compromised by the Met Gala.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 11:04 PM (crO/W)

397 I've done around 16 cruises if I remember right, 4 different lines. Royal Caribbean was always great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:02 PM (snZF9)

Did you ever do any of those metal cruises I've heard about?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 11:05 PM (0aYVJ)

398 Jenner has had work but it's well done.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:05 PM (kxLc1)

399 I've done around 16 cruises if I remember right, 4 different lines. Royal Caribbean was always great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026

***
In 2019 my former employer was planning an early-2020 alumni cruise from Buenos Aires to Antarctica, summertime in that half of the world. I wonder if it ever happened with the Sniffle Scare going "Boo!" at everybody.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 11:05 PM (wzUl9)

400 Demanding Doggos Want to Know:
Where is the ONT!?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 04, 2026 11:05 PM (yl9wi)

401 Did you ever do any of those metal cruises I've heard about?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 11:05 PM (0aYVJ

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I went on an 80s themed cruise. My Bret Michaels get-up was such a big hit the Cruise Director wanted a picture with me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:06 PM (CybdD)

402 399 I've done around 16 cruises if I remember right, 4 different lines. Royal Caribbean was always great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026

Good to know. Thanks.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 11:06 PM (Sco7b)

403 Now that Spirit Airlines has shut down, how will mediums get to their seances?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 11:02 PM (qx7Zg)

Don't know, but their jets could be put to good use as an Air Pinochet rapid force.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:06 PM (snZF9)

404

Most of the time I have no clue who you are all talking about.

I don't give a shit about Hollywood people.

Most of them are pieces of shit. If we ignored them maybe they would shut the fuck up.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:07 PM (3ek7K)

405 Yeah, I never got the Margot Kidder thing.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:04 PM (77rzZ)

She was pretty enough. But, yeah. Also. I was one of the only kids in my group that did not like Superman. Despite Gene Hackman. I did like Miss Tessmacher.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)

406 Where is the ONT!?
Posted by: tbodie

You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at May 04, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)

407 Did you ever do any of those metal cruises I've heard about?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 11:05 PM (0aYVJ

7 years in a row. 70,000 tons of metal. YOU...would...lose...your...fucking...mind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:08 PM (snZF9)

408 I've gone on one cruise and it was a Carnival Cruise out of Miami Beach. All your prey is trapped with no where to escape. That's the implication 😃

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:08 PM (kxLc1)

409 Gettin' late for me, chirren. No workout planned for tomorrow, but I have chores to do and errands to run. My oldest buddy and his wife were planning to come into town this week to visit his 94-year-old mother. Naturally if they visit I want my place looking shipshape and Bristol fashion, so there are things to do.

Enjoy the ONT, if it happens!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 11:08 PM (wzUl9)

410 I went on an 80s themed cruise. My Bret Michaels get-up was such a big hit the Cruise Director wanted a picture with me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:06 PM (CybdD)

OwO.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:09 PM (U94Dl)

411 388 Carnival is the walmart of cruises.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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And now Spirit Airlines, thanks to Pocahontas, will go under. Now all the thots and thugs will ride with everyone else on Regular Air.
_Equity

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:09 PM (NaHHR)

412 Valerie Perrine was WAY hotter than Margot Kiddder.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

413 7 years in a row. 70,000 tons of metal. YOU...would...lose...your...fucking...mind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:08 PM (snZF9)

*solemn debbil hornz*

\m/ \m/

Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 11:10 PM (0aYVJ)

414 Valerie Perrine was WAY hotter than Margot Kiddder.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:10 PM (77rzZ

Neither are still alive.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:11 PM (kxLc1)

415 The last time I bumped into Margot she put a Bernie Sanders for president campaign button on my shirt.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 11:11 PM (IYDXm)

416 Don't know, but their jets could be put to good use as an Air Pinochet rapid force.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:06 PM (snZF9)

Rebrand them as Home Free Air. Illegals self-deporting, and deportees get a free flight to their home country.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:11 PM (utfVc)

417 It is 8pm, PST, and I have yet to see a traditional Monday night post.
You are a bunch of total, though unpaid slackers, and object to this in the strongest of terms.
I will rebel, I tell you, rebel!
My retribution will take the form of me fucking off at work in the morning for howsoever long it takes me to catch up on this customary waste of time, however entertaining is usually is.

Good night Sirs and Madams!

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 04, 2026 11:11 PM (HZfH/)

418
Bulg,

I have no idea who you are talking about.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:13 PM (3ek7K)

419
MGTD, early fifties. Wood frame I think.
Posted by: From about That Time

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

Let me guess -- Lauren Sanchez?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 11:13 PM (n7rxJ)

420 I've done around 16 cruises if I remember right, 4 different lines. Royal Caribbean was always great.
Posted by: Berserker

Agreed. Carnival was decent 10-15 years ago. I probably won't go on them again after the last one a couple years back. No section-8 brawls at the buffet, but about that level of trashy.

Royal is pretty fun, though, and I haven't had a bad cruise on their ships.

And they're less crowded; Carnival puts about 30% more cabins on the same size ships compared to Royal, I think. They've become the Spirit Airlines of cruises.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:14 PM (VHUov)

421 *solemn debbil hornz*

\m/ \m/

Posted by: Pug Mahon, king of the Irish Goodbye at May 04, 2026 11:10 PM (0aYVJ)

Seriously, you would come home forever changed. Picture being at Wacken, only with your own room, 24 hour food, 24 hour pizza, booze, and the bands just hang and party with everybody because there is nowhere else for them to go. Its fucking mecca for metalheads.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:14 PM (snZF9)

422 Rebrand them as Home Free Air. Illegals self-deporting, and deportees get a free flight to their home country.*

----------

*landing for drop-off available at additional cost

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:14 PM (CybdD)

423 Margot Kidder schtupped Pierre Trudeau. No wonder she offed herself.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:15 PM (U94Dl)

424 I discovered a new vintage hottie over the weekend, on Svengoolie’s Hammer offering: Madeline Smith. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:16 PM (77rzZ)

425
Why anyone follows hollywhore people is beyond me.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:17 PM (3ek7K)

426 Margot Kidder schtupped Pierre Trudeau. No wonder she offed herself.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:15 PM (U94Dl)

Good thing he was shooting blanks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:17 PM (utfVc)

427 No ONT? Sadness pervades.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2026 11:17 PM (CHHv1)

428 Yes, ventilators will kill you if you stay on one too long. Of course, in the mean time, it’s saving your life. It’s a tricky call.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 11:17 PM (ZVgZ4)

429
And they're less crowded; Carnival puts about 30% more cabins on the same size ships compared to Royal, I think. They've become the Spirit Airlines of cruises.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:14 PM (VHUov)

Exactly. Royals buffet area is always big and spacious. Their ships seems to always have more area to move around. I was on the maiden voyage cruise of the Grand Princess from the Princess line. The buffet area was so chopped up and laid out so stupid and cramped you felt like a rat running a maze.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:19 PM (snZF9)

430 Have we gotten a note demanding an exorbitant amount of ransom in cryptocurrency for the ONT?

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:21 PM (77rzZ)

431 I thought cruises were for people who want to get really, really sick.

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:21 PM (b3Yos)

432 Margot Kidder schtupped Pierre Trudeau.
===

I had hoped to never be reminded of these two.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

433 Have we gotten a note demanding an exorbitant amount of ransom in cryptocurrency for the ONT?
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:21 PM (77rzZ)

If it's CBD's week, I'm guessing he was trapped by some First World Problem.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 11:22 PM (qx7Zg)

434 Was Pierre Trudeau gay, or not? I’ve heard it both ways.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

435
And an earthrise sequence from the same guy using images from that massive photo dump:

https://is.gd/4bheYL

I would've done that holding the dark disc of the Moon still, letting the earth appear to move from behind, but who am I to complain.

That's what's in that mess of photos they dumped. All at once. No attempt at organizing, or sorting, just a big dump. Seriously, you've got to be a Ph.D level expert on where and how NASA does things just to find this stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (w6EFb)

436 Was Pierre Trudeau gay, or not? I’ve heard it both ways.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

Probably because he might go both ways.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:24 PM (snZF9)

437 425
Why anyone follows hollywhore people is beyond me.

Posted by: four seasons
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Follow that, what else?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:24 PM (NaHHR)

438 So, I guess it’s time to make this a BOOB THREAD.

BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:25 PM (77rzZ)

439 Evenin'

(ONT looks familiar. Like a cafe thread. Weird)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2026 11:26 PM (sAmhv)

440 Why anyone follows hollywhore people is beyond me.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:17 PM (3ek7K

Don't be too hard on us. I loved all my movie cameos and of course the best show on TV, The Apprentice .

Posted by: The Donald at May 04, 2026 11:26 PM (kxLc1)

441 I discovered a new vintage hottie over the weekend, on Svengoolie’s Hammer offering: Madeline Smith. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:16 PM (77rzZ)

I can hear my grandfather. She gottem some-a nice-a round melonies.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:26 PM (snZF9)

442 NOW we're talking.

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:26 PM (b3Yos)

443 Was Pierre Trudeau gay, or not? I’ve heard it both ways.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

Bulg, he could have been both ways. Scandalous. I know.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:26 PM (U94Dl)

444 No ONT? Sadness pervades.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2026 11:17 PM (CHHv1)
====

One night closer to Toosday!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:27 PM (RIvkX)

445 In a way...aren't they ALL boob threads? Depending on definition of course.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2026 11:27 PM (CHHv1)

446 I remember when the ONT came on at midnight! Are we doing a throwback, or did they lose the keys to the blog?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 04, 2026 11:28 PM (Vvh2V)

447 So, I guess it’s time to make this a BOOB THREAD.

BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:25 PM (77rzZ)

i offer to support this ....

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 04, 2026 11:28 PM (nsSpm)

448 So, I guess it’s time to make this a BOOB THREAD.
BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg

A DDG pix search on your aforementioned Madeline Smith showed some copious 53003.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I saw Copious 53003 open for ... somebody... at May 04, 2026 11:29 PM (k0Y0k)

449 For those who need a song tonight, try this one.

https://youtu.be/evgEJlOPoeo

Yes, it's suitable for work.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (qx7Zg)

450 Sudden storm rolling in. Distant rumbling and then, just now, one big badda boom. Big badda boom.

Posted by: mindful webworker - multipass at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (k0Y0k)

451 Anybody need any dating advice?

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (b3Yos)

452 Pierre Trudeau I have no doubt sucks dick and likely taught his son Justine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

453
Brayenyard,

My family is what is important.

I salute son and daughter in law who don't allow the grandchildren to have access to anything online.




Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:31 PM (3ek7K)

454 Caw! Caw, Caw!

Posted by: Lesbian Seagull at May 04, 2026 11:32 PM (Q+gd/)

455 So, I guess it’s time to make this a BOOB THREAD.
BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg

A DDG pix search on your aforementioned Madeline Smith showed some copious 53003.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I saw Copious 53003 open for ... somebody... at May 04, 2026 11:29 PM (k0Y0k)

i know i'm mentally unstable when i'm trying to figure out how a picture search for a guided missile destroyer is relevant to an old time hollywood hottie...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 04, 2026 11:32 PM (nsSpm)

456 Anybody need any dating advice?

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (b3Yos)

I've been married 29 years. How can I make hubby not like my cooking?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:33 PM (U94Dl)

457 I’ve been on two cruises and enjoyed them both.

One was on one of the Windstar boats and the other on holland America.

Wonderful food and offshore excursions, some planned, some not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 11:34 PM (A5RD0)

458 @451 - Well, I'm a terminally depressed male who has some creative energies, though they are mostly downcast and bespeak of a dim future, and-- wait, why are you running away?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2026 11:35 PM (CHHv1)

459 Did Ace ban himself and tonight's ONT COB?

Posted by: a.moron at May 04, 2026 11:35 PM (X5Jzz)

460 I'm so old that all of my advice is dated

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 04, 2026 11:36 PM (jrgJz)

461 456. Mary, add kale to every dish.

(Sorry, Piper!)

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)

462 The only cruise I've been on is The Poseidon Adventure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

463 456 Anybody need any dating advice?

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (b3Yos)

I've been married 29 years. How can I make hubby not like my cooking?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:33 PM (U94Dl)

Undercook the chicken, overcook the beef and vegetables.

Posted by: a.moron at May 04, 2026 11:37 PM (X5Jzz)

464 436 Was Pierre Trudeau gay, or not? I’ve heard it both ways.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)
+++++++++++++++++++

He's also black and white, depending on whether he has enough shoe polish.

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 11:37 PM (dIske)

465 Anybody need any dating advice?
Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (b3Yos)

I'm single, but not looking into dating - unless you're talking about carbon dating. ;-)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 11:37 PM (qx7Zg)

466 I, for one, welcome Pixy Misa as our new ONT overlord.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:37 PM (77rzZ)

467 Loud and boisterous out on the beach. I’m holed up. I can look at the water a bit from here and not deal with the crowds and the cars.


I can’t wait for November. It’s just me and a couple seagulls. And the wind and rain.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 11:37 PM (A5RD0)

468 467 Nurse, November is a glorious month.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:39 PM (77rzZ)

469
Hubby and I took many cruises.

The absolute was when we went through the Panama Canal.

There was a stop where we were allowed to swim in the canal.

It was awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:41 PM (3ek7K)

470 Mary, add kale to every dish.

(Sorry, Piper!)

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026


Lol. Hubby enjoys kale. We both do.

Mostly I am kidding. It has been a good 29 years. We still like each other. We are starting to go out to dinner more, since the mortgage was paid off. First things first. But it is nice to not always cook.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:41 PM (U94Dl)

471
Anybody need any dating advice?
Posted by: wth

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

Sounds like you've got some Don'ts.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)

472 462 The only cruise I've been on is The Poseidon Adventure.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

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So you spent the entire cruise shoving Shelley Winters' fat ass through tiny watertight hatches?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:41 PM (CybdD)

473 That's what's in that mess of photos they dumped. All at once. No attempt at organizing, or sorting, just a big dump. Seriously, you've got to be a Ph.D level expert on where and how NASA does things just to find this stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (w6EFb)

The Guy in charge of the photos spotted The Big Secret, and dumped all the photos onto the internet so People could see The Truth, just before he was killed to silence him.

Toss in a girlboss, a pretty-boy actor, and $200 million in visual effects and you would have had a Hollywood hit movie, ten years ago.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2026 11:42 PM (mjROD)

474 Hubby and I took many cruises.

The absolute was when we went through the Panama Canal.

There was a stop where we were allowed to swim in the canal.

It was awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:41 PM (3ek7K)

That sounds lovely and fun, four seasons!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:42 PM (U94Dl)

475 There was a stop where we were allowed to swim in the canal.

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I hope it wasn't in a lock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:43 PM (CybdD)

476 I think tonight ONT means Obviously Not There.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:46 PM (snZF9)

477 My family is what is important.

I salute son and daughter in law who don't allow the grandchildren to have access to anything online.
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👍

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:46 PM (NaHHR)

478 470 Mary, you sound like a good egg. Cheers!

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:47 PM (77rzZ)

479 I felt a great disturbance in the Farce, as if an ONT had been deleted while still in editing mode.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:47 PM (2GVsD)

480
It doesn't matter that there isn't an ONT.

We can talk about shit, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:48 PM (3ek7K)

481 I missed the hobby thread, but just ran into a car problem. I have a bad O2 sensor on my 2016 highlander. It's downstream of the motor, but I am led to believe there is a left and a right one. Is there a way to figure out which, or do you just replace both at the same time? I wouldn't care - I the past they were about $20. These are $150+ each though!

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:48 PM (ncfGW)

482 473 That's what's in that mess of photos they dumped. All at once. No attempt at organizing, or sorting, just a big dump. Seriously, you've got to be a Ph.D level expert on where and how NASA does things just to find this stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 04, 2026 11:23 PM (w6EFb)
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They must also do, NOAA and Weather.gov?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:49 PM (NaHHR)

483 I grew up an only child. Making my own fun. No one indulged or entertained me.

If there is no ONT, do we hear the sound of one hand clapping? Or do we make our own fun?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:49 PM (U94Dl)

484 My abilities at car repair are very much lacking. Sorry 496.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2026 11:50 PM (CHHv1)

485 Loud and boisterous out on the beach. I’m holed up. I can look at the water a bit from here and not deal with the crowds and the cars.

I can’t wait for November. It’s just me and a couple seagulls. And the wind and rain.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 11:37 PM (A5RD0)

Yeah, another few weeks and the jersey shore officially opens. The jersey parkway becomes hell on earth on the weekend.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:51 PM (snZF9)

486
Always make your own fun.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)

487 The CoBs should know better than to leave the Horde unattended for long stretches.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD)

488 >>>Is there a way to figure out which, or do you just replace both at the same time? I wouldn't care - I the past they were about $20. These are $150+ each though!
Posted by: 496
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There was a video posted on code readers, and the problem may not be specifically what it's reading but something else effecting that sensor.
_I know nothing

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:52 PM (NaHHR)

489 Yeah, another few weeks and the jersey shore officially opens. The jersey parkway becomes hell on earth on the weekend.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:51 PM (snZF9)

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Will Snookie be there?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:52 PM (CybdD)

490 Anybody need any dating advice?
Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 11:30 PM (b3Yos)


Any advice about how to not let Mrs.D.find out?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 11:52 PM (2WIwB)

491 Yeah, another few weeks and the jersey shore officially opens. The jersey parkway becomes hell on earth on the weekend.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:51
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I used to visit Seaside each summer when my mother in law was alive. The kids liked it, but I don't think I'll be back there soon

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:53 PM (52+rt)

492
Ace could post open threads everyday and we'll always have shit to comment on.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:53 PM (3ek7K)

493 Any advice about how to not let Mrs.D.find out?

Unlike Eric Swallowells, get a burner phone for the trysts where you send pictures of your privates.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:53 PM (2GVsD)

494 I missed the hobby thread, but just ran into a car problem. I have a bad O2 sensor on my 2016 highlander. It's downstream of the motor, but I am led to believe there is a left and a right one. Is there a way to figure out which, or do you just replace both at the same time? I wouldn't care - I the past they were about $20. These are $150+ each though!

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:48 PM (ncfGW)

Does a scanner show which one? If not you could just buy one and install in each spot to see which one was bad.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:53 PM (snZF9)

495 I grew up an only child. Making my own fun. No one indulged or entertained me.

If there is no ONT, do we hear the sound of one hand clapping? Or do we make our own fun?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:49 PM (U94Dl)


I was the youngest of four...by a long way. Yup...pretty much left to my own devices.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 11:54 PM (2WIwB)

496 I missed the hobby thread, but just ran into a car problem. I have a bad O2 sensor on my 2016 highlander. It's downstream of the motor, but I am led to believe there is a left and a right one. Is there a way to figure out which, or do you just replace both at the same time? I wouldn't care - I the past they were about $20. These are $150+ each though!
Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:48 PM (ncfGW)

And OBDII code reader should be able to identify which O2 sensor is bad. Might just be a bad wire, too. Sensors are down low on exhaust pipe, and wires can get snagged by debris on road. There should be 4 sensors, two upstream of the cats that tell the ECM what the fuel burn is doing, and two downstream, to verify that the cats are properly burning the unburned hydrocarbons.

Most autoparts stores can read codes for you; you should not have to be guessing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:55 PM (utfVc)

497 We're right on the cusp of the Big 500

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:55 PM (CybdD)

498 A new threat to pocketbook has emerged, Sprue Brothers is having a 20% off sale for Magic Factory and Trumpeter kits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:56 PM (2GVsD)

499 We're right on the cusp of the Big 500
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:55 PM (CybdD)

It's still a little early for the Indianapolis 500

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 11:56 PM (qx7Zg)

500 I'm almost an hour late and I'm still too early?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (+9wcF)

501 Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (2GVsD)

502 I used to visit Seaside each summer when my mother in law was alive. The kids liked it, but I don't think I'll be back there soon

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:53 PM (52+rt)

Yeah that was nice some years back. My brother is maybe 5 miles from there, my father is 10. Thank god I recently found a nice quiet way through the pine barrens and past Fort Dix to get their houses.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (snZF9)

503 Does a scanner show which one? If not you could just buy one and install in each spot to see which one was bad.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 11:53 PM 
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It only showed me that it wasn't upstream.

I haven't consulted youtube yet... youtube knows all

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (2hq3T)

504
I'm the oldest of five. Back in the day our parents had no idea where we were. Many decades ago.

Kids today miss out on so much.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (3ek7K)

505 What an evening. No guidance from a COB.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (U94Dl)

506 [Giuliani] He previously made headlines after being seriously injured in a car crash in New Hampshire in August 2025. Authorities said the vehicle he was riding in was struck from behind on Interstate 93 in Manchester, leaving him with a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and other injuries.
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Yeah, they want to kill him too.
He's still got a copy of the HD.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 11:58 PM (NaHHR)

507 Most autoparts stores can read codes for you; you should not have to be guessing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And they'll be happy to do it, and clear the codes after you fix it, if you buy the parts there.

At least AutoZone was, the last time I had to muck with a sensor swap.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:58 PM (VHUov)

508 Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (+9wcF)

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Pick up your exciting award at the Cashier's Window on your way out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 11:58 PM (CybdD)

509 Kids today miss out on so much.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (3ek7K)


This!
I had an absolute Huck Finn childhood. It was incredible.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 11:58 PM (2WIwB)

510 182 The thing that I do not get about the Ozempic zombies in Hollywood is:

1) use ozempic to get rid of what you consider to be problem fat.

2) doesn't this mean you have an exit strategy for after the weight is lost. Go off and keep exercising? See if it comes back or you can keep it off?

3) or is this plastic surgery psychosis on a massive scale where they get lost in it?

4) this cannot be good for their brains
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

So, there are several different personality types regarding food, and I think only a couple are well-suited to use a GLP-1 well. One is the very disciplined type, like garrett who quits smoking every year for cycling, and there are similarly people who can treat their eating like dialing in settings on a bio machine.

A type that would not manage it well is food addicts who will use the first type as an excuse for not managing their mindset, setting themselves up for failure by pretending they "just need to use willpower" like the disciplined ones. They will crash diet for awhile, then bounce back in perpetual yo-yos, and GLP-1s would just add oomph to the crash phase.

(Cont.)

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 11:58 PM (Sy6m/)

511 What an evening. No guidance from a COB.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

* looks guilty *

* stops running with scissors *

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:59 PM (VHUov)

512 >>> 487 The CoBs should know better than to leave the Horde unattended for long stretches.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD)

Warm-up for Memorial Day?

Posted by: #threeweeks at May 04, 2026 11:59 PM (WMyc4)

513 Huh. I hope everyone's all right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:59 PM (bss/y)

514 Auto zone was the one who told me it was a bad sensor. It threw code P013A.

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:00 AM (2hq3T)

515 * looks guilty *

* stops running with scissors *

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:59 PM (VHUov)


There was an after-school special about latch-key kids. Eat a cookie. Watch it. Don't feel bad, dude.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:01 AM (U94Dl)

516 LOL. Although I could see CBD just sitting back and observing, steepling his fingers and chuckling softly to himself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 05, 2026 12:01 AM (bss/y)

517 514 Auto zone was the one who told me it was a bad sensor. It threw code P013A.

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I always loved that code.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 05, 2026 12:02 AM (CybdD)

518 What an evening. No guidance from a COB.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

* looks guilty *

* stops running with scissors *
Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 11:59 PM (VHUov)


So dipping 'Ette's ponytails in the ink wells is right out?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:02 AM (2WIwB)

519 Aetius

The Commie lolcowlizers are getting their lunches stolen from them now that twitter is auto-translating English and Japanese.

The Japanese are getting a big wake up on how deranged these vandals are and not taking it well, people in government are noticing including the Prime Minister. I know it will end in unemployment for these cellar dwellers but I want them to suffer complete humiliation and ruination.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:03 AM (2GVsD)

520 Lord of the Flies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 05, 2026 12:03 AM (bss/y)

521 It is only Memorial Day if we get flashing fonts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:04 AM (2GVsD)

522 The Japanese are getting a big wake up on how deranged these vandals are and not taking it well, people in government are noticing including the Prime Minister. I know it will end in unemployment for these cellar dwellers but I want them to suffer complete humiliation and ruination.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:03 AM (2GVsD)

pixy had a show... Dragon Maid? I always wondered if it would have been better in Japanese. There seemed to be odd... themes in some cases.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 05, 2026 12:04 AM (bss/y)

523 So, who's in charge of this circus anyway?
Somebody has got to get this shit under control.

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:05 AM (b3Yos)

524 @NCuffs1
16m
Police in Edmond, Oklahoma are still searching for suspects following a mass shooting at Arcadia Lake that sent at least 23 people to the hospital.
…
Police say the shooting occurred around 9 p.m. on Sunday during a party near the Scissortail Campground
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No suspects.
Nobody's talking because they don't want...

That's the way thugs work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 12:05 AM (NaHHR)

525 Police in Edmond, Oklahoma are still searching for suspects following a mass shooting at Arcadia Lake that sent at least 23 people to the hospital.

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They hate these cans.

Posted by: Navin Johnson at May 05, 2026 12:06 AM (CybdD)

526 452 Pierre Trudeau I have no doubt sucks dick and likely taught his son Justine.
Posted by: San Franpsycho


Pierre's wife knew her way around a dick!! Cuck Pierre just cleaned up. Weak gringo.

Posted by: Fidel Castro at May 05, 2026 12:06 AM (sAmhv)

527 (Cont.)

I feel bad for the control addicts in this case, because they are likely to end up abusing GLP-1s to the point of anorexia. They might look like the disciplined ones superficially, at first, but they are not in control of their need to feel in control. And healthy maintenance doesn't feed that need, since it's not visibly forcing themselves beyond limits.

But there is one other group that can use them well, and that is the type that can "manage themselves on purpose," accepting that they have irrational drives to manipulate and triggers to avoid. They might need professional help, but ultimately they can pick out a set of eating habits that would suffice to sustain the target weight and nothing more. Then, by eating that way, they might only lose as little as a pound a week; but then, upon reaching the target weight, they would not have to change a single solitary habit. GLP-1s add the advantage of removing temptation, making it easier to stick to it, so then they might need to find a small maintenance dose (perhaps with a compounding pharmacy or whatever they're called).

But there is no such thing as magic bullets where human psychology is involved.

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 12:06 AM (Sy6m/)

528 It only showed me that it wasn't upstream.

I haven't consulted youtube yet... youtube knows all
Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 11:57 PM (2hq3T)

Downstream sensors usually don't affect how the car runs. They are there to ensure that the catalytic converters are performing as they should. But if you have to do emissions testing they needs to be working.

Check for damaged wires. Uncouple and reconnect the harness plugs to the sensors. Might clear some subtle corrosion causing a fault signal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:07 AM (utfVc)

529 COULD YOU CLOSE THE REFRIGERATOR jeez

Posted by: wth at May 05, 2026 12:07 AM (b3Yos)

530 Damn, I done ate all the kung pao chicken.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:08 AM (77rzZ)

531 AOP - good suggestions. I will do that. It spent 10 years in VT, so corrosion wouldn't be a surprise. But now I'm in Wyoming. There are no inspections, and no emissions tests!

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:08 AM (osUDQ)

532
Diogenes,

It was wonderful. Mostly we built forts.

The only restriction we had to was to have dinner ready when the parents got home from work.

Kids today have no clue what is was to be free roaming.






Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:09 AM (3ek7K)

533 I just scarffed down a bowl of Tillamook ice cream...Oregon Dark Cherry.
Mmmm

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:09 AM (2WIwB)

534
When Karin Bass was in Ghana as Los Angeles burned, the deputy mayor she left in charge was at home on house arrest.

For phoning in a bomb threat.

We are indeed governed by criminals.

From @spencerpratt on @joerogan

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 12:09 AM (NaHHR)

535 "Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! Where's the ONT?!?!?!"

"Nothing up my sleeve. PRESTO!!!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 12:10 AM (D0X9e)

536 496-- this is what came up on search for code:

P013A is an OBD-II diagnostic trouble code indicating O2 Sensor Slow Response - Rich to Lean (Bank 1, Sensor 2). This code triggers when the downstream oxygen sensor, located after the catalytic converter on the engine bank containing cylinder 1, fails to switch voltage levels rapidly enough during fuel mixture transitions.

Common causes and symptoms include:

Faulty Downstream O2 Sensor: The sensor may be aged, contaminated, or defective, which is the most frequent trigger for this code.
Exhaust Leaks: Leaks near or before the Bank 1 Sensor 2 can introduce false air readings, causing slow response times.
Catalytic Converter Issues: A degraded or failing catalytic converter can alter exhaust gas composition, affecting sensor performance.
Wiring or Connector Problems: Damaged harnesses, corrosion, or poor ground signals can disrupt the sensor's electrical communication with the Powertrain Control Module (PCM).
Fuel System Issues: Problems such as clogged injectors, vacuum leaks, or a faulty Mass Air Flow (MAF) sensor can create rich or lean conditions that overwhelm the sensor.

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

537 Diogenes,

It was wonderful. Mostly we built forts.

The only restriction we had to was to have dinner ready when the parents got home from work.

Kids today have no clue what is was to be free roaming.



Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:09 AM (3ek7K)

***

Built forts. Went fishing whenever I wanted. Had my own swimming hole. Played army. BB guns.
Hell yeah!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:11 AM (2WIwB)

538 The translation and dubbing has gone through cycles.

First was NBC rewrites Kimba the White Lion for an American audience.

Then we get the likes of Screamline who does the same for the likes of Silent Mobius - Attacked Mystification Police becomes Abnormal Mystery Police.

For aberration, there is the English dub of Ghost Story where the whole staff went full LeRoy Jenkins on mangling the script to shockingly funny effect.

For awhile we had more professional translations- thanks Neil Nadelman and other real fans.

But then the Canadians and Funimation started to dominate the American side and things went to scheiss.

Maybe we will now see a swing back to accurate translations because the Japanese will use AI.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:12 AM (2GVsD)

539

496,

Wyoming rocks!

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:13 AM (3ek7K)

540 pixy had a show... Dragon Maid? I always wondered if it would have been better in Japanese. There seemed to be odd... themes in some cases.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid? That's about a 3/10 on the "odd Japanese anime things" scale, maybe?

Anime is usually better in Japanese with subtitles.

1. The Japanese voice actors are almost always technically better, which is at least better for all the foley effects (everything but the talking)

B. The localization of the dubbed version will usually be more "Americanized" than the subtitled version, which may help with some of those themes. When they're identical, all the weebs (shifty eyes) decry the "dubtitles."

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:13 AM (VHUov)

541 Auto zone was the one who told me it was a bad sensor. It threw code P013A.
Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:00 AM (2hq3T)

Okay, according to Kelley Blue book, that is Bank 1, sensor 2. The downstream O2 sensor for the cylinder bank containing #1 cylinder. On a typical American V8, that would be the left side. For a transverse-mounted V6, you will have to find cylinder #1, and trace which exhaust pipe connects to it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:13 AM (utfVc)

542 LOL. Although I could see CBD just sitting back and observing, steepling his fingers and chuckling softly to himself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 05, 2026 12:01 AM (bss/y)

Is he caressing a white cat?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 05, 2026 12:14 AM (qx7Zg)

543 The gayest man on earth would find this over the top.


You'll click because you're bored and an 'ette won't steer you wrong.

https://tinyurl.com/5376ux9n

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:15 AM (U94Dl)

544 All I know is that I was pissed when harley started using oxygen sensors. They put one in each pipe, and those need to work or else it runs all screwed up. The earlier fuel injected bikes didn't have them, but the later ones do. The pipes got the sensor bungs, so if you want to use the pipes on an earlier bike you need to buy the plugs for the bungs. Some of these nice aftermarket performance exhausts on harleys are $1000, so you don't just toss them in the corner and get new ones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 12:15 AM (snZF9)

545 including the Prime Minister. I know it will end in unemployment for these cellar dwellers but I want them to suffer complete humiliation and ruination.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Don't think so. Takaichi's not sensitive to their culture. She's be doing things to get them out of the country. No big on unemployment.
U ben here too long. U go. U go, Now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 12:16 AM (NaHHR)

546 Neon Genesis Evangelion is about a 6 on odd and 9 on skeevy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:16 AM (2GVsD)

547

I don't click on anything here.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:16 AM (3ek7K)

548 Doof is passed out in a puddle of his feces and piss.
Weird Dave has his ballsack caught in the wood chipper.
And T-Rex is handcuffed to a dandelion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 12:17 AM (IYDXm)

549 LOL. Although I could see CBD just sitting back and observing, steepling his fingers and chuckling softly to himself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 05, 2026 12:01 AM (bss/y)

Is he caressing a white cat?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 05, 2026 12:14 AM (qx7Zg)
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While kissing his gold-ringed pinky.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 12:18 AM (D0X9e)

550 Got a few things to dump here on the not really ONT before I clock out for the night. Howzabout this:

Babylon Bee Asked AI To Show America Without Republicans - funny, and horrifying
https://youtu.be/jAcxE5w52vI

and this 17-second item, a cat that caught 27 mice in one night and arranged them
https://t.co/jWLsZ3th2R

Posted by: mindful webworker - good kitty!! at May 05, 2026 12:18 AM (k0Y0k)

551 I don't click on anything here.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:16 AM (3ek7K)
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Have you tried testosterone injections?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 05, 2026 12:19 AM (D0X9e)

552 The Japanese Prime Minister has publicly stated that Japanese anime will stay uniquely Japanese and will not bend to 'global' tastes. The Japanese government has forced VISA, Mastercard, and PayPal to back down on being censorious scolds. One new game that was ruined by American lolcowlizers is now busy fixing their vandalism and calling them out for it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:19 AM (2GVsD)

553 547

I don't click on anything here.

Posted by: four seasons


Oh c'mon! Live a little. Think of it as Russian roulette but without the sweet release of death.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 12:19 AM (sAmhv)

554 Sanae Takaichi
@takaichi_sanae
15h
Anthony @AlboMP I was invited to a dinner party.

At the invitation, we presented music lover Anthony with a Japanese record rack and records by Babymetal and Man with a Mission, and he also gave us a signed drumhead and record by AC/DC, Australia's leading rock band.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 12:19 AM (NaHHR)

555 > find a small maintenance dose (perhaps with a compounding pharmacy or whatever they're called).

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 12:06 AM (Sy6m/)

The Ozempic pens have tight control over the dose by means of clicks. There are a bunch of calibration lines, labeled at a few points. Mine is labeled at 0.25 mg and 0.5 mg, with a number of lines in between. I'll try to remember to count next time. Anyway, getting an intermediate dose would be no problem with the existing pens.

I haven't had to take daily insulin in over a year, and that's a good thing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 05, 2026 12:20 AM (qpyNK)

556 and this 17-second item, a cat that caught 27 mice in one night and arranged them
https://t.co/jWLsZ3th2R

Posted by: mindful webworker - good kitty!! at May 05, 2026 12:18 AM (k0Y0k)

Damn, that cat is a terminator.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 12:21 AM (snZF9)

557 Doof is passed out in [...]
Weird Dave has his [...]
And T-Rex is handcuffed to a dandelion.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

That de-escalated quickly.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:21 AM (VHUov)

558 Has the no ONT ever happened before?

Hope they are ok.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 05, 2026 12:21 AM (WONhk)

559 Mariners win!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:21 AM (2WIwB)

560 Was the ONT's ransom written in crayon perchance?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:22 AM (2GVsD)

561 @takaichi_sanae
15h
Anthony @AlboMP I was invited to a dinner party.

At the invitation, we presented music lover Anthony with a Japanese record rack and records by Babymetal and Man with a Mission, and he also gave us a signed drumhead and record by AC/DC, Australia's leading rock band.
Posted by: Braenyard

Babymetal music for AC/DC music? Australia got he best of that exchange!

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:22 AM (VHUov)

562 Has the no ONT ever happened before?

Hope they are ok.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 05, 2026 12:21 AM (WONhk)


Yes. We can make our own fun tonight. We can Wang Ching toinght.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:23 AM (U94Dl)

563
I read enough scary shit here. I don't click on anything here.

I learned several years ago to not click on anything.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:23 AM (3ek7K)

564 https://tinyurl.com/5376ux9n
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Just watched that again a couple of nights ago. Think maybe some Moron mentioned or linked to it. (Was it you?) Still hilarious.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and still disturbing at May 05, 2026 12:24 AM (k0Y0k)

565 You know, I grew up with cats who were exceptional hunters. Mice, chipmunks, moles (they didn't eat those), fish (really), and birds. I doubt a cat would leave much more than a tail in regard to mice. I know the cats I grew up with ate the little varmints. Except moles. Guess they didn't taste good.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 12:24 AM (sAmhv)

566 Can't wait until Anthony gets to this song

https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:24 AM (2GVsD)

567 Doof is passed out in [...]
Weird Dave has his [...]
And T-Rex is handcuffed to a dandelion.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

That de-escalated quickly.
Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:21 AM (VHUov)

I thought TRex was busy designing the new Trump Truckasaurus, for its debut outside Obama's "Presidential Library and Flak Tower".

Two enter the arena, only one leaves.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 05, 2026 12:25 AM (qx7Zg)

568 551 I don't click on anything here.

Posted by: four seasons
---

You've been here a while. You know who is trustworthy or not. You know what to expect from Admiral Ackbar.

If someone posted malware it would be called out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 12:25 AM (NaHHR)

569 Babymetal music for AC/DC music? Australia got he best of that exchange!

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:22 AM (VHUov)

The PM of japan used to play drums in Babymetal. Gotta love that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 12:25 AM (snZF9)

570
We're over 500 comments tonight.

We have entertained ourselves.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:26 AM (3ek7K)

571 Just watched that again a couple of nights ago. Think maybe some Moron mentioned or linked to it. (Was it you?) Still hilarious.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and still disturbing atonight.

, 2026 12:24 AM (k0Y0k)

It could have been me. It probably was. That video kills me every time.



Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:28 AM (U94Dl)

572 So I'm thinking the COBs had a retreat, probably someplace cool like Casper Wyoming, but booked their flights with Spirit.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:28 AM (2WIwB)

573 27 All this talk of Nazis. I wonder if in 2000 years will they be thought of like the Romans, every day.

It is really weird when you think about it. They lasted about 25 years in total, had power for 12 years, got their own country destroyed and were eventually outlawed. Mostly as the result of a series of stupid decisions they made. Been extinct for 80 years as any sort of actual movement, and were always designed to appeal mostly to Germans of a certain period. Yet they are constantly discussed today

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 05, 2026 12:29 AM (3/XaG)

574 So, we have achieved the anarcho-socialist web state?

Fine, I am now in charge. Ladies, remove your apparel.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:29 AM (77rzZ)

575 I learned several years ago to not click on anything.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:23 AM (3ek7K)
-------
There are a lot of neer-do-wells... I've found the only trustworthy links are posted by Admiral Akbar

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:30 AM (GnD1e)

576 Nyah?

*Flicks safety off Seburo MN-23*

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:30 AM (2GVsD)

577 Yang Poon ONT!

Hahahahaha...

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)

578 Hmmm, now they are saying the PM of japan didn't play in babymetal, but spent time on their podcast. I hate AI, their answers always change.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 12:31 AM (snZF9)

579 I thought the news reports were she played in a metal band while attending college.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:32 AM (2GVsD)

580
We are so blessed we have Ace.

There is no place like this.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:32 AM (3ek7K)

581 We'd better shut up. If we have too much fun Ace will consider discontinuing the ONT

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:33 AM (52+rt)

582 A snappily dressed man walks on from stage left, "imagine if you will a whole world patterned after Ace of Spades. Welcome to the Twilight Zone."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (2GVsD)

583 I don't click on anything here.
Posted by: four seasons

You can always trust links from me.

Presuming it's really me, not someone socking me.🤯

I'm often hesitant to click on "I'll just leave this here" links. The regulars are pretty good about warning about NSFW or disturbing content on links. It helps me decide when someone later comments positively about a link, although some have been known to go along with a rickroll gag. Avoid Admiral Ackbar links always.

Posted by: mindful webworker - one linkey dinkey, two linkey dinkey... at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (k0Y0k)

584 578 Why would anyone trust a sloth, anyway?

(Nobody ever gets this joke,)

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (77rzZ)

585 So I'm thinking the COBs had a retreat, probably someplace cool like Casper Wyoming, but booked their flights with Spirit.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:28 AM

The COBs are on a special retreat.
https://tinyurl.com/yc8nh5rx

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (klQAB)

586 You guys can't blame me. I dumped my Geezer Golf winnings into the tip jar.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (2WIwB)

587 So, we have achieved the anarcho-socialist web state?

Fine, I am now in charge. Ladies, remove your apparel.
Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:29 AM (77rzZ)

Ok -- Lizzo

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (qx7Zg)

588 Thank you all for all the car advice - I will look it over and see if I am up to the task

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (G/LYz)

589
That video kills me every time.



Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
============

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=kvx0ncTxxL0&rco=1

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 05, 2026 12:35 AM (n7rxJ)

590 The PM of japan used to play drums in Babymetal. Gotta love that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


LoL! I did not know that. I heard she was a drummer in heavy metal bands, just not Babymetal. Not a big metal head but Babymetal is probably the only band, metal or otherwise, that I see the lead singers and think 'They are just adorable'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 12:35 AM (sAmhv)

591 You're dirty birds, and you don't deserve an ONT.

Posted by: Annie Wilkes at May 05, 2026 12:36 AM (gWguj)

592
Yall are like family.

Some of yall are weird but that is what family is like.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:36 AM (3ek7K)

593 I learned several years ago to not click on anything.
Posted by: four seasons

You should definitely never click youtube links from mikeski. Who knows what kind of music could be on the other side?

https://youtu.be/NVacIFogl-Y
https://youtu.be/rm2GvfboBtg

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:37 AM (VHUov)

594 Yang Poon ONT!

Hahahahaha...

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)

Yup, Yang Poon. We modified that at the shop recently. We identified the QC dude. He is Fu Chen. We get yang poon because Fu chen fucked up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 05, 2026 12:38 AM (snZF9)

595 The Japanese PM is still not as cool as the assassinated guy who was into Elvis.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:38 AM (77rzZ)

596 572 So I'm thinking the COBs had a retreat, probably someplace cool like Casper Wyoming, but booked their flights with Spirit.
Posted by: Diogenes


They were on the final flight, which hasn't landed. It may still be up there, lost in time, like a Twilight Zone episode.

(yes, it was a TW episode.)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 05, 2026 12:38 AM (sAmhv)

597 496-- good luck with the O2 sensor issue!

I replaced both downstreams on hubby's car (years ago) and can only recall that it was a dirty, crusty job. Those things seemed welded in place, so penetrating oil like PB Blaster helped a lot! Just don't get it on the wires...

Utoob is great for identifying component locations and *how to unclip those damned connectors*!

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:38 AM (rdVOm)

598 592 Four Seasons, we are old in addition to being weird.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:39 AM (77rzZ)

599 PM Abe

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:40 AM (2GVsD)

600 599 Yes, Abe.

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:41 AM (77rzZ)

601 Well, this is where I wish you all a good night.
I'll see you on the art thread...

Maybe.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 05, 2026 12:42 AM (2WIwB)

602 543 The gayest man on earth would find this over the top.

You'll click because you're bored and an 'ette won't steer you wrong.

https://tinyurl.com/5376ux9n
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:15 AM (U94Dl)

Literally bright eyes. Nice.

Posted by: SciVo at May 05, 2026 12:42 AM (Sy6m/)

603 Four Seasons, we are old in addition to being weird.
Posted by: Bulg

I'm not *that* old, but I have extra weird to make up for it.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov)

604 Is there a coup brewing in the House of Ace? A palace revolution?

Posted by: Bulg at May 05, 2026 12:43 AM (77rzZ)

605 Bed does sound like a good idea. Ciao.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:43 AM (2GVsD)

606 BTW who will get the coveted Mark of the Beast?

Will find out in the morning.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 05, 2026 12:44 AM (2GVsD)

607 Thank you all for all the car advice - I will look it over and see if I am up to the task
Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:34 AM (G/LYz)

496, has the car by any chance been mysteriously losing coolant or brake fluid? If those fluids have needed unusual topping up, there might be head gasket leak (in the case of coolant) or master cylinder leak (in the case of brake fluid) permitting the leaked fluid to be burned in the engine. Combustion products of burned coolant or brake fluid can "poison" catalysts and O2 sensors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 05, 2026 12:45 AM (utfVc)

608 Avoid Admiral Ackbar links always.

Posted by: mindful webworker - one linkey dinkey, two linkey dinkey..
---

Hey, a little masochism never hurt anybody.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 12:46 AM (NaHHR)

609 Monday night ONTs have been weird since Doggo left...

It's Doggo's fault!

There's a rotation of MisHum, CBD, and I dunno who else but sometimes it's late or non-existent. Tonight isn't the first time, LOL

Happy Monday! It's just soooo fitting for a Monday, yes?

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

610 We are thinking to go to Japan for our 30th? Any reason we should not? I won't go to Europe because they are douchebags. Hubby doesn't like this, but won't force me to go, which is good. Douchebags.

Hubby wants to do a big trip. Japan seems default. I'd be happy to hang out at the lake. Or go hiking in Utah. Is Japan more interesting? Is it worth my yen, I guess.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:47 AM (U94Dl)

611 >>>So I'm thinking the COBs had a retreat, probably someplace cool like Casper Wyoming, but booked their flights with Spirit.

Posted by: Diogenes

>These guys are slamming tequila shooters and manhandling the senoritas ahead of Cinco de Mayo.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 05, 2026 12:48 AM (IYDXm)

612 Thanks for the Caf-ONT, Ace!!!

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

613 m not *that* old, but I have extra weird to make up for it.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov)

*fistbump?*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:50 AM (U94Dl)

614
Wyoming sucks.

You don't want to move here.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:51 AM (3ek7K)

615 496, has the car by any chance been mysteriously losing coolant or brake fluid
-------
Not to my knowledge... I will check the levels. The most common reason for the light combo on the dash is a loose gas cap. I was hoping that was it.

Posted by: 496 at May 05, 2026 12:53 AM (5FvuI)

616 The most common reason for the light combo on the dash is a loose gas cap. I was hoping that was it.
Posted by: 496

Combo??

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

617 Wyoming has a nice roadside area system. The potties were very clean. Yellowstone is amazing. The Grand Tetons were better. It was gorgeous. The mountains. The meese. But. I'll leave it to the Wyomans. Wyomingans?

It's nice to visit. I'd freeze my ass off.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 12:57 AM (U94Dl)

618
Bulg,

I hope everything is going well for you.
You are so intelligent and I hope you can share your knowledge with your tutees.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 12:57 AM (3ek7K)

619 Who broke the blog?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 01:00 AM (0nHVk)

620 If the usual ONT crew shows up, we'll hit 800 easy, maybe 900.


Hey, is this a stress test by Pixy?

Posted by: buddhaha at May 05, 2026 01:01 AM (TNGIV)

621 Debby,
I'm sure it is some shitass, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 05, 2026 01:02 AM (3ek7K)

622 JQ. I'll buy a round for the Horde. They seem lost

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 05, 2026 01:02 AM (U94Dl)

623 Hi, Debby!

Blog isn't broken... seems that whoever has Monday night duty this week, has forgotten it's *their* turn. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

624 > 27 All this talk of Nazis. I wonder if in 2000 years will they be thought of like the Romans, every day.

In one of Larry Niven's Known Space short stories, he mentions a sports team called the Berlin Nazis.

Consider that at previous points in history vikings, pirates, and the like might've been disliked equally by their victims.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 05, 2026 01:04 AM (qpyNK)

625 Hello, BarelyScaryMary!

Pitchers of spicy margaritas, comin' up! (best I can do on short notice, LOL)

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

626 Well, several beers in I should probably say good night. "Good night to best folks on the planet."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 05, 2026 01:04 AM (CHHv1)

627 'Night, BC! Have a good one!

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

628 BTW who will get the coveted Mark of the Beast?

Will find out in the morning.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Been a while, it seems, since we hit that mark. Rarely. Used to get there all the time. IIRC

So, everyone be sure to get to the art thread tomorrow and razz CBD about no ONT tonight.

I'm conking out.

Speaking of being wary of clicks on here, I've got something.... Usually, when you see little girlies like this in school uniforms prancing and singing, they're Japanese. Or Korean. Anyway, not Western like these. Just cute or borderline pedo? I'm too old to say.
https://youtu.be/K2KfaDyIcF8

G'nite, y'aawwl.

Posted by: mindful webworker - cute at May 05, 2026 01:06 AM (k0Y0k)

629 Ont Nood

Posted by: Methos at May 05, 2026 01:06 AM (vSvIl)

630 Mindful-- I loved that 27-mouse kittykill layout! Gonna show it to my Cat. He's been slacking lately, hahaha...

Posted by: JQ at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

631 I believe a young man named Doofus is responsible for Monday ONTs. Maybe he was finally sacked for serving Barrel stew.

Posted by: 0/4 Stars at May 05, 2026 01:08 AM (YSPJJ)

632 Whoops. KT just put up a substitute ONT. Too late for me. G'nite again.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=419574

Posted by: mindful webworker - well, finally at May 05, 2026 01:09 AM (k0Y0k)

633 A spicy margarita sounds so damn good right now I am looking forward to having a real one tomorrow night. Thanks JQ and Scary. I think a trip to Japan is a great idea, it is probably a place that is very safe for American tourists right now too.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 05, 2026 01:10 AM (0nHVk)

634 But. I'll leave it to the Wyomans. Wyomingans?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Wyomingites, believe it or not.

Wyomans would be betterer, though. They should change it.

Posted by: mikeski at May 05, 2026 01:13 AM (VHUov)

635 It may not be pedo but it is blasphemous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 05, 2026 01:17 AM (NaHHR)

Democrats Just Can't Stop Tributing Nazis and Then Lying About It

Late last week, Mark Halperin reported that NRSC official told him that the dirt they're about to drop on the Nazi -- I guess being a Nazi isn't disqualifying in the "anti-Nazi party" -- that "he'll have to leave the state."

Now that is an exaggeration.

But radio host and former Breitbart editor Larry O'Connor said he'd heard that too -- well, he said he did more than hear it.


Larry said: "This is a bad man... I'm sorry, I hate to put it [in these terms,] but I have learned, and I haven't just heard, I know things about this person that will come out, the GOP is not joking about this, and frankly it goes beyond the Nazi tattoo."

Now I generally trust Larry O'Connor but I didn't mention it because I hate getting too far ahead of the news. But his statement that he hasn't just "heard," but knows for a fact makes me think this won't just be another round of campaign-scuttlebutt that turns out to be vapornews.

Meanwhile, a major Democrat donor is threatening a lawsuit against the Free Beacon because they "invaded her privacy" by reporting that she had freely admitted on a public post on social media that her grandfather had been a soldier in Hitler's army.

She's claiming that doesn't make him a Nazi. Um... I guess?

But she says he did escape to Brazil before the end of the war which, I don't know, I always kind of assumed was something that major Nazi figures did, and not just everyday soldiers in the Wehrmacht.


Kelly Neumann, a Michigan trial attorney and Democratic fundraiser, has threatened the Washington Free Beacon with "legal action" unless we retract our story about her Veterans Day Facebook post honoring her grandfather who served "on the German side" in World War II.

What an anodyne way to put it. He fought bravely in World War Two. But, you know, not for the army you might think.

And she did this on... Veterans Day. American Veterans Day. On American Veterans Day, she decided to tribute a man who killed Americans.

What a very weird Aryan flex on Veterans Day.


...

"Happy Veterans Day to all my family and friends who serve/served!" Neumann's post read. "Interesting story, I do not talk much about but my Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."

Very interesting story, brah.

The post included several photos of the Nazi soldier in his Wehrmacht uniform. Neumann recalled that her grandfather was one of the first people to accept her as gay, which proved that "people can change and love can indeed win."

Well as long as your Nazi Army opa who fled to Brazil after the war was okay with you being a lesbian, everything's cool. There were Very Fine People on both sides, would you say...?

This isn't such a big deal, I guess. But what makes it creepy is that this woman, who obviously did not fall far from the fascist tree, is now threatening the Free Beacon unless they retract their 100% true story which merely quotes what she herself admitted.

Last week, the Free Beacon received a letter from Neumann's attorney demanding a "formal retraction" of the "false and defamatory" statement in the article. The letter was signed by Eugenie B. Eardley, another Michigan trial attorney who describes herself as the "First Lady of Law." She even has her own catch phrase--"seriously serious about the law"--which is ironic given the profound unseriousness of the threatening letter she wrote on Neumann's behalf.

For example, Eardley suggested the Free Beacon had not merely defamed her client, but may have also invaded her privacy by reporting on a post she made on the public Facebook account where she routinely shares photos of herself cavorting with Democratic politicians. That's because Neumann made the post "in her private capacity as a granddaughter," which sounds like nonsense.

It is nonsense. A public utterance is a public utterance. You cannot transmute it into private, confidential information by later claiming "I only said that publicly in my capacity as a private citizen who loves her Wehrmacht opa."

Her lawyer said that the Free Beacon falsely claimed he was a member of the S.S., which they said they never did. They also say they never identified him as a Nazi, but... I mean... he did flee to Brazil. I assume it wasn't just because he likes the lambada (the forbidden dance).

Democrats like the "I'm not an X I'm just a Y" defense. "I'm not a socialist I'm just a liberal" which is now "I'm not a communist I'm just a socialist."

And now: "He's not SS he was just a soldier in Hitler's army who fled to Brazil after the war."

More from Ed Driscoll at Instapundit:

"Punch a Nazi," isn't that what the left instructs us?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:44 PM




Comments

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1 Insert witty comment here.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 04, 2026 06:45 PM (u73oe)

2 I did Nazi this coming.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 06:45 PM (VHUov)

3 See, I got nothin. At a loss for words.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 04, 2026 06:46 PM (u73oe)

4 Remember when Pete Hegseth's Christian tattoo was Nazi ?

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)

5 >>>2 I did Nazi this coming.

It does make sense.

National Socialists are just socialists with expansionist goals.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 06:47 PM (1wjle)

6 Smearing a WWII veteran are we, huh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:47 PM (4NO2D)

7 For Democrats, everybody is a Nazi except the guy with the Nazi tattoo who hates the Jews.
Erick Erickson

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 06:47 PM (YwEeS)

8
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Tattoo!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 06:47 PM (HdYcL)

9 Abby Shapiro's boobs?

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Sarah Elizabeth Cupp at May 04, 2026 06:48 PM (0sNs1)

10
Thank you for your service.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 06:48 PM (HdYcL)

11 Tattoo when sober, same as Rule Number One.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 06:51 PM (JideE)

12 10 Thank you for your service.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

bitte seh- ah, "de nada", ja?

Posted by: Albert "don't ask me about the war" Neumann at May 04, 2026 06:52 PM (gKWVE)

13 I think I used up all my Graham Platzkreig jokes in the morning thread.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:52 PM (gtcuf)

14 And bestest?

I'd bet that ANTIFA is supporting his candidacy!

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2026 06:52 PM (mP0Kj)

15 I’m so sick of the term “Nazi.” It should always and everywhere be replaced by the term “National Socialist.”

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 06:53 PM (77rzZ)

16 I'm just glad Favreau is going to be directing high school musicals after his Mandalorian movie tanks.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 06:53 PM (gKWVE)

17 No one even touched on the most important question that arises from this whole thing.

Are there any pictures of Kelly Neumann dressed up as a Nazi lesbian?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 04, 2026 06:53 PM (syz1S)

18 A Nazi is a leftist? The idea is not so hard to believe considering the way the leftists act these days. I mean they always blame the right for the things they actually do themselves.

Posted by: Case at May 04, 2026 06:53 PM (9lqZe)

19 Her grampa helped save Private Ryan and proofread Schindler's List.

Trust us, Bro.

Posted by: That beeyotches lawyer at May 04, 2026 06:54 PM (uvUZ+)

20 These people are buffoons.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 06:54 PM (2WIwB)

21 Kinda makes me wish they hadn't turned on that Hadron Collider thingy.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:55 PM (uvUZ+)

22 Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 06:53 PM (gKWVE)

Wrong Jon Favreau. There are two of them.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:55 PM (gtcuf)

23 I dunno what to think of the Wehrmacht grandpa. To be honest, she seems to be making a bigger deal of it than anyone else.

I also do not have a problem with her mentioning it on memorial day. My family still goes out and decorate Graves of all family members on memorial day- not just service members. On the other hand, none of them were at Stalingrad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:56 PM (zZu0s)

24 Jon Favreau (Director/Actor): Known for directing Iron Man, The Mandalorian, and Elf, as well as acting in movies like Swingers.

Jon Favreau (Speechwriter/Podcaster): Known for being the head speechwriter for President Barack Obama and co-hosting the political podcast Pod Save

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:56 PM (gtcuf)

25 >>>I also do not have a problem with her mentioning it on memorial day. My family still goes out and decorate Graves of all family members on memorial day- not just service members. On the other hand, none of them were at Stalingrad.

veterans day, not memorial day.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 06:56 PM (1wjle)

26 Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it's an ethos.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:57 PM (uvUZ+)

27 These Nazi yelling bastards are Sounding like Bolsheviks

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)

28 veterans day, not memorial day.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 06:56 PM (1wjle)

Well, that is slightly different. A bit murkier.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

29 memorial day is a day for remember the dead of war

Veterans Day seems to me to be a day for honoring those who served... your country. Not the Nazi war machine that killed hundreds of thousands of American veterans.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (1wjle)

30 While we're talking national socialism, don't forget that Ukraine has bona fide actual Nazis fighting for its corrupt regime.

Posted by: logprof at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (jo6FO)

31 The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner

Oh, I don't know. I'd say having a Totenkopf SS tattoo is about Platner at least in part. It's disqualifying either because having it makes him a Nazi, makes him an admirer of Nazis, or makes him too uninformed or dumb to hold office. It reflects moral or political unfitness for office.

Now, if someone wants to make the case that it also shows what grossly inept liars newsmen and commentators on the left are, fine and well. But Platner sucks even more than his dumb apologists in my book.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (Pr4qS)

32 Unlike Kal Penn, who was just one guy. Actor and Obama staffer (scumbag).

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (syz1S)

33 National Socialism. It's right there in the name.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (viF8m)

34 as for Putzkommandant Platner, I doubt the tat is hurting him among the moderrrn auuudience.
I'd be interested to see what skeleton goose steps out his closet next, though. I want to see all the media assholes shamed to supporting this guy. He's not a nice person and his past has to go waaay beyond just being an edgy twat.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 06:59 PM (gKWVE)

35 The Pope speaks of redemption yet you mock his quintessence.

Strive to be better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 06:59 PM (Fbc0I)

36 Wrong Jon Favreau. There are two of them.
Posted by: Delurker

I'd apologize, but they both suck.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

37 Oligachy!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at May 04, 2026 07:00 PM (PiwSw)

38 I am starting to think I am in Russia in 1941

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 07:00 PM (Ia/+0)

39 He's not a nice person and his past has to go waaay beyond just being an edgy twat.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 06:59 PM (gKWVE)

Ill be interested to see what it is. If it is bad, I bet he and the media try to brazen it out. I got $20.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 07:00 PM (zZu0s)

40 How long until we get to the, "Okay, Platner is a Nazi, and it's good because x, y, z," stage?

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 04, 2026 07:00 PM (ftFVW)

41 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???

Posted by: dantesed at May 04, 2026 07:01 PM (Oy/m2)

42 If you were a German during the war you were a Nazi. If you weren't a Nazi you went to camp. Not happy fun camp. If you have affinity for Nazism nearly a century after the war you are suspect on many levels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 07:01 PM (NaHHR)

43 Unlike Kal Penn, who was just one guy. Actor and Obama staffer (scumbag).
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 04, 2026 06:58 PM (syz1S)

--Obama staffer? What did he do with the staff.

Posted by: logprof at May 04, 2026 07:01 PM (jo6FO)

44 >>>41 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???

weird, huh?

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 07:02 PM (1wjle)

45 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???
Posted by: dantesed at May 04, 2026 07:01 PM (Oy/m2)

The Germans as a group knew is would get even more ugly if the Soviets invaded. He'll, it was something like 11 million wehrmacht were sent into the gulags after the war. That speaks nothing of the rapes.

So he may have had the means and was aware enough to just want to get the fuck out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 07:03 PM (zZu0s)

46 I want to see all the media assholes shamed to supporting this guy. He's not a nice person and his past has to go waaay beyond just being an edgy twat.
Posted by: gKWVE

That would require them to feel shame which they don't.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 04, 2026 07:03 PM (ftFVW)

47 Veterans Day was just the excuse for her to talk about how accepting her Nazi grandpa was of her lesbianism. Anybody who knows Nazi history knows that a lot if them were flaming fags despite Hitler’s family friendly facade.

At any rate, Neumann’s ultimate goal in celebrating her grandpa Nazi was to make it about her and remind everybody, once again, that she likes girls and is the victim here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 07:03 PM (6ydKt)

48 ...Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."


My BS meter is twitching. Seems to me the timeline just doesn't add up.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:04 PM (2WIwB)

49 How did he have the means though?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)

50 on veteran's day i want to honor the memory of my grandfather who deserted from the tsar's army

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:04 PM (CWTWj)

51 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???
Posted by: dantesed

Much better beaches ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic Just Being Critical, Again . . . at May 04, 2026 07:04 PM (3ZUWJ)

52 Fun fact: Adolf Hitler assumed the title of Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht (Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht) and mandated that all officers and soldiers swear a personal oath of loyalty to him.


Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 07:05 PM (lCppi)

53 Her grampa was in Sisu. I recognize him.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 07:05 PM (uvUZ+)

54 The Allies ran not happy fun camps too for the German prisoners of war. The West had the Rheinwiesenlager for them. It may be Herr Neumann didn't like his chances there.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:05 PM (gKWVE)

55 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???
Posted by: dantesed

Much better beaches ...
Posted by: Adriane the Critic Just Being Critical, Again

Just had to see Carnival?

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 04, 2026 07:06 PM (ftFVW)

56 the memory of my grandfather who deserted from the tsar's army
Posted by: gnats local 678

I had an ancestor who bailed on the Turks'. Good for both of them

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:07 PM (gKWVE)

57 Kelly Neumann's grandfather was just big jolly toymaker who served as a sargent at a German POW camp.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 04, 2026 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

58 I wonder if this is going to be another thread supposedly about naziism where Peter Daszak's father's background isn't mentioned.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 04, 2026 07:07 PM (gHSfI)

59 Welcome to DEIlta airlines. Bringing you 1200 woke talking points before you even leave the ground.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 07:08 PM (uvUZ+)

60 We made the age-old 'ok' sign with our hand and were called Nazis.

He has an actual Nazi symbol permanently tattoed on his body, but that's not evidence he's a Nazi.

Well, ok! 👌🏾

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 07:09 PM (lCppi)

61 They are no different today than they were when they were laughing at parents in Cambodia crying as their babies were thrown against trees.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (MtSIY)

Some of us saw the Left going this way as far back as 2008 and warning nonstop, the moment they were chanting the empty headed chants for Lightbringer.

Made me sick the first time I saw it because I knew. Not just Yes We Can (can WHAT) but Fired Up Ready to Go. To do WHAT.

I knew *exactly* what these mongoloids were that day. And the Obama people loved watching their little retard puppets because they knew too.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:09 PM (vE0+H)

62 Maple nazis are worse than Illinois nazis.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 07:09 PM (uvUZ+)

63 Kelly Neumann's grandfather was just big jolly toymaker who served as a sargent at a German POW camp.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 04, 2026 07:07 PM (vFG9F)


He knew NOTHINGKK!

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (lCppi)

64 >>>Just had to see Carnival?

Posted by: She Hobbit

>The Kardashian ass was just starting to gain popularity.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (Fbc0I)

65 Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 07:09 PM (lCppi)

Turns out you can just call people stuff

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (vE0+H)

66 i wonder what year he accepted that she was lez, cause if he served in ww 1 he would have been born in what, 1901?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (CWTWj)

67 "What did this guy ever say that made you think he had Nazi sympathies???"
Leftist clown

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

I expect "Tatoo Artist, put this Nazi symbol on my chest" pretty much covers that.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (8avO+)

68 True Naziism has never been tried.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:11 PM (vE0+H)

69 i wonder what year he accepted that she was lez, cause if he served in ww 1 he would have been born in what, 1901?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (CWTWj)

Earlier than that, it started in 1914. 1890-95 more like.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 07:11 PM (8avO+)

70

Who is the girlfriend with the cannons?

Posted by: imp at May 04, 2026 07:11 PM (kRWbU)

71 The "I❤️Lugers" t-shirt might have been a clue.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

72 The only problem the left has with Nazis is the "nationalism" part.

Hitler was their "Man of the Year" until he turned on their other socialist to the east.

As I said earlier, at this rate, by late July, the Dems will be arguing that Nazism was good in theory it's just that Hitler had it wrong.

And, simultaneously, the only way you can prove you're not a fascist is to vote for the guy who wishes Hitler had won.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 07:12 PM (MtSIY)

73 Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it's an ethos.
Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:57 PM (uvUZ+)


Let's bowl

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 07:13 PM (lCppi)

74 on veteran's day i want to honor the memory of my grandfather who deserted from the tsar's army
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:04 PM (CWTWj)

your grandpa was a bolshevik ?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:13 PM (GD0B3)

75 Wrong Jon Favreau. There are two of them.
Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:55 PM

Is one bearded?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 04, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

76 apparently neuman was born in 1980. i dunno

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:13 PM (CWTWj)

77

Fucking nihilists, Donny.

Posted by: imp at May 04, 2026 07:14 PM (kRWbU)

78 48 ...Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."


My BS meter is twitching. Seems to me the timeline just doesn't add up.

you know who else was on the german side in wwi and wwii?

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 07:14 PM (oY6Yp)

79 They're re-making "The Blues Brothers," this time starring Mark Ruffalo and Elliot Page in the lead roles, and in the climactic scene on the new woke version, Jake Blues says, "I love Illinois Nazis."

Posted by: zombie at May 04, 2026 07:14 PM (Av6i5)

80 re 74: got out of russia to avoid the war with japan in like 1905

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:15 PM (CWTWj)

81 To be fair, the Totenkopf is kinda a badass symbol, and if you're 18 and stupid and decide to get a tattoo of one...that can be sorta be forgiven. But as a grown adult, and knowing what it symbolizes, I wouldn't get one (well, I wouldn't get any tattoo for that matter). But this shitbag is pretty much your typical Nazi-adjacent Democrat. They're all authoritarian socialist nitwits, some just a bit more nationalistic than international.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 07:15 PM (XMwZJ)

82 Boys from Brazil

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 07:15 PM (Cqx++)

83 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???


==

he was a notorious SS nazi camp guard and the MOSSAD was after him ??

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:16 PM (GD0B3)

84 The young smooth brains of the democrat party like to use words like "nazi" and get the tatts and other crap to show how tough or "in" they are and blah blah blah. They have no education on what the nazis were or what happened from 1933 to 1945. Their small brain cells think 1975 is ancient history and were Boomer Times before cell phones, free porn and USAID and Obama's Ass Juice tastes so good.

Wait until you see the freaks running around 20 years from now... Lord help us.

Posted by: Ignorant Of History and Doomed to Repeat It at May 04, 2026 07:16 PM (HBTIy)

85 55 Just had to see Carnival?

carnival! renew! renew!

Posted by: logan 7 at May 04, 2026 07:16 PM (oY6Yp)

86 Fired Up Ready to Go.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:09 PM

Well, we're gassed up and ready to go.

Posted by: Chili with beans consumers at May 04, 2026 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

87 to avoid the war with japan in like 1905
Posted by: gnats local 678

Yeah, Nicky the Deuce won the silver in that one

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (gKWVE)

88 66 i wonder what year he accepted that she was lez, cause if he served in ww 1 he would have been born in what, 1901?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:10 PM (CWTWj)

1914 - 1918, so if he joined at age 16 towards the end of the war he’d have to had been born at least by 1902.


BraveAI says Kelly Neumann was born in 1984.
So Grandpa Nazi had to have been close to 100 years old when he told her it’s OK to be Gay, I guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (6ydKt)

89 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil?

Nuts!

Posted by: General Anthony Clement at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (DsA2n)

90 Yet somehow we kept losing to these people. I figure norms will be restored post Trump presidency.

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (cS1cw)

91 It ok when we do it

Posted by: Obergruppenfuhrer DNC at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (NdsRs)

92 80 re 74: got out of russia to avoid the war with japan in like 1905

ah. tentaclephobic.

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (oY6Yp)

93 I had an ancestor who bailed on the Turks'. Good for both of them
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:07 PM (gKWVE)


Cok iyi!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:18 PM (2WIwB)

94 >>> Who is the girlfriend with the cannons?
Posted by: imp at May 04, 2026 07:11 PM (kRWbU)


Certainly not my little Asian fish head wife. Whatever TF that means anyway.

Posted by: Chirayu Rana at May 04, 2026 07:18 PM (3uBP9)

95 I did not know anything about the camps!

Posted by: Obergruppenführer Opa at May 04, 2026 07:18 PM (GD0B3)

96 you know who else was on the german side in wwi and wwii?

------

Bulgaria.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 04, 2026 07:18 PM (PIhpf)

97 1984. It's that simple.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 07:19 PM (NFX2v)

98 She and the rest of the entire democrap party would have liked to kill American soldiers and Americans.

Convince me I'm wrong.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 04, 2026 07:19 PM (xvV+O)

99 Fucking nihilists, Donny.
Posted by: imp at May 04, 2026 07:14 PM (kRWbU)

Heh

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:19 PM (vE0+H)

100 It is just not believable that a rich, white kid who grew up in a life free of consequence, bailed out by daddy at every turn, even to the point that he was handed a business to try and keep him busy, who wore a Nazi tattoo for decades--that guy you want me to believe has more skeletons in his closet?

Your jest is far too much.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 07:20 PM (MtSIY)

101
Our speech is Naziism

Their Naziism is fine

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:20 PM (vE0+H)

102 A little cloning here, a little cloning there -- what's the harm?

Posted by: Josef Mengele with a test-tube of Hitler's DNA at May 04, 2026 07:20 PM (Av6i5)

103 So Grandpa Nazi had to have been close to 100 years old when he told her it’s OK to be Gay, I guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 07:17 PM (6ydKt)

And those 100 year old ears probably heard thespian instead of lesbian.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 04, 2026 07:21 PM (CNl8/)

104 If you were a German during the war you were a Nazi. If you weren't a Nazi you went to camp. Not happy fun camp. If you have affinity for Nazism nearly a century after the war you are suspect on many levels.
---
The "I was not a Nazi" polka.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 07:21 PM (MtSIY)

105 re 88: ach, ja, venn i fill up on schnitzel und beer i feel gay, too! dat's what you mean, ja?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:21 PM (CWTWj)

106 BraveAI says Kelly Neumann was born in 1984.
So Grandpa Nazi had to have been close to 100 years old when he told her it’s OK to be Gay, I guess.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Just holding that baby, a light shone down. He knew and accepted her. How sweet.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 04, 2026 07:21 PM (ftFVW)

107 If you were a German during the war you were a Nazi. If you weren't a Nazi you went to camp. Not happy fun camp. If you have affinity for Nazism nearly a century after the war you are suspect on many levels.

==

fun fact, not every Wermacht soldier was in The Party

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (GD0B3)

108 On the plus side, gramps did did bring some nice lampshades with him to Brazil, which I still use in my living room.

Posted by: Nazi granddaughter at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (Av6i5)

109 My grandfather served in the Canadian army in WW1. My apologies.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (kxLc1)

110 When I got a tattoo in 1984, it was no devil shit, no nazi shit, and no yellow.

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (cS1cw)

111 Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???
Posted by: dantesed

Much better beaches ...
Posted by: Adriane the Critic Just Being Critical, Again

Just had to see Carnival?
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 04, 2026 07:06 PM (ftFVW)

It's where the boys are.

Posted by: Dr. Josef Mengele at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (wVcYX)

112 48 ...Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."


My BS meter is twitching. Seems to me the timeline just doesn't add up.
****

Could have been in the late stages of WW1. For WW2, would have to have been an officer. Hence the flight to Brazil.



Posted by: clarence at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (ZhkYm)

113 My German ancestors got out when Bismarck started drafting everybody.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 07:23 PM (XcvNy)

114 fun fact, not every Wermacht soldier was in The Party
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:22 PM (GD0B

This is true. But only Nazis fled to Brazil.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:24 PM (kxLc1)

115 As gramps used to say, "Juden-soap ist der best soap!"

Posted by: Nazi granddaughter at May 04, 2026 07:24 PM (Av6i5)

116 I have a good friend who had a number tattooed on his arm when he was a child. Still alive today. He is ten time the man this dickhead with the nazi tatt on his chest.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:24 PM (2WIwB)

117 This is true. But only Nazis fled to Brazil.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:24 PM (kxLc1)

true dat

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:25 PM (GD0B3)

118 If you were a German during the war you were a Nazi.

My late German mother said her family were not party members and got reduced rations as a result.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 04, 2026 07:25 PM (NdsRs)

119 Unlike Kal Penn, who was just one guy. Actor and Obama staffer (scumbag).
--
Kal had hundreds of dic pics--full body, fully erect penis pics--sent by Obama to him.
And detailed texts recounting of their sexual acts with endless laments demanding they do it again.
And probably some selfies of them kissing.

That is why he was "mugged" in a safe part of DC.
And all they "stole" was his cell phone.
And why the DC police were ordered not to investigate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 07:25 PM (MtSIY)

120 Didn't have to be a party member to hate Jews and kill Americans.

Posted by: zombie at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (Av6i5)

121 You know we need someone who appeals to Trump voters, someone who is nationalist in their views. But also, someone who appeals to the socialist left. Hmmmm. Someone who is a nationalist, but also a socialist...
National socialist...hmmmm....

Graham Platner! Perfect!

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (eloIc)

122 How can they be Nazis when they love the Jews so much

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (vE0+H)

123 Goering served in WW1 and WW2.

We had people in the military serve in WW2, Korean War and Vietnam.

As someone said above officer level .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (kxLc1)

124 One does ponder if Barry has some boners in his closet as well.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (gKWVE)

125 I was born in Dusseldorf, and that is why they call me Rolf
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!

Posted by: Gruppenfuhrer Opa at May 04, 2026 07:27 PM (GD0B3)

126
I have never understand the Jew hate.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 07:28 PM (3ek7K)

127 They should've done a spinoff sitcom about Col. Klink in Brazil after the war.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 04, 2026 07:28 PM (CNl8/)

128 And she did this on... Veterans Day. American Veterans Day. On American Veterans Day, she decided to tribute a man who killed Americans.

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

And so close to Nazi Pride Month? REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:29 PM (JqXxE)

129 After the war , everyone denied they belonged to the party. If they were to be believed the Nazi party only had 88 members.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:29 PM (kxLc1)

130 Planter's not a Nazi he's a Nazist. Totally different.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 07:29 PM (vE0+H)

131 I have never understand the Jew hate.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 07:28 PM (3ek7K)

It is a symptom, of not so good things. You must be a well adjusted person, so you don't.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:29 PM (GD0B3)

132 Is it safe?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:30 PM (2WIwB)

133
Why did the grandfather have to escape to Brazil if he was just a regular veteran of WW2???

His Doktor told him the weather there would be good for his health.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 07:30 PM (Cqx++)

134 Goering served in WW1 and WW2.

We had people in the military serve in WW2, Korean War and Vietnam.

As someone said above officer level .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (kxLc1)

If any of you sons of bitches calls me grandpa, I'll kill you.

Posted by: Sergeant Major Basil Plumley at May 04, 2026 07:30 PM (wVcYX)

135 They should've done a spinoff sitcom about Col. Klink in Brazil after the war.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 04, 2026 07:28 PM (CNl8/)

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

Goys From Brazil.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:30 PM (JqXxE)

136 After the war , everyone denied they belonged to the party. If they were to be believed the Nazi party only had 88 members.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:29 PM (kxLc1)

right, 50 million Germans and they only hanged 10 at Nuremberg

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (GD0B3)

137 four seasons, there is no understanding it. I am probably wrong but there are maybe 25 million Jews in a world of 8 billion people.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (z2aPa)

138 One does ponder if Barry has some boners in his closet as well.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 07:26 PM (gKWVE)

Barry has warehouses full. It is to every Americans shame that he was ever elected to anything. He is a nasty human being.

Posted by: Hope and Change at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (HBTIy)

139 The retraction I would like to see the Free Beacon run:

“ Dear Readers; we are very sorry for implying that Grandpa Neumann was a Nazi, when all we know for sure is that he spent 5 years of his life serving Herr Hitler, and that he swore a personal oath of loyalty to him. Maybe he didn’t really mean it, we don’t know.

Also, while it is true that many high ranking Nazi’s escaped to South America to escape war crimes prosecutions, it is probably just a coincidence that he did the same thing at the same time, possibly on the same boat as some of them.

And furthermore, although we don’t know where he got the funds to make the journey, there is no evidence to support the rumor that a good friend of his gave him a bag full of gold fillings taken from the teeth of cremated Jews.

We hope you will accept our apologies. “

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (XcvNy)

140 Maybe it's just me, but, I seem to recall only highly placed Nazis who did terrible things escaped to Brazil after the war. The regular rank and file soldiers were not given the option.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (UJMvS)

141 I should start getting ready for bedtime

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

142 What is really exciting is that Adolf has been dead for 80 years, and all the true Nazi organizations remaining in the US have been funded by the SPLC.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (rbvCR)

143 That's because Neumann made the post "in her private capacity as a granddaughter," which sounds like nonsense.

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"I am immune from prosecution because I murdered my parents in my private capacity as their daughter."

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:32 PM (JqXxE)

144 four seasons, there is no understanding it. I am probably wrong but there are maybe 25 million Jews in a world of 8 billion people.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (z2aPa)

16.5 million total

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:32 PM (GD0B3)

145 Jimmy Stewart was in the Air Force Reserves all the way into the late 1960's. I think he even did some kind of mission in Vietnam.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 04, 2026 07:33 PM (CNl8/)

146 Ah, yes, my grandfather died in the camps.

He fell from the watchtower.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 04, 2026 07:33 PM (/d4WW)

147 Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."


WWI and WWII? Dude was a died in the wool national socialist. He volunteered to join the german army during WWII because he was way over the age limit for conscription even at the very end of the war.


Then to add insult to injury he fled to brazil after the end of the war. Only die hard nazi's did that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (0N4FZ)

148
Husband and I have wonderful Jewish friends.

We don't get the Jew hate.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (3ek7K)

149 re 134: from ww eleven to nam was only 20-25 years from end to start, i guess. born 1920 could have done all three wars. maybe even desert storm if you could stay on that long

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (CWTWj)

150 Some Maryland Rep wants to set pre existing term limits on Supreme Court.
They can't quit trying to take over the government

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

151 Maybe it's just me, but, I seem to recall only highly placed Nazis who did terrible things escaped to Brazil after the war. The regular rank and file soldiers were not given the option.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (UJMvS)


I worked with a couple Brazilian army officers who's fathers were on subs that went to Brazil rather than surrender. The officers were likely Nazis, but most of the crew were just sailors doing their part for their country. But many stayed in Brazil.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (2WIwB)

152 Jimmy Stewart was in the Air Force Reserves all the way into the late 1960's. I think he even did some kind of mission in Vietnam.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 04, 2026 07:33 PM (CNl8/

He was on secret runs on B-52s planning Laos bombing IIRC.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:35 PM (kxLc1)

153 Don't mention the war.

Posted by: Basil Fawlty at May 04, 2026 07:35 PM (wVcYX)

154
"No, I hold my right arm that way because of an old war wound."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 07:35 PM (HdYcL)

155
Good lord, after all the "that starts with M and that rhymes with N and that stands for Nazi" charges that conservatives have been hit with. I remember when Frank Figliuzzi gasped in bulgey-eyed, jowl-set rage that Trump had made some announcement on August 8 -- EIGHT EIGHT, get it?? The 8th letter of the alphabet is H!!!!! HH means Heil Hitler!!!!

MSNOW, dredge him up and ask him about this one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 07:36 PM (n7rxJ)

156 Maybe it's just me, but, I seem to recall only highly placed Nazis who did terrible things escaped to Brazil after the war. The regular rank and file soldiers were not given the option.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 07:31 PM (UJMvS)

The Rat Line and ODESSA were available for SS men with rank.

Everyone else was on their own.

Posted by: Zombie Martin Bormann at May 04, 2026 07:36 PM (HBTIy)

157 This is what Wikipedia says about Stewart:

During the Vietnam War, he flew as a non-duty observer in a B-52 on an Arc Light bombing mission in February 1966.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 04, 2026 07:36 PM (CNl8/)

158 Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (2WIwB)

I don't kkkw about many. I assume the officers stayed and a lot of the non officers went back.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:37 PM (kxLc1)

159 139, LOL!

this!

(if only, if only ... )

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:38 PM (VyBeY)

160 “ If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.”

John 15:18-19

“ See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.
“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

Psalm 83:2-4

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 07:38 PM (0ZmKh)

161
subs that went to Brazil rather than surrender.

Posted by: Diogenes

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Wait, what? Brief interruption for history lesson requested. I suppose the remains of those subs are still around somewhere?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (n7rxJ)

162 The Platner tattoo story is so "We've Always Been at War with Eastasia"

I'm glad that guy @pragmatometer made it.

He got the tattoo he wore the tattoo. Period end of story. You want to pretend otherwise, or explain it away with some feigned ignorance, not gonna happen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (RIvkX)

163 I worked with a couple Brazilian army officers who's fathers were on subs that went to Brazil rather than surrender. The officers were likely Nazis, but most of the crew were just sailors doing their part for their country. But many stayed in Brazil.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (2WIwB)
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Interesting.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (UJMvS)

164 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (0N4FZ)

Hard to say. Could have been conscripted Volksturm. Could have been a Prussian Nazi-hating aristocrat who was an officer. But most likely a Nazi.

My great uncle was a Nazi. Escaped to Portugal and then to Venezuela. Not something we are proud of, but no reflection on anyone but him.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (wGerL)

165 I posted about this earlier. The Dem party is flat out losing their marbles. Fun and bizarre to watch at the same time.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:40 PM (gu0hJ)

166 Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 07:34 PM (CWTW

45-74

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:40 PM (kxLc1)

167 An interesting fact is the Nazi tattoo covers up a penguin tattoo.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

168 Steiner is coming.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (Fbc0I)

169 I posted about this earlier. The Dem party is flat out losing their marbles. Fun and bizarre to watch at the same time.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:40 PM (gu0hJ)
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And their constituents will tell you, in their wide-eyed spittle flecked rage, how anything is better than Trump!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (UJMvS)

170 I don't kkkw about many. I assume the officers stayed and a lot of the non officers went back.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:37 PM (kxLc1)


A.lot did. But I guess a surprising number stayed. In 1945 Brazil must of seemed like heaven compared.to.Germany. My dad was on subs in the US Navy so these guys were fairly open about their upbringing. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (2WIwB)

171 167 An interesting fact is the Nazi tattoo covers up a penguin tattoo.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

Ha! Doubly unforgiveable.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (zYpTz)

172 Almost all real Nazis are dead. Only Hitler Youth Nazis still kicking.

Reminded myself how much I liked Jo Jo Rabbit.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:42 PM (kxLc1)

173 subs that went to Brazil rather than surrender.

Posted by: Diogenes

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Wait, what? Brief interruption for history lesson requested. I suppose the remains of those subs are still around somewhere?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (n7rxJ)

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Some island's secret lair owned by a Bond Villain?

/good question, wonder what became of them -- maybe intentionally scuttled at the bottom of the sea?

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:42 PM (JqXxE)

174 I suppose the remains of those subs are still around somewhere?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (n7rxJ)

Running drugs now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:43 PM (kxLc1)

175 good question, wonder what became of them -- maybe intentionally scuttled at the bottom of the sea?
Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:42 PM (JqXxE)


When I asked the Brazilian guys about that, they said the Brazilian navy took control of them.
Who knows???

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:44 PM (2WIwB)

176 I come from a long line of draft dodgers.

Which, I might not have come from, if they weren't draft dodgers.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 04, 2026 07:44 PM (/d4WW)

177 And their constituents will tell you, in their wide-eyed spittle flecked rage, how anything is better than Trump!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (UJMvS)

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Especially The Mad Mullahs of Iran with lots of nukes and ICBMs.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:44 PM (JqXxE)

178 FWIW, a lot of people left German after the war, because the country was in terrible condition, and no one really knew if the Americans would sell the whole place, or just part of it the Russians. South America was a good place to go since they needed technically trained workers and Germans were good at working. Germany they knew was destroyed, and a new start was not a bad idea. A lot Japanese also went to Brazil.

As far as rounding up and hanging all the Nazis in 1945, I am sure it was considered, but the Russians and American armies had just liberated concentration camps, death camps and labor camps, and I suspect no one who had even read up on the reports would have consented to participate in a second genocide.

anyone you meet who suggests it would have been good or useful to do so probably hasn't got a clue as to what they are talking about and considers a tragedy to be "not getting sprinkles and nutmeg on their latte. "

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 07:44 PM (rbvCR)

179 Yeah but did the Nazi grandfather serve in WW11?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 07:44 PM (ZVgZ4)

180 The Lesbians from Brazil. Hmmm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (gu0hJ)

181 Whatever oppo research they have, they better hold it until it's too late to replace Nazi tattoo guy with run of the mill Karen hag.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (wGerL)

182 Symbols bear only the meaning that The Party currently declares them to bear.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (0MjtC)

183 Pharoah couldn't do it
The Germans couldn't do it
The Arabs couldn't do it
The UN couldn't do it
The IRGC couldn't do it

Israel is eternal

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (z2aPa)

184 subs that went to Brazil rather than surrender.

Posted by: Diogenes

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Wait, what? Brief interruption for history lesson requested. I suppose the remains of those subs are still around somewhere?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 07:39 PM (n7rxJ)

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Some island's secret lair owned by a Bond Villain?

/good question, wonder what became of them -- maybe intentionally scuttled at the bottom of the sea?
Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:42 PM (JqXxE)

Look up U-530 and U-977, for example.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (wVcYX)

185 I come from a long line of draft dodgers.

Which, I might not have come from, if they weren't draft dodgers.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 04, 2026 07:44 PM (/d4WW)

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I'm pretty sure that had abortion been legal in 1961, I likely would not have existed.

Shotgun Weddings FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:46 PM (JqXxE)

186 Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 07:41 PM (2WIw

I was thinking most had wives and children. Germans are hard though so I can see them saying fuck it I'm staying.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:46 PM (kxLc1)

187 Look up U-530 and U-977, for example.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (wVcYX)

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Thanks Count, will do now.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:46 PM (JqXxE)

188 There were pre-war communities of Japanese and Germans in South America, and the refugees went there.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 07:46 PM (rbvCR)

189 Putzkommandant Platner

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 06:59 PM (gKWVE)

Stealing that! Er, redistributing it for the good of the blog, comrade!

Posted by: pookysgirl, Meme Kommissar at May 04, 2026 07:47 PM (Wt5PA)

190 If you were a German during the war you were a Nazi. If you weren't a Nazi you went to camp. Not happy fun camp. If you have affinity for Nazism nearly a century after the war you are suspect on many levels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 07:01 PM (NaHHR)
====
Party membership did become compulsory in 1939 but I don't recall to what extent this was actually prosecuted, and whether it would be prosecuted by the Kripo or the Gestapo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:48 PM (RIvkX)

191 If he fled to Brasil, he is not rank and file Wehrmacht. Served in the Great War and World War II?

Herr General Neumann? How many ghettos did he liquidate?

Hitler and the Reich bribed the senior German military leadership to stay loyal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 07:49 PM (2GVsD)

192
He got the tattoo he wore the tattoo. Period end of story.

I say "let 'em crash!"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 07:49 PM (Cqx++)

193 If you weren't a Nazi you didn't have work. Jobs were for party members.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:50 PM (z2aPa)

194 Look up U-530 and U-977, for example.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 07:45 PM (wVcYX)

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Thanks Count, will do now.

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Fascinating; both transited to Argentina, then were transferred to the USA and scuttled at sea.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:50 PM (JqXxE)

195 @191 right, you needed serious Party cash (or gold crowns) to make it to Brazil.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:50 PM (GD0B3)

196 There were pre-war communities of Japanese and Germans in South America, and the refugees went there.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 07:46 PM (rbvCR)

So is your point that you're defending this commie lesbian and her grandfather who fled to Brazil with the rest of the Nazis wasn't a Nazi?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:51 PM (kxLc1)

197 "Democrats Just Can't Stop Tributing Nazis "

National Socialists, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:52 PM (VyBeY)

198 The Nazi U-boats were taken to the secret Nazi base in Antarctica, before all the remaining Nazis flew to their secret base on the dark side of the Moon!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 07:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

199 If you weren't a Nazi you didn't have work. Jobs were for party members.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:50 PM (z2aPa)

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Thank goodness things like that could never happen here.

Wait, wut?

* Academia, Media, Hollywood, Big Tech, et. al. -- not to mention the Covid PsyOps including our own U.S. Servicemen -- have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 07:53 PM (JqXxE)

200 I aimed for the stars, but landed mainly on London.

Posted by: Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, SS Major at May 04, 2026 07:53 PM (wVcYX)

201 "My maternal grandfather was the toughest guy I ever knew. World War II veteran. Killed twenty men then spent the rest of the war in an Allied prison camp."

Posted by: Oglebay at May 04, 2026 07:54 PM (2ap+5)

202 >>>"Democrats Just Can't Stop Tributing Nazis "

National Socialists, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

>Don't forget the 'No Kings,' King Chuckles. Democrats will sell their grandmothers for a taste of someone else's wealth.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 07:55 PM (Fbc0I)

203 If you were a German during the war you were a Nazi. If you weren't a Nazi you went to camp. Not happy fun camp. If you have affinity for Nazism nearly a century after the war you are suspect on many levels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 07:01 PM (NaHHR)
====
Party membership did become compulsory in 1939 but I don't recall to what extent this was actually prosecuted, and whether it would be prosecuted by the Kripo or the Gestapo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:48 PM


If the guy did serve in WWI and WWII he was at least 40 years old at the beginning of WWII in 1940, he was not conscripted at that point, if he was in the german army then he was 100% a volunteer and most likely a nazi.


He might have been shanghaied at the end of the war and put in a volkstruum unit in April 1945 and shoved out the door with a panzerfaust in Berlin to stop the russians as noted above, but those guys did not get trips on submarines to Brazil at the end of the war if they survived.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 07:55 PM (0N4FZ)

204
I posted about this earlier. The Dem party is flat out losing their marbles. Fun and bizarre to watch at the same time.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I can hardly wait for them to take power.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 07:55 PM (Cqx++)

205 Two very good movies about the Nazis

The Couple and The Book Thief.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:55 PM (z2aPa)

206 So is your point that you're defending this commie lesbian and her grandfather who fled to Brazil with the rest of the Nazis wasn't a Nazi?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 07:51 PM (kxLc1)

It 'could' have happened. I don't think Kindl is defending them, merely pointing out possibilities.

Likely? *waggles hand back and forth*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

207 Weren't we supposed to be "punching Nazis?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 07:56 PM (jehhT)

208 I did hit the moon, though.

Posted by: Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, SS Major at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (wVcYX)

209 Cafe nood!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (NcvvS)

210 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (VyBeY)

211 40 How long until we get to the, "Okay, Platner is a Nazi, and it's good because x, y, z," stage?
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 04, 2026 07:00 PM (ftFVW)

"Crossover appeal!"

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (Sy6m/)

212 U-530 was a Type IXc/40 U-boat. 7 war patrols. Surrendered 10 Jul 1945, Mar de Plata Argentina. Turned over to the US and was scuttled in 1947 by torpedo off Cape Cod.

U-977 was a Type VIIC U-boat. 1 war patrol. Surrendered 17 Aug 1945, Mar de Plata Argentina. 66-day voyage from Norway. Turned over to the US. Sunk by ]USS Atule in 1946 off Cape Cod.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 07:57 PM (2GVsD)

213 Ever have one of those truly defining moments in your life? Mine came when my history teacher showed our class a documentary called " Let My People Go"

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:00 PM (z2aPa)

214 {Ben Had}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 08:03 PM (RIvkX)

215 Stalin was fully on board with hanging 50k German officers.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 08:04 PM (XMwZJ)

216 Nobody in Germany was a Nazi. Just like everyone in France was in the resistance.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 08:06 PM (c3Uld)

217 I want to see the GOP use Platner like the Dems used that Rep House candidate in 2006 that was flirting with male interns.

And...the funny thing is a couple of years after 2006 the left got on board with MAPs...maybe they should find that guy and have him run as a Dem now?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 08:07 PM (sKqQm)

218 At this point, I think the only reason the Left believes that "Nazi R Bad" is because Hitler attacked Russia.

Before that, there was a good number of Americans that were for Nazi Germany. All the fluff pieces in the newspaper, proping up Adolf and the German machine. But wasn't it only after he attacked their Communist lover, the USSR, that said papers and the left turned against him?

And given the outright antipathy to Israelies and to Jews in general, they'd be perfectly fine with it. After all, they and much of Europe still haven't forgiven the Jews for the death camps.

Case in point: They LOVED Russia before Trump. Remember the TurboCharge button? And when Romney claimed Russia was our #1 threat, Obama pooh-pooh'ed it? If it weren't for Hillary and her "Russian Collusion" witch's brew, they would have been funding Russia to attack Ukraine. But TDS controls everything they do.

Another reminder - the Burisma corruption got swept under the rug. Biden even admitted it, live on air. Yet *TRUMP* was the corrupt one and was impeached?

Posted by: Another Anon at May 04, 2026 08:08 PM (4h45B)

219 Punch Nazis AND those who support them!

Posted by: No Justice for Iryna, No Peace for Charlotte Government at May 04, 2026 08:09 PM (gWfAG)

220 The left has been coming around on NAZIs for a while now.

Remember Canuckistan honored a guy that fought for the Waffen SS in Ukraine...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 08:14 PM (sKqQm)

221 I've got a several times removed Polish cousin who fought in WWI. Of course, there's the little detail that he served in an artillery battalion in the Austro-Hungarian Army! I'm not stupid enough to try to link him to the American holiday of Veterans Day.

This Lefty woman probably had no idea that Veterans Day is an American holiday, she being a Citizen-of-the-World (tm).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 04, 2026 08:16 PM (ksbjf)

222 I am old enough to remember the flap in the 80s when President Reagan was in Europe for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, and a visit to a cemetery with WWII fallen was scheduled, but it was a big deal because there were some SS dead buried there. So there was a visit to a former concentration camp first, then he and the German chancellor spent a few minutes at the cemetery. Reconciliation is not that easy, apparently, for some.

Posted by: Fritz at May 04, 2026 09:16 PM (J7jo9)

223 Reminder: Nazis were on the far left of politics. Nazi in English is National Socialist, which was right next to the Communists, who were the USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A Nazi today is on the left-wing, not in any way right wing. Nazis are aligned with the left wing of the Democratic Party in the United States.

Posted by: Roland Hirsch at May 04, 2026 10:24 PM (Imt38)

Yet Another Deranged Democrat (One Assumes) Has Been Shot for Approaching the White House While Brandishing a Gun

Via Instapundit, and a helpful commenter "Tuna" who actually pulls his weight and doesn't just babble about Abby Shapiro's boobs*:

Meanwhile, the federal magistrate who signed dozens of J6 arrest warrants is now whining that the Democrats' previous assassin is being treated harshly!!!

And the "harshness" was only putting him in restraints -- because he was on suicide watch.

Wait until this magistrate finds out about J6 prisoners held in solitary confinement for almost a year pre-trial!!! Won't she be mad then!!!

"Judge Zia Faruqui apologized to suspect Cole Allen for the treatment he's received so far while he has been behind bars. He's been put on suicide watch by the Department of Corrections, and the judge was asking why. An attorney from the government said that he was put on suicide watch because he told FBI agents that night of the White House Correspondents' dinner attack that he didn't expect to survive, and his language suggested that he really was not expecting to survive his trip to Washington, D.C., and the ultimate incident where he allegedly showed up with a weapon to try and assassinate President Trump. He's been charged with that crime.

"But the judge, very concerned about his constitutional rights, saying the defendant has requested a Bible, has requested meetings with his legal team, and that has not been allowed, he's been put in restrictive, 24 hour lockup, with no windows and a padded room without an opportunity to get out for recreation. So the judge making it clear that he wants answers by tomorrow morning about exactly what the housing determination will be made for the suspect in this case, out of grave concern about his constitutional rights. And that apology issued near the end of the hearing. And so, quite a moment just moments ago in federal court.

"Bottom line: Department of Correction said they wanted to make sure that he survived, that this is a high-profile case. All involved acknowledged it was a high-profile case. Again, the judge concerned about the treatment he's gotten since he was arrested after the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting incident. Sandra, back to you."

Assassination Prep works on the weak-minded, and the left is a cult of the weak-minded:

* I mean yes information about Abby Shapiro's boobs is helpful in a way but it doesn't lead to me writing posts.

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Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 04, 2026 05:44 PM (LdBR/)

3 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 04, 2026 05:44 PM (LdBR/)

4 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 04, 2026 05:45 PM (LdBR/)

5 I hate it when Elon Musk allows me to be fooled.

I, like Mark Ruffalo, have no agency and fewer brains.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 05:45 PM (rbvCR)

6 Mark Ruffalo did have a brain tumor, but I think the surgeons may have missed just a bit.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 05:46 PM (lCppi)

7 "Ruffalo eventually admitted the photos were fake and blamed Elon Musk for allowing him to be fooled."


Is there anything that elon musk can't do*


*He couldn't beat up Chuck Norris.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)

8 Via Instapundit, and a helpful commenter "Tuna" who actually pulls his weight and doesn't just babble about Abby Shapiro's boobs*:

==

Tuna stole my work from the immigration thread!

😂

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:47 PM (GD0B3)

9 Aren't most judges also lawyers? I may have spotted the problem.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:47 PM (vFG9F)

10 Zia Faruqui

So, Lutheran?

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 05:47 PM (gtcuf)

11 Mark Ruffalo has a smug, punchable face.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 04, 2026 05:48 PM (3q1Kc)

12 As I have reported�Zia Faruqui signed arrest warrants for hundreds of J6ers.

He has used some of the harshest terms to describe J6ers including those accused of no violence.

He is now APOLOGIZING to the psycho who tried to kill multiple people including the president pic.twitter.com/gsHaEVS1pJ

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2026

==

Deport!!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:48 PM (GD0B3)

13 If we only knew why a man with a gun might be wondering around the White House

Probably looking for his wife's lover

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 05:48 PM (Ia/+0)

14 Zia is a male, BTW.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:49 PM (GD0B3)

15 I mean yes information about Abby Shapiro's boobs is helpful in a way but it doesn't lead to me writing posts.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:43 PM

I mean, some racks are worthy of an epic poem or two.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

16 (4 panel image)
"Is information about Abby Shapiro's boobs helpful?"
"Depends on context."
"Lonely Saturday night? Yes."
"Another Trump assassination attempt? No."

Posted by: Another Anon at May 04, 2026 05:50 PM (4h45B)

17 UPDATE: An individual has been SHOT by Secret Service at 15th Street & Independence Ave (near White House).

I think the real breaking news here is that an armed member of the USSS actually hit what he was aiming at.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 05:50 PM (Y1sOo)

18 Damn , my ticket to the Met Gala must have gotten lost. I have to rent a tux, drive 92m and find a scalper to get one.
Oh wait I'm still in a rehab facility and wouldn't care if the Met Gala suffered a terrorist attack.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:50 PM (gu0hJ)

19
(D) Deranged

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 05:51 PM (vE0+H)

20 Put him in General Pop.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at May 04, 2026 05:51 PM (wBaIH)

21
Mark Ruffalo did have a brain tumor, but I think the surgeons may have missed just a bit.
Posted by: LASue

They took out the good part.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (Cqx++)

22 14 Zia is a male, BTW.

Ze looks like a vaguely ethnic David French.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (gtcuf)

23 This story on Yahoo, has this:

At a hearing on Monday, Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui compared the conditions of Allen’s confinement to those of the people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, saying they were treated better than Allen was.

https://tinyurl.com/4tczkzfn

I sincerely doubt that he's being treated worse than the J6ers.
All they did was hold him in a suicide watch cell (padded walls, no visits, no calls, and wearing a straight-jacket type outfit).
That isn't unusual for somebody in his position with his charges.

This judge needs to recuse himself, but that'll never happen now that he's opened his mouth in court and proven his own biases now and previously.

The DC circuit is totally compromised by the radical left.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (6ydKt)

24 I object to Mark Ruffalo being classified as a "Moron."

He ain't One Of Us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (gnNyN)

25 I think the real breaking news here is that an armed member of the USSS actually hit what he was aiming at.
Posted by: one hour sober

LOL. Well thank god he aimed straight.

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (lJ0H4)

26 * I mean yes information about Abby Shapiro's boobs is helpful in a way but it doesn't lead to me writing posts.

The cause of Ace's shelving problems?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (ynpvh)

27 7 "Ruffalo eventually admitted the photos were fake and blamed Elon Musk for allowing him to be fooled."

Is there anything that elon musk can't do*

*He couldn't beat up Chuck Norris.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Elon Musk is smart. He's aware of his physical shortcomings.

That's why he released the Account Location feature on X. To let Death finally know where Chuck was.

Posted by: Another Anon at May 04, 2026 05:53 PM (4h45B)

28 >>> 12 As I have reported Zia Faruqui signed arrest warrants for hundreds of J6ers.

He has used some of the harshest terms to describe J6ers including those accused of no violence.

He is now APOLOGIZING to the psycho who tried to kill multiple people including the president pic.twitter.com/gsHaEVS1pJ

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2026

==

Deport!!
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:48 PM (GD0B3)

*sigh*

Posted by: sad, lonely helicopter at May 04, 2026 05:53 PM (WMyc4)

29 Mark Ruffalo is the Seth Myers of Patton Oswalts.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 04, 2026 05:53 PM (PiwSw)

30
Is there anything that elon musk can't do*

*He couldn't beat up Chuck Norris.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Not even now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (Cqx++)

31 From the previous thread:

>> 98 The epistemic closure business was perfected a long time ago by Noam Chomsky. I always called it the "Chomsky Shuffle." He would pile up one fantastic presumption upon another, each time saying in a dismissive manner that the predicate one was indisputable, common knowledge, too obvious even to bother discussing, so let's move on to the next. His groupies ate it up.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 05:22 PM (E2lD7)

Riffing on the Gish Gallop?

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (Sy6m/)

32 I object to Mark Ruffalo being classified as a "Moron."

He ain't One Of Us.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (gnNyN)

Yes. I used to throw that one out a lot, but now I choose retard, or 'tard. I worked with an old veteran who liked the word sparkle-head.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (0aYVJ)

33 I expect memes of Ruffalo on Epstein's plane.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (n5tGW)

34 "Deputy Director of the Secret Service Matt Quinn says that their officers saw someone suspicious outside the White House complex - visually saw a gun on the person and started following. Person tried to flee, then shot at Secret Service. USSS returned fire, struck suspect.. bystander - a child- was hit by gunfire though the director said they had no life-threatening injuries. Also transported to hospital.

Deputy director was asked if this was related to other attempts on Trump’s life - he said he couldn't say, and wasn't going to guess on that"

I will posit that a suspect with a gun, hanging around the WH and then shooting at the Secret Service was up to no good.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (GD0B3)

35 USSS narrowly beat Imperial Stormtroopers in range contest today.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (u/Bbx)

36 Zia is a male, BTW.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:49 PM (GD0B3)

A Pakistani Muslim.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (iERP6)

37 Ruffalo's doing this because it works.

Make no mistake - an absolutely astounding number of leftist retards 100% believe Trump's a pedo/rapist and those obviously fake pictures are the main reason why.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (gtcuf)

38 "A Pakistani Muslim.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "

The rot runs deep.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (vFG9F)

39 Zia is a male, BTW.
--------

You can never be too careful assuming these days.

Posted by: Michelle O at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (vE0+H)

40 20 Put him in General Pop.

jiffy pop > general pop

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (oY6Yp)

41 Am I reading that the USSS shot the child too?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (z2aPa)

42 >>> 25 I think the real breaking news here is that an armed member of the USSS actually hit what he was aiming at.
Posted by: one hour sober

LOL. Well thank god he aimed straight.
Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 05:52 PM (lJ0H4)

Was the agent able to re-holster in less than three attempts?

Posted by: inquiring Morons want to know at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (WMyc4)

43 Bruh it’s so obviously staged!!
1/3 of the internet

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (c3Uld)

44 USSS narrowly beat Imperial Stormtroopers in range contest today.
Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (u/Bbx)

may the fourth be with you...

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (GD0B3)

45 So, still no free beer from that piss-a$$ in MN.

Good.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (2GVsD)

46 If this Culture Marxist Judge is in charge of the case, Cole will get a slap on the wrist then let off

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (Ia/+0)

47 If my memory serves me correctly, 15th Street & Independence Ave is near the Holocaust museum.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2026 05:57 PM (sAmhv)

48 Judge Zia Faruqui??

Some Fruit of Islam desert concoction?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 05:57 PM (2GVsD)

49 What did Trump do or say to piss off this poor gun person?

Posted by: Nora O'Donnell at May 04, 2026 05:57 PM (WsTMd)

50 Pia Zadora 》Zia Farquad

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 05:57 PM (u/Bbx)

51 WTOP.com - take this fact for what it's worth...

"Investigators believe the child was shot by the armed man, not law enforcement."

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (tOcjL)

52 A Pakistani Muslim.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (iERP6)
----
That says everything you need to know about how our justice system is being used AGAINST Americans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (gnNyN)

53 Great now the same left wing judge can apologize to this one for being shot.

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (YwEeS)

54 33 I expect memes of Ruffalo on Epstein's plane.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (n5tGW)

But they had young girls, not boys...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (ynpvh)

55 Holocaust Museum in DC left me underwheled back in 2000.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (2GVsD)

56 Abby Shapiro's boobs are important in the totality.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (3uBP9)

57 17 UPDATE: An individual has been SHOT by Secret Service at 15th Street & Independence Ave (near White House).

I think the real breaking news here is that an armed member of the USSS actually hit what he was aiming at.

well, story says a child was also hit. haven't seen by whom.

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:59 PM (oY6Yp)

58 Imperial Storm Troopers better shots than the USSS

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:59 PM (gu0hJ)

59
Jiffy Lube > Jiffy Pop > Gen Pop > Iggy Pop > Iggy Stooge

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 05:59 PM (W5mpo)

60 nbcwashington.com says bystander was "grazed" in their headline...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 05:59 PM (tOcjL)

61 48 Judge Zia Faruqui??

Some Fruit of Islam desert concoction?

introduces battlebots bouts in his spare time?

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:59 PM (oY6Yp)

62 If they are shooting at a Jawa Sandcrawler, sure.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (2GVsD)

63 dc judge is disappointed that their guy failed (again)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (VyBeY)

64
Zia is a male, BTW.

Ziva is not.

www.imdb.com/name/nm0734425

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (Cqx++)

65 Ruffalo is a slimy little turd burglar. He's as bad as Springsteen and DeNiro with a dash of Kimmel.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (Fbc0I)

66 Abby Shapiro's boobs are important in the totality.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (3uBP9)

Total eclipse of the sun?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (wVcYX)

67 (CONT) "The young victim suffered a possible graze wound to his lower body, according to other law enforcement sources. He walked over to an ambulance, where he was treated by paramedics. Eventually, the ambulance left for a hospital with a Secret Service escort.

His injuries are not life-threatening, Quinn said."

Same nbcwashington.com

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (tOcjL)

68 63 dc judge is disappointed that their guy failed (again)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (VyBeY)

You have to hope they keep sending guys of this caliber or lower...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (ynpvh)

69 And another one bites the dust...

https://tinyurl.com/3v852pzr

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 04, 2026 06:01 PM (WONhk)

70 Another defamation action threatened.

MI Dem Chairwoman Honors Nazi Grandpa on Veterans Day — Then Threatens to Sue Free Beacon for Noticing

Check the evidence at the link.

https://tinyurl.com/yf3znmmj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 06:01 PM (ndZc7)

71 68 63 dc judge is disappointed that their guy failed (again)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (VyBeY)

You have to hope they keep sending guys of this caliber or lower...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 06:00 PM (ynpvh)

Because you KNOW their rhetoric will keep sending guys to kill Trump and others.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 06:01 PM (ynpvh)

72 Pia Zadora 》Zia Farquad
Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 05:57 PM (u/Bbx)

Zia Padora and her Golden Globes

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (wVcYX)

73 What caliber is this assassin?

9mm Makarov?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

74 But Trump once said, "pu**y", so, you know, the violence is coming from both sides.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (oji8u)

75 As a vocal admirer of Ben Shapiro's Ashkenazi breasts, I feel.marginialized

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (wBaIH)

76 Pia Zadora's Bewbs conquers the Martians?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

77 Anyone else wonder who Abby Shapiro is and what's the deal with her boobs?

I know now.

Posted by: fozzy at May 04, 2026 06:03 PM (zH2yS)

78 73 What caliber is this assassin?

9mm Makarov?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

.38, apparently...he had one on his person.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 06:03 PM (ynpvh)

79 14 Zia is a male, BTW.
Posted by: runner

I was under the impression this is an attribute he does not share with commenter Tuna.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 06:03 PM (gKWVE)

80 also 12 gauge

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 06:04 PM (ynpvh)

81 Trump fires up the jets full of defamation lawyers from Miami to file for defamation of character against Marky Ruffalo.

ESAD Marky.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 04, 2026 06:05 PM (xvV+O)

82
And another one bites the dust...

https://tinyurl.com/3v852pzr

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Another one rides the bus...

https://youtu.be/tZkouut-9RQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 06:05 PM (Cqx++)

83 What the Faruqui?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 04, 2026 06:06 PM (DsA2n)

84 gKWVE, you would be correct.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 06:08 PM (z2aPa)

85 runner: "I will posit that a suspect with a gun, hanging around the WH and then shooting at the Secret Service was up to no good."

How can you be certain? I mean, he could've been waiting for Trump.

Posted by: Every 'Reporter' from DC to LA at May 04, 2026 06:08 PM (oji8u)

86 I only read all that superfluous content because you promised Abby Shapiro Pics. Or did I read that wrong?

Posted by: Ah Cain't Reed Good at May 04, 2026 06:08 PM (oftw2)

87 * I mean yes information about Abby Shapiro's boobs is helpful in a way but it doesn't lead to me writing posts.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:43 PM

It does generate clicks though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:08 PM (4NO2D)

88 Noam Chompsky disclosed the workings of a mind to which incoherence lent an illusion of profundity.

Posted by: Beverly at May 04, 2026 06:08 PM (reMys)

89 How about just referring to Abby's Boobs as Mountainous Chesticles.

Posted by: Earn More sessions by Sleeving at May 04, 2026 06:09 PM (hyQrc)

90 Abby’s boobs are forever available for viewing. The internet is kind of foreverish.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:09 PM (Gqar8)

91 What caliber is this assassin?

9mm Makarov?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM (2GVsD)

.38, apparently...he had one on his person.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 06:03 PM

The collection of throwing knives was the best part of his rig. He was going down like a ninja.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:10 PM (4NO2D)

92 funny story, that is not Ben Shapiro's sister...

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:10 PM (GD0B3)

93 Lord Farquaad > Zia Farquad

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:10 PM (2GVsD)

94 that was etablished long ago, right?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:10 PM (GD0B3)

95
Zia Faruqui

________________

Of the Richmond Faruquis?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (HdYcL)

96 Pia Zadora had some nice boobs.

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (YwEeS)

97 Faruqui?

Bet ( didn't look yet) another foreigner picked by the Auto-Pen Administration

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (Ia/+0)

98 just some woman with the same name as his sister ?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (GD0B3)

99 Pia Zadora's Bewbs conquers the Martians?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:02 PM

IIRC, Pia was a Martian girl.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (4NO2D)

100 Like 10 years ago, when the subject first Came Up...

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (GD0B3)

101 Critical Drinker did a video about the first Lara Croft movie. Man Angelina Jolie had an amazing rack. RIP Angelina's rack

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 06:12 PM (YwEeS)

102 >>Abby’s boobs are forever available for viewing. The internet is kind of foreverish.


*Wink*

Posted by: ShoeOnHead's Butthole at May 04, 2026 06:12 PM (Lu7y1)

103 > Meanwhile, the federal magistrate who signed dozens of J6 arrest warrants is now whining that the Democrats' previous assassin is being treated harshly!!!
---------
Honestly... there needs to be a judicial purge, BAMN.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 06:12 PM (jehhT)

104 Always nice to be at Gowan Field. A-10s and Ospreys doing touch and goes.

Best airshow of any airport.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:12 PM (SIr8v)

105 The comments from the judge are simply part of the continuing dominance display by our conquerors over the defeated and demoralized USA. Everyone understands that right?

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (3uBP9)

106 Hey, more on this Islamo-nazi judge
"Joel Berry
@JoelWBerry
23m
This is Judge Zia Faruqui, the judge who just apologized to Trump's attempted assassin Cole Allen for the way police restrained him.

Just last year, this same judge dismissed the case against Edward Alexander Dana, who threatened to kill President Trump.

We have a big problem."

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (GD0B3)

107 funny story, that is not Ben Shapiro's sister...
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:10 PM (GD0B3)

don't obfuscate a good story with facts

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (wVcYX)

108 Seen on X:
The left has this Trump-based revenge-fantasy genocide they wish had happened to the South after the Civil War to cope with losing in 2016 and 2024.

They have now moved past dreaming of killing Trump as a means to regain power:
Now, it's a means to exterminate all conservatives.

Also, you know the biggest reason so many on the left were so gleeful at the murder of Charlie Kirk?
Because in their hearts, it made them happy to see conservative mourn.

They are no different today than they were when they were laughing at parents in Cambodia crying as their babies were thrown against trees.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (MtSIY)

109 don't obfuscate a good story with facts
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (wVcYX)

sorry, not sorry !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:13 PM (GD0B3)

110 Bangladesh, 5 years in current position

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)

111 I did not know that Cavernous Nostrils claimed that twelve lieutenant colonels were at the seekrit meeting. Do you know how hard it is to get 12 lieutenant colonels (and just them, no subordinates to take notes or anything) in one room at a time? They are busy, busy people. And if Fort Hoochie-Hoochie or whatever had more than 12 lieutenant colonels, I'd be surprised.

Posted by: pookysgirl, making sesame chicken at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (Wt5PA)

112 40 20 Put him in General Pop.

jiffy pop > general pop
Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:56 PM (oY6Yp)

Jimmy Pop > Jiffy Pop > gen pop

Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
uncensored audio, no video: youtu.be/F7OvPTmhtiY
funny video, censored audio: youtu.be/Adgx9wt63NY
some Finn put them together: youtu.be/EzMdmjauQkM

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (Sy6m/)

113 70
MI Dem Chairwoman Honors Nazi Grandpa on Veterans Day — Then Threatens to Sue Free Beacon for Noticing

And she's a rug-muncher, but of course.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (gtcuf)

114 The cam girl who looked somewhat like Ms Shapiro was not her, however there are numerous clothed photos online speaking to her fullsome figure. This would fall under the reddit thread: 2busty2hide.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

115 Just last year, this same judge dismissed the case against Edward Alexander Dana, who threatened to kill President Trump.

I thought a Magistrate Judge was like a clerk. Not really empowered to do anything.

Am I wrong, err, again?

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:16 PM (4NO2D)

116 No suicide watch. Be a real shame if ....

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 06:16 PM (z2aPa)

117 One might think a Federal Judge should have been brought up under the US Constitution, not a foreigner who didn't

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)

118 Pro Tip: Running into a gun fight with a knife is pretty much futile. Perhaps you've seen too many martial arts movies?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 06:16 PM (Fbc0I)

119 I had the worst luck dating women. Racks all around but all I could score were Butter Boobs.

Posted by: Earn More sessions by Sleeving at May 04, 2026 06:16 PM (hyQrc)

120 Just last year, this same judge dismissed the case against Edward Alexander Dana, who threatened to kill President Trump.

I thought a Magistrate Judge was like a clerk. Not really empowered to do anything.

Am I wrong, err, again?
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:16 PM (4NO2D)

I guess someone can research this further...not me...I've done my part!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:17 PM (GD0B3)

121 Back in my 20s I read a couple of Chomsky's books to see what the fuss was about. I don't even remember the names. Baffle them with bullshit is all that I recall. All the profundity of Paul Ehrlich

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 06:17 PM (gu0hJ)

122 Looking at the NYPost's celeb photos of the Met Gala
OMG. Lena Dunham. LOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 06:18 PM (lJ0H4)

123 Oh, speaking of thots, I ran across another hoe_math video where he continued the story of fake right wing e girls with the downfall of Sarah Stock. Evidently the gal who proclaimed virginity and waiting til marriage was getting wasted and banging... Elijah Schaefer (also married) and still married the poor dumb bastard who thought she was who she said she was. Evidently Milo outed them. Milo.

Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

124 Lena Dunham. LOLOLOLOL

The pot of petunias is glad they are no longer a whale.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (2GVsD)

125 Pretty sure Zia's answer to this political crisis is to turn it off and wait 10 seconds. Then turn it on again.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (SIr8v)

126 I thought a Magistrate Judge was like a clerk. Not really empowered to do anything.
_____

Magistrate Judges are part of the Magisterium. They deliver the Word of God just like the Magisterium does in the Catholic Church, only the word of god is actually the Magistrate Judge's word.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (Dv3i1)

127 As I have reported—Zia Faruqui signed arrest warrants for hundreds of J6ers.

Wait, what? Did they all get extradited?

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (hcEyG)

128 The cam girl who looked somewhat like Ms Shapiro was not her, however there are numerous clothed photos online speaking to her fullsome figure. This would fall under the reddit thread: 2busty2hide.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

If I'm not in that thread, I should be.

Posted by: Allegra Cole at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (wVcYX)

129 If I'm not in that thread, I should be.
Posted by: Allegra Cole at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (wVcYX)

You needed a better plastic surgeon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:21 PM (zZu0s)

130 Aetius

Current season of Euphoria

Sydney Sweeney's character starts putting on dog ears and a leash on social media to raise $50k for her wedding day flowers.

OnlyFans cam girl bimbos upset at this portrayal of their 'profession.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:22 PM (2GVsD)

131 Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 06:19 PM (Dv3i1)

A little too close to the truth as they see it to be funny.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 06:22 PM (iERP6)

132 "I heard it on X" is not usually the kind of thing associated with high quality information.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 04, 2026 06:22 PM (eloIc)

133 Critical Drinker did a video about the first Lara Croft movie. Man Angelina Jolie had an amazing rack.

The joke on rec.guns at the time was

"What was she packing?"

"A pair of forty-fives. And two pistols."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 06:22 PM (vTZFs)

134
Bill Dana >>>> Edward Alexander Dana

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 06:23 PM (HdYcL)

135 How many people serve in the Secret Service, or is that secret information? They need more strong, fit tall, well trained men and no DEI women.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 06:24 PM (Nx5jP)

136 Having Cinco De Quartro, burritos

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

137 Looked at the NY Post picture of Lena Dunham. I see she hasn't discovered Ozempic.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 06:24 PM (gu0hJ)

138 OnlyFans cam girl bimbos upset at this portrayal of their 'profession.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:22 PM (2GVsD)

You will find no greater advocate of large breasted nudity than I, but from the synopsis and scenes I have seen of the show, it just looks like misery porn. Like Requiem for a Dream. No thanks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

139 Angelina Jolie.

Billy Bob humped the shine right off that.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:25 PM (nRI/H)

140 Those whirlybird fans on top of the White House chimney look like the onion spires of St Basil's church on the Red Square in Moscow.

Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:26 PM (Tbs6N)

141 The Dagmar Bumper look is coming back.


Any moment now ....

Posted by: Allegra Cole at May 04, 2026 06:26 PM (wVcYX)

142 This guy, Zia Faruqui, is a magistrate, appointed by the court, for an eight year term. He's up for renewal or termination in 2008. Unfortunately, President James Boasberg will be able to reappoint the little shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 06:28 PM (UvL+j)

143 56 - is there any evidence that suggests they're NOT the totality?

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 06:28 PM (6U6WV)

144 Also, the videos of Olivia Ozempic Wilde are just haunting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

145 “ Judge Zia Faruqui ”

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: RI Red at May 04, 2026 06:29 PM (30Gj0)

146 Judge Zia Faruqui apologized to suspect Cole Allen for the treatment he's received so far while he has been behind bars.

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

The name says it all. You could be excused for thinking this is a court in Pakistan.

Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:29 PM (Tbs6N)

147 137 Looked at the NY Post picture of Lena Dunham. I see she hasn't discovered Ozempic.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 06:24 PM (gu0hJ


For sure... There were some outlandish outfits and some nice ones.. I think the Morons here would like the Sidney Sweeney outfit she almost had on....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 06:29 PM (FtULh)

148 Adventures of Cliff Booth comes out in August.

Best part of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood hetting his own movie.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 06:29 PM (nRI/H)

149 @144 yup she looked bug eyed freaky

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 06:30 PM (gu0hJ)

150 Olivia Wilde,looks possessed.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:30 PM (Gqar8)

151 Paperwork American. Not one of us.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 06:30 PM (rJ48h)

152 >>>Looked at the NY Post picture of Lena Dunham. I see she hasn't discovered Ozempic.

Posted by: Smell the Glove

>Lena looks like a hobo dumpster fire. Somewhere, Ace is lurking in the shadows.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 06:32 PM (Fbc0I)

153
For sure... There were some outlandish outfits and some nice ones.. I think the Morons here would like the Sidney Sweeney outfit she almost had on....
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 06:29 PM (FtULh)


Ooops.. That was last year....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 06:33 PM (FtULh)

154 Started watching the 1923 series. So far leaving me unimpressed. Indiana Jones is a real drag on the show.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:33 PM (Gqar8)

155 Thought Zia is a girls name.
Is Zia, the mad judge, a homosexual?
Or just another anti-American deserving deportation?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 06:33 PM (NaHHR)

156 Zia Zadora would be cool. ZZ.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:34 PM (Gqar8)

157 Zia is a male, BTW.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:49 PM (GD0B3)

A Pakistani Muslim.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (iERP6)

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

This something I just do not understand. Why are foreigners put into such positions of power, to judge Americans on being American?

A law needs to be passed that a person cannot be appointed as a judge unless born in the US. They can be lawyers all they want but not judges particularly now that they are acting against the President.

Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:35 PM (Tbs6N)

158 45 So, still no free beer from that piss-a$$ in MN.

Good.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Wisconsin, I think. It's bad enough that we have Walz and Omar.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 06:36 PM (VHUov)

159 Foreigners are put into power in order to subvert and degrade the United States.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar8)

160 A law needs to be passed that a person cannot be appointed as a judge unless born in the US. They can be lawyers all they want but not judges particularly now that they are acting against the President.
Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:35 PM (Tbs6N)

right? we have enough of own born and bread freaky judges, we don't need some Marxist-Jihadist deciding American lives

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:37 PM (GD0B3)

161 Solicitation to commit murder with free beer. Don’t laugh it would motivate some loons.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:38 PM (Gqar8)

162 I mean bred not bread!!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:38 PM (GD0B3)

163 >>>* I mean yes information about Abby Shapiro's boobs is helpful in a way but it doesn't lead to me writing posts.

Old school ace would have put up a post dedicated to Abby Shapiro's boobs.

In some ways, the world has not changed for the better.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 04, 2026 06:38 PM (syz1S)

164 162 I mean bred not bread!!
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:38 PM (GD0B3)

I’m glad you cleared that up.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:39 PM (Gqar8)

165 157 Zia is a male, BTW.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:49 PM (GD0B3)

A Pakistani Muslim.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 05:55 PM (iERP6)

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


A homosexual Pakistani Muslim?
Deport, deport

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 06:39 PM (NaHHR)

166 Yet Another Deranged Democrat

Time for AosHQ to launch a new acronym? :

YADD = Yet Another Deranged Democrat

Example of use in a sentence:

"Did you hear? Some guy flipped out, converted to Islaml, then went transgender, then put on a burka and a suicide belt and blew himself up in a Chik-Fil-A!"

"YADD."

Posted by: zombie at May 04, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)

167 A homosexual Pakistani Muslim?

Aren't they all?

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:40 PM (4NO2D)

168 Yang Poon that YADD!

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:41 PM (2GVsD)

169 167 A homosexual Pakistani Muslim?

Aren't they all?
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 06:40 PM (4NO2D)

Well, SOMEONE is making all those little Pakis!

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:41 PM (Gqar8)

170 I did not know that Cavernous Nostrils claimed that twelve lieutenant colonels were at the seekrit meeting. Do you know how hard it is to get 12 lieutenant colonels (and just them, no subordinates to take notes or anything) in one room at a time? They are busy, busy people. And if Fort Hoochie-Hoochie or whatever had more than 12 lieutenant colonels, I'd be surprised.
Posted by: pookysgirl, making sesame chicken at May 04, 2026 06:14 PM (Wt5PA)


Dang. I'm sorry I missed this on the earlier thread. Ft Huachuca (pronounced Wha-chu-ka) is my old stomping ground. Stationed there for four years and oversaw training for the officers in the Army's Military Intelligence Branch. A great assignment. And while there are more than 12 LTCs there, few work together in the same units and all are far too busy to even tolerate Owens' bullshit.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 06:41 PM (2WIwB)

171 Well, SOMEONE is making all those little Pakis!

And boy are the goats tired.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 06:41 PM (2GVsD)

172 164 162 I mean bred not bread!!
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:38 PM (GD0B3)

I’m glad you cleared that up.
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:39 PM (Gqar


That was a rye comment.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:42 PM (gtcuf)

173 170
Dang. I'm sorry I missed this on the earlier thread. Ft Huachuca (pronounced Wha-chu-ka) is my old stomping ground. Stationed there for four years and oversaw training for the officers in the Army's Military Intelligence Branch. A great assignment. And while there are more than 12 LTCs there, few work together in the same units and all are far too busy to even tolerate Owens' bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 06:41 PM (2WIwB)

Did not know there was a Confederate General named Huachuca.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:42 PM (Gqar8)

174 ---------------

This something I just do not understand. Why are foreigners put into such positions of power, to judge Americans on being American?

A law needs to be passed that a person cannot be appointed as a judge unless born in the US. They can be lawyers all they want but not judges particularly now that they are acting against the President.
Posted by: Decaf
---

It's difficult to find that many native born Americans ready to pervert the law so much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 04, 2026 06:43 PM (NaHHR)

175 "The Horror"..... "The Horror" !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 04, 2026 06:44 PM (38587)

176 Why the BLOODY F*CK do we have a judge named "Zia Faruqui"?

Posted by: Rdubs at May 04, 2026 06:44 PM (Hsq0h)

177 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 04, 2026 06:45 PM (u73oe)

178 167 A homosexual Pakistani Muslim?


Send him/it/they/them/her/she to Brattleboro !!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at May 04, 2026 06:46 PM (38587)

179
I have never understood why men want to stick their in assholes.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 06:46 PM (3ek7K)

180 Did not know there was a Confederate General named Huachuca.
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 06:42 PM (Gqar


Huachuca is a Comanche word meaning Home of the Thunder, also the Huachuca Mountains.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 06:47 PM (2WIwB)

181 You will find no greater advocate of large breasted nudity than I, but from the synopsis and scenes I have seen of the show, it just looks like misery porn. Like Requiem for a Dream. No thanks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

It is. Plus trans and gay insanity galore.

Still, SS's rack does not fail to make an impression.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 04, 2026 06:47 PM (Pr4qS)

182 176 Why the BLOODY F*CK do we have a judge named "Zia Faruqui"?

Appointed by the judges of The US District court of DC in 2020.

In 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was led by Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell. Other district judges during that period included James E. Boasberg, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Tanya S. Chutkan, Rudolph Contreras, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Trevor N. McFadden, Dabney L. Friedrich and Carl J. Nichols

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:48 PM (gtcuf)

183 160 A law needs to be passed that a person cannot be appointed as a judge unless born in the US. They can be lawyers all they want but not judges particularly now that they are acting against the President.
Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:35 PM (Tbs6N)

right? we have enough of own born and bread freaky judges, we don't need some Marxist-Jihadist deciding American lives
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 06:37 PM (GD0B3)

The Supreme Court created this unworkable situation when they declared Dual Citizenship legal, even though it was specifically illegal in laws passed by Congress... you know...

Congress... the group the US Constitution says will make laws about immigration and citizenship.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2026 06:48 PM (mP0Kj)

184 So, Boasberg and Ketanji Brown Jackson were among the hacks in black who appointed this asshole.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 06:49 PM (gtcuf)

185 Wait.

I thought guns were illegal in Washington DC.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 06:50 PM (W2Pud)

186 179
I have never understood why men want to stick their in assholes

Give me a call and I will fill you in .......

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at May 04, 2026 06:50 PM (xvV4K)

187 It's your milquetoast editing that will get you into trouble some day.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 06:51 PM (Fbc0I)

188 I am stuffed

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 06:55 PM (Ia/+0)

189 With all their BS, now they have people prepared to routinely attack - with a vengeance - Trump, the White House, the Cabinet, their families...

It has gone from screaming at families in public, to needing to move several Trump appointed positions onto an Army post for safety, to increasingly common vehicle and weapon threats and attacks, first at Trump but now broadening.

Attacks against the U.S. Supreme Court calling it illegitimate. The Hill, "Last week, Jeffries called a recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act “unacceptable” in a press conference, while also calling the high court’s conservative majority “illegitimate.”

Just now, 'Rep. Olszewski is to introduce ROBE Act to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices' by WBFF STAFF, Mon, May 4, 2026

This is a long game they've been playing & O began it before Hillary lost and the Trump's 1st administration.

Coupled w/C19 that affected at least half of the population's stupidity and sanity levels, and the constant pounding of DEI, hatred of Bibi, rise of Ukraine, mass immigration in the west, tax/eat the rich(er), we're like rats in a maze.

Luigi Mangione, the hero of the Palisades fire bug.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 07:02 PM (NFX2v)

190 I was going to do some Bungie Bredfan lyrics but it's a little too on the nose. "Open up your mind, open up your ..... purse", "never gonna lose it", "never give an inch", "finger in the pie",

I mean come on now.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2026 07:05 PM (3uBP9)

191 As I have reported�Zia Faruqui signed arrest warrants for hundreds of J6ers.

He has used some of the harshest terms to describe J6ers including those accused of no violence.

He is now APOLOGIZING to the psycho who tried to kill multiple people including the president pic.twitter.com/gsHaEVS1pJ

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2026

==

Deport!!

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192 A law needs to be passed that a person cannot be appointed as a judge unless born in the US. They can be lawyers all they want but not judges particularly now that they are acting against the President.
Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:35 PM (Tbs6N)


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193 ⏳⏳

"U.S. edging closer to resuming major combat operations against Iran, final decision rests with President Donald Trump and Tehran’s leadership, officials tell Fox News"

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 07:51 PM (GD0B3)

194 Absolutely AND you have to wait 3 generations.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 07:47 PM (snZF9)

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Charlie Kirk's Head of Security Sues Cavernous Nostrils for Defamation After She Repeatedly Insinuates He Was Part of a French/Israeli/Egyptian/US Plot to Kill "Her Best Friend"

Can't wait until Erik Kirk drops her own massive, billion-dollar lawsuit on Gal Sharpton's head.


The former head of security for Charlie Kirk sued podcaster Candace Owens on Thursday for defamation, claiming that she falsely implicated him in a conspiracy to assassinate Kirk.

The former security chief, Brian Harpole, alleged that Owens, a right-wing firebrand, inaccurately accused him of meeting with Kirk's wife, Erika, at a military base a day before Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University in September. He is also suing Mitch Snow, a retired Army sergeant who stated on Owens' podcast that he was an eyewitness to what he described as the secret encounter.

In the 69-page lawsuit, Harpole, who owns a private security firm and worked for Kirk for several years, accused Owens of "engaging in a coordinated and deliberate campaign designed to defame" him.

He denied any involvement in any plot to assassinate Kirk and called Owens a "conspiracy theorist" who displayed a "pattern of seeking public attention and media exposure."

No lies detected.

...

A spokesperson for Owens said she had no comment beyond what she said on her podcast. Snow did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

...

In July, Owens was sued for defamation by Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, for claiming she is transgender....

Last month, Trump got involved, posting on Truth Social that Owens is an "extremely Low IQ individual" and sharing a doctored image that referred to Owens as "vile person of the year." He also called Owens' claims about Brigitte Macron "despicable." Two members of Congress this week introduced a bipartisan House resolution condemning Owens, as well a left-wing livestreamer, for "antisemitic hate-filled rhetoric."

KanekoaTheGreat

@KanekoaTheGreat


BREAKING: Brian Harpole -- Charlie Kirk's chief of security -- has filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens and her source Mitchell Snow.

Owens publicly accused Harpole of conspiring with the U.S. military at Fort Huachuca to assassinate Charlie Kirk, alongside Erika Kirk, Rep. Mark Amodei, and Cabot Phillips.

Her own words promoting the story:

"Charlie Kirk was assassinated and our military was involved. I can't wait to share this information with you guys."

The story rested entirely on Mitchell Snow, who claimed he "inadvertently" walked into a top-secret meeting at the Army base on September 9, 2025 -- the day before the assassination -- where Harpole and twelve lieutenant colonels were allegedly finalizing the plot to assassinate Charlie Kirk.

Per the complaint, the claim is verifiably false:

→ Harpole was in Dallas that morning.
→ He has never been to Fort Huachuca.
→ Owens had his flight records -- she admitted as much on X -- yet kept publishing anyway.

From the complaint: "Without even a modicum of substantiated evidence, she has publicly accused Harpole of foreknowledge, participation in, and cover-up of the assassination of Charlie Kirk."

69 pages. Jury trial demanded. Seeking millions of dollars. Filed today in Tennessee.

The fact that Cavernous Nostrils knew that Harpole wasn't anywhere near Fort Huachuca the day the French/Israeli/Egyptian/US Military assassination-plotters were meeting will satisfy the absurd rule in defamation that you can only be sued for defaming a public figure if you acted with "reckless indifference" as to whether your defmation was true or false.


Dana Loesch reminded me the other day that Gal Sharpton's first attention-getting media play was... doxxing GamerGate conservatives.

Cavernous Nostrils has since advanced a new conspiracy theory: All of the defamation lawsuits against her are not caused by her rapid-fire Tourettes-like machine-gun defamation of everyone in the world, but by... Perfidious Jew Ben Shapiro.


Bren
@bren45000

2h

Candace is having a Britney Spears moment.

Let me explain what she just said:

1. Candace slanders Erika Kirk and accuses her of murdering her husband.

2. Candace implies that Charlie's head of security actually wanted him to be assassinated ... and intentionally orchestrated his murder.

3. Laura Loomer got annoyed with Candace attacking innocent people and decided to hit back by exposing some dirt from Candace's history--her husband's DUI and firearm charge.

4. And now Candace, instead of taking any responsibility whatsoever, has decided that the REAL CULPRIT behind everything is actually ....... Ben Shapiro ...... because he is a Jew.

Makes complete sense.

Nothing delusional at all about this.

Meanwhile, the little-watched Tuq'r Qarlson continues showing his ass.

He sat down with a New York Times "reporter" -- I assume because he thought she'd give him an easy time, as they're now on the same side -- and claimed he never implied that Trump was the Anti-Christ. When she read his words implying that Trump is the Anti-Christ, he claimed he never said those words.

It's on video tape, you lunatic.


He also claimed that " " " They " " " are ruthlessly attacking JD Vance, persons apparently vaguely connected to Marco Rubio, and says he knows, for a fact, that " " " They " " " are engaging in this hateful disparagement operation against Vance.

When he's asked who this " " " They " " " are whom he claims he "knows" are attacking Vance, he says "I honestly don't know."

So once again, the "source" for all the things he "knows" is "Trust Me Bro."

I have to say, I don't even understand what his complaint would be, even if his Trust Me Bro "source" were accurate. This is a major thing that justifies the "Woke Reich" descriptor -- like the woke left, they attack people relentlessly and engage in endless reputation destruction, and then they whine that other people are attacking them (or a believed ally, like Vance).

Who cares if someone's attacking you or someone you consider an ally? That's politics, and that's literally what you do every single minute of your little-viewed podcast, you fucking whiny fat homo nepo baby bitch.

This is the exact kind of bizarre claim the woke left makes -- we are Special and allowed to defame our enemies all day long but if anyone says boo back to us it's a Hate Crime! Help us! Punching down, punching down!!!

Remember this very accurate meme of a woke feminist throwing shit over a wall at her enemies -- and then crying and Damseling when that shit is thrown right back?

wokedefamershovelingshit.jpg

I saw James Lindsey making this point before, and now Will Chamberlain makes it: The Woke Reich are now running RussiaGate 2.0.

What was the left's RussiaGate claim? That Trump was being blackmailed by a hostile foreign leader into carrying that leader's water for him.

And now the Woke Reich is making the same claim, but now it's Bibi Netanyahu blackmailing Trump with the Epstein files instead of Putin blackmailing him with the Russian Prostitute Pee-Pee Videos.

I never liked or even understood the term "Woke Right" until about six months ago. Now I think it's an extremely apt description.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:44 PM




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Posted by: GF at May 04, 2026 04:44 PM (iVUs+)

2 She needs more people suing her.

Vulture profiting off of other's grief.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3)

3 This is one heck of a movie review!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 04, 2026 04:47 PM (mjROD)

4 "All of the defamation lawsuits against her are not caused by her rapid-fire Tourettes-like machine-gun defamation of everyone in the world, but by... Perfidious Jew Ben Shapiro."
-ace

Wait a second, let's hear her out... you know one way Ben could put these rumors to rest...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 04:47 PM (zZu0s)

5 Vulture profiting off of other's grief.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 04:46 PM (N1DT3)

Psychopath grifter. She's no different than Johnny Somali in that way.

Now if we can just get her to take a trip to Singapore with some weed...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 04:48 PM (zZu0s)

6 Another thing to consider about the Woke Right: they make a very big noise on the internet, but most of their "support" comes from paid for bot farms in Pakistan and Nigeria. And a bunch of them aren't even American, and don't vote here. They're on online dis and mis information op, and there is actually very little cost to openly expelling them from any association with MAGA or any other political operation.

"Big Tents" are fine until you start stacking fresh manure in them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 04:50 PM (rGqqI)

7 She going down hard. Her "husband" that may or may not live in the same house with her, is a prime candidate for deportation.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:50 PM (GD0B3)

8 Evidently, TPUSA is thriving under Erika, hence the attacks.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 04:50 PM (UJMvS)

9 You know who likes to sue?The Joos!
Candace Owens

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

10 Of course it's TEH JOOOOS!!! behind all the consequences of her own actions.

Of course it is.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 04:51 PM (N1DT3)

11 Meanwhile, the little-watched Tuq'r Qarlson continues showing his ass.

==

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:51 PM (GD0B3)

12 7 She going down hard. Her "husband" that may or may not live in the same house with her, is a prime candidate for deportation.
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:50 PM (GD0B3)

Not only is her "husband" gay, but a while back Candace wrote an op/ed about why it actually is perfectly fine for a straight women to marry a gay man as long as he's nice to her and pays her bills. Reads more like a confession than an argument.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 04:52 PM (rGqqI)

13 >>>Not only is her "husband" gay, but a while back Candace wrote an op/ed about why it actually is perfectly fine for a straight women to marry a gay man as long as he's nice to her and pays her bills. Reads more like a confession than an argument.

lol

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (1wjle)

14 I don't get these people attacking Erika and others when we know who killed Charlie Kirk

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Wait a second, let's hear her out... you know one way Ben could put these rumors to rest...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 04:47 PM (zZu0s)
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*folds arms*

Imma going out on a limb and say it's something to do with his sister's boobs.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (xvhJH)

16 Willowed:

Speaking of mice: My big black Stirling cat has racked up a kill!

Well, I *think* he did. This morning I found a still little mouse body on the bedroom floor. He did not look mutilated, so perhaps Stirling (I'm pretty sure it was him and not Dagny, but who knows) just knocked him around until he died. Anyway, I tossed the body out on the front lawn, to return him to the environment.

That was about 8 am. At 8:30 I left the apartment and looked, and he was gone. Either he was unconscious and not dead when I found him -- I didn't check for mouse breathing -- woke up and ran away, or a crow or feral cat got itself a treat this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)

17 Owens and Carlson must have syphilis of the brain. There is something seriously wrong with them both.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 04, 2026 04:54 PM (qBdHI)

18 Covens' lawyers in the Macron case dumped her, as soon as Loomer revealed them to be ...get this Uber ZIONIST JEWS. Yes you heard it. She employed a Zionist Jew law firm, and payed them millions, allegedly.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:54 PM (GD0B3)

19 "I never liked or even understood the term "Woke Right" until about six months ago. Now I think it's an extremely apt description."

Sorry, I still don't understand what 'Woke Right' means.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2026 04:55 PM (KL70k)

20 This is the legal angle that was used to bankrupt Alex Jones

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

21 >>>Sorry, I still don't understand what 'Woke Right' means.

start with endlessly attacking people and then whining like damsel bitches if anyone attacks back, lisping "we need to be uuuuuniiiiited, why are you attacking your alllllieeees"

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 04:56 PM (1wjle)

22 This major dumping happened recently, a few weeks back. How inconvenient! The Macron case in coming up this month , I believe!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:56 PM (GD0B3)

23 >>Imma going out on a limb and say it's something to do with his sister's boobs.

Maybe, if it was Bulg, but Aetius451AD doesn't usually do that.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 04:56 PM (NcvvS)

24 Ben Shapiro IS an asshole.

But Candace Owens is a nutso b*tch

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

25 >>> This major dumping happened recently

what dumping?

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (1wjle)

26 This major dumping happened recently, a few weeks back. How inconvenient! The Macron case in coming up this month , I believe!

Mrs Macron is not a man but she is going to rip Candace a new one in court.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (sKqQm)

27 "Meanwhile, the little-watched Tuq'r Qarlson continues showing his ass."


ohhhhh! That's gonna trigger his fanbois here. Please don't do that!!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (zBgIx)

28 I didn't check for mouse breathing
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Good call. That's a good way to get hantavirus.

Posted by: a ghost haunting the MV Hondius at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (VHUov)

29 But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Posted by: Gal Sharpton LOL at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (abIsI)

30 Last month, Trump got involved, posting on Truth Social that Owens is an "extremely Low IQ individual" and sharing a doctored image that referred to Owens as "vile person of the year." He also called Owens' claims about Brigitte Macron "despicable."
***

Trump added that he know Mrs. Macron pretty well because she was using the urinal next to his and they chatted at length.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 04:58 PM (lCppi)

31 This comment never left my fingertips.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 04:58 PM (Cqx++)

32 14 I don't get these people attacking Erika and others when we know who killed Charlie Kirk
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (Ia/+0)

If you think it's that poor guy they arrested and not the French Foreign Legion, well that's proof that you're part of the conspiracy!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (rGqqI)

33 The Defense calls Dream Charlie Kirk...

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (Lu7y1)

34 "The story rested entirely on Mitchell Snow, who claimed he 'inadvertently' walked into a top-secret meeting at the Army base on September 9, 2025 -- the day before the assassination -- where Harpole and twelve lieutenant colonels were allegedly finalizing the plot to assassinate Charlie Kirk."

That's right. A "top-secret" rendezvous of co-conspirators always just let whomever walk in whenever and observe. Happens every day. That's how you KNOW it's Top Secret. And twelve of them at that. It takes that many to get all the logistics and paper trails in order.

I hope these derelects both a) are bankrupted and b) holed up in prison. They're poison people.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (oji8u)

35 I have important information about this case. Click on THIS LINK if you want to know more.

Whoops that was my dick, did you like it?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle)

36 Every time 'cavernous nostrils' appears in the title it introduces front hole chaos for the obliging man in her life.
So many holes, so little time remaining before the money runs out.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (FCPbW)

37 Tucker has turned into a real loon, but even worse, he's a boring loon.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (lCppi)

38 This major dumping happened recently

what dumping?
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (1wjle)

Her lawyers in the Macron case! "Marc Kasowitz Departs Candace Owens’ Legal Team in Macron Defamation Case."
Marc Kasowitz is a famous individual. Represent high profile individuals (Trump) and companies, like Israel's Teva!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:00 PM (GD0B3)

39 28 I didn't check for mouse breathing
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Good call. That's a good way to get hantavirus.
Posted by: a ghost haunting the MV Hondius at May 04, 2026 04:57 PM (VHUov)

and Mouth to Mouse Resuscitation is Right Out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 05:00 PM (rGqqI)

40 Carlson has fanbois? I thought the major division here was between people who thought he was cool 8-10 years ago and now are embarrassed (like me), and people who always thought he was a bowtied ponce and overrated.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

41
Sorry, I still don't understand what 'Woke Right' means.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

It's sort of like cold heat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (Cqx++)

42 24 Ben Shapiro IS an asshole.

His sister has a bodacious set of tata's though


https://tinyurl.com/4nr2hbsv

Posted by: Gal Sharpton LOL at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (abIsI)

43 >>>Her lawyers in the Macron case! "Marc Kasowitz Departs Candace Owens’ Legal Team in Macron Defamation Case."
Marc Kasowitz is a famous individual. Represent high profile individuals (Trump) and companies, like Israel's Teva!

ah, thank you. I thought maybe her gayfag "husband" dumped her and I missed it.

Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)

44 "Twelve lieutenant colonels" did not make the final cut to be the last verse of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (xvhJH)

45 So Loomer had enough of Candace's BS, and started paying attention to her. Dropping file after file. On Ovens, her lawyers, her family life, her "husband's" proclivities.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (GD0B3)

46 off nostril sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (abIsI)

47 Magistrate Judge Faruqui now comparing Allen to Jan. 6 defendants, saying they were treated better than Allen was.

"Pardons may erase convictions but they do not erase history," the magistrate judge says. "I never had a Jan. 6 defendant ... put in 5-point restraints or in a 'safe cell.'"

Faruqui hammering on the J6 comparison. Says he spent 4 years "Watching what I would say seems to be … analogous conduct. People allegedly trying to harm elected officials based on their political beliefs. The way that things are playing out [for Allen] is vastly different."

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 05:02 PM (RHGPo)

48 What a Lineup of Duschebaggery;

Piers Morgan, Some Cuck, Derp Smith and Buckley Carlson.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 05:02 PM (Lu7y1)

49 Here's a link to Ben Shapiro's sister's ta-tas

tinyurl.ericsween

whoops that was my ween again, did it make you horny?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at May 04, 2026 05:02 PM (1wjle)

50 ah, thank you. I thought maybe her gayfag "husband" dumped her and I missed it.
Posted by: ace at May 04, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)

that one is most likely coming; she is starting to cost him and possibly his daddy a lot of money and bad press

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:03 PM (GD0B3)

51 didn't check for mouse breathing
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Good call. That's a good way to get hantavirus.
Posted by: a ghost haunting the MV Hondius at May 04, 2026

***
I wasn't about to give the little bugger CPR!

I washed my hands and sprayed disinfectant on them afterward, as I had touched the body. In the dim light I thought it was just one of the cats' toys.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 05:03 PM (wzUl9)

52 Imma going out on a limb and say it's something to do with his sister's boobs.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (xvhJH)

Its like your psychic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:04 PM (zZu0s)

53 Its like your psychic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:04 PM (zZu0s)
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I know this audience.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 05:04 PM (xvhJH)

54 That's right. A "top-secret" rendezvous of co-conspirators always just let whomever walk in whenever and observe. Happens every day. That's how you KNOW it's Top Secret. And twelve of them at that. It takes that many to get all the logistics and paper trails in order.

I hope these derelects both a) are bankrupted and b) holed up in prison. They're poison people.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 04:59 PM (oji8u)

I read a bit of background - Harpole had tickets and travel receipts proving that he was in DFW at the time this alleged meeting in Arizona took place. He provided this info to Candace when she told him she was looking at it - and she then publicly accused him of being at that meeting AFTER she was shown the evidence that he was 2 states away at the time.

This is most likely enough to pass the "Actual Malice" test for a defamation lawsuit. Candace knew the accusations were false when she broadcast them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 05:05 PM (rGqqI)

55 Tucker's schtick (Owen's, too) is that they're just "asking questions."

Everything is a question. "Just wondering!" "Just asking...!" I think it's mainly a way of avoiding lawsuits, but there's no value to a bunch of questions without answers. Any 2 year old can ask questions.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 05:05 PM (lCppi)

56 She could give Geddy Lee a run for his money in the nose dept, though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:05 PM (zZu0s)

57 now, the Cucker story; he fucked up his tiny brain that's for sure; he was always a talentless nepo douche, propped up by teams of producers and writers, but now he is acting like a post-stroke psychopath

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:06 PM (GD0B3)

58 I just found Jeremy Boering's podcast last week . It's good- interesting guests and in depth discussions of important issues.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 05:06 PM (lCppi)

59 I like the stink lines coming up from her pile.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 05:07 PM (4NO2D)

60
tinyurl.ericsween

whoops that was my ween again, did it make you horny?
Posted by: Eric Swalwell

It somewhat resembled a penis. Except smaller.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 05:07 PM (Cqx++)

61 disgusting cowards

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 05:07 PM (j+aD2)

62 It's exactly like Trump said, massive breakdown after being fired by Fox. Could not take it.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:07 PM (GD0B3)

63 OT per Insty

UPDATE: "An individual has been SHOT by Secret Service at 15th Street & Independence Ave (near White House).

The individual is in custody. He reportedly had a gun.

His condition is currently unknown. All Secret Service officers safe."

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 05:08 PM (lJ0H4)

64 I never liked or even understood the term "Woke Right" until about six months ago. Now I think it's an extremely apt description.

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

But here's the thing, they are not on the Right or of the Right. They are squarely with the sinister Left but pretending to be Right so they can muddy the waters and the muddier the better.

Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 05:08 PM (Tbs6N)

65 I just found Jeremy Boering's podcast last week . It's good- interesting guests and in depth discussions of important issues.
Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 05:06 PM (lCppi)

His episode 11 , I think, did a nice breakdown and takedown of the entire Woke Reich Industry.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:08 PM (GD0B3)

66 Any 2 year old can ask questions.
Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 05:05 PM (lCppi)

Ita the same phenomenon ace observed on this very page 20 years ago with John Fucking Kerry. 'Some people say' is the same passive aggressive cock gobbling that 'Just asking questions' is now. It allows you to say something outrageous and then if someone calls your ass, you retreat to it just being something you heard or that you were asking a question.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

67 But here's the thing, they are not on the Right or of the Right. They are squarely with the sinister Left but pretending to be Right so they can muddy the waters and the muddier the better.
Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 05:08 PM (Tbs6N)

They will also tell you that Christianity and Islam are completely compatible and all Christians should welcome their new Muslim overlords.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 05:10 PM (rGqqI)

68 I saw Perfidious Jew open for Felonius Monk at the Apollo in 1982.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 04, 2026 05:10 PM (MDua2)

69 Carlson was a bowtied ponce. Nowadays he’s lost the bowtie.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 05:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

70 An important detail: "Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca Mountains, adjacent to the town of Sierra Vista." So, that is not in easy driving distance from Dallas, Tex.

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 05:11 PM (Sy6m/)

71 I get the feeling that Candace is going to have a tragic accident, like Princess Diana. She's too insane to keep by his level of notoriety going and tragedy is in the offing. Whom the Gods destroy, they first make mad

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:13 PM (gu0hJ)

72 SciVo: "So, that is not in easy driving distance from Dallas, Tex."

Unless you have a UFO. Which don't exist. *wink*wink

Man, this is getting deeep. This has to be real.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 05:13 PM (oji8u)

73 I actually do throw dog poop and other assorted debris over my back fence. There is nothing back there except woods and, maybe an occasional hobo, so I'm building up a hedgerow on the other side of the fence.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:13 PM (vFG9F)

74 Whom the Gods destroy, they first make mad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:13 PM (gu0hJ)
---------
*scribbles hastily*

Posted by: Friedrich Nietzsche at May 04, 2026 05:14 PM (xvhJH)

75 Whom the Gods destroy, they first make mad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:13 PM (gu0hJ)

I could see some sort of drug addiction, but I think her shit is mostly in her head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:14 PM (zZu0s)

76 "Gal Sharpton"

When you're 6 courses into a fine cruelty dinner, here comes Ace with dessert.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 04, 2026 05:14 PM (HXjNc)

77 SciVo: "So, that is not in easy driving distance from Dallas, Tex."

Unless you have a UFO. Which don't exist. *wink*wink

Man, this is getting deeep. This has to be real.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 05:13 PM


*cough*

Posted by: George Bush's SR72 at May 04, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)

78 Tucker and Candice need to move on to more interesting conspiracy theories, like Roswell or Bigfoot.

The "Evil Jooooos!" schtick is lame and gay.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 04, 2026 05:16 PM (6p6Q6)

79 Gal Gadot >>>>>>>> Gal Sharpton

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 05:16 PM (xvhJH)

80 That was about 8 am. At 8:30 I left the apartment and looked, and he was gone. Either he was unconscious and not dead when I found him -- I didn't check for mouse breathing -- woke up and ran away, or a crow or feral cat got itself a treat this morning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)
You don't suppose that mouse ever worked for the clintoons or ubamas?

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 05:16 PM (LHPAg)

81 So, that is not in easy driving distance from Dallas, Tex.
Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 05:11 PM (Sy6m/)

There is no commercial air service to Sierra Vista Airport, either (the other side of the airport is Libby Army Airfield which is on Fort Huachuca). Tucson is the closest airport over an hour's drive time away.

This meeting never happened. Everyone knows it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 04, 2026 05:16 PM (g8n7x)

82 At what point can we just start ignoring these idiots because they're clearly fucking retarded?

I get policing "our side" but damn if I don't find talking about what dumb shit one of these two clownfarts did this week entirely exhausting.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)

83 soon

Posted by: zombie mouse at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (vFG9F)

84 Hey Ace, did you see that Captain Whitebread died?

Morons continue violating your command.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (4NO2D)

85 Cucker Tarlson has grown to love the sound of his own voice. His giggles, the inflection, he's gay for himself.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (Fbc0I)

86 Saw a podcast with a while ago with Mr. Harpole (forget which one). My overall impression was that he was a squirrely little bastard who I wouldn't trust as far as he could be thrown. Just a data point, but by all means, sue away.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (QaH55)

87 Dana Loesch

Suddenly I'm in the mood for an India Summer "educational film".

Posted by: far cry at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (wBRco)

88 Candace Owens, "right wing firebrand". Nope, nope, noppetty-nope. She is not right wing, she is not a firebrand. She is an opportunistic blowhard with no moral compass.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:20 PM (Gqar8)

89 You know, if I get eaten by a crocodile, just leave me in there. Don't waste a bunch of money retrieving my dumb ass.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

90 ballistic: "I get policing 'our side' but damn if I don't find talking about what dumb shit one of these two clownfarts did this week entirely exhausting."

It's like The View, The NYTimes, Kimmel, Stephen King, DeNiro, Springsteen, and an endless parade of useful idjits. Get Off My Planet, Dummies!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 05:20 PM (oji8u)

91 the headline:

"Cop is lowered by helicopter into crocodile-infested river to retrieve dead businessman still INSIDE beast that had eaten him"

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:21 PM (vFG9F)

92 I'm guessing there is a bunch of slimy grifters in TPUSA, just like any organization, but Candace seems pretty damn loony.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:21 PM (n5tGW)

93 If it was not Ron DeSantis and possibly a few other brave governors, 2026 election would have been sad. Because of these assholes who are clearly working for the Ds, and are funded by overseas garbage actors like Turkey (huge online deso ops), Qatar, China, Russia (no one in Russia knows what Dugin is, nor does he know English, but somehow his English musings are being promoted all over X). They are all an op.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:21 PM (GD0B3)

94 You know, if I get eaten by a crocodile, just leave me in there. Don't waste a bunch of money retrieving my dumb ass.
Posted by: fd

Ok, but please your wallet and other valuables in the car.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 04, 2026 05:21 PM (36bTp)

95 I was arguing with a Candy cultist, saying she wanted bullet points on times she accused Erika of murdering Charlie....I thought, let me use ChatGPT (Grok has very little for free these days )and...found out...Charlie Kirk...was not murdered, was still alive! The next level in Candy's grift

Posted by: zigggggy at May 04, 2026 05:22 PM (EDeJ/)

96 I saw RussiaGate 2.0 along with RussiaGate, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Parallax View, and All the President's Men, in a Political Fiction All-Niter lineup at the *Twi*Lite* Drive In, Coat Hanger, Wyoming, summer of '77.

Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2026 05:22 PM (5rh/l)

97 The cheese is all the way off the cracker.

The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 05:22 PM (z2aPa)

98 The epistemic closure business was perfected a long time ago by Noam Chomsky. I always called it the "Chomsky Shuffle." He would pile up one fantastic presumption upon another, each time saying in a dismissive manner that the predicate one was indisputable, common knowledge, too obvious even to bother discussing, so let's move on to the next. His groupies ate it up.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 05:22 PM (E2lD7)

99 Candice has a long mustache.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 05:23 PM (4NO2D)

100 We make enemies of the country judges. Nice.

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 05:24 PM (YwEeS)

101 " Candice has a long mustache.
Posted by: toby928(c)"

Tranny or facelift?

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:24 PM (vFG9F)

102 She is an opportunistic blowhard with no moral compass.
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:20 PM (Gqar

High functioning Narcissist. I don't like using that term but with her it's hard not to.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 05:24 PM (E2lD7)

103 If you put two Tuckers in the same room, they'd be fornicating within 10 minutes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 05:25 PM (Fbc0I)

104 The Croc has tasted the Businessman.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:25 PM (n5tGW)

105 I'm guessing there is a bunch of slimy grifters in TPUSA, just like any organization, but Candace seems pretty damn loony.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:21 PM (n5tGW)

she got kicked out of TPUSA; some whisper it was for inappropriate behavior toward one Charles Kirk

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:25 PM (GD0B3)

106 Kelly Ann Conway has an excellent plastic surgeon.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:26 PM (3ImbR)

107 97 The cheese is all the way off the cracker.

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Ben Had

Insane in the membrane.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 05:26 PM (abIsI)

108 " Candice has a long mustache.
Posted by: toby928(c)"

Tranny or facelift?
Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:24 PM (vFG9F)

Willie Nelson!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 05:26 PM (wVcYX)

109 106 Kelly Ann Conway has an excellent plastic surgeon.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:26 PM (3ImbR)

She still married to the Toad?

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8)

110 Ols Buckley Carlson is unfortunate looking.... Hard life ? ... Or hard drinking...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 05:27 PM (dFjQQ)

111 Over at Twitchy there is a truly weird story. A lady by the last name of Neumann who is Mallory McMorrow's co chairman of her campaign posted a happy Veterans Day to her grandfather who served in the Wehrmacht and escaped to Brazil after the war. The Washington Free Beacon reposted it and now she has some feminist lawyer threatening a lawsuit. First Platner, now this clown. But Trump's a Nazi

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:27 PM (gu0hJ)

112 Crocs >> Tucker's gay loafers

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 05:28 PM (abIsI)

113 He also claimed that " " " They " " " are ruthlessly attacking JD Vance, persons apparently vaguely connected to Marco Rubio, and says he knows, for a fact, that " " " They " " " are engaging in this hateful disparagement operation against Vance.

When he's asked who this " " " They " " " are whom he claims he "knows" are attacking Vance, he says "I honestly don't know."

The only person/people from 'the right' who I've seen attack Vance is Fuentes & the Groypers because Vance married an Indian woman and they are flat-out racists..

You know, the same Nick Fuentes Tucker interviewed last year like an excited schoolboy meeting his new hero.

Now it's Rubio the neocon behind it all?
Sure, sure, Tucker.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

114 This ecosystem of retards does not exist by itself, all kinds of bad actors are fueling it, buying bot farms to boost them on the internets, etc. Turkey is a major player. It is all part of an op. Exposing them is a good thing. I always suspected Mario Nawfal to be an op. his pattern fits perfectly. He exposed himself during Iran's operation.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:29 PM (GD0B3)

115 87 Dana Loesch

Suddenly I'm in the mood for an India Summer "educational film".
Posted by: far cry at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (wBRco)

I have met her, briefly, at a SHOT Show couple years back. A focused woman. Her hubby is a complete normie and unsurprisingly based.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at May 04, 2026 05:29 PM (bgJ0E)

116 Being in the Wehrmacht was not a crime. I suspect there is much more to Grandpa's story than that.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar8)

117 *waves wildly to NZFrank*

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 05:30 PM (z2aPa)

118 Dana Loesch is pretty cool.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:30 PM (GD0B3)

119 I have met her, briefly, at a SHOT Show couple years back. A focused woman. Her hubby is a complete normie and unsurprisingly based.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at May 04, 2026 05:29 PM (bgJ0E)

I am assuming you mean Loesch and not India Summer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

120 'Some people say' is the same passive aggressive cock gobbling that 'Just asking questions' is now. It allows you to say something outrageous and then if someone calls your ass, you retreat to it just being something you heard or that you were asking a question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

Katie Couric used to do this all the time.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 04, 2026 05:32 PM (U/s6V)

121 118 Dana Loesch is pretty cool.
Posted by: runner

Soon after she left Glen Beckkkkk she started with the Super Beet ads. It's the circulatory super-food doncha know.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 05:32 PM (abIsI)

122 I had heard something about the Hodgetwins defending Carlson & decided to ask AI.

R - Yes, the Hodgetwins (Keith and Kevin Hodge) have historically and consistently defended Tucker Carlson.

Defending Content and Narrative: The Hodgetwins have defended Carlson against criticism regarding his interviews and narratives, arguing that he was targeted for not conforming to mainstream media narratives.

Support via Media: They have featured discussions on their platforms, including appearing on Megyn Kelly's show to argue that leaked videos of Carlson actually "humanized" him rather than damaging his reputation.

Alignment on Issues: The Hodgetwins have aligned with Carlson on various, sometimes controversial, political stances, including criticizing US foreign policy and, in some instances, joining him in questioning pro-Israel perspectives within the conservative movement.

Support for Supporters: They have amplified support for Carlson from other figures, such as highlighting* when JD Vance defended him at Turning Point USA.

They are part of a broader "internet right" ecosystem that often acts as a protective, media-focused coalition for figures like Carlson and Donald Trump.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 05:33 PM (NFX2v)

123 As of early May 2026, the Hodgetwins and Tucker Carlson have been involved in discussions regarding the political landscape, particularly focusing on the administration of President Donald Trump (in office as of January 20, 2025).

Key highlights as of May 2026:
Podcast Appearance & Political Discussion: Charlie Sheen appeared on the "Hodgetwins Podcast" (published May 2, 2026), where he discussed Tucker Carlson, suggesting that many people would support a presidential bid from him. (More)

So, Tucker Carlson's Neoconservative or part of the Left to takedown Trump BUT not outright saying so * as son, Buckley, continues to work for J.D. Vance.

Again, completely sick of Carlson & Owens, and Erica is beginning to wear on me.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 05:33 PM (NFX2v)

124 I think that Owens and Carlson are both crazy and that they are also being paid off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 05:33 PM (8Xy/A)

125 That would be the MONEY SHOT show.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

126 Some People Say = Unnamed Sources

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:33 PM (Gqar8)

127 She still married to the Toad?
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar
~~~~~

No, and he is looking gayer every day.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:34 PM (3ImbR)

128 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 05:33 PM (NFX2v)

His nepo son don't work for the WH no moar.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:34 PM (GD0B3)

129 No, and he is looking gayer every day.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:34 PM (3ImbR)
------

That dude has been puffing peter for decades or I'll eat my hat.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 05:35 PM (oqH4h)

130 Tim Conway>>>>>George Conway

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)

131 91 the headline:

"Cop is lowered by helicopter into crocodile-infested river to retrieve dead businessman still INSIDE beast that had eaten him"

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:21 PM (vFG9F)


Photos (no blood and guts) and story here:

https://tinyurl.com/4hb9ch2b

When did Ace last have a cute baby crocodiles cafe?

Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2026 05:36 PM (5rh/l)

132 Tim Conway>>>>>George Conway
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar

That comparison is an insult to Dorf and Harvey Korman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:36 PM (zZu0s)

133 Guy with a gun shot (but not killed) at white house

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 05:37 PM (GhIJO)

134 *waves back* Hi Ben Had. How you doing?

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at May 04, 2026 05:38 PM (bgJ0E)

135 It appears some French (not their govt) have woken up also 20 years too late:

A majority of French citizens now believe they are witnessing a demographic replacement of the French population by non-European populations, mainly from Africa.

66 percent of French respondents view the demographic change as a negative development.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:38 PM (n5tGW)

136 132 Tim Conway>>>>>George Conway
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar

That comparison is an insult to Dorf and Harvey Korman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 05:36 PM (zZu0s)

True dat. Watched some old Carol Burnett shows on Prime. Conway was genius. Korman was really good too.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:39 PM (Gqar8)

137 >>>That dude has been puffing peter for decades or I'll eat my hat.
~~~~~

Would not surprise me at all.

BTW, I think George is running for congress to fill Nadler's seat. If anyone can do that, it's George.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:39 PM (3ImbR)

138 Irwin Maimway>>>>>George Conway

Remember when Candice interviewed Irwin on SNL? I do.

youtu.be/veMiNQifZcM

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 05:39 PM (vFG9F)

139 130 Tim Conway>>>>>George Conway
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar


Conway Twitty > Tim Conway

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 05:39 PM (oqH4h)

140 Russia and Ukraine declaring a ceasefire but they can't get the dates straight.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (z2aPa)

141 37 Tucker has turned into a real loon, but even worse, he's a boring loon.

but is he a loon full of sugar?

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (oY6Yp)

142 I would not be surprised to find out that Tucker and/or Candace are being paid to do this crap from within the US intelligence community. I like John Ratcliffe but I don't think he has total control of the CIA. Maybe it's retiree's like Brennan, but the way it's being played in the propaganda ministries as part of a"MAGA civil war" sounds like an op

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (gu0hJ)

143 128. His nepo son don't work for the WH no moar.
Posted by: runner

Thanks! Even more interesting.

No, Buckley Carlson is no longer with Vice President JD Vance's office. As of April 2026, he left his position as deputy press secretary to transition into the private sector, specifically to start a political consulting firm.

While reports noted his departure during tensions between his father, Tucker Carlson, and the administration, officials stated he planned to leave in December 2025 and stayed for a smooth transition.

🤔

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (NFX2v)

144 Guy with a gun shot (but not killed) at white house
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Not important. It's the night of the Met Gala don't cha know.

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (lJ0H4)

145 140 Russia and Ukraine declaring a ceasefire but they can't get the dates straight.

this is a gregorian vs julian calendar thing, right?

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (oY6Yp)

146 Russia and Ukraine declaring a ceasefire but they can't get the dates straight.

==
that will not work!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (GD0B3)

147 Dana Andrews >>> Dana Loesch

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 05:41 PM (wVcYX)

148 I thought it was May 8 and 9.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:41 PM (GD0B3)

149
CandiO has cranked up the googliness of her eyes to 11!

She is engaged in talks with 11han 0mar to search for synergistic avenues for them to pursue in order to ramp up the KRAZINESS!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:41 PM (xG4kz)

150 141 37 Tucker has turned into a real loon, but even worse, he's a boring loon.

but is he a loon full of sugar?
Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:40 PM (oY6Yp)

Does it help the Jew Hate go diwn?

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 05:41 PM (Gqar8)

151 37 Tucker has turned into a real loon, but even worse, he's a boring loon.

Cramazing person he is.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (abIsI)

152 Russia and Ukraine declaring a ceasefire but they can't get the dates straight. >>>

They should stick with prunes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (n5tGW)

153 tubal: "True dat. Watched some old Carol Burnett shows on Prime. Conway was genius. Korman was really good too."

That was one of my favorite duos. I always look for the point where Conway goes off script to get Korman to break character. It's the joke in between the jokes. So fun.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (oji8u)

154 We can still do better and must do better than be represented by Lindsey and Shapiro: it's a sign of how far Carlson has fallen that it's better to side with those dorks.

Posted by: Bubba at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (uQ0NR)

155 78 Tucker and Candice need to move on to more interesting conspiracy theories, like Roswell or Bigfoot.

The "Evil Jooooos!" schtick is lame and gay.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 04, 2026 05:16 PM (6p6Q6)

They would just find a way to shoehorn Jews into the other topic anyway. Find UFO researchers that were ELOW (Early Life on Wikipedia) and, after controversial debunkings, mysteriously disappeared (into a Mossad asset protection program?!? just asking!!). Or, find a newly discovered ancient Judaic tradition of faking cryptids. Or something.

It's a lazy man's cult leader technique. You need the appearance of having secret wisdom that the mark can't get anywhere else, so once you latch onto a thematic element in your secret history of the world, just keep on elaborating on it in every other context. Don't make it too complicated, or you'll trip yourself up trying to remember which things are Illuminati and which are reptilians (BIRM).

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (Sy6m/)

156 Who is this Owens person you speak of?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (Kyh8Y)

157 135 66 percent of French respondents view the demographic change as a negative development.

but the important question is whether 66% of french respondents represents the majority of the population.

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 05:42 PM (oY6Yp)

158 runner, those are the dates Putin said. Zelensky is saying it's 2 days earlier.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 05:43 PM (z2aPa)

159 >>>I like John Ratcliffe but I don't think he has total control of the CIA.
~~~~~

There is a group of CIA (maybe former CIA?) people who are actively trying to oust Trump/foment color revolution. JackStraw would have more details.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:43 PM (3ImbR)

160
this is a gregorian vs julian calendar thing, right?

Nope, gregarian vs jigglian calendars. They've transitioned to an adjacent timeline separate from we common folk.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:44 PM (xG4kz)

161 I hope this is the first of many lawsuits against Candace Owens. I don't know much about the people who run TPUSA but you don't even have to like them to see that what Owens is doing to them, particularly to Erika Kirk but to the others as well, is downright demonic. I hope they take her to the cleaners.

Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2026 05:44 PM (afFes)

162 37 Tucker has turned into a real loon, but even worse, he's a boring loon.

That NY Times interview was ruinous. He's sinking fast.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 05:44 PM (E2lD7)

163 those are the dates Putin said. Zelensky is saying it's 2 days earlier.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 05:43 PM (z2aPa)

what a dick

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 05:44 PM (GD0B3)

164 Ben Shapiro will soon be able to buy a larger tree to bake delicious cookies in.

Gal Sharpton is flaming out and it's great to see.

Qatarzan Carlson looks like the opening crash on $6,000,000 Man right now.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 05:45 PM (o4/by)

165 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 04, 2026 05:45 PM (LdBR/)

166 Putin and Zelinski are both tremendously corrupt leaders, they can shoot at each other forever as far as I care.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 05:45 PM (n5tGW)

167 121 118 Dana Loesch is pretty cool.
Posted by: runner

Soon after she left Glen Beckkkkk she started with the Super Beet ads. It's the circulatory super-food doncha know.

powdered borshch is your friend

Posted by: dana loesch, in the pocket of big borshch at May 04, 2026 05:46 PM (oY6Yp)

168 And I have no idea at all what happened to Tucker Carlson. This is all so confusing to me so I tend to avoid thinking about it.

Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2026 05:46 PM (afFes)

169 "Gal Sharpton" is so good. Ouch, very ouch.

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 04, 2026 05:46 PM (cS1cw)

170 > Cop is lowered by helicopter into crocodile-infested river to retrieve dead businessman still INSIDE beast that had eaten him

They found six pairs of shoes inside the thing. They weren't just retrieving the businessman's body. They were killing a serial man-eater.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 05:47 PM (mkw2N)

171 There is a group of CIA (maybe former CIA?) people who are actively trying to oust Trump/foment color revolution. JackStraw would have more details.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 05:43 PM (3ImbR)

Ive seen 2 on YouTube recently, both claiming to still have lots and lots of intelligence. And revealing a lot of tradecraft, but I guess that's old news.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 05:48 PM (lCppi)

172 >>>Who is this Owens person you speak of?

Posted by: Tonypete

>I believe this is the 'Cavernous Nostrils' individual referred to in the post.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 05:50 PM (Fbc0I)

173 11 Light Colonels in one room sounds like a national security risk to me.

Seems like overkill even if it wasn't made up bullshit.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 05:51 PM (u/Bbx)

174 No, and THAT hatred is starting to mobilize & flare-up again.

>The Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2026: Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College sees 'hundreds of acts' of anti-Israel vandalism
Graffiti was spray-painted on buildings, trees, fences, and walkways, and while the college staff was working to remove the damage.

Aside: I live not far and went to the Swarthmore Craft Market the other day. Such a beautiful, wealthy town with some of the most elitist kids ever imaginable in the college. smh
--
>AI Overview, At Swarthmore College in 2026, "divest" refers to student-led demands for the institution to remove endowment funds from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, specifically following calls from the Swarthmore Palestine Coalition. This movement aims to align the college’s $1.8 billion endowment with ethical, social justice, and anti-war values.

>The Phoenix: April 2026, 'Swarthmore Called the Police on Our Protest. Now I’m Preparing for Trial.'

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 05:53 PM (NFX2v)

175 Another defamation action threatened.

MI Dem Chairwoman Honors Nazi Grandpa on Veterans Day — Then Threatens to Sue Free Beacon for Noticing

Check the evidence at the link.

https://tinyurl.com/yf3znmmj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 05:54 PM (ndZc7)

176 I saw a photo, I think (who knows) from a lawsuit she had years ago with an apartment she rented. Claimed black mold gave her a rash and brain problems. Her hair was in a turban or do rag. The apt owners fired back that she created the black mold (unsure how you do this). The apt owners won.

There was a photo of Cavernous Nostrils with the lawsuit, up close and personal, and you could see up the nostrils that there is no brain. No scope needed.

The rash? Picked zits on her cheeks. I should know because I am a pretend dermatologist daily.

I hope she's sued to beyond and back for what she's said and done to Mrs. Kirk. Left with nothing as her husband takes her kids and flees.

I have no pity for her and think she's psycho and needs to be locked up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 04, 2026 05:58 PM (WONhk)

177 87 Dana Loesch

Suddenly I'm in the mood for an India Summer "educational film".
Posted by: far cry at May 04, 2026 05:18 PM (wBRco)

I hate to admit but i know who both of these people are and am a bit disappointed i never noticed this before...

Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 06:06 PM (6+ehB)

178
Qatuck Qatarlson has become Nathan Thurm, the obsequious and sniveling lawyer from his days on SNL

https://youtu.be/ql4tBfOTTk0?si=KxvjxLxQtjbHUugf

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 06:07 PM (xG4kz)

179
Qatuck Qatarlson has become Nathan Thurm, the obsequious and sniveling lawyer from his days on SNL

https://youtu.be/ql4tBfOTTk0?si=KxvjxLxQtjbHUugf

lawyer ... portrayed by Martin Short ... from

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 06:09 PM (xG4kz)

180 Carlson is such a dunderhead. Look at him! His frowny face of idiocy. I never said that!

I'm telling you the toupee glue is on too tight to cause the frowns, and seeping into his bloodstream. He might as well eat a Tide Pod and be done with it!

I'd like to see him mate with Greta Thunderdome to see the dumb spawn the'd produce. I realize this is also a nightmare thought in many ways.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (WONhk)

181
I'd like to see him mate with Greta Thunderdome to see the dumb spawn the'd produce. I realize this is also a nightmare thought in many ways.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 04, 2026 06:11 PM (WONhk)

Thank you for that horrible mental image. I honestly don't know which one of them would hate that experience more. I still see Greta as just screaming the entire time like she found a talking cockroach in her shower and then there's Tucker trying to pretend to be a virile man; his mantra? 'just keep thinking of Barrack; it's Barrack screaming after he found his chef'

Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 06:24 PM (6+ehB)

182 Carlson, Owens, Fuentes, a few more, are useful to the Left like little QAnon folks or that alleged, ridiculous Boogaloo movement, and even the more legitimate Tea Party that wasn't a political party but citizens fed-up with the government throwing good money over bad and thus 'taxed enough already.'

Couple that with "Epstein! BS," taking away their lavish foreign government play money, and the administration simply holding ground and saying, "No," and you have some extremely dangerous cults/movements out there.

And it may only be 3 1/2 percent, but they're on all different social levels and hogging the mainstream press.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 07:16 PM (NFX2v)

183 Ace of Spades HQ shilling for the Zionists. It’s hilarious to come back and visit occasionally and see how far this site has drifted from reality. Candace is asking the obvious questions that any legitimate journalist should and for that she’s evil. A 30-06 … really? Erika Kirk is a demonic psychopath, deal with it morons.
Ace, stick to funny pet videos, your political insight is disconnected and therefore worthless.

Posted by: Billygoatpuke at May 04, 2026 08:15 PM (XZjgl)

184 Posted by: Billygoatpuke at May 04, 2026 08:15 PM

Tailend coward.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 05, 2026 10:32 AM (4NO2D)

185 Did you say something Zionists filth? I can’t understand you Ben Shapiro’s d**k in your mouth.

Posted by: Billygoatpuke at May 05, 2026 11:48 AM (XZjgl)

US CIS Adopts New Aggressive Posture in Rooting Out Immigration Fraud and Denaturalizing Fraudsters: "USCIS Is Declaring an All-Out War on Immigration Fraud"

I voted for this.


U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has created a special team of criminal investigators to root out immigration fraud, equipping newly designated special agents with expanded law enforcement powers to investigate, arrest and prosecute violators and even denaturalize cheaters.

"We're going to get to a place where people are going to know that if they file, and they're going to file something fraudulently, or they're not giving us their full story, we're going to find that," United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow told Just The News.

...

Edlow announced the initiative in September under a final rule that allows the agency to hire and train 1811-classified officers who can carry firearms, execute warrants and handle cases from start to finish without always referring them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).


...

In one early test of the heightened scrutiny, USCIS's Operation Twin Shield in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area uncovered suspected fraud in 275 of more than 1,000 cases reviewed during a 10-day surge of site visits and interviews. Edlow declared the operation part of a broader crackdown. "USCIS is declaring an all-out war on immigration fraud," he said. "We will relentlessly pursue everyone involved in undermining the integrity of our immigration system and laws."

...

Individuals found to have committed immigration fraud, particularly in procuring naturalization through concealment of material facts, willful misrepresentation or illegal means, face potential denaturalization and subsequent deportation, according to U.S. law and ongoing enforcement actions.

..

Recent examples include filings against naturalized citizens involved in tax fraud schemes, identity concealment to evade prior deportation orders and naturalization fraud via fake divorce decrees.

Meanwhile, fully invaded-and-occupied Sweden shuts the open borders door twenty years too late:

Pato Bonato
@patobonato

Translated from Spanish

🇸🇪 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:

- 8 years of residence
- Stable income
- NOT having received social benefits
- Swedish language exam
- Exam on Swedish values and society

If you don't speak the language or don't demonstrate that you understand how Sweden works → they won't give you citizenship.

Will this be the end of progressive Sweden?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:42 PM




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1 1st

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:41 PM (RtN13)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

3 How did Sweden ever approve that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 03:42 PM (2sfNr)

4 Well good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

5 Start with Bro Fromar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Vote for this, or for Swalwell's turgid wang.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 03:43 PM (gKWVE)

7 Illegals are looting the Republic

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Now if you LOVE job security...

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:44 PM (Sco7b)

9 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at May 04, 2026 03:44 PM (2Ez/1)

10 The Swedish have values now?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (AvxYT)

11 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:

- 8 years of residence
- Stable income
- NOT having received social benefits
- Swedish language exam
- Exam on Swedish values and society

- Must be able to recite the lyrics to "Take A Chance On Me"

Posted by: Ministry of Immigration at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (wBRco)

12 Start with Bro Fromar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Air Pinochet .

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (snZF9)

13 And if the Muslims fail in Sweden they can stay for another ten years and try again. I note the requirements don't include "no rape"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (gu0hJ)

14 In one early test of the heightened scrutiny, USCIS's Operation Twin Shield in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area uncovered suspected fraud in 275 of more than 1,000 cases reviewed during a 10-day surge of site visits and interviews.
_____

Operation Twin Shield for the Twin Cities. Nice!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)

15 They will never lear.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (AvxYT)

16
Air Pinochet .
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (snZF9)


I find your terms acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

17 Did Brussels give Sweden permission to do this?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (vbXSk)

18 What good does it do when these stupid judges lets the fraudsters keep the money? It's outrageous.

Posted by: Case at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (9lqZe)

19 Further Swedish citizenship requirements

-- Must have raped less than 3 Swedish females. Swedish female farm animals not included.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (kxLc1)

20 The jig is up!

Posted by: 11han Omar at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (RIvkX)

21
- Must be able to recite the lyrics to "Take A Chance On Me"
Posted by: Ministry of Immigration at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (wBRco)


I would be open to

- Must be eligible to revive the once beloved Swedish Bikini Team

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

22 There are dozens of the former Spirit Airlines aircraft just laying about.

Rebrand them "Deportation Air"
Paint them red, white and blue
Fill them up with illegals.

Profit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (jehhT)

23 Way too late for Sweden. The tests will be moose-limb centric. IIRC the national historian is a goatfucker.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (sA3Xn)

24 If the the Swedes really wanted to make it real tough another requirement would be "you must have sex with Greta Thunberg".
Goats yes, but Greta is a Haram too far

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (gu0hJ)

25 8 years of residence
- Stable income
- NOT having received social benefits
- Swedish language exam
- Exam on Swedish values and society

==

may I suggests :

-NO RAPES

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (GD0B3)

26 Question:
Exam on Swedish values and society

Is this exam basing questions on its progressive values and society - that which got it into such an immigration mess?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (N39Ws)

27 Can they disqualify a whole country? E.g., if they commit more than $10 billion in social benefits fraud?

Posted by: Dave at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (sbsMc)

28 Gotta fight back, late or not.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (GD0B3)

29 There are already too many 'no go zones' in Sweden for this to have any effect whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

30 And the Marxists are helping them looting

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

31 I want every person of importance in the Catholic Charities frog marched right into FPMIA prison.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 03:49 PM (abIsI)

32 Should have been like this 30 years ago, but it's a start.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 03:49 PM (N1DT3)

33 Ilhan Omar and her whole inbred family.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at May 04, 2026 03:49 PM (dFG8E)

34 Now do Great Britain, or what is left of the Empire.

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 04, 2026 03:49 PM (ziSC+)

35
Maybe the invaders already in Sweden don't want any more competition at this point, so they're fine with a stricter citizenship policy.

I notice that there are only restrictions on citizenship mentioned. What about shutting off the flood of phony-baloney 'asylum seekers' and other non-citizen intruders?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 04, 2026 03:50 PM (azNOR)

36 There are already too many 'no go zones' in Sweden for this to have any effect whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

Its what A-10s are for. Convert no go zone to no zones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:50 PM (snZF9)

37 Now do Great Britain, or what is left of the Empire.
Posted by: Czech Chick at May 04, 2026 03:49 PM (ziSC+)


The Great islhamic State of Britain?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

38
Its what A-10s are for. Convert no go zone to no zones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:50 PM (snZF9)


Man. You're on a roll today.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

39 Pato Bonato
@patobonato
...
If you don't speak the language or don't demonstrate that you understand how Sweden works → they won't give you citizenship.

Will this be the end of progressive Sweden?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:42 PM

It's actually the only chance ANY amount of "progressive Sweden" survives.

The end of progressive Sweden would have been at the end of a sword within 10 years, if they didn't stop the invasion.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 03:51 PM (N1DT3)

40 11 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:

- Must be able to recite the lyrics to "Take A Chance On Me"
Posted by: Ministry of Immigration at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (wBRco)

Good one!

Posted by: Joemarine at May 04, 2026 03:51 PM (y171U)

41 Ilhan Omar and her whole inbred family.
Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at May 04, 2026 03:49 PM (dFG8E)


Style Guide update says it's 11han Omar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

42 Well-placed line wraps can give one hope.

Edlow announced the initiative in September under a final rule that allows the agency to hire and train 1811-classified officers who can carry firearms, execute

Whoa!

warrants

Awwww.....

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 03:51 PM (VHUov)

43 Good. Put a team to work on Ilhan "Omar", and another on that new bishop for WV.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM (utfVc)

44 Its what A-10s are for. Convert no go zone to no zones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:50 PM (snZF9)


Man. You're on a roll today.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Its always a matter of me deciding to say something or not. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM (snZF9)

45 Swedish Citizenship Exam

Question 1:

The is no god but _______ and _________ is his prophet

A. Allah, Mohammed
B. Allah, Muhammad
C. Allah, Mohammad
D. DIE, INFIDEL SCUM
E. All of the above

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM (U6Usv)

46 Good. Put a team to work on Ilhan "Omar", and another on that new bishop for WV.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM (utfVc)/i]


Meet the new Pope. Same as the old Pope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

47 Good. Put a team to work on Ilhan "Omar", and another on that new bishop for WV.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM (utfVc)

Thats what Pinochet skeet is for. Ground fire with long guns, and no, getting them on the bounce don't count.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:53 PM (snZF9)

48 - Must be able to recite the lyrics to "Take A Chance On Me"
Posted by: Ministry of Immigration at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (wBRco)

- Must be able to eat an entire 72 ounce order of lutefisk at the Big Swenson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 03:53 PM (utfVc)

49 40 11 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:

- Must be able to recite the lyrics to "Take A Chance On Me"
Posted by: Ministry of Immigration
Additional requirement:
Must recite every word of the lyrics from ABBA's Momma Mia.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 03:53 PM (abIsI)

50 Lets see...hmmmm...who can we think of that committed immigration fraud....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 03:54 PM (PE7Mp)

51 If you don't speak the language or don't demonstrate that you understand how Sweden works → they won't give you citizenship.

Will this be the end of progressive Sweden?

No, progressive Sweden was the end of progressive Sweden.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 03:55 PM (hcEyG)

52 Will this be the end of progressive Sweden?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

Now to find out if Sweden can enforce it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 04, 2026 03:55 PM (8CTam)

53 - NOT having received social benefits

Is a goat a social benefit? Asking for my imam.

Posted by: Mohammed M. Muhammad at May 04, 2026 03:55 PM (VHUov)

54 There are already too many 'no go zones' in Sweden for this to have any effect whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

Its what A-10s are for. Convert no go zone to no zones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
________

Quad Bofors. They've already got those, but not sure if they can depress the elevation enough.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 03:56 PM (XvL8K)

55 This is what the left means when they lie about ICE detaining citizens--criminals who committed immigration fraud.

And you have to understand, they'd created a near de facto repeal of the de-naturalization statutes via non-enforcement.

For so long, it just wasn't done.

Turns out, it's on the books.

Related: IIRC, both the Columbia and the Tuffs pro-Pali "students" are both back home in the tolerant countries of their homeland.
And the muzzie that firebombed and killed the Jew? He and his whole familie are about to be gone as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 03:56 PM (MtSIY)

56 Its what A-10s are for. Convert no go zone to no zones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 03:50 PM (snZF9)
-----

*Nods in BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 03:57 PM (oqH4h)

57 Not just Catholic Charities, many quasi-state organizations played a part.

Make no mistake. This mass migration project is a global conspiracy. Not just one government or NGO.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 03:58 PM (RIvkX)

58 They will have to open up Learing Centers to teach themselves Swedish.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

59 - Must be able to recite the lyrics to "Take A Chance On Me"

And hit the high notes in Aha's "Take On Me" (I think they were Swedish.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 03:58 PM (hcEyG)

60 I suggest we build more trebuchets. Can't have too many trebuchets, really.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 03:59 PM (oqH4h)

61 They will have to open up Learing Centers to teach themselves Swedish.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 03:58 PM (77rzZ)


I love that Nick Shirley is going around Cali exposing fraud wearing a hoodie with that 'company logo' on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

62 And hit the high notes in Aha's "Take On Me" (I think they were Swedish.
Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 03:58 PM (hcEyG)
-----

Norway! Close though, and a great song.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 04:00 PM (oqH4h)

63 And hit the high notes in Aha's "Take On Me" (I think they were Swedish.
Posted by: t-bird

Wikipedia says Norwegian.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

64 Almost forgot, May the 4th Be With You!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:02 PM (GD0B3)

65 Norway! Close though, and a great song.
Posted by: ballistic


Did they have any other hits besides that one?

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

66
Norway! Close though, and a great song.
Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 04:00 PM (oqH4h)


Hysterical.

https://youtu.be/8HE9OQ4FnkQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

67 And hit the high notes in Aha's "Take On Me" (I think they were Swedish.
Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 03:58 PM (hcEyG)
-----

Norway! Close though, and a great song.
Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 04:00 PM (oqH4h)
======

Hard to tell one scandi from another.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 04:02 PM (RIvkX)

68 Wikipedia says Norwegian.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:01 PM (77rzZ)
==================
still Sweden.

Posted by: says Sweden at May 04, 2026 04:03 PM (5jrpm)

69 Hard to tell one scandi from another.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

The girls are all buxom blondes, so we allow it.

Posted by: Minnesota at May 04, 2026 04:03 PM (VHUov)

70 Hard to tell one scandi from another.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are basically dialects of the same language.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

71 > Hard to tell one scandi from another.
---------
Lighter shade of pale.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (jehhT)

72
Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are basically dialects of the same language.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)


Snatch, box and pussy all have different meanings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are basically dialects of the same language.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

=====

*sullen glower*

Posted by: The Finns at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (RIvkX)

74 "Will this be the end of progressive Sweden?"

Sweden was already the end of Sweden. About 99% certain the country and eventually the culture is already doomed unless something spectacular, horrific and wholly necessary goes on up there. And I just don't think *any* of the scandanavian nations as it in them to get it done.

This will ruffle some feathers but more than one woman here in the states has told me that Sweden is exhibit A in why they're starting to question the 19th amendment. Too many childless middle aged women are practically suicidal, and too many younger women listen to them.

Posted by: heya at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (SFXPX)

75 Further Swedish citizenship requirements

-- Must have raped less than 3 Swedish females. Swedish female farm animals not included.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 03:46 PM (kxLc1)

-- Immigrant rape requires rehabilitation by angry, hungry bears.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (qx7Zg)

76 It would help if someone reported on the success of all the Fraud initiatives, if there are any. So far, only Scott Bessent gives updates, but those relate only to his Department. This team and that committee were created. Results? Surely seven months is enough to show something.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:05 PM (GD0B3)

77
IIRC, both the Columbia and the Tuffs pro-Pali "students" are both back home in the tolerant countries of their homeland.
And the muzzie that firebombed and killed the Jew? He and his whole familie are about to be gone as well.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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

Miss Turkey announced the flounce, but as far as I know, she's still here.

Mahmoud Khalil's visa was revoked and he is... STILL HERE. I don't think he's in detention either.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 04:06 PM (n7rxJ)

78 Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are basically dialects of the same language.
Posted by: Bulg

*sullen glower*
Posted by: The Finns

Well, you're not part of "Scandinavia," so what do you care, Russian Buffer Zone?

Posted by: Sweden at May 04, 2026 04:06 PM (VHUov)

79 I think if there are big fraud exposure they should be broadly brought out, knowing the Marxists Propaganda Ministry won't touch them.

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 04:07 PM (Ia/+0)

80 Probably why my spouse of 38 years (three kids, one grandbaby) is experiencing delays in her naturalization application.

Not a problem for me. I think we can prove our marriage isn't a sham for immigration purposes.

Posted by: RS at May 04, 2026 04:08 PM (SuU/K)

81 "There are dozens of the former Spirit Airlines aircraft just laying about.

Rebrand them "Deportation Air"
Paint them red, white and blue
Fill them up with illegals.

Profit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer"



No baggage allowed. And no snacks either.

Posted by: CNN at May 04, 2026 04:08 PM (GUOwU)

82 #twoweeks#

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 04:08 PM (vFG9F)

83 Well I certainly hope no one will snatch my pussy and put it in a box.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumb at May 04, 2026 04:10 PM (vFG9F)

84 No baggage allowed. And no snacks either.
Posted by: CNN at May 04, 2026 04:08 PM (GUOwU)
=====================
So, still Spirit Airlines then

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 04:10 PM (iWICL)

85 Well, you're not part of "Scandinavia," so what do you care, Russian Buffer Zone?
Posted by: Sweden

Finland and Iceland are both considered to belong to Scandinavia.

And you could argue that that part of Russia that borders Norway is, too.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

86 Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are basically dialects of the same language.
Posted by: Bulg

*sullen glower*
Posted by: The Finns

Well, you're not part of "Scandinavia," so what do you care, Russian Buffer Zone?
Posted by: Sweden at May 04, 2026 04:06 PM (VHUov)

Ja. Too bad, kyllä?

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (lCppi)

87 So can Sweden just kick out anyone already getting social benefits?

They'll never be citizens...

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)

88 Scandinavia! Three countries full of Scarlett Johanssens!

Well, maybe fifty or sixty years ago. Then they were three countries full of Anita Ekbergs. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)

89 Recently saw a video explaining what led up thr Apartheid in South Africa.

According to it, the British imported tons of cheap African labor into majority white cities to undercut the white workers.
Soon, the population of those cities was over 50% African, so the natives (Afrikaners) tried to take steps to preserve their culture and way of life. Apartheid was the result - and we see how that turned out. Probably really simplified, but it made sense.

Hopefully European countries react before it's too late, but it's probably too late already.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (0MjtC)

90
Does this coincide with a new army of Trump-appointed immigration judges? That will be necessary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 04:12 PM (n7rxJ)

91 Recently saw a video explaining what led up thr Apartheid in South Africa.

According to it, the British imported tons of cheap African labor into majority white cities to undercut the white workers.
Soon, the population of those cities was over 50% African, so the natives (Afrikaners) tried to take steps to preserve their culture and way of life. Apartheid was the result - and we see how that turned out. Probably really simplified, but it made sense.

Hopefully European countries react before it's too late, but it's probably too late already.
Posted by: 29Victor


History's greatest South African, Jan Smuts, actually opposed apartheid.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

92 Now that Greta has outgrown her training bra, she's ripe for the pickings. Maybe just a bit too old for the Palestinians.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 04:13 PM (Fbc0I)

93 There are no more Swedes left in Sweden.

Posted by: Abby Damned at May 04, 2026 04:13 PM (0ZmKh)

94 No baggage allowed. And no snacks either.
Posted by: CNN at May 04, 2026 04:08 PM (GUOwU)
=====================
So, still Spirit Airlines then
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 04:10 PM (iWICL)

Charging for water and to use the restroom = Peak 'spirit."

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 04:13 PM (lCppi)

95 87 So can Sweden just kick out anyone already getting social benefits?

They'll never be citizens...
Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)
You have serve in the Space Marines fighting bugs. It's the only way you can become a Citizen and get to vote.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 04:14 PM (LHPAg)

96 So can Sweden just kick out anyone already getting social benefits?

They'll never be citizens...
Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)


And continue getting the social benefits and having kids who are citizens? I think there may be a flaw in this plan.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 04:15 PM (lCppi)

97 *sullen glower*

Posted by: The Finns at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (RIvkX)

Loved her in Serenity

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 04:15 PM (U6Usv)

98 "US CIS Adopts New Aggressive Posture in Rooting Out Immigration Fraud and Denaturalizing Fraudsters: "USCIS Is Declaring an All-Out War on Immigration Fraud""


I am 100% in favor of this but it ain't gonna work. The micro second a democrat gets elected everything Trump worked for in his historic second term will be dismantled. The borders will be opened and visa's will be handed out without regard to any written laws. It will become pure chaos again just like when biden was president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 04:16 PM (0N4FZ)

99 Saw meme of a Spirit Airlines plane already decked out as a Spirit Halloween. Kind of funny

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 04:17 PM (U6Usv)

100 Scandinavia! Three countries full of Scarlett Johanssens!

Well, maybe fifty or sixty years ago. Then they were three countries full of Anita Ekbergs. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
---------
Equal time for Elke Sommers!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 04:17 PM (xvhJH)

101 You have serve in the Space Marines fighting bugs. It's the only way you can become a Citizen and get to vote.
____

How will they be able to tell the Somalian-Swedes from the Skinnies?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:17 PM (Dv3i1)

102
I really Really REALLY hope that this team's work is publicized hard. I want to read the FAFO stories.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 04:18 PM (n7rxJ)

103 US CIS? So we have our own Commonwealth of Independent States now?
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

104 I am 100% in favor of this but it ain't gonna work. The micro second a democrat gets elected everything Trump worked for in his historic second term will be dismantled. The borders will be opened and visa's will be handed out without regard to any written laws. It will become pure chaos again just like when biden was president.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 04:16 PM (0N4FZ)
That's the plan. I might be too old to see this.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg)

105 Did they have any other hits besides that one?

“The Sun Always Shines on TV” played fairly often on MTV. Don’t know if it made hit status on the radio.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 04, 2026 04:18 PM (EXyHK)

106 "BREAKING: Shots fired near the White House complex, press office/other locations put on lockdown....U.S. Secret Service personnel are on the scene of an officer-involved shooting at 15th Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C. One individual was shot by law enforcement; their condition is currently unknown. Please avoid the area as emergency crews are responding."

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:18 PM (GD0B3)

107 Equal time for Elke Sommer!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026

***
Ah! How could I have forgotten her? Anita was a little before my time, but Elke was right there as I hit adolescence!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:19 PM (wzUl9)

108 What is the name of this? The Toothpaste Back in the Tube Act of 2026?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 04:19 PM (U6Usv)

109 Trump is doing a presser, some kind of business summit.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:20 PM (GD0B3)

110 Equal time for Elke Sommers!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026

***
And Inger Stevens!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

111 Hard to tell one scandi from another.
---------
Lighter shade of pale.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 04:04 PM (jehhT)

In the Seattle/Ballard of my dad's youth there was a definite distinction between swedes and Danes, and even discrimination (against the swedes). "Is he an 'son' or an 'sen'?" But both thought they were better than the norwegians.

Posted by: LASue at May 04, 2026 04:20 PM (lCppi)

112 Well, maybe fifty or sixty years ago. Then they were three countries full of Anita Ekbergs
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


You ever see the movie 4 for Texas with Anita, Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Ursula Andress.

Anita actually succeeds in making Ursula look comparatively flat-chested. Of course, her character ends up with Sinatra.

The movie's also got The Three Stooges in it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

113 Please to help me with my rucksack?

Posted by: Inga at May 04, 2026 04:21 PM (wVcYX)

114 Ron DeSantis got himself into some Sharpton trouble yesterday, because he imitated Hakeem Jeffries threatening Florida ("Fuck around and find out, Florida!") over redistricting. Sharpton said imitating Jeffries is racist, redrawing Congressional districts is racist (just ask Debbie Doberman Schultz), and besides, DeSantis refuses to pay the Rainbow Coalition any bribes. Such a racist!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 04:22 PM (w45Ez)

115 I almost forgot-
May the 4th be with you!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

116 Never underestimate the ability of progressives to be perfectly fine with rape.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (k8xm0)

117 76 It would help if someone reported on the success of all the Fraud initiatives, if there are any. So far, only Scott Bessent gives updates, but those relate only to his Department. This team and that committee were created. Results? Surely seven months is enough to show something.
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:05 PM (GD0B3)

------

Vance is supposed to be heading up the fraud taskforce. They do need one central PR information desk because the MSM sure as hell won't report on it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (Vh9CX)

118 I voted for this, too.
Trump's administration is working hard!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (NpAcC)

119 115 I almost forgot-
May the 4th be with you!

May you sink in de Mayo.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (Dv3i1)

120
it ain't gonna work. The micro second a democrat gets elected everything Trump worked for in his historic second term will be dismantled.

Posted by: Mister Scott

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If it doesn't work NOW, that won't be because of some future day when Dems regain power and expand SCOTUS and end the country. It would be for other reasons, like rogue judges.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (n7rxJ)

121 Almost forgot, May the 4th Be With You!
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:02 PM (GD0B3)

Thankth!!

Posted by: Mike Tython at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (PSEDc)

122 And Inger Stevens!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

Mai Britt, and Ann-Margaret, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 04:24 PM (utfVc)

123 I almost forgot-
May the 4th be with you!
Posted by: redridinghood

The Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets has a scene where one of the Alec Guiness characters, the Vicar, I think, is sharing a bottle of wine with the Dennis Price character, and actually speaks the line (to Price), "The port is with you."

My wife and I have always wondered whether that somehow influenced Guiness' far more famous line from Star Wars.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

124 5 8 years of residence
- Stable income
- NOT having received social benefits
- Swedish language exam
- Exam on Swedish values and society

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may I suggests :

-NO RAPES
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (GD0B3)
**********
And no safe zones for people that hate dogs.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 04:25 PM (NpAcC)

125 This team and that committee were created. Results? Surely seven months is enough to show something.

The teams and committees have formed panels to decide on paint colors for the office walls.

Posted by: human at May 04, 2026 04:25 PM (Vu7A1)

126 Hopefully European countries react before it's too late, but it's probably too late already.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 04, 2026 04:11 PM (0MjtC)

Narrator's voiceover: "It was, in fact, far too late."

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 04:26 PM (rGqqI)

127 According to it, the British imported tons of cheap African labor into majority white cities to undercut the white workers.
Soon, the population of those cities was over 50% African, so the natives (Afrikaners) tried to take steps to preserve their culture and way of life. Apartheid was the result - and we see how that turned out. Probably really simplified, but it made sense.

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Rich people are rich because they are so smart and the hardest workers.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 04, 2026 04:26 PM (Vh9CX)

128 This team and that committee were created. Results? Surely seven months is enough to show something.

The teams and committees have formed panels to decide on paint colors for the office walls.
Posted by: human at May 04, 2026 04:25 PM (Vu7A1)

And stop calling us Shirley.

Posted by: This team and that committee at May 04, 2026 04:26 PM (wVcYX)

129 🇸🇪 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:

- 8 years of residence
- Stable income
- NOT having received social benefits
- Swedish language exam
- Exam on Swedish values and society
___________________________________

Take a look at Liechtenstein's requirements sometime.
- have to show a job offer
- Employers must prove no local or EEA citizens are available for a position before hiring foreign nationals.
- strict quotas to flatline population growth
- citizenship requires 30 years residency without issue;
- must show a fluency in the language
- must provide documentation of assimilation into society
- Local municipality votes on whether you qualify for citizenship.

AND MORE

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)

130 Theoretically you have to speak English and have a job to get US citizenship. And yet we also print voting guides in 100 languages 80% of Afghanistan and Somali “citizens” are on welfare.

So Sweden’s thing is just PR to satisfy the rubes like they do here.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 04:28 PM (c3Uld)

131 May you sink in de Mayo.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:23 PM (Dv3i1)
*******
May the 5th be with you.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

132 Finland and Iceland are both considered to belong to Scandinavia.
Posted by: Bulg

And sometimes the Faroe Islands, in that definition.

But the most-common definition is just Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Checking DDG, the whole first page agrees on the three-country version, except for the website "ThoughtCo" that lists only the five-country one. Though the only good-enough-for-college reference on page one was Encyclopedia Britannica. It's mostly mapping-software and tourism-related links.

(I thought the five-or-six-country definition was the standard one, once, and got corrected. On this website, actually.)

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:29 PM (VHUov)

133 May you sink in de Mayo.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Sinking in Duke's would be my chosen method of execution.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

134 You ever see the movie 4 for Texas with Anita, Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Ursula Andress.

Anita actually succeeds in making Ursula look comparatively flat-chested. Of course, her character ends up with Sinatra.

The movie's also got The Three Stooges in it.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026

***
It's been on Grit, but I've never seen it. Didn't know Anita and Ursula were in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:29 PM (wzUl9)

135 My wife and I have always wondered whether that somehow influenced Guiness' far more famous line from Star Wars.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)
*******
I wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 04:29 PM (NpAcC)

136 Take a look at Liechtenstein's requirements sometime.

- strict quotas to flatline population growth

Well, when your country is the size of a Buc-ees.....

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:30 PM (VHUov)

137 91 Recently saw a video explaining what led up thr Apartheid in South Africa.

According to it, the British imported tons of cheap African labor into majority white cities to undercut the white workers.
Soon, the population of those cities was over 50% African, so the natives (Afrikaners) tried to take steps to preserve their culture and way of life. Apartheid was the result - and we see how that turned out. Probably really simplified, but it made sense.

Hopefully European countries react before it's too late, but it's probably too late already.
Posted by: 29Victor

Brits (and other European powers) loved divide and conquer in its colonies by siding with this faction and then that faction. They had fought the Boer wars to essentially grab the diamond mines for example and were perfectly content to play the Boers off against the newcoming cheap labor forces.

Divide and conquer let the colonizers keep order with fewer troops than simply occupation.

Posted by: whig at May 04, 2026 04:30 PM (E4rtv)

138 My criteria for obtaining citizenship is paying $250k in federal income tax. Then you can apply. And in 10 years you get it. But in those 10 years so much as a parking ticket starts the clock running again.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 04:31 PM (c3Uld)

139
May you sink in de Mayo.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026

***
I hate de mayo. I prefer de mustard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:31 PM (wzUl9)

140 Finland and Iceland are both considered to belong to Scandinavia.
Posted by: Bulg

And sometimes the Faroe Islands, in that definition.

Yes, I would also include the Faeroes. They are Danish, of course, but so is Greenland, which is part of North America and not of Scandinavia.

Also Jan Mayen and Svalbard, in Scandinavia.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

141 >>Equal time for Elke Sommers!!!

AKA 'The Teutonic Titwillow'. In a regular newspaper, early '70s. No idea how they got away with that. Anyway, German.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 04:32 PM (NcvvS)

142 And sometimes the Faroe Islands, in that definition.
___

I saw a documentary about a shortage of women in the Faroes, so there are a sizeable number of foreign "mail-order" wives. The place looks beautiful, but that's when it isn't raining.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:32 PM (Dv3i1)

143 Take a look at Liechtenstein's requirements sometime.

- strict quotas to flatline population growth
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Well, when your country is the size of a Buc-ees.....
Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026

***
What is the official language of Liechtenstein?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:33 PM (wzUl9)

144 Rich people are rich because they are so smart and the hardest workers.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Every society has elites complaining about the work ethic of the locals and wanting cheap labor. Eternal constant because none of the ruling class much likes to break a sweat (or their back) doing hard manual labor.

Societies that make common labor expensive may hurt profitability of corporations and land barons but have less social unrest, petty crime, and welfare usage as a consequence.

The best social welfare program in the world is a job, preferably private sector.

Posted by: whig at May 04, 2026 04:34 PM (E4rtv)

145 What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Their version of German.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)

146 "Finland and Iceland are both considered to belong to Scandinavia."

Finns consider themselves as Soumis not dirty filthy nasty scandies.

Update your records accordilngly.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 04:35 PM (zBgIx)

147
Their version of German.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026

***
* Clears throat from speaking even regular German *

I don't think I'd make it there, then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

148 What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:33 PM (wzUl9)

Lychee. It's nuts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 04:35 PM (utfVc)

149 What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
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German.

Which makes me wonder why it is called Germany in English and Allemagne in French.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:36 PM (Dv3i1)

150 Lichtenstein is 62 sq miles. My home county is 1124 sq m of land. We're a sanctuary county so our requirements are much more lax than Lichtenstein.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 04:36 PM (gu0hJ)

151 I saw a documentary about a shortage of women in the Faroes, so there are a sizeable number of foreign "mail-order" wives. The place looks beautiful, but that's when it isn't raining.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

The only Faroese woman I know of is kind of weird.....

https://youtu.be/wsl-KHGe4Kk

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:36 PM (VHUov)

152 May you sink in de Mayo.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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So close to Cinco de Cuatro?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 04:36 PM (xvhJH)

153 What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:33 PM (wzUl9)
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Gesundheit!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 04:36 PM (gnNyN)

154 >>the British imported tons of cheap African labor


History has taught us that there is no such thing.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 04:36 PM (Lu7y1)

155 ot:
guiding ships through the Strait, not escorting them. I am guessing this is for legal reasons.

Guiding is free pointers.

Escorting is 20$ same as in town.

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 04:37 PM (FhXTo)

156 137 They had fought the Boer wars to essentially grab the diamond mines for example and were perfectly content to play the Boers off against the newcoming cheap labor forces.

longboer > crossboer

Posted by: anachronda, stirring things up at May 04, 2026 04:37 PM (oY6Yp)

157 German.

Which makes me wonder why it is called Germany in English and Allemagne in French.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

In Russian, the German language is "nyemyetski." From the word "nyemoy," which means "mute" or "unable to speak." Thus encapsulating the Russians' view of said language.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

158 Guiding is free pointers.

Escorting is 20$ same as in town.
Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 04:37 PM (FhXTo)

But they are making bank on the cookies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 04:39 PM (utfVc)

159 They had fought the Boer wars to essentially grab the diamond mines for example and were perfectly content to play the Boers off against the newcoming cheap labor forces.

longboer > crossboer
Posted by: anachronda

I'd be cross if someone swiped my diamond mine.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:39 PM (VHUov)

160
The Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets has a scene where one of the Alec Guiness characters, the Vicar, I think, is sharing a bottle of wine with the Dennis Price character, and actually speaks the line (to Price), "The port is with you."

My wife and I have always wondered whether that somehow influenced Guiness' far more famous line from Star Wars.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)



One of my favorite films, Sibella is teh hawt. Although, it's 50/50 that your first night in her bedchamber, you'll wake up in a tub full of ice with stitches in your side and a note saying "thanks for the kidney!"

Not to mention, the cobra-mean wit.

"He says he wants to go to Europe to expand his mind."

"He certainly has room to do so."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 04:39 PM (e4Xc5)

161 145 What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Their version of German.

nothing wrong with that. i mean, english is, fundamentally, our version of german...

Posted by: anachronda, stirring things up at May 04, 2026 04:40 PM (oY6Yp)

162 I really don't understand the inaction on Ilhan, what does she have to do, send pics on snapchat?

also ABBA > Abu, apparently. Way to be on top of it Sweden.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

163 In Russian, the German language is "nyemyetski." From the word "nyemoy," which means "mute" or "unable to speak." Thus encapsulating the Russians' view of said language.
Posted by: Bulg

And the Germans say the Danish people speak with a "potato in their throat". Once you hear spoken Danish, you'll understand why.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)

164 One of my favorite films, Sibella is teh hawt. Although, it's 50/50 that your first night in her bedchamber, you'll wake up in a tub full of ice with stitches in your side and a note saying "thanks for the kidney!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Yeah, Joan Greenwood was indeed yummy. And that husky voice...

The last scene, where he has to choose between her and Valerie Hopson, always gives me pause, but I think I would've gone with Syblilla in the end.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

165 What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
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Liechtenese. Duh.

Closely related to Austrian, as Obama could tell you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 04:42 PM (MtSIY)

166 In Russian, the German language is "nyemyetski." From the word "nyemoy," which means "mute" or "unable to speak." Thus encapsulating the Russians' view of said language.
Posted by: Bulg

[etymology of "barbarian" goes here]

I'm 4th-generation American, so I know maybe a half-dozen German words, but I'm feeling a bit of shade being thrown on my ancestors, here.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:42 PM (VHUov)

167 And the Germans say the Danish people speak with a "potato in their throat". Once you hear spoken Danish, you'll understand why.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)
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I'm sure there's a comically long compound word in German for this phrase, too.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 04:43 PM (oqH4h)

168 >>I'm sure there's a comically long compound word in German for this phrase, too.


German is the Erector-Set of Languages.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 04:43 PM (Lu7y1)

169

Do you use Gmail?

Read the article at Daily Mail about AI being used to read all your email and financial info.

Nothing is private.

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026 04:44 PM (3ek7K)

170 I'm sure there's a comically long compound word in German for this phrase, too.

German is the Erector-Set of Languages.
Posted by: garrett

Why invent new words when you have perfectly good old ones that say the same thing? No need to invent words like "glove" or "bat" when "hand-shoe" and "flutter-mouse" work.

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:45 PM (VHUov)

171 Germany from the Roman 'Germania', a tribal zone; Allemagne from the Allemands, a Germanic tribe; Deutschland from the Deutsche people, which encompasses the tribes 2,000 years ago in that region.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 04:45 PM (NcvvS)

172 Why invent new words when you have perfectly good old ones that say the same thing? No need to invent words like "glove" or "bat" when "hand-shoe" and "flutter-mouse" work.
Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:45 PM (VHUov)
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"Wo sind sie??"

"Ich bin...die Fledermaus-Mann."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 04:46 PM (xvhJH)

173 Sweden should add castration also required.

Just to be sure.

Posted by: Not For The Squeamish at May 04, 2026 04:46 PM (AP4bj)

174 To elaborate on my comments in an earlier thread, I just don't get women exposing their hoo-has. I don't want to look at a chick's hoo-ha -- that's what boobs are for -- I want to play hide the sausage in it.

I can admire a pic of your boobs, but I can't hide the sausage in a pic of your hoo-ha.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

175 Do you use Gmail? . . .

Posted by: four seasons at May 04, 2026

***
Never.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

176
Meet the new Pope. Same as the old Pope.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:52 PM

_____

Hey, Pope Leo, stick to your knitting. Do you think you could look into why the Catholic church has been losing members for years, especially in the United States?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 04, 2026 04:48 PM (Rsf1e)

177 Nood, "Gal Sharpton."

Posted by: mikeski at May 04, 2026 04:48 PM (VHUov)

178
The last scene, where he has to choose between her and Valerie Hopson, always gives me pause, but I think I would've gone with Syblilla in the end.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)



Sybilla was the only sane option, despite her penchant for betrayal. Or because of it. Going with Hobson would have pissed off Sybilla, and she would have made sure that Mazzini would hang for the murders. She didn't know the details, but she knew that he'd done it.

Of course, Mazzini made it all a moot point by leaving his memoirs in his cell...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 04:48 PM (e4Xc5)

179 Nood, defamatory Candace

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 04:48 PM (Sy6m/)

180
In Russian, the German language is "nyemyetski." From the word "nyemoy," which means "mute" or "unable to speak." Thus encapsulating the Russians' view of said language.
Posted by: Bulg

More like "dumb"...

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 04:49 PM (GD0B3)

181 >>German is the Erector-Set of Languages.

One of the funniest pieces ever: https://tinyurl.com/2nyjdyxm

The language at the end has been cleaned up, IYKYK.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 04:50 PM (NcvvS)

182 "Flutter-mouse"?

Speaking of mice: My big black Stirling cat has racked up a kill!

Well, I *think* he did. This morning I found a still little mouse body on the bedroom floor. He did not look mutilated, so perhaps Stirling (I'm pretty sure it was him and not Dagny, but who knows) just knocked him around until he died. Anyway, I tossed the body out on the front lawn, to return him to the environment.

That was about 8 am. At 8:30 I left the apartment and looked, and he was gone. Either he was unconscious and not dead when I found him -- I didn't check for mouse breathing -- woke up and ran away, or a crow or feral cat got itself a treat this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 04:52 PM (wzUl9)

183 Here's a grizzly - err, croc story.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxc2hxx

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (n5tGW)

184 Since Democrats will fight like the devil to keep one of their own, the Feds will need overwhelming evidence against Ilhan Omar

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 04, 2026 04:53 PM (xDQPT)

185 This is going to be really embarrassing to the Trump administration because immigration fraud never occurs, just like voter fraud.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 04, 2026 04:56 PM (k8xm0)

186 .
Other than Illan Omar, I don't give two shakes of a shit about this until ALL of the low-hanging fruit of illegal aliens has been castrated.

Posted by: Marooned at May 04, 2026 06:39 PM (kt8QE)

187 It might mean the restoration of a socialist Sweden, if they can restore a Swedish nation.

Posted by: No Justice for Iryna, No Peace for Charlotte Government at May 04, 2026 08:20 PM (gWfAG)

Self-Proclaimed "Snapchat King" Eric Swalwell Sent Videos of Himself Masturbating to More Women, and Is Also Now Using Snapchat to Attack Women for Talking About His Masturbation Videos

A gentlemen does not send videos of himself masturbating until he has presented the woman he's courting a token of his affection, like a scarf or a flower that looks like a cock (like a tulip).


Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell was accused by multiple women of sending sexual messages, including "videos of him masturbating," after becoming one of the first members of Congress to join Snapchat in an effort to restore "faith" in "democracy."

In a bombshell report on Sunday -- less than a month after Swalwell resigned from Congress after being accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women -- CNN spoke to "more than a dozen" women who claimed the congressman had made them feel uncomfortable, both in person and online, over the past decade.

Several women told CNN that the congressman had sent them sexually explicit messages on Snapchat after he became "one of the first lawmakers to join Snapchat" and was heralded in the media as "the Snapchat king of Congress," according to CNN.

"We can restore a lot of faith that people have in their democracy by opening it up a little bit more," Swalwell told The Hill in 2016 after joining the messaging service. "Snapchat is a great way to do that."

Snapchat is a messaging app whose chief selling point is that messages and photos disappear after being viewed or after a period of time (if unviewed). It is purpose-built for adultery and dicpics.


However, it allegedly wasn't long before the congressman began to use his Snapchat account for purposes other than politics.

One young woman claimed Swalwell would send her Snapchat messages about her future, before asking inappropriate questions such as, "What are you wearing?"

Two other women told CNN that Swalwell sent them "sexually explicit messages and unsolicited nude photos and videos of himself" in 2021, while a third woman also claimed to have received "sexually tinged messages and videos."

...

During the relationship, Swalwell reportedly sent "nude photos of himself and videos of him masturbating," which showed the congressman's "face and naked body."

The videos, which were saved by the woman, were shown to CNN.

"His stories would be his, like, congressional content, but then he would be sending me dick pics," she alleged, adding that Swalwell sent her another "explicit video" late last year, just weeks before he announced his 2026 California gubernatorial campaign.

In another alleged case, Swalwell reportedly wrote a letter of recommendation for a woman he had never met after sending her flirty Snapchat messages about her "sexy pajamas."

And he's still doing it. Even as he's being investigated (supposedly) in California and New York for rape, he's still sending out Snapchat messages to his victims.

John Sexton, quoting CNN:

Another young woman who connected online with Swalwell about a policy issue said he repeatedly sent her suggestive messages, offered to fly her to DC, and even wrote her a letter of recommendation despite never meeting in person.

"He would Snapchat me. He'd be like, 'What do you want to do with your future?'" she recalled. "And then he'd be like, 'What are you wearing right now?'"

More than a dozen women who spoke with CNN described interactions with Swalwell that made them uncomfortable over the last decade, from social media messages to in-person encounters to alleged attempts by the congressman to lure them to his hotel room. Some asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation.

...

Similarly, Swalwell met Amanda Koski, a former Hill staffer and political operative, when she served him and his family while waitressing at a DC pizza restaurant. He asked for her phone number and later started messaging her about her involvement in politics, she told CNN...

The night after CNN spoke with Azari about the women's claims, Swalwell sent Koski a Snapchat message at 1:57 a.m. Eastern -- asking why she had screenshotted his chats and including screencaps of texts between the two of them.

"Given the accusations against him, attempting to gaslight or intimidate a woman on Snapchat at 2:00 a.m. isn't overly becoming of a person who has 'done no wrong,'" Koski told CNN.

Why are you saying I sexually harassed you when I sent you pictures of my dick? I wasn't harassing you. I just wanted your medical opinion about whether the mole on the tip of my penis looks cancerous or sexy. I thought it looked like a helmeted Cindy Crawford but I was a little worried about the uneven edges.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM




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Posted by: GF at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (iVUs+)

2 Like any good socialist, he was merely seizing the means of production.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (0MjtC)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (NcvvS)

4 Crankin' Calls

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (Lu7y1)

5 Huh. How weird is it these people are speaking out now?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (UJMvS)

6 This is what the good guys do.

Imagine what those evil Rethuglicans do!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (Y2NSe)

7 And they say romance is dead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (AvxYT)

8 Swalwell... The gift that keeps giving.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (dFjQQ)

9 Rough edges on a dick? Moisturize, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (zZu0s)

10 messages and photos disappear after being viewed "

If only one could copy a screen. Call it a screenshot...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (XuXeR)

11 Like I've been saying, we keep automatin' things we hadn't ought to automate.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (rzCjW)

12 Stop. We know what you're going to say. The thing is, we actually ARE sending our best...

Posted by: The DNC at May 04, 2026 02:34 PM (hcEyG)

13 And they say romance is dead.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (AvxYT)

You could have socked that as "Bill Cosby" or something.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 02:34 PM (rbvCR)

14 12 Stop. We know what you're going to say. The thing is, we actually ARE sending our best...

Posted by: The DNC at May 04, 2026 02:34 PM (hcEyG)

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Eric Swalwell is the most moral, best behaving man in the Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:34 PM (Y2NSe)

15 The night after CNN spoke with Azari about the women's claims, Swalwell sent Koski a Snapchat message at 1:57 a.m. Eastern -- asking why she had screenshotted his chats and including screencaps of texts between the two of them.
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LOL, Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when the recipient screenshots their snap.

The slimy scumbucket knew all along there was proof he was a dick pic-er.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 02:35 PM (MtSIY)

16 Eric sent me a sext with him smacking his noodle and asking me to join in.

Keep em coming Eric! Keep em coming!

Posted by: Barney Fag, Not Dead Yet at May 04, 2026 02:35 PM (AP4bj)

17 >>>Eric Swalwell Sent Videos of Himself Masturbating to More Women

"More?"

I am glad I seemed to have missed something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)

18 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

19 'You have an incoming call from: RED ROCKET...'

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 02:36 PM (Lu7y1)

20 He's no Jeffrey Toobin.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:36 PM (JqXxE)

21 The most unbelievable part of this whole thing? It involves a Democrat male having sex with live biological women.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 02:36 PM (UJMvS)

22 "His stories would be his, like, congressional content, but then he would be sending me dick pics," she alleged



My account was hacked!!! Reeeeeeeee!!!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (DSLf3)

23 The Worst and Depraved.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (RcrSk)

24
And they say romance is dead.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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Completely unrelated to romance, but is his wife still around?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)

25 >>>LOL, Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when the recipient screenshots their snap.

I don't want to know how you know this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)

26 Swalwell is Anthony Weiner?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

27 When is the current Mrs. Swalwell going to dump this idiot and gut him like a carp in family court?

Posted by: PabloD at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (TluV9)

28 Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when the recipient screenshots their snap."

2nd phone time...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (XuXeR)

29 Amazing how they were able to put this story together so quickly, get it approved by their editors, and then get it published. Almost like they'd been sitting on these names and messages for years.

Posted by: Wally at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (0e5Te)

30 A gentlemen does not send videos of himself masturbating until he has presented the woman he's courting a token of his affection, like a scarf or a flower that looks like a cock (like a tulip).

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"Would you settle for a dead young boy?"

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (JqXxE)

31 The fact that you think a tulip looks like a cock has me a little concerned about you. There has to be a little more girth than a tulip stem.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (0Htd1)

32 The videos, which were saved by the woman, were shown to CNN.
_____

I've seen some things before, some really bad things....but nothing like this.
- CNN War Correspondent

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (Dv3i1)

33 “I thought it looked like a helmeted Cindy Crawford”

And still no Pulitzer. The system is rigged.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (36bTp)

34 Come vote for Swalwell, from the valley o' Castro
see now on Snapchat he's playin' a video
(where he gonna jack it)

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (gKWVE)

35 29 Amazing how they were able to put this story together so quickly, get it approved by their editors, and then get it published. Almost like they'd been sitting on these names and messages for years.

Posted by: Wally at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (0e5Te)

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I think it was Politico that admitted that they had the story in 2020 during his presidential primary run.

But then interest in it dried up when he dropped out of the race.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (Y2NSe)

36 Eric was too good to buy a burner phone?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (RcrSk)

37 No comment.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (wVcYX)

38 But then interest in it dried up"

Ewww.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR)

39 >>>And they say romance is dead.

Chicks are going on, fantasizing about sexing up bears with malformed genitalia.

It's hard out there for a pimp.

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)

40 The night after CNN spoke with Azari about the women's claims, Swalwell sent Koski a Snapchat message at 1:57 a.m. Eastern -- asking why she had screenshotted his chats and including screencaps of texts between the two of them.
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LOL, Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when the recipient screenshots their snap.


That's why you use a second phone or camera to record the "chats".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (DSLf3)

41 Dick Pic - Donkey Chompers 2028

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (0AQrW)

42 It's disappointing that our republican leadership loves flowers shaped like cocks. If they were straight, Swalwell would be booted out of all committees and censured.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (abIsI)

43 31 The fact that you think a tulip looks like a cock has me a little concerned about you. There has to be a little more girth than a tulip stem.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (0Htd1)

SIZEIST ...

Posted by: Nweedledick the Bug Fucker at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (3sXRv)

44 Yeah. The guy is a moron. But he was an obedient and fearless moron. He was a great footsoldier for the Party. He did and said exactly what he was told to, and they protected him u til he stepped out of line.
This is how the Democrats use a bunch of united and loyal absolute idiots in Congress to keep beating Congressional Republicans.

Meanwhile, the GOP can't even get their Senate majority leader to get in line.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (0MjtC)

45 >>And they say romance is dead.


As long as there are Minotaur that need Milking, Romance will be fine.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (Lu7y1)

46 You can tell the word has gone out to destroy Swalwell because CNN is actually reporting this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

47 E-dick Swalwell

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (U6Usv)

48 39 >>>And they say romance is dead.

Chicks are going on, fantasizing about sexing up bears with malformed genitalia.

It's hard out there for a pimp.

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at May 04, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)

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There are dueling trends on social media.

Men: "I'm gonna say something, and don't get mad about it", implying sexual attraction to a large breasted woman with glasses but who is also certifiably crazy.

Women: "I'm gonna say something, and don't get mad about it," implying sexual attraction to Pyramid Head from Silent Hill or some kind of ripped monster trying to tear a woman to shreds

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (Y2NSe)

49 ... after becoming one of the first members of Congress to join Snapchat in an effort to restore "faith" in "democracy."

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"A Fickin' For Every THOT!"

/Swallowswell 2028

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (JqXxE)

50 Rough edges on a dick? Moisturize, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (zZu0s)


Scaled. For her pleasure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

51 Rough edges on a dick? Moisturize, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM

May I suggest Elizabeth Arden creme? It works for me, and the bouquet is memorable!

Posted by: Harry Sussex at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

52 If stuff like this didn't get scumbags like Swallowell laid, they wouldn't do it.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (0AQrW)

53 Was that wrong?

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (kKD6e)

54 and was heralded in the media as "the Snapchat king of Congress," according to CNN.

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"NO JACK-OFF KINGS!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (JqXxE)

55 "Yup, he totally beat me to Snapchat."
-Lindsay Graham, confident his extra phone in his desk drawer is on silent

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (Y2NSe)

56 It occurs to me that Iran probably uses Snapchat to negotiate as it all seems so similar.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (n5tGW)

57 The videos, which were saved by the woman, were shown to CNN.

She didn't use them for blackmail?

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (0Htd1)

58
My account was hacked!!! Reeeeeeeee!!!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (DSLf3)


Someone is using AI to discredit me!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

59 Was that wrong?

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (kKD6e)

Dude was beating it like it was a law-abiding gun owner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (dK+Kv)

60 He could have gotten moisturizing tips from Harry, the artful Todger.

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (Q0yOR)

61
57 The videos, which were saved by the woman, were shown to CNN.

She didn't use them for blackmail?

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (0Htd1)

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$5 says she used them to get work in the Democrat Party apparatus somewhere, and she's just now admitting their existence to the world because they're now worthless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (Y2NSe)

62 THEY WERE ART PICS

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (j+aD2)

63 In another alleged case, Swalwell reportedly wrote a letter of recommendation for a woman he had never met after sending her flirty Snapchat messages about her "sexy pajamas."

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David French's Snapchat account?

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (JqXxE)

64 'You have an incoming call from: RED ROCKET...'
Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 02:36 PM (Lu7y1)

A friend of mine who does the Snapchat thing and she said guys would open a conversation with the dick Pic. She called it 'opening with their short comings, the little dicked bastards.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (zZu0s)

65 She didn't use them for blackmail?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (0Htd1)
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She probably showed them to somebody with power and was told to hold on to the videos because they'll need them at some point.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (UJMvS)

66 Dude was beating it like it was a law-abiding gun owner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (dK+Kv)
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It was the obligatory Seinfeld quote. I should have socked george costanza but I always forget to remove my socks

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (kKD6e)

67 THEY WERE ART PICS
Posted by: BlackOrchid


So he was loping the mule while sitting nekkid on a ottoman?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (DSLf3)

68 The guy who threatened to nuke Americans was unhinged in private?

Why were there no signs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (Y2NSe)

69 Just so you know.

No woman wants to see pictures of your junk. Never, ever, for any reason unless it's to ridicule you and even then, we can manage without.

The only reason you'd show your junk would be to gross someone out.

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (chM/Q)

70 Dude was beating it like it was a law-abiding gun owner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (dK+Kv)
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It was the obligatory Seinfeld quote. I should have socked george costanza but I always forget to remove my socks

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (kKD6e)

I recognized it. I was just looking for a place to land that one. I'll be better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (dK+Kv)

71 What a thoroughly unpleasant man. Obviously had issues going way back, probably even before he entered politics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (Yl2Ob)

72 A friend of mine who does the Snapchat thing and she said guys would open a conversation with the dick Pic. She called it 'opening with their short comings, the little dicked bastards.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD


I'd prefer to wait to disappoint them.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (DSLf3)

73 The Kennedys ran a train on Marilyn and Barney Frank's asshole enlargment specialist ran an escort service.

Old timey nostalgic professionalism.

And that is just the tip of the shitberg.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (0AQrW)

74 69 Just so you know.

No woman wants to see pictures of your junk. Never, ever, for any reason unless it's to ridicule you and even then, we can manage without.

The only reason you'd show your junk would be to gross someone out.

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (chM/Q)

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I remember reading a story about a NYC columnist who decided that she was going to give men what she knew that they'd hate.

So, she took a picture of her junk and sent it to men who...all replied favorably to it, shocking her!

Men and women are different. It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (Y2NSe)

75 The only reason you'd show your junk would be to gross someone out.

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (chM/Q)

Hey, wanna be grossed out?

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (dK+Kv)

76 Perfect democrat presidential ticket: Weiner / Swalwell 2028. Make dickpics great again!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (V362x)

77 A friend of mine who does the Snapchat thing and she said guys would open a conversation with the dick Pic. She called it 'opening with their short comings, the little dicked bastards.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:43 PM (zZu0s)


First Lady was sick once while we were trying to sell something via Facebook Marketplace. I was monitoring her account for messages from the buyer when an instant message came from a guy she actually knew from high school, I think, with a dicpic.

"Honey, is there anything you want to tell me?"

"WTF?!?!?! SICK PERV!!!" Blocked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

78 Well, this is the thread to bring this up. My Canadian Census came in. I haven't logged in yet but last time I made up my own gender.

This time, I'm doing the same thing but I'd like to honour the Horde. On the last census I explained that my gender has 5 penises and 2 vaginas and I was waiting for OHIP and SCIENCE to make me as beautiful on the outside as my internal vision.

Dong-Hordian might be a cool gender name. A pun on hoard.

I'll think about it. Maybe we can get a letter in the lgbt..... thing if 'G' or 'M' aren't taken.

Or maybe we can add in Upsilon!!!

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (Sco7b)

79 Dang it. That Trump sure is evil isn't he - big meanie!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (VkY89)

80 If John Thune would put down his Ball Gargler 9000 for a second, maybe we could get degenerates like Swalwell out of the senate committees.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (abIsI)

81 Rough edges on a dick? Moisturize, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM

May I suggest Elizabeth Arden creme? It works for me, and the bouquet is memorable!
Posted by: Harry Sussex at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

Avon Skin So Soft. The bonus is it also works well as a mosquito repellent, for when you are sunning your junk.

There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (wVcYX)

82
So he was loping the mule while sitting nekkid on a ottoman?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (DSLf3)


Don't give CBD any more AI art ideas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

83 I remember reading a story about a NYC columnist who decided that she was going to give men what she knew that they'd hate.

So, she took a picture of her junk and sent it to men who...all replied favorably to it, shocking her!

Men and women are different. It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (Y2NSe)

It's like expecting men to hate free donuts. Or free beer. She's a maroon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)

84
These people act as if nothing will ever happen to them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (VWtfl)

85 78 Well, this is the thread to bring this up. My Canadian Census came in. I haven't logged in yet but last time I made up my own gender.

This time, I'm doing the same thing but I'd like to honour the Horde. On the last census I explained that my gender has 5 penises and 2 vaginas and I was waiting for OHIP and SCIENCE to make me as beautiful on the outside as my internal vision.

Dong-Hordian might be a cool gender name. A pun on hoard.

I'll think about it. Maybe we can get a letter in the lgbt..... thing if 'G' or 'M' aren't taken.

Or maybe we can add in Upsilon!!!

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (Sco7b)

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"Illegal immigrant from Iran who wants to firebomb Alberta."

If you want the fast path to big bennies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:47 PM (Y2NSe)

86 Sending unsolicited dick pics is NOT on the same level as sending videos of yourself boxing the bishop. There is a line there that should not be crossed.

Posted by: Brett F at May 04, 2026 02:47 PM (wGerL)

87 No woman wants to see pictures of your junk. Never, ever, for any reason unless it's to ridicule you and even then, we can manage without.

Posted by: dagny

THIS -- no woman, anywhere on planet Earth, wants pictures of that. I am so glad I am old and out of the dating scene.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at May 04, 2026 02:47 PM (Swr8B)

88 Normal men will beat off to a knothole in the fence if the edges look sanded.

Perverted men aren't as picky.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 02:47 PM (0AQrW)

89 Now that Swalwell is finished there's one other prick head that you just know is a perv....Adam Schiff-for-brains

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (2Nfh9)

90 Men and women are different. It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM

Mom says there's a vas deferens between them.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (0sNs1)

91 Didn’t Tubin get his job back? Why shouldn’t Swallwell be any different?

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (dK+0q)

92 Now that Swalwell is finished there's one other prick head that you just know is a perv....Adam Schiff-for-brains
Posted by: hatethedeepstate at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (2Nfh9)


He has the look of someone with kids in their crawlspace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

93 Men must think women want to see junk like men want to see junk.

You know how to make us not want to look at a super hot guy? Frontal nudity.

Just no.

Wear a fucking fig leaf, but ffs, cover it.

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (chM/Q)

94 I remember reading a story about a NYC columnist who decided that she was going to give men what she knew that they'd hate.

So, she took a picture of her junk and sent it to men who...all replied favorably to it, shocking her!

Men and women are different. It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Big joke currently on Facebook:
Woman talking to female friend:
"I did to him what they do to us. I fed him, I brought him home, I screwed him, and I called him an Uber and sent him home. See how he likes it!"

Dude talking to his buddy:
"Dude! I just had the most amazing date!"

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM (DSLf3)

95 The only reason you'd show your junk would be to gross someone out.
Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (chM/Q)

See this has always been my rule. Ill admit to being a moron about women, but unless you try ti sneak a dick Pic in some sort of artsy, funny way (perhaps a bowl of fruit) you are probably not going to win points with that one. Again, I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

96 Didn’t Tubin get his job back? Why shouldn’t Swallwell be any different?
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 04, 2026 02:48 PM (dK+0q)


The left is such a forgiving lot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

97 Hey, wanna be grossed out?"

Sure.

/Harvey W.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM (XuXeR)

98 No woman wants to see pictures of your junk. Never, ever, for any reason unless it's to ridicule you and even then, we can manage without.

Posted by: dagny

They want to see pictures of you taking a break from ironing by doing the dishes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)

99 They want to see pictures of you taking a break from ironing by doing the dishes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)

That's perverted!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (dK+Kv)

100 Rough edges on a dick? Moisturize, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (zZu0s)

All that jacking has produced calluses.

Posted by: See the pudiatrist about those at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (TbWk/)

101 Big joke currently on Facebook:
Woman talking to female friend:
"I did to him what they do to us. I fed him, I brought him home, I screwed him, and I called him an Uber and sent him home. See how he likes it!"

Dude talking to his buddy:
"Dude! I just had the most amazing date!"
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM (DSLf3)


This, too, is the story of Mattress Girl.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

102 Funny how Democrats abandoned Swallwell but continue to rally around Platner.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (UJMvS)

103 I'll be better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:45 PM (dK+Kv)

Yeah right

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (U6Usv)

104 88 Normal men will beat off to a knothole in the fence if the edges look sanded.

You must be familiar with the Basque's.

https://tinyurl.com/35jpc4mb

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (abIsI)

105 unless you try ti sneak a dick Pic in some sort of artsy, funny way (perhaps a bowl of fruit)

There's something really wrong with that banana.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (gKWVE)

106 Yeah right

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (U6Usv)

That's fair.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (dK+Kv)

107 So, she took a picture of her junk and sent it to men who...all replied favorably to it, shocking her!

Men and women are different. It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I never got the thing about women showing their "junk," like Sharon Stone. Snizzzes are important, but it's not like they're inherently attractive and fun to look at, like boobs are.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

108 I stumbled into this thread and I am glad I did!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (MCbzQ)

109 I would never send that stuff to some chick. I'm very self-conscious about my hand.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (U6Usv)

110 I would never send that stuff to some chick. I'm very self-conscious about my hand.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (U6Usv)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:52 PM (dK+Kv)

111 Our "elites" are all sexual perverts of some sort or another.

Weimar.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 02:52 PM (N1DT3)

112 They want to see pictures of you taking a break from ironing by doing the dishes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)

Here i am, folding towels shirtless, concentrating on the task...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

113 If you don't support Swallwell you don't know jack.

Posted by: Things Biden said, probably. at May 04, 2026 02:52 PM (47/pr)

114 unless you try ti sneak a dick Pic in some sort of artsy, funny way (perhaps a bowl of fruit) you are probably not going to win points with that one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM

A pudding cup. It's the Moron way.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at May 04, 2026 02:52 PM (0sNs1)

115
There's something really wrong with that banana.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (gKWVE)


HEY! It's called Peyronie's disease!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

116 What if he was wearing a cowboy hat, handkerchief, and those 3D printed muscle arms people put on their pets? There’s at least some effort applied.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (dK+0q)

117 Bowl of fruit

Like Apples and Bananas or Obama and Lindsay Graham?

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (chM/Q)

118 Our "elites" are all sexual perverts of some sort or another.


Lindsey Graham walking through Disney World holding a bubble wand is pretty perverted.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (abIsI)

119 I would never send that stuff to some chick. I'm very self-conscious about my hand.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM (U6Usv)

Jealousy is a green eyed monster.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (zZu0s)

120 >>>What if he was wearing a cowboy hat, handkerchief, and those 3D printed muscle arms people put on their pets?

On his dick? You that'll work?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

121 Like Apples and Bananas or Obama and Lindsay Graham?
Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (chM/Q)
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Thanks, Dagny. I now have a vision of Obama and Lindsay spooning.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (UJMvS)

122 You *think that'll work?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

123 unless you try ti sneak a dick Pic in some sort of artsy, funny way (perhaps a bowl of fruit) you are probably not going to win points with that one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

A pudding cup. It's the Moron way.
Posted by: J. Random Moron


Tub o' popcorn at the movies.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (DSLf3)

124 I don't have a lot of pull anymore.

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (47/pr)

125 I never got the thing about women showing their "junk," like Sharon Stone. Snizzzes are important, but it's not like they're inherently attractive and fun to look at, like boobs are.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:51 PM

* stares at Bulg *

Posted by: J. Random Moron at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (0sNs1)

126 What if he was wearing a cowboy hat, handkerchief, and those 3D printed muscle arms people put on their pets?

On his dick? You that'll work?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)


It's called a puppet show.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

127 I never got the thing about women showing their "junk," like Sharon Stone. Snizzzes are important, but it's not like they're inherently attractive and fun to look at, like boobs are.
Posted by: Bulg
___________

Andrew Dice Clay had a memorable bit about this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (XvL8K)

128 Like Apples and Bananas or Obama and Lindsay Graham?
Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (chM/Q)

Evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

129 The only reason you'd show your junk would be to gross someone out.
Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:44 PM (chM/Q)

You probably aren't a fan of the bucket-of-popcorn-at-the-movie-theater trick, I'm guessing.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (Y1sOo)

130 1. Cut a hole in a box
2. ...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (DgMqy)

131 Dammit!

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (Y1sOo)

132
Tub o' popcorn at the movies.
Posted by: rickb223

I don't like popcorn.

Posted by: Lauren Boebert at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (abIsI)

133
Lindsey Graham walking through Disney World holding a bubble wand is pretty perverted.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:53 PM (abIsI)


Has he explained that picture? I mean, "I was there with the grandkids" or anything?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

134 Hoo-Has are also not photogenic but men less likely to be disgusted.

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (chM/Q)

135 Has he explained that picture? I mean, "I was there with the grandkids" or anything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

All he said was it wasn't his...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (dFjQQ)

136 Has he explained that picture? I mean, "I was there with the grandkids" or anything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

Grandkids?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)

137
Tub o' popcorn at the movies.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:54 PM (DSLf3)


As a hot dog on a serving tray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

138 Is this about me?

Posted by: The Groove Tube at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (wVcYX)

139 That "helmeted Cindy Crawford" line never works.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Iwv3U)

140 But what of tradition?

McDonald's to eliminate self-serve soda machines in U.S. due to "changing consumer habits"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (ndZc7)

141 Hoo-Has are also not photogenic but men less likely to be disgusted.

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (chM/Q)

I think the rule here is that WE have to be the judge.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (dK+Kv)

142
Grandkids?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)


I mean, it's an incredibly odd pic that should be explained. I have no idea if the fag has any offspring.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

143
Has he explained that picture? I mean, "I was there with the grandkids" or anything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

He is a 68 year old never-married bachelor. He doesn't have grandkids.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (abIsI)

144 McDonald's to eliminate self-serve soda machines in U.S. due to "changing consumer habits"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (ndZc7)


Like people getting a cup out of the trash and refilling it.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (dFjQQ)

145 >>> As a hot dog on a serving tray.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Boy, does that reference make me feel old.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (CyFyf)

146 The Democrats were all fine with Swalwell sending dic pics, harassing and raping girls--so long as he didn't threaten their power.

They all knew.

And every one of them also said Trump was disqualified from the Presidency for saying "pussy."

If he hadn't have run for Governor, he could have sent pics of a swastika tattoo on his dick and they would have explained "well, he did it when he was younger and he didn't know it was a swastika and he promises to cover it up."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (MtSIY)

147 I've been told my growler is quite photogenic.

Same with my starfish.

Posted by: Hope Solo at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (Y1sOo)

148 Why are you saying I sexually harassed you when I sent you pictures of my dick? I wasn't harassing you. I just wanted your medical opinion about whether ...

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

Image all the "medical opinions" Bubba Clinton could have garnered had SnapChat been around in the 90s ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (JqXxE)

149
He is a 68 year old never-married bachelor. He doesn't have grandkids.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (abIsI)


So, it's more likely he was luring young children.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Too bad nothing was done during the years he was doing this unchallenged. It's almost as if he was protected because of his political affiliations....

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (fxCK2)

151
Boy, does that reference make me feel old.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (CyFyf)


At least someone got it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

152 I think Miss Graham is childless

Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (chM/Q)

153 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Shame I missed the boat sinking thread, said thats what I wanted for lsst few weeks

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (Ia/+0)

154 I had a guy send me a picture of Richard Nixon once.

Does that count?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (W2Pud)

155 149
He is a 68 year old never-married bachelor. He doesn't have grandkids.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (abIsI)


So, it's more likely he was luring young children.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yes. He likes little boys.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (abIsI)

156 Pic
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So speaking of autocorrect I see I'm not the only person who gets this one when I type? What is this capitalized "Pic" thing???

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (U6Usv)

157
If he hadn't have run for Governor, he could have sent pics of a swastika tattoo on his dick and they would have explained "well, he did it when he was younger and he didn't know it was a swastika and he promises to cover it up."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (MtSIY)

The Dems dumped it all now because they figured it would come out when he already had the nomination and a Republican might have a chance...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (dFjQQ)

158 Same with my starfish.
Posted by: Hope Solo at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (Y1sOo)


I thought that was your 'globetrotting squeakhole.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

159 I had a guy send me a picture of Richard Nixon once.

Does that count?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (W2Pud)

Did it look presidential?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 03:00 PM (dK+Kv)

160 Here we go. Canada census...


question 3. What is this person's gender?

Gender refers to an individual's personal and social identity as a man (or a boy), a woman (or a girl), or a person who is not exclusively a man (or a boy) or a woman (or a girl), for example, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, queer or Two-Spirit.

What was this person's sex at birth?
Sex at birth refers to the sex recorded on a person's first birth certificate. It is typically observed based on a person's reproductive system and other physical characteristics.



Choices, choices...

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:00 PM (Sco7b)

161 I had a guy send me a picture of Richard Nixon once.

Does that count?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (W2Pud)


ISWYDT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

162 I had a guy send me a picture of Richard Nixon once.

Does that count?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 02:59 PM (W2Pud)

Did it look presidential?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 03:00 PM (dK+Kv)

And did it have the requisite "timber"?

Posted by: The Groove Tube at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (wVcYX)

163
OUT: Dick pics
IN: Snapchaterbaiting

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (wtvvX)

164 O/T, but this does not sound good at all: "Federal judge Zia Faruqui apologized in court to Cole Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump, expressing concern over Allen's treatment"..do we have any non-jihadi judges in the system ?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (GD0B3)

165 21 The most unbelievable part of this whole thing? It involves a Democrat male having sex with live biological women.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 02:36 PM (UJMvS)

You forgot one: adult. Live adult biological women.

Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (6+ehB)

166 Swalwell isn't ashamed of any of this.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (rJ48h)

167 Choices, choices...
Posted by: Stateless


Man, you should have some fun with that question, Stateless. Say you identify as a pansexual eider or something.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

168 If he hadn't have run for Governor, he could have sent pics of a swastika tattoo on his dick and they would have explained "well, he did it when he was younger and he didn't know it was a swastika and he promises to cover it up."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 02:58 PM (MtSIY)

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Gives a whole new meaning to Totenkopf (Death's Head).

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (JqXxE)

169 164 O/T, but this does not sound good at all: "Federal judge Zia Faruqui apologized in court to Cole Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump, expressing concern over Allen's treatment"..do we have any non-jihadi judges in the system ?
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (GD0B3)

She should be removed from the case

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (dFjQQ)

170 Fkin Marxists have no moral values

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)

171 Billy Squire

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=69fPof-ZTnU

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (jrgJz)

172 You forgot one: adult. Live adult biological women.
Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (6+ehB)
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*hangs head in shame

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (UJMvS)

173 That's what I asked above.

I want to enter something for the Horde. Just for us.

More details.

3. What is this person's gender?
How to answer question 3
Select the response that indicates the person's gender. The write-in response "Or please specify this person's gender" is included to allow people to self-identify in an inclusive and respectful way.

A person's gender may differ from their sex at birth and from what is indicated on their current identification or legal documents, such as their birth certificate, passport or driver's licence. A person's gender may change over time. Some people may not identify with a specific gender.

Respondents answering on behalf of other people in their household, such as parents answering on behalf of their children, should answer—to the best of their knowledge—what they think other household members would answer.
Reasons why we ask questions 2 to 7
Questions 2 to 7 provide information about the demographic characteristics of people in Canada. This information is used by all levels of government to make important decisions, such as planning community services and social programs, including Old Age Security and the Canada Child Benef

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (Sco7b)

174 169 I'm going to guess she won't be removed

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (Q0yOR)

175 His claim to fame "Judge Faruqui is notable for being the first Muslim Judge appointed to the Federal Court in Washington, D.C...
His judicial work includes presiding over significant cases, including those related to the January 6th Capitol breach...."

question? did not think so

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (GD0B3)

176 >>>A gentlemen does not send videos of himself masturbating until he has presented the woman he's courting a token of his affection, like a scarf or a flower that looks like a cock (like a tulip).

If you look at a tulip when it is all closed up, I supposed you could think that. But, if you look at a tulip in full flower, a completely different organ comes to mind.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (8mulE)

177 "who claimed the congressman had made them feel uncomfortable, both in person and online, over the past decade"

----

Over the past DECADE?! They certainly do cover for each other, don't they?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (JbPL7)

178 Swalwell isn't ashamed of any of this.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (rJ48h)


Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:


https://youtu.be/mPObzJkWueY

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

179 Boy, does that reference make me feel old.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM (CyFyf)


At least someone got it.
Posted by: Sponge


Oh, I got it. I'm so old, I'm trying to remember where.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (DSLf3)

180 >>> O/T, but this does not sound good at all: "Federal judge Zia Faruqui apologized in court to Cole Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump, expressing concern over Allen's treatment"..do we have any non-jihadi judges in the system ?
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:01 PM (GD0B3)

=====

I just read that article over at redstate. Wow.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (CyFyf)

181 She should be removed from the case
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (dFjQQ)

it's a male

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (GD0B3)

182 Former FBI Agent Threatens Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on MSNOW

https://tinyurl.com/ytb798te

And here I thought a person couldn't look more gay than Mike Johnson.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (abIsI)

183 question 3. What is this person's gender?

Gender refers to an individual's personal and social identity as a man (or a boy), a woman (or a girl), or a person who is not exclusively a man (or a boy) or a woman (or a girl), for example, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, queer or Two-Spirit.

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What about i person's species?

/I'd go with "Furry" ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (JqXxE)

184
She should be removed.
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (dFjQQ)
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Fixed.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (UJMvS)

185 *quietly off to Trademark Office to register FapChat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)

186 166 Swalwell isn't ashamed of any of this

Nor should he be.

Posted by: Louis CK at May 04, 2026 03:04 PM (HcoTw)

187 Oh, I got it. I'm so old, I'm trying to remember where.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (DSLf3)

"Is that the foot long?"

"And then some."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)

188 Do they all do this and does Pelosi then have evidence to blackmail these people so that they all vote lock step?

Posted by: Avi at May 04, 2026 03:04 PM (ieodf)

189 Would it be to late to point out Trump said pussy?

Posted by: CNN at May 04, 2026 03:04 PM (GUOwU)

190 181 She should be removed from the case
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (dFjQQ)

it's a male
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:03 PM (GD0B3)

Zia.. Unfortunate name for a male...He should be removed from the case

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 03:04 PM (dFjQQ)

191 3. What is this person's gender?
How to answer question 3


Pap smear or prostate exam?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (DSLf3)

192 Billy Squire

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=69fPof-ZTnU
Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 03:02 PM (jrgJz)


It's a shame what they did to him. He was good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

193
140 But what of tradition?

McDonald's to eliminate self-serve soda machines in U.S. due to "changing consumer habits"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM

----------

Habits like illegal aliens filling 5-gallon jugs with soda.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (VWtfl)

194 She then added "Allahu Akbar, and a bababooey to you all..."

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (U6Usv)

195 I struggle with the concept of sex addiction- I lean toward that being more of an absolute lack of self control. I am sure he will go to treatment for this, however. It does make you wonder what exactly is happening in his brain, though.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (Wmg4n)

196 >>>"We can restore a lot of faith that people have in their democracy by opening it up a little bit more"

ROWR!!

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (RtN13)

197 I just read that article over at redstate. Wow.

==

...he most likely wanted to apologize for the perp missing DJT, but restrained himself with an apology for "treatment"...did he issue any apologies to J6 prisoners , I wonder...🤡

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (GD0B3)

198 176 >>>A gentlemen does not send videos of himself masturbating until he has presented the woman he's courting a token of his affection, like a scarf or a flower that looks like a cock (like a tulip).

If you look at a tulip when it is all closed up, I supposed you could think that. But, if you look at a tulip in full flower, a completely different organ comes to mind.

A Hammond?

Posted by: Dipsheet at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (HcoTw)

199 193
140 But what of tradition?

McDonald's to eliminate self-serve soda machines in U.S. due to "changing consumer habits"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:57 PM

----------

Habits like illegal aliens filling 5-gallon jugs with soda.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

and having sex with the nozzle when their done.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 03:06 PM (abIsI)

200 195 You assume/presume he HAS a brain, first off

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:06 PM (Q0yOR)

201 200

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:06 PM (RtN13)

202 Spending more time on dicks in the news than I had scheduled this Monday.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 03:06 PM (exUIe)

203 I thought the economy was great under Biden

And sids ass tastes great

Posted by: Paul at May 04, 2026 03:07 PM (AHkmG)

204 200 195 You assume/presume he HAS a brain, first off
Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:06 PM (Q0yOR)

I'd guess that he has one but that it's in his, y'know.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (RtN13)

205 Posted by: Paul at May 04, 2026 03:07 PM (AHkmG)



You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

206 O/T, but this does not sound good at all: "Federal judge Zia Faruqui apologized in court to Cole Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump, expressing concern over Allen's treatment"..do we have any non-jihadi judges in the system ?
---
DOJ has appealed the dismissal of criminal charges against an illegal who rammed ICE vehicles with his car.
Because the poor dear went 39 seconds without access to his lawyer while in the ICE detention center.

But the J6 folks deserve 3 years in solitary before rubber-stamping a decade-long conviction for "parading without a license."

They are cartel judges because they don't work for Americans but will whore themselves out to any enemy that waves a few dollars in their faces.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (MtSIY)

207 Nerdrotic's Why Files interview just dropped

Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (vSvIl)

208 Kind of tells you what the Dems are all about that none of this came out before Swalwell decided to run for governor. Then out come the knives and the death by a thousand cuts continue.
The fact that he was a known scumbag before as a congressman, irrelevant he was the Dems scumbag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (gu0hJ)

209 204 That's apparent from what we have read. Dude is a perv. And farts.

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (Q0yOR)

210 This is all a distraction from the Epstein Files.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 04, 2026 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

211 The mind is like a garden...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 03:09 PM (rzCjW)

212 WF Nerdrotic link

https://tinyurl.com/3yjcsmey

Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2026 03:09 PM (vSvIl)

213 " ysnsgenfer "

I see that the troll still has a major problem with written English.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 03:10 PM (2sfNr)

214 I struggle with the concept of sex addiction- I lean toward that being more of an absolute lack of self control. I am sure he will go to treatment for this, however. It does make you wonder what exactly is happening in his brain, though.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (Wmg4n)

Lack of impulse control. They call it intrusive thought but it is an inability or desire to 'repress' more antisocial tendencies. They have made a religion of passion and one kind of flows from the other.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 03:10 PM (zZu0s)

215 One thing to keep in mind is every prominent member of the media and the Democrat Party knew that he was doing this while they were attacking Trump they just assumed with control of the media it would never come out

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 03:11 PM (qXwKu)

216 213 " ysnsgenfer "

I see that the troll still has a major problem with written English.
_-_
I distinctly read where he said "yo pay their mortgages"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 03:11 PM (rzCjW)

217 Okay. My Canada census gender. They didn't give me enough space to detail my suffering but there is a section at the back.


Ewokian Hordian Hobomoron - In my mind I have 5 penises and 2 vaginas. No term.

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:11 PM (Sco7b)

218 I distinctly read where he said "yo pay their mortgages"
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 03:11 PM (rzCjW)/i]


Seems an oxford comma is missing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

219 I struggle with the concept of sex addiction- I lean toward that being more of an absolute lack of self control. I am sure he will go to treatment for this, however. It does make you wonder what exactly is happening in his brain, though.
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There's no such thing as an addiction to porn.

No guy is out there pawning his vacuum cleaner to buy a few pics of naked girls.
Or losing his job 'cause he got lost in a haze of jerking it all day.
Slapping his cock on skid row begging, "just one more erection, please!"

Addiction here, blames the product, not the consumer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 03:12 PM (MtSIY)

220 Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 03:11 PM (rzCjW

That too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 03:13 PM (2sfNr)

221 His judicial work includes presiding over significant cases, including those related to the January 6th Capitol breach...."
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What are there like 3 judges in the whole town?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:13 PM (U6Usv)

222 213 " ysnsgenfer "

I see that the troll still has a major problem with written English.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 03:10 PM (2sfNr)

Hasenpfeffer >>> ysnsgenfer

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 04, 2026 03:14 PM (wtvvX)

223 Jeez...this guy is just a real champ.
Sorry, I misspelled chump.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 03:14 PM (2WIwB)

224 *slams money on counter*

I'm out!

Posted by: Hope Solo at May 04, 2026 03:14 PM (Y1sOo)

225 Zia Faruqui was born in Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, India. So, he is like Mamdani on the DC bench. Great!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:14 PM (GD0B3)

226 222 Bless you

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:15 PM (Q0yOR)

227 What an absolute creeper. Ick. I would consider that an assault.

Posted by: Cheri at May 04, 2026 03:15 PM (oiNtH)

228 LOL, I just realized, if Swalwell sent dic pics to randos who added him on the Snapchat, there's a 100% chance he sent "Mr. Willie's salute" to several reporters who interviewed him over the years.

Some of those gals kept them.

For their spank bank, not for blackmail, of course--he's a Democrat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 03:15 PM (MtSIY)

229 (107) I never got the thing about women showing their "junk," like Sharon Stone. Snizzzes are important, but it's not like they're inherently attractive and fun to look at, like boobs are.

Still wondering when the "Smartphone finger slip" followup to arrive?

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at May 04, 2026 03:15 PM (2Nfh9)

230 My Canadian census is complete.

Gender: Ewokian Hordian Hobomoron - In my mind I have 5 penises and 2 vaginas. No term.

Comments: The gender field needs to be expanded. There's no term for mine and knowing I'll just be lumped into 'Other' is dehumanizing.


Done and done.


By the way - MY FUTURE dick pics will be Amazing!!!

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:16 PM (Sco7b)

231 "Gender" refers to whatever the speaker wants it to refer to, and so long as one other person recognizes the same meaning for it, then there can be communication between two people using the word "gender" with a common meaning rather than bickering about its meaning as if speaking different dialects of English with different meanings of the word "gender".

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 03:16 PM (W5mpo)

232 150 Too bad nothing was done during the years he was doing this unchallenged. It's almost as if he was protected because of his political affiliations....

This too is the story of The Hilldabeast corruption going back to Watergate & Whitewater!

Posted by: Heirloominati at May 04, 2026 03:17 PM (erhDr)

233 I did not know that -

@thevivafrei
This is absolutely mind blowing!

When Karin Bass was in Ghana as Los Angeles burned, the deputy mayor she left in charge was at home on house arrest.

For phoning in a bomb threat.

We are indeed governed by criminals.

From @spencerpratt on @joerogan

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 03:17 PM (Dv3i1)

234 226 222 Bless you

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:15 PM (Q0yOR)

Does anyone say "Gesundheit" anymore? That was more prevalent than "God Bless you" when I was growing up long ago in South Central Texas...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 04, 2026 03:18 PM (wtvvX)

235 "I'll be in bed soon honey I'm just snapchatting another... campaign message!!"

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:18 PM (U6Usv)

236 Faroqui is a magistrate judge appointed by a panel of judges. He's supposed to handle mundane crap , which he kind of his here , specifically arraignments etc. Apologizing for jail conditions is him getting in way over his head

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 03:18 PM (gu0hJ)

237 Wait, they refer to him as "Pakistani". Awesome! "Faruqui is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Muslim Americans in Public Service organization and serves on the Advisory Board of Georgetown Law School." I wonder if has done any work or is tied to CAIR. And now this "judge" is apologizing to an wannabe presidential assassin. He must identify with him deeply. Deport!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:18 PM (GD0B3)

238 Apologizing for jail conditions is him getting in way over his head

==

He wanted everyone to know whose side he is on.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:19 PM (GD0B3)

239 Watching a little of The Empire Strikes Back

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 03:19 PM (Ia/+0)

240 234 My family says both

Posted by: turambar at May 04, 2026 03:19 PM (Q0yOR)

241 Judical cartels have nothing to fear. For the moment.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 03:20 PM (rJ48h)

242 Wait, they refer to him as "Pakistani". Awesome! "Faruqui is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Muslim Americans in Public Service organization and serves on the Advisory Board of Georgetown Law School." I wonder if has done any work or is tied to CAIR. And now this "judge" is apologizing to an wannabe presidential assassin. He must identify with him deeply. Deport!
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:18 PM (GD0B3)


This is why unfettered immigration is incredibly bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

243 Remember when the kind tolerant Left made fun of (asshole) McCain for not being able to use his permanently injured arms and hands to text?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:20 PM (U6Usv)

244 For phoning in a bomb threat.
____

Even better, Los Angeles deputy mayor phoned in this bomb threat to LA city hall.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 03:21 PM (Dv3i1)

245 Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 03:17 PM

I'm glad to hear that Spencer Pratt is going after Democrat corruption and insanity directly and I hope he either owns a gun or has some kind of armed protection.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 03:21 PM (2sfNr)

246 Remember when the kind tolerant Left made fun of (asshole) McCain for not being able to use his permanently injured arms and hands to text?
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:20 PM (U6Usv)


Bob Dole knows.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

247 212 WF Nerdrotic link

https://tinyurl.com/3yjcsmey
Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2026 03:09 PM (vSvIl)

Thanks! I watched the first ten minutes; very palatable conversation.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:21 PM (RtN13)

248
i find ot irksome that Swallowswell has been behaving like this his full career, and only now do these bitches come out to castigate him for it. when the donks wanna get rid of him.

it's (D)ifferent when a donk does it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 04, 2026 03:22 PM (1guIh)

249 i find ot irksome that Swallowswell has been behaving like this his full career, and only now do these bitches come out to castigate him for it. when the donks wanna get rid of him.

it's (D)ifferent when a donk does it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 04, 2026 03:22 PM (1guIh)


I want to know who he pissed off that made him persona non-grata.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

250 The most important part about the Swalwell story is that he just started all this lecherous behavior in the last 6 months.

It was a complete surprise to Ruben Gallego, his long-time roommate and regular vacation companion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 03:24 PM (MtSIY)

251 Speaking of California clowns, Spencer Pratt, running for Mayor of LA, has released another amazing video that features a lot of the Democrat clown politicians with Swalwell being just one of them.

I didn't think that Pratt had any chance at all when he first announced but I actually think he may. Whoever is running his ad/video campaigns are doing an amazing job. Check this one out:

https://tinyurl.com/jebhypsw

Posted by: Cheri at May 04, 2026 03:24 PM (oiNtH)

252 Was that wrong?
Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Masturbatin' Eric at May 04, 2026 03:24 PM (2Ez/1)

253 I want to know who he pissed off that made him persona non-grata.
Posted by: Sponge


Probably wouldn't back down from wanting to run for president.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (DSLf3)

254 "sending videos of yourself boxing the bishop"

I like to call it "gripping the guv'nah"

Posted by: Eric Smallwell at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (N4zI/)

255 Probably wouldn't back down from wanting to run for president.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (DSLf3)

Very plausible.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (U6Usv)

256 2 Like any good socialist, he was merely seizing the means of production.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (0MjtC

If this post doesn't show up in the weekly top-10, there's just no saving this site...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (JcF+m)

257 He was a great footsoldier for the Party. He did and said exactly what he was told to, and they protected him u til he stepped out of line.

I don't think he even stepped out of line so much as just became inconvenient. That's how much they value loyal foot soldiers.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (vTZFs)

258 For a while there Swalwell strutted around as if he was untouchable !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:26 PM (GD0B3)

259 258 For a while there Swalwell strutted around as if he was untouchable !
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:26 PM (GD0B3)

by everyone but himself....

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:26 PM (Sco7b)

260
I don't think he even stepped out of line so much as just became inconvenient. That's how much they value loyal foot soldiers.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (vTZFs)


But Trump's the bad guy for expecting loyalty from his cabinet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

261 Can't imagine what they have on Schiff!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 03:26 PM (GD0B3)

262 CA has finally found out who to blame for the Palisades wild fires:

State Farm

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 03:27 PM (MtSIY)

263 That was gross to imagine and helps with my diet.

His face is super fugly so I can only imagine and try not to what the rest of him looks like. Blerg.

I am thankful no one has sent me nasty photos in my entire life of living wild and free.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 04, 2026 03:27 PM (WONhk)

264 I want to know who he pissed off that made him persona non-grata.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'd like to know who thought Eric was expendable over Katie Porter.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 03:27 PM (UJMvS)

265 249 I want to know who he pissed off that made him persona non-grata.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

Persona au gratin. Cheesy.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:27 PM (RtN13)

266 254 "sending videos of yourself boxing the bishop"

I like to call it "gripping the guv'nah"
Posted by: Eric Smallwell at May 04, 2026 03:25 PM (N4zI/)

There is not a single woman in the world who would appreciate a dude sending a photo of his dick. Not one.

Gay men might like it, but women do not. That might account for Swallwell's issues, right there.

It really isn't the most attractive feature that men seem to think it is.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 04, 2026 03:28 PM (DwqWV)

267 Has he explained that picture? I mean, "I was there with the grandkids" or anything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

If you insist on doing Molle and shrooms, you have to go somewhere

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 03:28 PM (rbvCR)

268 Like a good neighbor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 03:29 PM (AvxYT)

269 Women that allow themselves to be photographed or videotaped nude by boyfriends or whatever better just assume that they will come out someday when the breakup happens. Same with men in positions of responsibility when they keep sending women dick pics and worse. Do they really think that these pictures or videos will never see the light of day to the public and press?

Posted by: Cheri at May 04, 2026 03:29 PM (oiNtH)

270 Posted by: Cheri at May 04, 2026 03:29 PM (oiNtH)

Sally is the type that doesn't care who sees it

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:30 PM (U6Usv)

271 I want to know who he pissed off that made him persona non-grata.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

It wasn't his turn yet, so he was jumping the line.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 03:30 PM (rbvCR)

272 Pffftt. Opiate of the masses - K.Marx

Clint Teeples
@TeeplesCY
Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go.

Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't.

"Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 03:30 PM (Dv3i1)

273 Everyone knows I'm a history buff. I was just re-enacting a civil war battle and surrendered for a few yanks.

Posted by: Eric Swallwell at May 04, 2026 03:30 PM (cHOHf)

274 Do they really think that these pictures or videos will never see the light of day to the public and press?
Posted by: Cheri at May 04, 2026 03:29 PM (oiNtH)
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Heck, Dr. Laura had an ex who published nude Polaroids of her.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2026 03:31 PM (UJMvS)

275 "Similarly, Swalwell met Amanda Koski ...when she served him and his family while waitressing at a DC pizza restaurant."

Please tell me it was Comet Pizza.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 04, 2026 03:32 PM (0bjKf)

276 It does make you wonder what exactly is happening in his brain, though.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 03:05 PM (Wmg4n)
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The head he's thinking with contains no brain.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 03:33 PM (oqH4h)

277 it's (D)ifferent when a donk does it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 04, 2026 03:22 PM (1guIh)
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They're doing right now. Right. Now. But just not talking about it still, because nothing matters to them but the Will to Power.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 03:34 PM (RIvkX)

278
They're doing right now. Right. Now. But just not talking about it still, because nothing matters to them but the Will to Power.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 03:34 PM (RIvkX)


Will Power drives for Penske.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

279 I think it is interesting the stories continue, even after he quits running for Gov. and US Congress. It used to be different.

Posted by: Baldy at May 04, 2026 03:34 PM (BcjQ8)

280 When I hear about people like Swalwell jerking off on the web I'm reminded of the South Park episode where the boys went to that quick chat site and Stan said " guy jerkingoff ,click, guy jerkingoff, click hi let's chat , "ok, zip" click another guy jerking off".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 03:35 PM (gu0hJ)

281 Lotsa Monay = Crool Mistress

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 03:35 PM (DgMqy)

282 I think it is interesting the stories continue, even after he quits running for Gov. and US Congress. It used to be different.

Posted by: Baldy at May 04, 2026 03:34 PM (BcjQ

Another factor that continues to make me believe at leaat part of this is a rebrand for the Democrats.

See we have our masculine hetero party boys too!!!

But they also want him put down it would seem. BTW good to see you around if you are in fact baldi

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:37 PM (U6Usv)

283 posted by: Cheri at May 04, 2026 03:29 PM (oiNtH)P

I'm so old we barely had photography when FenSpouse and I were dating😉 ok maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration. But we didn't have cell phone so you couldn't do a selfie and send it off. He never asked me for nude photos and he never sent me nude photos of himself. I would have thought it was odd if he had done that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 03:37 PM (2sfNr)

284 SnizzChat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

285 There was an email I got ago. A scam email.

It was something to the effect that a virus was placed on my computer, including the camera and microphone and it captured all of my intimate moments. Those videos have already been edited and will be sent to all my contacts - I have none - if I didn't pay them.

And I remember another story where guys would jack off what they thought were women courtesy of AI and would be recorded. Blackmail later happened.



Separately - my friends just dropped off dandelion gummy bears their homeschooled children just made. Pretty good.

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 03:38 PM (Sco7b)

286 late today but boy is this hilarious

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 03:38 PM (CWTWj)

287 Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:37 PM (U6Usv)

I believe that Baldy is a different commenter from Baldilocks.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 04, 2026 03:39 PM (lFFaq)

288 late today but boy is this hilarious
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 04, 2026 03:38 PM (CWTWj)


I will be amused when he is pictured living on the now 50 mile stretch called Skid Row.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

289 nood

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 03:42 PM (RtN13)

290 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

291 believe that Baldy is a different commenter from Baldilocks.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 04, 2026 03:39 PM (lFFaq)

I miss baldi. Been a while

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:43 PM (U6Usv)

292 Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:43 PM (U6Usv)

Agreed. I see something from her on Twitter sometimes. She's been having a rough couple of years.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (lFFaq)

293 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 04, 2026 03:45 PM (lFFaq)

Thanks for letting me know, I'm very sorry to hear it.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 03:47 PM (U6Usv)

294 It's as if you have to be a total degenerate for the DNC to consider you an excellent candidate for Congress, a governorship, or the Presidency.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 03:53 PM (aZm/F)

295 Men must think women want to see junk like men want to see junk.

You know how to make us not want to look at a super hot guy? Frontal nudity.

Just no.

Wear a fucking fig leaf, but ffs, cover it.


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Speak for yourself, toots!!!!

Posted by: Dylan M at May 04, 2026 03:57 PM (9CBNQ)

296 The only mole I want on the tip of my penis is Katy Perry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 03:59 PM (Fbc0I)

297 "The night after CNN spoke with Azari about the women's claims, Swalwell sent Koski a Snapchat message at 1:57 a.m. Eastern -- asking why she had screenshotted his chats and including screencaps of texts between the two of them."

The woman is screenshotting him asking why she screenshotted him earlier.
Legend

Posted by: Rdubs at May 04, 2026 04:01 PM (Hsq0h)

298 I can't wait for the day when I do all sorts of illegal and unethical shit, but women will cover it up for me "for the cause".

Posted by: UncleJefe at May 04, 2026 04:07 PM (gAuAm)

299 80 If John Thune would put down his Ball Gargler 9000 for a second, maybe we could get degenerates like Swalwell out of the senate committees.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 04, 2026 02:46 PM (abIsI)

I know this is late, but for all Thune's egregious errors, that is not one. Swalwell is in the House. It is hard to keep the degenerates straight (ha), so you may be thinking of Schiff who made the jump to Senate recently.

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 04:15 PM (Sy6m/)

300 US CIS? So we have our own Commonwealth of Independent States?

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

301 294 It's as if you have to be a total degenerate for the DNC to consider you an excellent candidate for Congress, a governorship, or the Presidency.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 03:53 PM (aZm/F)

So you're saying there's a chance?

Posted by: Hunter B at May 04, 2026 04:31 PM (qivay)

Iran Fires on Ships and US Navy Responds by Sinking Six of their "Fast Assault Boats"

CBS "News:"

Live Updates: U.S. sinks 6 small Iranian boats as Iran launches attacks on UAE and a ship in Strait of Hormuz

Iran launched its first missile and drone attack on the United Arab Emirates since a ceasefire with the U.S. took effect on April 8, and it fired two drones at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, UAE authorities said Monday.

The U.S. military said two commercial vessels safely transited the strait amid "efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping" under the Project Freedom initiative announced by President Trump.

The Iranian regime says it received a U.S. response to its latest 14-point peace proposal, which it says is aimed at ending the war, not extending the current ceasefire. Mr. Trump said over the weekend that he'd likely reject the Iranian proposal, as "they have not paid a big enough price."

Trump just stated that hostilities were officially concluded, backdating this to the start of the "hot ceasefire." That satisfies the 60-days-without-congressional-authorization demand of the unconstitutional War Powers Act.

What Iran absolutely should not do is attack American ships, because that would give Trump full legal authorization to counterattack them on his own authority.

And guess what they say they did?

...

Iranian state media said earlier that forces fired "warning" shots, including missiles and drones, at a U.S. destroyer as it neared the Strait of Hormuz in the Sea of Oman.

CENTCOM said two U.S.-flagged commercial vessels transited the strait Monday under the auspices of Project Freedom, an initiative announced by President Trump on Sunday for the U.S. military to guide ships through the waterway.

Iranian authorities insist the strait is closed and only vessels with explicit permission from its military will be permitted to pass, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted Monday that the U.S. has full control over the waterway.

Apparently they're now claiming they didn't attack-attack Navy ships. I don't know if they did or they didn't. I think their statement that they did should be taken at face value.

Trump announced that US Navy ships will escort tankers through the Strait, beginning today, in another attempt to defeat Iran's use of the price of oil against him.

President Trump said the U.S. Navy will start guiding ships from foreign countries through the Strait of Hormuz from Monday and warned that if Iran tries to disrupt the process, the American military will use force.

Why it matters: This move that Trump called "Project Freedom" is the most significant step by his administration to try and reopen the key strait since Iran shut it down early in the war.

While Trump claims the move is "humanitarian," it is a clear U.S. challenge to Tehran's effort to control the strait. An Iranian military response could spark a confrontation or even an escalation back to war.

Iran's attempt to shut down the free navigation of ships is also an act of war that authorizes Trump's retaliation on his own authority.

Update: CENTCOM is using slippery language -- they say they'll be guiding ships through the Strait, not escorting them. I am guessing this is for legal reasons. Trump doesn't want his domestic disloyal opposition claiming that if he "escorts" ships that's a violation of the War Powers Act.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:28 PM




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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (NcvvS)

2 Iran Fires on Ships and US Navy Responds by Sinking Six of their "Fast Assault Boats"



Whoops!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (DSLf3)

3 Iran's attempt to shut down the free navigation of ships is also an act of war that authorizes Trump's retaliation on his own authority.

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Still waiting to hear about any sea mines actually found in the strait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Y2NSe)

4 Why does Iran have anything floating aside from dead bodies?

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

5 Just end the cease fire and be done with it. Enough already.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (u73oe)

6 We gave them an opportunity to be a sub.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Wmg4n)

7 And SPONGE!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (NcvvS)

8 And I read the content

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (N1DT3)

9 ... like a noob

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (N1DT3)

10 a good start !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (VyBeY)

11 Dear Iran,

You are currently at the FO portion of the FAFO matrix.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (DSLf3)

12 Small means what?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (AvxYT)

13 Casus Belli !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (GD0B3)

14 Not fast enough.

Posted by: huerfano at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (VJX5o)

15 Hoping it'll be a long night for IRGC and Iran.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (N39Ws)

16 fired two drones at a ship"

Ahem.

Really? What caliber?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (XuXeR)

17 Still waiting to hear about any sea mines actually found in the strait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Marcel Marceau in a swimsuit? Oh, you said mines. Nevermind.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (DSLf3)

18 This just proves Iran is winning!

The Strait was open until Trump started his illegal war on behalf of Israel!

/s/ the left

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (MtSIY)

19 Doubt very much that anyone in the Irani leadership, such as it is, bothered to consider the constraints under which PDT was willing to operate. Now, those constraints are gone.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (NcvvS)

20 Only Congress can declare war! Impeach Trump now!!!

Posted by: Isolationists Code Pinkers and Libertarians at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (gHfAU)

21 This is turning into a big game of Blind Man's Bluff.

Looks like Trump is now going to stick US ships out there and hope Iran shoots at them, justifying the restart of full hostilities.
Iran knows that, and so far will try to shoot at everything around the US ships but not directly at them.

This is a ridiculous situation with a thousand ways to go wrong very quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (rGqqI)

22 Small means what?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Bass boat size, I think

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (vJrRc)

23 Carriers need A 10s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (AvxYT)

24 Just in:
Truth Social

Iran has taken some shots at unrelated Nations with respect to the Ship Movement, PROJECT FREEDOM, including a South Korean Cargo Ship. Perhaps it’s time for South Korea to come and join the mission! We’ve shot down seven small Boats or, as they like to call them, “fast” Boats. It’s all they have left. Other than the South Korean Ship, there has been, at this moment, no damage going through the Strait. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, will have a News Conference tomorrow morning. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (DSLf3)

25 Iran's use of the price of oil against him."

They're not the only ones. Darren Woods comes to mind...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (XuXeR)

26 The 60 day clock restarts.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (4NO2D)

27 I am wondering about the 'negotiations' which we'll never know crap about.

President Trump isn't stupid so I don't see him being jacked around until 2027. But still. I imagine there's internal power struggles making things difficult.

On the plus side, the wells will be shut down soon so things will develop one way or another. Iran's new export can be virulent anti-Americanism.

Sadly, Canada and the EU are also exporters and have an abundance.

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (Sco7b)

28 Game on.
Go after ALL of those boats.

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (DKJPJ)

29 The days of letting Iran use the little speed boats to cause trouble are over, that's nice to hear. I'm sure they were surprised. Hope there is video later.

Posted by: Inogame at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (53oGX)

30 Every president has played along with the ridiculous Act since it passed, unfortunately. Trump has shown zero interest in countering the calamitous destruction of the constitution by the courts, so he'll just "Paris Accord" this one too, apparently*.

Looking to me like what I had hoped for and sort of expected. Force the Strait open. Iran has to appear to try to resist, which (more importantly than stupid legal issues) will present to opportunity to degrade their last meaningful capability, actually to defeat it outright.

Assuming we liked what we've been seeing from the blockade/financial offensive, and wanted to give it time. Now we've assessed it's time to move back to kinetic solutions, as we can provoke Iran by perfectly nice sounding things like free navigation through an international waterway.

IDF has prepped a major onslaught and is just waiting for the go-ahead. "Tanned, rested, and ready".

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (U/Byj)

31 Commentary from CENTCOM includes this little nugget:

AH-64 Apache and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters used just this morning to eliminate six Iranian small boats threatening commercial shipping

I don't think the Navy normally operates the Apache.

The Marines OTOH...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (jehhT)

32 23 Carriers need A 10s.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (AvxYT)

Unfortunately they are not carrier compatible. No tailhook. Don't think their landing gear can handle the stress of launches.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (N39Ws)

33 4 Why does Iran have anything floating aside from dead bodies?
Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

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I agree. Why have we allowed them to think they have any power in the Strait?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (aZm/F)

34 didn't attack-attack Navy ships.
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attack-attack attack-attack attack-attack

Posted by: Battle of Britain at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (U6Usv)

35 Have the Cocaine Hippos been rescued?

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (DKJPJ)

36 DON'T TOUCH OUR BOATS!

Posted by: pookysgirl watches Mandatory Funday at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (Wt5PA)

37 22 Small means what?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Bass boat size, I think
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (vJrRc)

From pictures I've seen, similar to the drug boats that we were shooting up in the Caribbean. More weaponry, less cocaine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (rGqqI)

38 Doubt very much that anyone in the Irani leadership, such as it is"

My $.02 is that it's a bunch of different "generals"
No coordination.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (XuXeR)

39 It's hilarious that our enemies know that the best way to defeat the US is to give Democrats every reason to prevent our military from winning...

But are so stupid that they will fire on our military, taking from the Democrats their power to stop Trump.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (N1DT3)

40 Al Jizzya put out the bogus story about 2 US ships being struck by missiles fired from the IRGC at around 3:30 am.

It was bullshit but several here chose to jump right on believing it

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (z2aPa)

41 Problem is, congress is treating this as an ongoing war, so now there has to be a declaration of war for the USA to do anything at all in response. Essentially, the president's hands are tied because congress demands power over the executive department's military control.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (uEYKS)

42 agree. Why have we allowed them to think they have any power in the Strait?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (aZm/F)

To force them into mistakes?

Posted by: Battle of Britain at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (U6Usv)

43 CENTCOM reported that Iran fired cruise missiles and other projectiles at both US warships and commercial vessels. Those threats were defeated.

Along with the missile attack on the UAE and Fujairah, which has been used to get their oil along the strait, it looks like kinetic action is ramping up.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (+Tpk4)

44 >>>Iran Fires on Ships and US Navy Responds by Sinking Six of their "Fast Assault Boats"

People were fretting, "Oh no, Trump is running out of time, he is blowing it. Congress is going to shut him down."

Trump counters, "Hostilities with Iran have ceased, Strait of Hormuz is open for business under U.S. Navy protection. Oops, there go more Iranian boats. Checkmate, mfrs."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (dK+Kv)

45 My prediction, delved out of my belly-button, is: Trump will start allowing the tankers that pay the Iranian bribe to sail, but will require the proceeds of the oil be funneled to an "Iranian state account" in a place like Qatar. Like Venezuela's forced agreement with the US, the oil will be sold at market rates and the funds untouchable until the Iranians cry Uncle, and the ship owner will be recompensed out of that account for the bribe they paid to the IRGC to sail.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (rbvCR)

46 It's almost as if Trump didn't sink ALL the IRGC's navy.
We knew they had these so they of course will use them and it gives us license for more kinetic strikes.

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (DKJPJ)

47 (Singing)

And Iraaaaaaan. Iran is so far awaaaaaaaaay.

Posted by: A Flock of Seagulls at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (hfS6k)

48 Why does Iran have anything floating aside from dead bodies?

My guess is that the Trump administration is trying very hard to straddle the line between wiping out Iran's military and leaving them with something so that a popular revolution has a nation to take over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (uEYKS)

49 Iran attacked UAE export facilities (and also hit some unrelated civilian things) today. It's likely that UAE aircraft hit the Iranian oil facilities just after the buzzer of the current "ceasefire". They're fulminating pretty good right now over the new attack. Hard to see Iranian economic targets not being addressed when Round 2 bell goes.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (U/Byj)

50 Why does Iran have anything floating aside from dead bodies?

Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

Same thing I was wondering.

Also, because I missed the thread, the pope is asshoe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (snZF9)

51 Iranian state media said earlier that forces fired "warning" shots, including missiles and drones, at a U.S. destroyer as it neared the Strait of Hormuz in the Sea of Oman.

i said *across* here nose, not up it!

Posted by: colonel sandurz at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (oY6Yp)

52 WHY AREN'T WE STOMPING PRIVATE ACHMED'S GUTS OUT?!

Seriously, we are the USA, we are known for nuking our enemies, why are we fucking around with these nuisance IRGC lunatics?

Finish this
sweep the leg

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (ZxPkt)

53 Trump just stated that hostilities were officially concluded, backdating this to the start of the "hot ceasefire." That satisfies the 60-days-without-congressional-authorization demand of the unconstitutional War Powers Act.
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Well, dang, that was going to be my brilliant addition to the discourse.

Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (vSvIl)

54 41 Problem is, congress is treating this as an ongoing war, so now there has to be a declaration of war for the USA to do anything at all in response. Essentially, the president's hands are tied because congress demands power over the executive department's military control.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (uEYKS)

Except that Congress has no enforcement mechanism. If they're really unhappy about what a President is doing, their only recourse is Impeachment.
This Congress isn't going to do that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (rGqqI)

55 Still waiting to hear about any sea mines actually found in the strait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Y2NSe)

I have been informed that we need to worry about the weaponized dolphins.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

56 41 Problem is, congress is treating this as an ongoing war, so now there has to be a declaration of war for the USA to do anything at all in response. Essentially, the president's hands are tied because congress demands power over the executive department's military control.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (uEYKS

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Obama's Libya campaign lasted for 9 months.

No Congressional authorization.

Congress sued the president.

The courts tossed the suit.

Why? Well, Congress has funding power and can defund the operation whenever they want.

The War Powers Act may be of dubious constitutionality, but it's simply dead letter as long as Congress refuses to actually exercise its funding power which it hasn't done in like a hundred years.

Trump played it smart by emphasizing the pause in hostilities which brings it in alignment with the text of the War Powers Act, but he didn't really need to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (Y2NSe)

57 WHY AREN'T WE STOMPING PRIVATE ACHMED'S GUTS OUT?!

Because congress passed a law that requires the president to get a declaration of war to use any military force in a conflict after a certain deadline, which we have no crossed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (uEYKS)

58 55 Still waiting to hear about any sea mines actually found in the strait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Y2NSe)

I have been informed that we need to worry about the weaponized dolphins.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR

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Weaponized dolphins are moving the sea mines around so they can't be found!

Wake up, sheeple!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:41 PM (Y2NSe)

59 Und so es fängt.

Posted by: der Typ, der immer denkt, es fängt an at May 04, 2026 01:41 PM (4NO2D)

60 Only six boats?

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (y5h6+)

61 Carriers need A 10s.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (AvxYT)

Unfortunately they are not carrier compatible. No tailhook. Don't think their landing gear can handle the stress of launches.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (N39Ws)

IF we had an intelligent military command, they'd have designed a boat or redesigned the A-10 for naval use.

But they just want the fastest, flashiest weapons. Can't have USEFUL ones that deal with actual treats.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (N1DT3)

62 Apaches have been patrolling the Strait for weeks. Well suited to FAC destruction. These boats have no effective defenses. They're intended for nimble attacks in permissive environments.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (U/Byj)

63 I have been informed that we need to worry about the weaponized dolphins.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

Iran should know that all Dolphins are Jewish, and most of them work for Mossad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (rGqqI)

64 Dolphins are going to rape supertankers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (AvxYT)

65 John Kerry reporting for duty!

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (U6Usv)

66 STOMPING PRIVATE ACHMED'S GUTS OUT?"

We need him to work, covering our med costs!

/ the formerly so so Britain

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (XuXeR)

67 Meanwhile, UAE leaves opec with a brandy new pipeline available that bypasses the Strait.

https://tinyurl.com/4xytetky

It's almost as if that Trump fellow is operating on a whole 'nother plane.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (dK+Kv)

68 The War Powers Act may be of dubious constitutionality, but it's simply dead letter as long as Congress refuses to actually exercise its funding power which it hasn't done in like a hundred years.

While I agree, that was under a Democrat president and congress (and the media) would behave very differently if Trump tried that.

Trump played it smart by emphasizing the pause in hostilities which brings it in alignment with the text of the War Powers Act, but he didn't really need to.

I agree completely with his interpretation; if any military act at all instantly invokes the law, then any cessation of it should end its applicability. There is literally no mechanism in the law to say "these are the conditions under which the law allows you to attack again."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (uEYKS)

69 Still waiting to hear about any sea mines actually found in the strait.
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They're being deployed by their kamikaze dolphin troops.

It's so stupid, how every single ridiculous claim of Iran is swallowed whole and repeated without question by the left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (MtSIY)

70 It's almost as if Trump didn't sink ALL the IRGC's navy.

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If ones nave consists of bass fishing boats... it ain't no navy. It's a joke.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (GD0B3)

71 CENTCOM reported they have mapped out mines they know of and are navigating ships around them.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (+Tpk4)

72 Maybe we should take the cocaine we've captures over here and parachute it into Iran.
Kick back and see what happens.

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (DKJPJ)

73 The ships need armed crews with heavy weapons.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (AvxYT)

74 Only six boats?"

The Cajun Navy laughs...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (XuXeR)

75 67 Meanwhile, UAE leaves opec with a brandy new pipeline available that bypasses the Strait.

https://tinyurl.com/4xytetky

It's almost as if that Trump fellow is operating on a whole 'nother plane.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (dK+Kv)

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I've been harping this for like a week, too.

Iran just succeeded in making the strait unimportant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (Y2NSe)

76 Unfortunately they are not carrier compatible. No tailhook. Don't think their landing gear can handle the stress of launches.

Given their capabilities, they might not need either, just space to land and take off from. But yeah, not built for carrier use. We still have them in the area, and active, though from what I read.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (uEYKS)

77 Weaponized dolphins are moving the sea mines around so they can't be found!

Wake up, sheeple!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:41 PM (Y2NSe)
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I suppose next you're going to tell me that the Iranians have sharks with laser beams strapped to their heads....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

78 >> Meanwhile, UAE leaves opec with a brandy new pipeline available that bypasses the Strait.

Which is what Iran just shot missiles at.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (+Tpk4)

79 Those bass fishing boats have captured shipping.
That's not a joke.

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (DKJPJ)

80 FAFO

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (W2Pud)

81 It's of far more than "dubious" constitutionality. But that really isn't important in the post-constitutional era, which we clearly are in. President's hands aren't tied at all. Only constraints aside from the real ones (resources, strategy, enemy getting a vote, etc) are a seeming need to pander to a large dumbed-down segment of the electorate.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (U/Byj)

82 Except that Congress has no enforcement mechanism. If they're really unhappy about what a President is doing, their only recourse is Impeachment./i]

This is true, but Trump does not like to break the law or violate agreements with congress, going so far as to seem weak or frustrating in the first term.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (uEYKS)

83 68 While I agree, that was under a Democrat president and congress (and the media) would behave very differently if Trump tried that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (uEYKS

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It was a Republican Congress. Happened in 2011.

And before we go all, "Republicans in Congress will take any opportunity to stab Trump in the back," they couldn't get the votes to undo his tariffs when Rand Paul leading the charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (Y2NSe)

84 Going to be a lot of pizza ordered and delivered to the Pentagon tonight.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (N39Ws)

85 I suppose next you're going to tell me that the Iranians have sharks with laser beams strapped to their heads....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (gnNyN)

Well, sea bass. But they are ill-tempered.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (rGqqI)

86
Why does Iran have anything floating aside from dead bodies?
Posted by: Stateless

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Sorry to mention it, but aren't there things like fishing boats, tugboats, legitimate little supply boats, etc? Someone might even need to get their yacht out of there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:45 PM (n7rxJ)

87 Iranian motorboats. Hope they didn’t waste missiles on their runabout “ navy”.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (Gqar8)

88
It looks like the US blockade of Iran is doing the real damage at this point. As well as, the ending of Iranian banking in Persian Gulf countries. We'll see how much damage Iran can do when they have no money, and no prospect of getting any, and their enemies have plenty.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (azNOR)

89 People were fretting, "Oh no, Trump is running out of time, he is blowing it. Congress is going to shut him down."

Trump counters, "Hostilities with Iran have ceased, Strait of Hormuz is open for business under U.S. Navy protection. Oops, there go more Iranian boats. Checkmate, mfrs."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 01:39 PM (dK+Kv)
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President DJT made the right move - The US is simply enforcing the right of passage through the Hormuz Strait. No sane state in the in world disputes that right. Providing "guidance" to commercial shipping is as old as the US Mediterranean Squadron patrolling the sea lanes around the Barbary pirate lairs (the "shores of Tripoli", as the Hymn goes). More than two hundred years of tradition.

Safe shipping, lower gas prices, happier allies, punishing pirates. A couple weeks of this and P-DJT can go to Congress and write his own ticket if he wants. I'd prefer that and a "Naval Construction Act". Waiting SIX years for the USS Stennis refit is outrageous!

Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)

90 Why aren't tankers armed? Insurance? Seems like a no brainer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (qcTWE)

91 Iran has renamed their "fast" boats "peace" boats--thus it is really the US who is breaking the ceasefire!!

/s/ the media

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (MtSIY)

92 Breaking! Exclusive!
Never before seen picture of IRGC's remaining naval asset !

https://tinyurl.com/y4dzvcp5

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (GD0B3)

93 "President" takes some time, but President Trump has earned the respect.

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (cS1cw)

94 69 They're being deployed by their kamikaze dolphin troops.

It's so stupid, how every single ridiculous claim of Iran is swallowed whole and repeated without question by the left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (MtSIY)

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It's not just the left.

And I'm not obliquely talking about people like Tucker.

The number of righties I saw buying the sea mine bullshit was depressing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (Y2NSe)

95 It was a Republican Congress. Happened in 2011.

Which is why they sued but let's be honest, they like Trump a lot less than they liked Obama -- or at least feared being called racist more than they like Trump.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (uEYKS)

96 HIMARS sank a sub.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (AvxYT)

97 90 Why aren't tankers armed? Insurance? Seems like a no brainer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (qcTWE)

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I believe it's laws in the places they port at.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (Y2NSe)

98 Weaponized dolphins are moving the sea mines around so they can't be found!

Wake up, sheeple!

Hasn't the Navy actually used dolphins to protect boats and find mines?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (mkw2N)

99 76 Unfortunately they are not carrier compatible. No tailhook. Don't think their landing gear can handle the stress of launches.

Given their capabilities, they might not need either, just space to land and take off from. But yeah, not built for carrier use. We still have them in the area, and active, though from what I read.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (uEYKS)

And I hope they keep the IRGC and Iranians awake tonight with the sweet sound of their engines as they come in for attack.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (N39Ws)

100 Strait is still important and will remain so. Energy export workarounds will increase (trans-Saudi and UAE-Indian Ocean pipelines are not new). But unlikely the major capital projects needed to render the Strait insignificant will either all happen, or happen prior to end of Tehran regime, which will remove main incentive to build them.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (U/Byj)

101 CENTCOM reported they have mapped out mines they know of and are navigating ships around them.
Posted by: Marcus T


If they've mapped them out, why haven't they blown them up?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (DSLf3)

102 I've been harping this for like a week, too.

Iran just succeeded in making the strait unimportant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:44 PM (Y2NSe)

Some people'd rather set their hair on fire.

I'd rather sit back and enjoy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)

103 41 Problem is, congress is treating this as an ongoing war, so now there has to be a declaration of war for the USA to do anything at all in response. Essentially, the president's hands are tied because congress demands power over the executive department's military control.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (uEYKS)

Nope.
- President Obama, who spent 9 months striking Libya without even pretending to get Congressional approval.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (iNUL3)

104
95 It was a Republican Congress. Happened in 2011.

Which is why they sued but let's be honest, they like Trump a lot less than they liked Obama -- or at least feared being called racist more than they like Trump.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (uEYKS)

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You have this habit of ignoring more of a comment that directly addresses your follow up arguments.

It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:48 PM (Y2NSe)

105 The Cajun Navy laughs...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (XuXeR)
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What I mean is that doesn't sound like a lot to take out. I'd rather we cruise the coast and anything larger than a surf board gets blown to bits. If it looks like it could be used to blow things up, make it disappear

Posted by: 496 at May 04, 2026 01:48 PM (y5h6+)

106
Commentary from CENTCOM includes this little nugget:

AH-64 Apache and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters used just this morning to eliminate six Iranian small boats threatening commercial shipping

I don't think the Navy normally operates the Apache.

The Marines OTOH...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (jehhT)



Marines specifically rejected use of the Apache, preferring modernized Cobra variants. Why, I have no idea, but if I had to guess, I'd say that the Navy brass had something to do with it, fucking with the Corps because they can, and they're part of the Navy Department, but not the pretty part that serves Admirals foie gras on expensive china.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 01:48 PM (e4Xc5)

107 USN had a marine mammal program using both pinnipeds (seals) and dolphins, based I'm pretty sure here in San Diego. For years. Think it was discontinued. Also think UUVs and sensors generally now can do their jobs, which were surveillance, alert, and inspection - not "offensive".

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:48 PM (U/Byj)

108 It's a fine line between fast boats and flotsam.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (gu0hJ)

109 It's so stupid, how every single ridiculous claim of Iran is swallowed whole and repeated without question by the left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (MtSIY)

Tokyo Rose existed for a reason. Only difference is the the Left enjoys doing it.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (U6Usv)

110 Why aren't tankers armed? Insurance? Seems like a no brainer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD



Port of calls. Most countries frown on privately armed vessels from docking in their ports.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (DSLf3)

111 100 Strait is still important and will remain so. Energy export workarounds will increase (trans-Saudi and UAE-Indian Ocean pipelines are not new). But unlikely the major capital projects needed to render the Strait insignificant will either all happen, or happen prior to end of Tehran regime, which will remove main incentive to build them.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (U/Byj)

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Half of all the traffic has been redirected before UAE finishes it's pipeline.

10.5 million barrels a day are going out of the region by pipeline that weren't before while the strait handled 20 million a day.

Saudi Arabia's own pipeline which was doing 500,000 per day before immediately went to 7 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (Y2NSe)

112 Apache is like a flying ammo dump.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (AvxYT)

113 Does everyone remember how BJ Clinton and Preezy Shit Midas were all hassled and worried about the War Powers act in Serbia and Libya?

Yeah me neither but they were democrap preezys so it didn't apply.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (xvV+O)

114 You know who just unloaded their last tanker of Middle East oil?

Not China.
Not North Korea.
Not Cuba.

California.

And now you know why it all "peace at any cost but especially if the US loses" in the media.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (MtSIY)

115 Grokipedia's entry on the Republican Guard Taregh-class boat that I mentioned in the last thread:

https://tinyurl.com/ynbacc3t

These were the boats that were hassling shipping traffic in the PG/SOH during Operation Earnest Will in 1987. I flew a number of ISR missions out of Masirah Island, Oman back then and encountered these things frequently.

They have been upgraded a few times over the years since and now have anti-ship missile capability.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 01:49 PM (Y1sOo)

116 Is it true we sank an Iranian sub using HIMAR?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 01:50 PM (RcrSk)

117 106 - The Corps held on to Hueys for a really long time too, much like they held on the 1903 and resisted the M1 and the M14 over the M16. I think there's just an institutional conservatism in the Marine Corps when it comes to procurement.

Posted by: the lower depths at May 04, 2026 01:50 PM (Dg7ng)

118 It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:48 PM (Y2NSe)

Par for the course, sponge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 04, 2026 01:50 PM (qcTWE)

119 The number of righties I saw buying the sea mine bullshit was depressing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (Y2NSe)

Mines are relatively cheap, easy to deploy and are disastrous when found the wrong way. No one likes mines, it is like helicopter pilots not liking telephone lines.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

120 Why are tankers not armed?

The crew on most tankers consists of a Captain, his assistant, an engineer, a Steward for food, and 15 or 16 illiterate Filipinos.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:51 PM (rGqqI)

121 It's almost as if that Trump fellow is operating on a whole 'nother plane.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

It's amazing the difference when the best minds are tasked with solving problems for the USA instead of figuring out the most efficient ways to pay political supporters and (mostly) fill offshore bank accounts sourced from taxpayer funds.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 01:51 PM (Dv3i1)

122 TMJ, the level of illiteracy and unseriousness, not just on military matters, on the "right" is as amazing as it is unsurprising. It's actually comical sometimes how dumbed down the entire scene is, the tide has lowered all boats. Almost nobody without narrow applicable technical expertise worth reading or listening to. Everything they say is obvious, or stupid and wrong.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:51 PM (U/Byj)

123 119 Mines are relatively cheap, easy to deploy and are disastrous when found the wrong way. No one likes mines, it is like helicopter pilots not liking telephone lines.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

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They're not easy to deploy when you don't have any minelayers, which Iran didn't have after about day 3 of the action.

People were asserting either a hidden fleet of minelayers or just pushing them off the sides of speed boats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:51 PM (Y2NSe)

124 Congress is not gonna declare war on Iran to keep the game going

Come on all a' you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
He's got himself in a terrible jam
way out yonder in old Iran

and it's 1,2,3, what are we fightin' for
don't ask me I don't give a damn
next stop downtown Tay-Ran

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

125 You have this habit of ignoring more of a comment that directly addresses your follow up arguments.

Or, I read it and disagreed? Add gave the reasons why?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (uEYKS)

126 >>Meanwhile, UAE leaves opec with a brandy new pipeline available that bypasses the Strait.

Know it's a typo, but a brandy pipeline would be glorious!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (NcvvS)

127 CENTCOM reported they have mapped out mines they know of and are navigating ships around them.
Posted by: Marcus T

If they've mapped them out, why haven't they blown them up?
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Call it a "reverse treasure map."

You don't just give any ol' cabin boy your treasure map, you landlubber.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (MtSIY)

128 125 You have this habit of ignoring more of a comment that directly addresses your follow up arguments.

Or, I read it and disagreed? Add gave the reasons why?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (uEYKS)

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You skipped it in quote, acted like I hadn't addressed the issue at all, and ignored the example I gave you.

Yes, you just ignored it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:53 PM (Y2NSe)

129 Seems to be true though they flip flop between ATACMS and PRISM.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:54 PM (AvxYT)

130 21 This is turning into a big game of Blind Man's Bluff.

Looks like Trump is now going to stick US ships out there and hope Iran shoots at them, justifying the restart of full hostilities.
Iran knows that, and so far will try to shoot at everything around the US ships but not directly at them.

This is a ridiculous situation with a thousand ways to go wrong very quickly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (rGqqI)

Calling admiral Josh Painter for comment.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 04, 2026 01:54 PM (y6ruu)

131 If they've mapped them out, why haven't they blown them up?
---
Call it a "reverse treasure map."

You don't just give any ol' cabin boy your treasure map, you landlubber.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (MtSIY)

I think it implies that the USN has some underwater sensing drones that are mapping things out. Only a short step from that to drones that have the ability to take them out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:54 PM (rGqqI)

132 122 - Excellent comment. This applies both to the fear-mongerers and the "why haven't we already killed every Iranian in this time zone" crowd.

Posted by: the lower depths at May 04, 2026 01:55 PM (Dg7ng)

133 They're not easy to deploy when you don't have any minelayers, which Iran didn't have after about day 3 of the action.

People were asserting either a hidden fleet of minelayers or just pushing them off the sides of speed boats.
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I may know nothing about how mines are laid.

But I'm pretty sure the type that can sink ships can not be just rolled off the back of a speed boat.

But sure, Ackmed and his ward of "Allah wills it" protection will just scoot about the gulf in his boat with several thousand pounds of explosives designed to ... blow up boats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:55 PM (MtSIY)

134 sieges take time

all will be well

hope all you grumps had a great weekend!

ours was fantastic and still kinda walking on air. loving spring so far. the city is looking really WOW. they have to clean up for the World Cup and 250th and they're actually doing it! the Parkway was completely clear of homeless! hoping it can stay that way.

sorry Wilmington, enjoy your new residents lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 01:55 PM (j+aD2)

135 All the virologists on Twitter became war experts in 2022. These are very accomplished people.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:56 PM (U6Usv)

136 The crew on most tankers consists of a Captain, his assistant, an engineer, a Steward for food, and 15 or 16 illiterate Filipinos.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:51 PM (rGqqI)

Hey, they read comic books just fine.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:56 PM (VTwgk)

137 >>Meanwhile, UAE leaves opec with a brandy new pipeline available that bypasses the Strait.

Know it's a typo, but a brandy pipeline would be glorious!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (NcvvS)

Might or might not be a typo, but I hear southerners say that. Look ma, its brandy new. I find myself saying it from time to time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 01:56 PM (snZF9)

138 Almost nobody without narrow applicable technical expertise worth reading or listening to. Everything they say is obvious, or stupid and wrong.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:51 PM (U/Byj)

Yes - and this is the most badly reported war I have ever known of, worse than I thought possible. All any media outlet does is read press releases from either side with no analysis of the situation. (that is if they even bother to do that much)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:57 PM (rGqqI)

139 I so enjoy the keyboard Generals that think they know better than Hegseth, Cooper and Cain.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 01:57 PM (z2aPa)

140 122 TMJ, the level of illiteracy and unseriousness, not just on military matters, on the "right" is as amazing as it is unsurprising. It's actually comical sometimes how dumbed down the entire scene is, the tide has lowered all boats. Almost nobody without narrow applicable technical expertise worth reading or listening to. Everything they say is obvious, or stupid and wrong.


yep good comment

I'm leaving this operation to the pros. I have faith in them, which is nice. It's a new feeling.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)

141 >>Mines are relatively cheap, easy to deploy and are disastrous when found the wrong way


Drones are likely more of a threat than mines, these days.

Ukraine kinda showed the world this in the past couple of years.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (Lu7y1)

142
"NO BOAT IS ILLEGAL, ESPECIALLY ON STOLEN SEAS!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (JqXxE)

143 Just saw a bunch of pissed off Iranians headed to Bass Pro Shop with a sack full o nickels.

Gonna buy out the bass boat section and teach our Navy a lesson...

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (SWNPk)

144 >>Look ma, its brandy new. I find myself saying it from time to time.

Ok, learned something new today. Thanks, B-DD.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:59 PM (NcvvS)

145 It is coming out Ohio that as a huge Somalia population , 2nd only to Minnesota and get this, you may not believe it , there is a huge amount of health care fraud being exposed.


It's as if fraud is part of their to their rich, diverse culture.

Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2026 01:59 PM (GUOwU)

146 I missed the Pope thread! yeah I knew what that guy was about.

and Axelrod just went to map out a plan, he didn't need convincing to be a prog, he already was one.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 01:59 PM (j+aD2)

147 I'm leaving this operation to the pros. I have faith in them, which is nice. It's a new feeling.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)

New feelings are bad and dangerous. Stick to the time-tested old ones!!

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:59 PM (U6Usv)

148 Apparently, the Marines are having fun blowing shit up.

Mine is sad he’s not with his guys.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2026 01:59 PM (W2Pud)

149 141 Drones are likely more of a threat than mines, these days.

Ukraine kinda showed the world this in the past couple of years.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (Lu7y1)

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Drones are a threat to the RUSSIAN army.

Iranian drones have been a minor nuisance against American forces, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (Y2NSe)

150 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 JUST IN: Democrat Connecticut Gov. Lamont just signed a bill BANNING ICE from wearing face coverings in the state

Violating agents face ARREST.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (ZxPkt)

151 >>But I'm pretty sure the type that can sink ships can not be just rolled off the back of a speed boat.

But, in fact, they can.

Also, the anti-ship missile capability of the their Taregh boats means they aren't just annoying little speed boats like they were during the Tanker War.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (Y1sOo)

152 "Guiding" might also be because they will be weaving them through any mines out there.

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (6pIoG)

153 Violating agents face ARREST.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (ZxPkt)

How many divisions does he have

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:01 PM (U6Usv)

154 147 I'm leaving this operation to the pros. I have faith in them, which is nice. It's a new feeling.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (j+aD2)


Tsk, tsk.... I'm relying on CNN and WSJ..... They know what they're talking about !

Posted by: Armchair General Karen who hates Trump at May 04, 2026 02:01 PM (dFjQQ)

155 150 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 JUST IN: Democrat Connecticut Gov. Lamont just signed a bill BANNING ICE from wearing face coverings in the state

Violating agents face ARREST.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (ZxPkt)

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Federal judge just slapped this down in California.

Now, I imagine the district and appeals courts in the Northeast to be more amenable to anti-Trumpism than the 9th (weird timeline, let's be honest), but it'll just end in defeat for the left again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:01 PM (Y2NSe)

156 >>Meanwhile, UAE leaves opec with a brandy new pipeline available that bypasses the Strait.

Know it's a typo, but a brandy pipeline would be glorious!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:52 PM (NcvvS)

No Typo. The phrase "brandy new" is used informally to mean completely or brand new. It is used to evoke a provincial or rural manner of speech for which the speech or speaker is to be taken.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)

157 150 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 JUST IN: Democrat Connecticut Gov. Lamont just signed a bill BANNING ICE from wearing face coverings in the state

Violating agents face ARREST.
Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (ZxPkt)

Oh please let there be a confrontation between CT LEO and ICE. Let it go hot, too. This will be fun.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (N39Ws)

158 This is a ridiculous situation with a thousand ways to go wrong very quickly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (rGqqI)

Calling admiral Josh Painter for comment.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 04, 2026 01:54 PM (y6ruu)

I'm not sure it's "wrong" if the goal is to go hot again.

Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (vSvIl)

159 156 No Typo. The phrase "brandy new" is used informally to mean completely or brand new. It is used to evoke a provincial or rural manner of speech for which the speech or speaker is to be taken.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)

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Yeah, but...a retort:

Booze.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (Y2NSe)

160 Drones are a threat to the RUSSIAN army.

Iranian drones have been a minor nuisance against American forces, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026

Or...

"Ukraine's air force reported that Russia launched at least 6,804 long-range drones and missiles into Ukraine in April, according to daily data published by the force and analyzed by ABC News, marking the most intense month of long-range aerial attacks of the war to date.

Ukraine's air force said it faced 6,663 drones and 141 missiles over one month of overnight attacks, of which nearly 88% of the drones and more than 62% of the missiles were intercepted or suppressed by Ukrainian defenses. [I say this needs a confirmation]

Ukraine faced a nightly average of around 222 drones and four missiles through April, the data suggests.

April's figures surpass the previous monthly record set in March, when Russia launched a total of 6,600 munitions -- 6,462 drones and 138 missiles -- per daily data published by the air force in Kyiv."

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (GD0B3)

161 Big Dummy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (AvxYT)

162 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)

LOL

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (U6Usv)

163 and this is the most badly reported war I have ever known of, worse than I thought possible"

It's a glock!

/your average urnalist

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (XuXeR)

164 >>Iranian drones have been a minor nuisance against American forces, it seems


Shaheeds, yes.

But underwater drones, I would guess, are replacing mines.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (Lu7y1)

165 Never claimed I was an expert at military stuff. Believe me, you don't want me in charge.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (ZxPkt)

166 The WHCD shooter has not been able to get out of his cell for recreation which violates his civil rights so they are just going to let him go.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (vFG9F)

167 31 Commentary from CENTCOM includes this little nugget:

AH-64 Apache and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters used just this morning to eliminate six Iranian small boats threatening commercial shipping

I don't think the Navy normally operates the Apache.

The Marines OTOH...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (jehhT)

Navy MH-60s can carry Hellfire missiles. Anti-tank missiles that can easily destroy small boats.

The Marines operate AH-1Z Cobras.

Apaches and Cobras can carry pretty much the same missiles and missile load out. Apaches have a 30mm gun and 1200 rounds; AH-1Z Vipers (nee Cobras) have a 20mm gun and 750 rounds. If Apaches are being employed as convoy escorts they may flying escort sorties from a special Forward Arming and Vipers based on the in-area Amphib carriers or in land-based Marine Air Wings, could do the same, of course. However, it seems to me FARPS near the Strait would be prime targets for Iranian drones and short-medium range ballistic missiles. I do not believe either helo can be equipped with an air refueling probe kit.

Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (5rh/l)

168 @145 Columbus has a large Somali population. The Health commissioner who dragged DeWine around by the nose during COVID is running as a Dem for governor. Wonder if she knew about the fraud?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (gu0hJ)

169 139 I so enjoy the keyboard Generals that think they know better than Hegseth, Cooper and Cain.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 01:57 PM (z2aPa)

According to a story over at Hot Air which appears credible, Hegseth and his group recommended a much more powerful military response to Trump on Thursday night. Trump chose to hold off on their recommendation for the time being. Hopefully events will push that plan into operation very soon.

If there's any doubt, I am strongly in favor of Trump following the actual recommendations of Hegseth, Cooper, and Caine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (rGqqI)

170 No mint on his pillow?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (AvxYT)

171 >>No Typo. The phrase "brandy new" is used informally to mean completely or brand new. It is used to evoke a provincial or rural manner of speech for which the speech or speaker is to be taken.

Thanks, Comrade Flounder. Berserker-Dragonheads Division schooled me above, too.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (NcvvS)

172 brandy new"

She's a fine girl.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (XuXeR)

173 He can bend reality with his mind.

Tucker Carlson tells NYT reporter he never referred to Trump as the "anti-Christ." She then quotes his exact words - and he still denies ever saying it!

Seriously. What kind of mental illness is this??

NYT: "You've been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist"

Tucker Carlson: "I have not said that."

NYT: You said, "Here's a leader mocking the Gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of Gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist?"

TC: "I actually did not say 'could this be the Antichrist?'

NYT: ***plays clip of him saying exactly that***

TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips..."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (ndZc7)

174 168 @145 Columbus has a large Somali population. The Health commissioner who dragged DeWine around by the nose during COVID is running as a Dem for governor. Wonder if she knew about the fraud?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (gu0hJ)

======

Acton is so bad she's going to lose to Vivek.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (Y2NSe)

175 I may know nothing about how mines are laid.



Generally, dinner, soft music...

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (DSLf3)

176 173 TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips..."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (ndZc7)

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Those demons again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (Y2NSe)

177
I've been harping this for like a week, too.

Iran just succeeded in making the strait unimportant.


----

Somebody should inform the oil markets.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (9CBNQ)

178 Congress won't declare war, in part, because given it is a trigger for all sorts of emergency legislative powers given to FDR in an existential war plus the scattered legislation passed during the Cold War, it would truly make Trump the Warrior King of the US.

So, we are now down to the laughably AUMF resolutions and the War Powers Resolution that every president declared was unconstitutional except for its reporting functions.

Trump is treating the War Power Resolution with the contempt it deserves by reporting to Congress a couple of days ago as per the Resolution that hostilities were concluded and thus the sixty day reset has occurred.

Scotus ain't gonna save the Dems bacon here because in such matters--even Dread Justice Taney in the Prize cases ruled that the president has war powers independent of congressional declarations. And that includes responding to threatened or actual retaliatory strikes.

Posted by: whig at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (E4rtv)

179 Who could have possibly known?

X-Magatte Wade
@magattew

Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:

Bono on what he has learned as an activist. "I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that's not true. The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it's entrepreneurial capitalism."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (Dv3i1)

180 lol maybe Tuck was possessed!

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (j+aD2)

181 I try to never talk too much about anything I don't know a fair amount about.

Which is why I post mostly fart jokes, gay slurs, and "hello"s - often at the same time.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (U6Usv)

182 86
Sorry to mention it, but aren't there things like fishing boats, tugboats, legitimate little supply boats, etc? Someone might even need to get their yacht out of there.

indeed.

Posted by: russian oligarch at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (oY6Yp)

183 On Gilligan's Island mines were big spiky balls.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (AvxYT)

184 Violating agents face ARREST.
Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:00 PM (ZxPkt)

State LEO who attempt to arrest Federal Agents, face arrest.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (rGqqI)

185 I can't help wonder if we don't have a small recon unit on the ground, like a long range patrol to "look" for shit like hiding places for iran fast boats, or other site of interest to be mapped for targeting purposes when the time comes for the final blow. Hunker down by day, move at night kind of thing.Teams that can move like ghosts. I'm pretty sure we got them, I just wonder if we're using them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (snZF9)

186 177 Somebody should inform the oil markets.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:05 PM (9CBNQ)

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More than half of the oil out of the strait has been redirected.

Out of the remainder, American and Venezuelan exports are making up more. Demand destruction in Africa is eliminating the total global supply need.

And UAE is building more pipeline right now to bipass the straight.

This is a blip that no one will remember by summer except the American shale oil producers who uncapped their wells and bought new Buggattis with the profits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (Y2NSe)

187 Yeah, but...a retort:

Booze.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (Y2NSe)

Sur-reply, pottery.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Jk3tDO9uA5w

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)

188 TC: "I actually did not say 'could this be the Antichrist?'

NYT: ***plays clip of him saying exactly that***

TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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He was just axing questions!!!/sarc

Posted by: whig at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)

189 2:03 'news'

Fox - hospice fraud
CBC - Iran boats
CNN - boats - is ceasefire over
MSNOW - UAE

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (Sco7b)

190 Hot Air, that bastion of credibility.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:07 PM (z2aPa)

191 It's funny how some posters get outed by spell check exposing the words they typically use rather than what they intended. Like replacing "brand" with "brandy."

It's hysterectomy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 02:07 PM (wBaIH)

192 re my 168 -

"special Forward Arming" should be "special Forward Arming and Refueling Points (FARPS)"

Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2026 02:07 PM (5rh/l)

193 And guess what they say they did? ...

Apparently they're now claiming they didn't attack-attack Navy ships.

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OUT: Gulf of Jive Tonkin.
IN: Strait of Jive Talkin'.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:07 PM (JqXxE)

194
Bono on what he has learned as an activist. "I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that's not true. The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it's entrepreneurial capitalism."
Posted by: Chuck Martel

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Which he could have found out by picking up the phone and asking David Geffen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 02:07 PM (n7rxJ)

195 We have only one stated objective in this conflict:

To eliminate Iran's nuclear stockpile and to prevent Iran from building another nuclear stockpile for military purposes.

That's it.

Iran doesn't want to give up its weapons-grade nuclear stockpile and its ballistic missile capability (which Iran has repeatedly used against its neighbors) for delivering them.

"Closing" the Strait of Hormuz is Iran's most potent weapon for defending itself against the US and its allies.

Re-opening the Strait doesn't resolve the Iranian nuclear stockpile question, but it does weaken significantly the terrorist nation's capabilities.

Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (rj6Yv)

196 Shorter Bono : It took me 30 years to realize I'm an asshole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (gu0hJ)

197 Somebody should inform the oil markets."

Too many bought into the "omg 150 / bbl"

They're now getting called in at 100 - 105, and getting their asses handed to them. It's brutal.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (XuXeR)

198 Is Tuckliar Deceptson saying the clip is AI?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (U6Usv)

199 Been gone this morning.. Did the US actually help any ships go through the Strait ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (dFjQQ)

200 The Iranian regime says it received a U.S. response to its latest 14-point peace proposal

14 points...yeah, shove those 14 points up your collective Mullah asses...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

201 Bono should ski more.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:09 PM (AvxYT)

202 Been gone this morning.. Did the US actually help any ships go through the Strait ?
Posted by: It's me donna


Supposedly two.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:09 PM (DSLf3)

203 TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips..."
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Shaggy adds another verse to his song ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 02:09 PM (MtSIY)

204 Shorter Bono : It took me 30 years to realize I'm an asshole"

Even shorter: "I'm wearing sunglasses"

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (XuXeR)

205 197 Somebody should inform the oil markets."

Too many bought into the "omg 150 / bbl"

They're now getting called in at 100 - 105, and getting their asses handed to them. It's brutal.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (XuXeR)

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Nate Silver absolutely crashed out because he was saying $200 per barrel, which Qatar was predicting.

Highest we've gotten on WTI is about $112. Brent got to about $122.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (Y2NSe)

206 The Iranian regime says it received a U.S. response to its latest 14-point peace proposal



Yeah. We sunk 14 fast boats. Not the response Iran wanted.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (DSLf3)

207 Apache is an Army helicopter. Not designed to operate in salt water environment it is being cut from future investment. It is hideously expensive to deploy. A-10 was never built for salt water environment either. Army/Air force don’ do this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (1D2Ie)

208 206 The Iranian regime says it received a U.S. response to its latest 14-point peace proposal



Yeah. We sunk 14 fast boats. Not the response Iran wanted.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (DSLf3)

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It was a video of Trump rolling around in $450 million, which they lose every day the blockade is in effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (Y2NSe)

209
Yeah. We sunk 14 fast boats. Not the response Iran wanted.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:10 PM (DSLf3)

Guess they weren't so fast.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (dFjQQ)

210 On Gilligan's Island mines were big spiky balls.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Skipper: "I haven't seen one of these since the War."
Gilligan: "Which one is it, the Monitor or the Merrimack?"

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

211 Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (NcvvS)

No worries.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (dK+Kv)

212 ... under the Project Freedom initiative announced by President Trump.

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Civilian "Project" rather than Military "Operation Freedom."

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (JqXxE)

213 Bono should ski more."

/zombie Natasha Richardson agrees

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (XuXeR)

214 @165 Don Black-oh good God me neither. I’m of the kill em all and let God sort em out crowd. The left would be screaming genocide and probably be mostly right if I was in charge.

Posted by: JROD at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (IlL6s)

215 It was a video of Trump rolling around in $450 million, which they lose every day the blockade is in effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



Pretty soon that adds up to real money.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (DSLf3)

216 The Iranian regime says it received a U.S. response to its latest 14-point peace proposal
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You know, it's no coincidence that this equals 2 and 1/3 Jewish Stars.
/s/ Tucker Carlson, now with numerology as proof.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 02:12 PM (MtSIY)

217 Live Updates: U.S. sinks 6 small Iranian boats as Iran launches attacks on UAE and a ship in Strait of Hormuz

Uh, we did? You might want to talk to the IRGC about this matter. They take orders from someone else.

Posted by: Iran at May 04, 2026 02:12 PM (iFEms)

218 215 It was a video of Trump rolling around in $450 million, which they lose every day the blockade is in effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



Pretty soon that adds up to real money.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:11 PM (DSLf3)

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Blockade's been in effect for, what, 2 weeks now?

That's like 3 Learing Centers worth!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:12 PM (Y2NSe)

219 217 Uh, we did? You might want to talk to the IRGC about this matter. They take orders from someone else.

Posted by: Iran at May 04, 2026 02:12 PM (iFEms)

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Is it...Epstein?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:12 PM (Y2NSe)

220 Someone should do an AI meme of Trump grabbing his cajones and saying " hey Iran, I got your 14 point proposal right here"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 02:13 PM (gu0hJ)

221 191 It's funny how some posters get outed by spell check exposing the words they typically use rather than what they intended. Like replacing "brand" with "brandy."

It's hysterectomy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Hahah! Except I had an autocorrect to imam last night and but for these few posts about the situation, I have not used the word in normal discourse. I am not sure what that was all about. Poltergeists, I guess.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 02:13 PM (OoFl2)

222 Re-opening the Strait doesn't resolve the Iranian nuclear stockpile question, but it does weaken significantly the terrorist nation's capabilities.
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (rj6Yv)

most importantly it cuts off most of the political opposition in the west, which is centered around high energy prices.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 02:13 PM (rGqqI)

223 222 most importantly it cuts off most of the political opposition in the west, which is centered around high energy prices.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 02:13 PM (rGqqI)

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Kills the gasoline market's excuses for the high prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:14 PM (Y2NSe)

224 Carriers need A 10s.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (AvxYT)

I believe that A-10s lack the the necessary undercarriage provisions for carrier launch and landing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:14 PM (utfVc)

225 mostly fart jokes, gay slurs, and "hello"s - often at the same time.
_-_
Much to our amusement.

I try to ask questions about stuff I don't understand here, but they seem to be often considered rhetorical (not surprising given the current political environment) or "trolling".

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 02:15 PM (rzCjW)

226 Kills the gasoline market's excuses for the high prices"

But what about the hookers and blow?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:15 PM (XuXeR)

227 [snip]

TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips..."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:04 PM (ndZc7)

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Schizophrenia is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:15 PM (JqXxE)

228 Yeah. We sunk 14 fast boats. Not the response Iran wanted.

At this rate, all we'll need is the Cajun Navy to keep the peace.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 02:15 PM (hcEyG)

229 It's funny how some posters get outed by spell check exposing the words they typically use rather than what they intended. Like replacing "brand" with "brandy."

It's hysterectomy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 02:07 PM (wBaIH)

It's boobs a long time since I had any problem with spell check.

Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2026 02:16 PM (vSvIl)

230
It was a video of Trump rolling around in $450 million, which they lose every day the blockade is in effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Is that another lefty scream yet? "Trump is diverting Iran's oil money directly to his personal checking account"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 02:16 PM (n7rxJ)

231 It's funny how some posters get outed by spell check exposing the words they typically use rather than what they intended. Like replacing "brand" with "brandy."

It's hysterectomy.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Hahah! Except I had an autocorrect to imam last night and but for these few posts about the situation, I have not used the word in normal discourse. I am not sure what that was all about. Poltergeists, I guess.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 02:13 PM (OoFl2)

Autocorrect has gotten particularly asshoe lately. You fight it over a properly spelled and appropriately used word, then it will let clear, fat-fingered misspellings go as if to say, "Let's see how big of an idiot we can make you look, randomly, when you least expect it."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)

232 Kills the gasoline market's excuses for the high prices

They'll always have "uncertainty"!

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 02:16 PM (hcEyG)

233 226 Kills the gasoline market's excuses for the high prices"

But what about the hookers and blow?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:15 PM (XuXeR)

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Well, if we manipulate currencies in the right way, maybe Finland can invade Sweden and we can take in the Swedish bikini team as asylum seekers but deny them space on the American bikini team, meaning that they have to go into the escort business?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:16 PM (Y2NSe)

234 On Gilligan's Island mines were big spiky balls.
Posted by: Boss Moss
Skipper: "I haven't seen one of these since the War."
Gilligan: "Which one is it, the Monitor or the Merrimack?"

I'm gonna pray for ya. And I want you to hold onto God's unchangin' hand. Cause it helped Joshua fight the battle of Jericho. Yes! It helped Daniel get out the lion's den. It helped *Gilligan* get off the island. Lawd!

Posted by: Rev.Brown at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (AP4bj)

235 I wonder if they could build an armored PT Boat?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (AvxYT)

236 75%+ inflation on a currency in free fall, water capacity at 20% in the 5 major dams around Tehran, day 60 of an internet blackput that is crippling businesses and food and medicine shortages.

The regime is winning and Trump is humiliated!!

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (z2aPa)

237 236 75%+ inflation on a currency in free fall, water capacity at 20% in the 5 major dams around Tehran, day 60 of an internet blackput that is crippling businesses and food and medicine shortages.

The regime is winning and Trump is humiliated!!

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (z2aPa)

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Because gas is $6 in California!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (Y2NSe)

238 Was the SoKor ship actually damaged? Outside of ships carrying volatile chemicals, I'm still not sure how effective those Shaheed drones would be against steaming merchant ships that can do 15-20 knots. Seems to me that something that size would require a hit at or near the water line to cause a ship to have a chance of sinking.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 04, 2026 02:18 PM (MVWbi)

239 Kills the gasoline market's excuses for the high prices"

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"TRUMP'S GAS PRICES CAUSED SPIRIT AIRLINES TO SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST!"

/ProTip: Spirit Airlines has been unprofitable since 2019, with over $2.5 billion in losses since the start of 2020.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:18 PM (JqXxE)

240 Well, if we manipulate currencies in the right way, maybe Finland can invade Sweden and we can take in the Swedish bikini team as asylum seekers but deny them space on the American bikini team, meaning that they have to go into the escort business?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:16 PM (Y2NSe)
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You're just the kind of forward-thinking person we need around here. I'm on board.

Posted by: ballistic at May 04, 2026 02:18 PM (oqH4h)

241 Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 02:15 PM (rzCjW)

Usually if you accompany it with "serious question" you'll get like five replies. They'll mostly be wrong but the horde loves putting knowledge.

But it's like panning for gold.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:18 PM (U6Usv)

242 But it's like panning for gold turds.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 02:18 PM (U6Usv)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 04, 2026 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)

243 Trump told Fox News that if Iran attack us ships they would be “blown off the face of the earth”.

I guess nobody told him?

Posted by: Vengeance at May 04, 2026 02:19 PM (/IZKJ)

244 CENTCOM reported they have mapped out mines they know of and are navigating ships around them.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (+Tpk4)

If they know where the mines are, why not destroy them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (utfVc)

245 Mine is sad he’s not with his guys.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I get that, and I understand why moms would not.

Heck, I'm sad I'm not there with my 82nd guys...'cept I got out 35 years ago

Posted by: Oedipus at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (Z6vKV)

246 Schizophrenia is not just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: ShainS

That one's in Babylonia.

Posted by: Ezekiel at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (gKWVE)

247 I wonder if they could build an armored PT Boat?"

Sure. Top speed of 11 NMPH, range of 75 miles...

The numbers I've seen on the boats are laughable.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (XuXeR)

248 Because gas is $6 in California!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (Y2NSe)

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Down from $7 in 2022.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:21 PM (JqXxE)

249 244 CENTCOM reported they have mapped out mines they know of and are navigating ships around them.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (+Tpk4)

If they know where the mines are, why not destroy them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (utfVc)
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What he said.

Posted by: WisRich at May 04, 2026 02:21 PM (G0vdT)

250 248 Because gas is $6 in California!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:17 PM (Y2NSe)

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Down from $7 in 2022.
Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:21 PM (JqXxE)


Unfortunately people have short memories...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 02:21 PM (dFjQQ)

251
75%+ inflation on a currency in free fall, water capacity at 20% in the 5 major dams around Tehran, day 60 of an internet blackput that is crippling businesses and food and medicine shortages.

Posted by: Ben Had

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

Change the names, and isn't this Tuesday in North Korea?

And Cuba? Zimbabwe? How long can IRGC-dominated Iran zombie along?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 02:22 PM (n7rxJ)

252 California had an oil well in a mall at one point.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:22 PM (AvxYT)

253 Was the SoKor ship actually damaged"

If it was a bulk carrier as reported? Not likely. They're pretty tough.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:22 PM (XuXeR)

254 If they know where the mines are, why not destroy them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (utfVc)

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Can we hack into and take control of the "fast boats" and "guide" them into the mines?

A man can dream ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:23 PM (JqXxE)

255 "Kills the gasoline market's excuses for the high prices"

But what about the hookers and blow?

Posted by: man "


There's much less demand now that Hunter's broke.

Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2026 02:23 PM (GUOwU)

256 242 But it's like panning for gold

_-_

I'll try that - Some these here Morons are pretty sharp ( and witty - saw the "turd" comment).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 02:24 PM (rzCjW)

257 California had an oil well in a mall at one point.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I read an article online many years ago about all the hidden oil wells in Los Angeles. They would either put them in existing structures or build a new building around them. They're prolly mostly gone now.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:25 PM (77rzZ)

258 California had an oil well in a mall at one point.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:22 PM (AvxYT)
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One of the YT photo vault channels had an image of the oil derricks crowded next to each other in Long Beach. Derricks as far as the camera lens could hold.

Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2026 02:25 PM (rj6Yv)

259 Carriers need A 10s.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (AvxYT)

I believe that A-10s lack the the necessary undercarriage provisions for carrier launch and landing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:14 PM (utfVc)

Sierra Nevada makes a licensed version of the Super Tucano, the A-29. They are a short take off and landing plane. They would be perfect for painting the nose nacelle like a Toucan bill

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

260 Centcom assets are focused on fleet protection. That’s why they are mapping mines and slating for removal. It’s also why they called out the worthless shitheads in nato for not sending minesweepers.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 04, 2026 02:26 PM (/IZKJ)

261 Trump told Fox News that if Iran attack us ships they would be “blown off the face of the earth”.

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Each martyred boat gets 72 Sturgeons in Islamic Heaven.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:26 PM (JqXxE)

262 The last offer from the IRGC
15 year moratorium on nuke production
All nuke material enriched over 3.6 % would be removed from Iran
The Strait would be reopened

PDT said NO.
He isn't going to take the boot off their throat.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:26 PM (z2aPa)

263 262 The last offer from the IRGC
15 year moratorium on nuke production
All nuke material enriched over 3.6 % would be removed from Iran
The Strait would be reopened

PDT said NO.
He isn't going to take the boot off their throat.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:26 PM (z2aPa)

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Iran admitting to nuke desires and offering to stop for a termed amount is just further proof that Trump needs a deal more than they do!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (Y2NSe)

264 "How long can IRGC-dominated Iran zombie along? "

based on the historical record; decades

or not

no telling, really. it is what it is.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (VyBeY)

265 What ever happened to 'surrender or die' ?

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (ZxPkt)

266 Gas is almost $5 in not-California, up from $2.50 in January. Our memories aren't that short.

Trump had better be right.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (9CBNQ)

267 Each martyred boat gets 72 Sturgeons in Islamic Heaven.

Xylophone solo

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (Kt19C)

268 Just made a BLT for lunch. Toasted the bread, spred Duke's on the bread, laid out the bacon, then realized I'm out of lettuce and tomato.

Oh well. Still eats.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:29 PM (DSLf3)

269 Each martyred boat gets 72 Sturgeons in Islamic Heaven.
Posted by: ShainS

Don't be so cavilar about it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

270 266 Gas is almost $5 in not-California, up from $2.50 in January. Our memories aren't that short.

Trump had better be right.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (9CBNQ)

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You gonna vote for the open borders because gas is less expensive now than under Biden?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:29 PM (Y2NSe)

271 "Trump better be right that undoing one of the largest regional and global sources of trouble is worth me paying more for gas for a couple of months."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:30 PM (Y2NSe)

272 People who make fish puns are pikers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:30 PM (AvxYT)

273 "Or I'm gonna vote for Newsom!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:30 PM (Y2NSe)

274 Just made a BLT for lunch. Toasted the bread, spread Duke's on the bread, laid out the bacon, then realized I'm out of lettuce and tomato.

Oh well. Still eats.
Posted by: rickb223

You've got Duke's. That's all you need.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

275 Iran admitting to nuke desires and offering to stop for a termed amount is just further proof that Trump needs a deal more than they do!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (Y2NSe)
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Iran using its ballistic missiles against its neighbors and at US bases as far away as Diego Garcia is proving to be the strategic mistake of the century (so far).

Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)

276 I won't but others will.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (9CBNQ)

277 213 Bono should ski more."

/zombie Natasha Richardson agrees
****

"Dude."
Sonny

Posted by: clarence at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (ZhkYm)

278 Substantial’, to ‘severe’

Today, the Home Secretary has confirmed that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has raised the terrorism threat level in the UK from ‘substantial’, to ‘severe’. This means it is now highly likely that a terrorist attack could happen in the UK.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (RHGPo)

279 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (NcvvS)

280 almost $5 in not-California, up from $2.50 in January"

Doubled in 8 weeks?

Doubt it.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (XuXeR)

281 275
Iran using its ballistic missiles against its neighbors and at US bases as far away as Diego Garcia is proving to be the strategic mistake of the century (so far).

Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)


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The speed at which no one came to Iran's material defense in the build up and outbreak of hostilities was...interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (Y2NSe)

282 What ever happened to 'surrender or die' ?

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 02:28 PM (ZxPkt)

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Not to mention Michael Corleone's: "My final offer is this: nothing."

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (JqXxE)

283 I am paying $5.79 for diesel . Things will change.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (z2aPa)

284 You've got Duke's. That's all you need.
Posted by: Bulg


Only kind I buy, thanks to recommendations from people here.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (DSLf3)

285 278 Substantial’, to ‘severe’

Today, the Home Secretary has confirmed that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has raised the terrorism threat level in the UK from ‘substantial’, to ‘severe’. This means it is now highly likely that a terrorist attack could happen in the UK.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (RHGPo)

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Remember when people made fun of the color scheme?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (Y2NSe)

286 This means it is now highly likely that a terrorist attack could happen in the UK.
Posted by: SMOD

Yeah, all those Islamophobic White Nationalists are bad news.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

287 But underwater drones, I would guess, are replacing mines.
Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2026 02:03 PM (Lu7y1)

An underwater drone would basically be a loitering torpedo which could be dispatched on command. Problem is, how do you send it commands? If underwater, VLF radio might be used, but you are also telling the whole world that a command is being sent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (utfVc)

288 Today, the Home Secretary has confirmed that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has raised the terrorism threat level in the UK from ‘substantial’, to ‘severe’. This means it is now highly likely that a terrorist attack could happen in the UK.
Posted by: SMOD

Too late.
-Day ending in "y"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)

289 almost $5 in not-California, up from $2.50 in January"

Doubled in 8 weeks?

Doubt it.

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*4 months

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:34 PM (9CBNQ)

290 Build the canal across the base of the peninsula and render the strait meaningless. It's been studied and priced at 80 billion.

It would be great if the mullahs would be gone shortly, but it seems more likely we're going to have a hostile regime in place for some time to come.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 02:35 PM (XvL8K)

291 "Trump better be right that undoing one of the largest regional and global sources of trouble is worth me paying more for gas for a couple of months."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:30 PM (Y2NSe)

I would pay it for the rest of the year knowing he sent the supreme leader to hell. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 02:36 PM (snZF9)

292 Why does Iran have anything floating aside from dead bodies?
Posted by: Stateless at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

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I agree. Why have we allowed them to think they have any power in the Strait?
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:37 PM (aZm/F)

Small boats can be tucked in civilian areas or commandeered from there, so destroying all of them could cause collateral damage we don't want for now. Now when they come out and attack, they are fair game.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 02:37 PM (8avO+)

293 "Trump better be right that undoing one of the largest regional and global sources of trouble is worth me paying more for gas for a couple of months."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:30 PM (Y2NSe)

We don't get any of our oil from the Persian Gulf. Price rises in the US are from other causes.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (8avO+)

294 The American people are impatient. Especially with all the grandiose predictions of $2 gas by Memorial Day. Trump looks like he's doing his TACO bit again.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 02:39 PM (9CBNQ)

295 Iran has a landmass twice the size of Texas and 90 million.people. How come the lame ass US military can't find all these fastboats and wipe them out?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (z2aPa)

296
The number of righties I saw buying the sea mine bullshit was depressing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:46 PM (Y2NSe)

Mines are relatively cheap, easy to deploy and are disastrous when found the wrong way. No one likes mines, it is like helicopter pilots not liking telephone lines.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:50 PM (rbvCR)



Ask the 1988-era crew of USS Samuel B Roberts. Hit an Iranian mine and nearly was lost with a broken keel, but through superhuman efforts, the crew saved the ship.

The US retaliation was Operation Praying Mantis a few days later, when the US Navy sank a good portion of Iran's naval assets in a one day operation.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 02:40 PM (e4Xc5)

297 TC: "I actually did not say 'could this be the Antichrist?'

NYT: ***plays clip of him saying exactly that***

TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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He was just axing questions!!!/sarc
Posted by: whig at May 04, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)
**********
It was his demon speaking for him.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (NpAcC)

298 California had an oil well in a mall at one point.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 02:22 PM (AvxYT)

I remember seeing a pumpjack behind a false storefront on Wilshire Boulevard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:41 PM (utfVc)

299 Bono on what he has learned as an activist. "I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that's not true. The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it's entrepreneurial capitalism."
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Burn the heretic!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (ndZc7)

300
An underwater drone would basically be a loitering torpedo which could be dispatched on command. Problem is, how do you send it commands? If underwater, VLF radio might be used, but you are also telling the whole world that a command is being sent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 02:33 PM (utfVc)



Send constant encrypted traffic on the VLF, most of it nonsense. Difficult to tell if there's launch/guidance commands being sent unless you can break the encryption in real-time.

Of course, then that means your ground stations become great big targets, but there's always a trade-off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 02:49 PM (e4Xc5)

301 Acoustically huofef torpedoes
Fire and forget

Posted by: Paul at May 04, 2026 02:55 PM (y8Dyn)

302 Yeah, but...a retort:

Booze.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 02:02 PM (Y2NSe)

A retort is just the thing for distilling booze.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 03:15 PM (ZVgZ4)

303 Turn loose the A10s

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 04, 2026 03:17 PM (jrgJz)

304 everyone should have one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89fHmOV6-4U

Tell your wife I paid for it, then she will hate me and leave you in peace

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 04, 2026 03:20 PM (jrgJz)

305 Shit pebbles

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 03:23 PM (9CBNQ)

Woke Pope Appoints an Illegal Alien as Bishop of West Virginia to Speak In Favor of Mass Amnesty, in a State That Is Only 2% Hispanic

Via Instapundit, reports that the pope is a woke buffoon and leftwing culture warrior have been proven 100% true, by his own actions.

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost

Pope Leo's pick to be bishop of West Virginia is a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.

Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.


Steve Deace
@SteveDeaceShow

This was not a dreamer. Evelio originally came here from El Salvador illegally as a grown man in 1990. He had already been deported at least once before. Soon after his arrival, he was granted TPS because of the civil war back home. Eventually learned English and became a US citizen in 2006. His is a sympathetic case from a bygone era when most of America thought we could look the other way at such things given the overall prosperous state of things.

But we are not now in that era.

Our national debt is now over 1,000% higher than it was when Evelio first arrived. Illegal immigration has swelled over 300%. Whole industries have replaced the American-born family man with illegal aliens. The amount of school children who only speak Spanish has doubled since 1990. The median age of a first time home buyer in 1990 was 28-30, while today it is 41. It was twice as likely a 30-year old man would be married with children in 1990 compared to now.

Barely 2% of West Virginia is Hispanic. Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish. This is a purely political appointment by a woke pope trying to shoehorn his open borders agenda into a state Trump has won by 40 points three times. There's nothing prophetic here, but it's all shamefully political. An open borders agenda the pope himself isn't forced to abide by, because Vatican City has strict enforcement policies and walls. This is like if MSNBC picked offices in the church, all the while never allowing the illegals in Martha's Vineyard where their primetime hosts spend their summers.

Hello! Happy New Week!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:15 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 12:15 PM (YwEeS)

2 If anyone had any hope this guy would be less radical than the last well, he ain't.

Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (YwEeS)

3 >>>Pope ... Amensty

Ha! Nice typo.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (RtN13)

4 Meh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (bss/y)

5 But but but he loves the Chicago White Sox!!!

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (Gqar8)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (LdBR/)

7 2 If anyone had any hope this guy would be less radical than the last well, he ain't.
Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (YwEeS)

Same assholes who forced out Benedict still have the wheel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (bss/y)

8 Can we deport this illegal Bishop?

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (9CBNQ)

9 >>>Pope ... Amensty

Ha! Nice typo.
Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (RtN13)

Kinda, sorta Freudian.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (/HDaX)

10 Something something “ this turbulent priest”.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (Gqar8)

11 If he were actively trying to destroy the Church, he wouldn't be doing anything differently.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (iNUL3)

12 We haven't had a Catholic Pope since Benedict.

And they drove him out and replaced him with an Marxist Jesuit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (XV/Pl)

13 Chicago has a lot of explaing to do.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 12:19 PM (rJ48h)

14 11 If he were actively trying to destroy the Church, he wouldn't be doing anything differently.

And yet, I'm told Catholicism is thriving and growing.

Posted by: AOC at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

15 Barely 2% of West Virginia is Hispanic. Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish. This is a purely political appointment by a woke pope trying to shoehorn his open borders agenda into a state Trump has won by 40 points three times.
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I really don't think the Pope's heavyhanded approach to politics is actually going to push the laity back to the left.

Hell, I attend church in the Diocese of Charlotte under Bishop Michael Martin, center of a series of big-ish blowups around the Latin mass.

No one cares. The priests never talk about it. The priests are all shockingly based (young guys less than a decade out of seminary, the African one in particular is based, who all take the mass much more seriously than the older ones they replaced) who stay away from politics and focus on the individual soul's obligations to God.

The American Church is going to change from the ground up, and the loss of govt contracts for Catholic Charities is going to accelerate that. Doesn't mean the next Pope will be Sarah, or anyone like him, but the overbearing political efforts are really going to fall on deaf ears.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (Y2NSe)

16 Not this guy again....Bob sure can pick 'em, where does he find the time. He should be out frolicking with his boyfriend Channarong at Pattaya Beach.

Posted by: Open A Can Of Pope Away at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (AP4bj)

17 So it looks like my decision to not return to the Church is being reinforced.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (svLOV)

18 As long as the Vatican is a walled city I can't take anything the Catholic church says about immigration seriously.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (+9wcF)

19 Afternoon Ace.
I didn't think we could do worse than Frankie, but I guess I was wrong. Chicago leftists gotta be Chicago leftist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:21 PM (gu0hJ)

20 18 As long as the Vatican is a walled city I can't take anything the Catholic church says about immigration seriously.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (+9wcF)

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It's walled because of an Islamist invasion a few hundred years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:21 PM (Y2NSe)

21 13 Chicago has a lot of explaing to do.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 12:19 PM (rJ48h)

It is the way.

Posted by: Chicago at May 04, 2026 12:21 PM (3iyPp)

22 Find a lie on his citizenship application, denaturalize him, and deport him back to his peaceful and safe home country.

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 12:22 PM (Sy6m/)

23 Should have tried for a trifecta - illegal gay or transgender pedophile.

Reach across those aisles...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 12:22 PM (Sco7b)

24 This is part of the culture war, the Pope is basically daring Trump to deport a bishop, as if that is some huge event. He really wants to pit Roman Catholics against Trump and the Republican Party in general.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (uEYKS)

25 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (y4Ge6)

26 If the Pope continues to push a political agenda here, would that not call into question the Church's tax exempt status?

Posted by: Butch at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (98xTj)

27 This is an act of war.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (AvxYT)

28 My very decentralized denomination is decentralized for a reason.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Protestant 4 Life at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (Wt5PA)

29 I like saying Ex Cathedra, so I'm just going to say that here.

Ex Cathedra!

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

30
But but but he loves the Chicago White Sox!!!
Posted by: tubal

And hot dogs. And tacos.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 12:24 PM (Cqx++)

31 If you use the idiotic phrase “undocumented immigrant”, it tells me you are deeply upset at the fact that, yes, to enter tho United States, a passport is required, and you need to show one to CBP at a PoE.

Deport him.

Cue Nuclear Assault “Hang The Pope”

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 12:24 PM (pY2C3)

32 Let's put a plank in their eye. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Pope Leo at May 04, 2026 12:24 PM (wVcYX)

33 Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish.

Almost heaven ...

Posted by: zombie John Denver at May 04, 2026 12:24 PM (wXgT/)

34 Old and busted: rope-a-dope

New and cool: Pope-a-dope

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (ndZc7)

35 This is part of the culture war, the Pope is basically daring Trump to deport a bishop, as if that is some huge event. He really wants to pit Roman Catholics against Trump and the Republican Party in general.

How? The guy is now a citizen, whether he should be or not.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

36 Organized religion leaves a lot to be desired. Certainly in this case. For decades this has been more of a political position inside the church than a leadership one.

I'm sure some will disagree. *shrugs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (jehhT)

37
Ex Cathedra!
Posted by: Archimedes

You used to be a catheter?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++)

38 Catholics can signal their opposition to Leo's heavy handness by supporting their local parish and school but refusing to support the local bishop's charity drives.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (rJ48h)

39 33 Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish.

Almost heaven ...

Posted by: zombie John Denver at May 04, 2026 12:24 PM (wXgT/)


Dang, son, that was really good!

Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (wLjpr)

40 Pray for the Pope to convert to Christianity.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 12:26 PM (4NO2D)

41 Maybe Dolton Bob could just sell a few gold hats out of the papal collection and PAY those 1,632 overdue Chicago Diocese parking tickets Axelrod has over him, and go back to just tending his flock's spiritual needs.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at May 04, 2026 12:26 PM (Ft5W9)

42
Out: Pope John Paul

In: Pope Ringo

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:26 PM (U6Usv)

43 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership of the denomination.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:26 PM (uEYKS)

44 Rendition him.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:26 PM (AvxYT)

45 Deport his ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 12:27 PM (2WIwB)

46 WV has better education than CA

and i love the taste of Sid's ass

Posted by: Paul at May 04, 2026 12:27 PM (ivU5z)

47 Chicago has a lot of explaing to do.
Posted by: mr tmz

We elected Brandon Johnson. Duhhhhhhh!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:27 PM (ndZc7)

48 This is the shit people were worried about in JFK's time.

Why do these idiots always have to prove the worst voices right...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 04, 2026 12:27 PM (OUMaO)

49 Jupiter Optimus Maximus isn't real.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:27 PM (AvxYT)

50
Out: Pope John Paul

In: Pope Ringo
Posted by: ...

It don't come easy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 12:27 PM (Cqx++)

51 I saw Iron Catheter open for Led Bladder at Norfolk Scope back in '79.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (wVcYX)

52 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership of the denomination.

It's kind of like the divide between professional movie reviewers (except Critical Drinker) and the choices of the movie-going public.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

53 28 My very decentralized denomination is decentralized for a reason.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Protestant 4 Life at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (Wt5PA)

We just joined a PCA church yesterday. What a relief to have exegesis from the pulpit and hymns rather than worshiptainment!!!

Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (wLjpr)

54 Paul has never been to WV and it shows i. Hos stupid conment. It is actually quite beautiful.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (pY2C3)

55 Lil' Papi wants to demonize our President and our laws. He'll never forgive us for breaking up their pedo ring.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (wBaIH)

56 So this bishop became a US citizen in 2006 - twenty years ago...

He's not getting deported.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (iNUL3)

57 43 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership of the denomination.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:26 PM (uEYKS)

I'm no catholic, but I see it as well. There seems to be more sodomy in the Catholic Church than in the British Navy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

58 The Pope is the Kingpin of a large criminal organization and should be afforded the same treatment as any other cartel crook.

Posted by: No Hope In Pope at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (oftw2)

59 54 Paul has never been to WV and it shows i. Hos stupid conment. It is actually quite beautiful.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (pY2C3)

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All I know is that America is a racist, capitalistic, oligarchal dystopia run by an Orange Hitler filled with police who shoot brown people for sport, and for the humanity of all brown people, they should leave to post-racial paradise England for their own safety.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (Y2NSe)

60 Vicar of Christ? More like Dicker of Christ.

Posted by: Amiright or amiright? at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (TbWk/)

61 I thought Commie Pope was bad but this f**king guy; actually manages to be worth because of the personal connection to Obama. Commie and a Dem stooge.

Posted by: Nelly at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (6+ehB)

62 Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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Is Ayala his married name?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (U6Usv)

63 oh. gee. foreign forces trying to f over america.
what. a. surprise.

I'm shocked.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (VyBeY)

64 Undoubtedly there is something hinky in the way he got his citizenship. Go over the paperwork with a fine-toothed comb, find the crooked stuff, and denaturalize, and deport.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (utfVc)

65 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership of the denomination.

Elites of all shapes and sizes seem to share a common defining characteristic in 2026: A complete and total inability to read the room.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (OUMaO)

66
Barely 2% of West Virginia is Hispanic. Barely 1% of the state speaks Spanish.

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

Someone's aiming to fix that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 12:30 PM (n7rxJ)

67 Happy New Week to you, Ace!

Woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 12:30 PM (VyBeY)

68 65 Elites of all shapes and sizes seem to share a common defining characteristic in 2026: A complete and total inability to read the room.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (OUMaO)

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Catholic Charities is seeing a complete erosion of most of its revenue streams all of a sudden.

It's going to have some side-effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:30 PM (Y2NSe)

69 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership of the denomination.

Elites of all shapes and sizes seem to share a common defining characteristic in 2026: A complete and total inability to read the room.

It isn't that they CAN'T read the room, it's that they don't WANT to read the room, because that would make them one of the common clay...you know...morons.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

70 55 Lil' Papi wants to demonize our President and our laws. He'll never forgive us for breaking up their pedo ring.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (wBaIH)

I've seen pdf used as an alternate for saying pedos...wonder if Adobe is down with that?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

71 The Church is Jesus Christ. Not one man. Not any group of men.

It has survived other popes. It will certainly outlast this one.

It’s unfortunate he displays his fallibility in such a public way, by demurring to politic instead of tending the flock.

More people are coming back to church to find the unending love and truth of Jesus Christ. I can tell you first hand most don’t care what the pope says or does. They come to build their relationship with Jesus, in a traditional way according to scripture, not according to some obviously flawed Augustinian prelate

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 12:31 PM (E24OL)

72 The Chicago way runs deep.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:31 PM (c3Uld)

73 All I know is that America is a racist, capitalistic, oligarchal dystopia run by an Orange Hitler filled with police who shoot brown people for sport, and for the humanity of all brown people, they should leave to post-racial paradise England for their own safety.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (Y2NSe)

Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

74 73 All I know is that America is a racist, capitalistic, oligarchal dystopia run by an Orange Hitler filled with police who shoot brown people for sport, and for the humanity of all brown people, they should leave to post-racial paradise England for their own safety.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (Y2NSe)

Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

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Or Denmark.

Sweden's out, now, though. Sweden's gone all nativist and racist with their new citizenship requirements.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (Y2NSe)

75 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership

-

It’s crazy how an organization completely ignores the wishes of its members huh?

- GOP

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (c3Uld)

76 There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Evelio.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (LHPAg)

77 There are no elites. Only rich and poor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (AvxYT)

78 62 Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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Is Ayala his married name?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (U6Usv)

I'm guessing his mother's surname. This is the way they do it south of the border.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

79 Maybe the church should spend more time rendering unto G-d .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (z2aPa)

80 It isn't that they CAN'T read the room, it's that they don't WANT to read the room, because that would make them one of the common clay...you know...morons.

Posted by: Archimedes

Us morons know better than those "smart" folk. And yeah, it occurs to me perhaps they just can't conceive that they're wrong.

They will receive their correction, in due time.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (OUMaO)

81 US Navy just took out 6 Iranian small gunboats. Tell Lloyd's that we got this covered and start moving ships

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (gu0hJ)

82 It’s crazy how an organization completely ignores the wishes of its members huh?

- GOP

I don't answer to the mob.

Posted by: Soon-to-be ex-Senator Cornyn at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

83 It isn't that they CAN'T read the room, it's that they don't WANT to read the room, because that would make them one of the common clay...you know...morons.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

They like rape, pretentiousness, pretentiousness, and rape.

Posted by: Some Johnson guy at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

84 Catholic Charities isn't even run by Catholics.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (AvxYT)

85 undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.
.......

Too bad there was air.

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (UjdFS)

86 Cited in last year's AP article...

"Politically and theologically, young U.S. priests are more likely to identify as conservative or moderate than their clerical elders who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, according to a 2023 report from the Catholic Project at Catholic University."

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (tOcjL)

87 81 US Navy just took out 6 Iranian small gunboats. Tell Lloyd's that we got this covered and start moving ships

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (gu0hJ)

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By "small gunboats" they mean 30 foot boats with engines and a few dudes firing AK's into the air, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (Y2NSe)

88 62 Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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Is Ayala his married name?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (U6Usv)

I'm guessing his mother's surname. This is the way they do it south of the border.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

Ay, caramba!

Posted by: Bart Simpson at May 04, 2026 12:34 PM (wVcYX)

89 They like rape, pretentiousness, pretentiousness, and rape.

You said pretentiousness twice.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

90 A10s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:35 PM (AvxYT)

91 So it looks like my decision to not return to the Church is being reinforced.
Posted by: NR Pax
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I know the feeling, but also feel a powerful moral need to fight the good fight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2026 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

92 @87 yup, probably a few RPGs as well.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:35 PM (gu0hJ)

93 No one cares. The priests never talk about it.
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So, the bishop's (and up) funds were being topped off by federal funds?
But the actual churches are being funded locally?

Government is the Whore of Babylon--it should offend any Christian church to receive government funds.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:35 PM (MtSIY)

94 I found a transcript of a random interview of this guy. A long one.

Would you believe 85% of the interview was about being an illegal. 14.9% was about the treatment of illegals. The remaining 0.1% was about him being a priest and "organizing" people socially, and how Jesus really loved illegals.

What a fucking farce.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:35 PM (U6Usv)

95
As long as the Vatican is a walled city I can't take anything the Catholic church says about immigration seriously.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (+9wcF)



Even if it wasn't a walled city, they're a bunch of Italican, man-dress wearing pedos or pedo-defenders. They need to shut their fucking whore mouths about our internal politics, which is none of their damned business.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 12:35 PM (e4Xc5)

96 undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.
.......


Ah, the old drive-in movie trick!

Posted by: Agent 86 at May 04, 2026 12:36 PM (wVcYX)

97 Looks like Pope Kyle is no better then the Red Pope.

And let's do a quick check of the number of illegals living in the Vatican...

The number is still 0.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)

98 78 62 Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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Is Ayala his married name?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (U6Usv)

I'm guessing his mother's surname. This is the way they do it south of the border.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

AI says his mother is Catalina Ayala de Menjívar. Surname Ayala, married name is the "de Menjivar" appended to the end of her surname...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

99 What of the Swiss Miss Guards?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:36 PM (AvxYT)

100 Our national debt is now over 1,000% higher than it was when Evelio first arrived. Illegal immigration has swelled over 300%. Whole industries have replaced the American-born family man with illegal aliens. The amount of school children who only speak Spanish has doubled since 1990.

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Next you'll be telling me that my initial Social Security and Medicare letters received this year will be printed in both English AND Spanish.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:36 PM (JqXxE)

101 Show me in the Bible where a pope is justified. The position is a creation of man, not God.



Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (TezPK)

102 We just joined a PCA church yesterday. What a relief to have exegesis from the pulpit and hymns rather than worshiptainment!!!
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (wLjpr)

PCA's pretty good for that. The denomination of God's Frozen Chosen might not be "exciting" but the systematic theology and scholarly approach to scriptural interpretation is pretty solid if that's your thing.

Posted by: Same cannot be said of PCUSA at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (TbWk/)

103
There are no elites. Only rich and poor.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Ollie gocks and THE PEOPLE!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (Cqx++)

104 Via Instapundit, reports that the pope is a woke buffoon and leftwing culture warrior have been proven 100% true, by his own actions.

==

Trump sure knows who is who.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (GD0B3)

105 With the money the RCC has it could go turn pretty much all of Latin America into a Euro style welfare state.

But instead they use their money to buy Pope Kyle cool hats.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

106 The vatican needs to be culturally enriched.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (AvxYT)

107 By "small gunboats" they mean 30 foot boats with engines and a few dudes firing AK's into the air, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Innocent fishing boats

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 04, 2026 12:38 PM (EcHpA)

108 Mediaite
@Mediaite
Eric Swalwell Sent Women 'Videos of Him Masturbating' and Other Perverted Messages After Joining Snapchat to Restore 'Faith' in 'Democracy': Report

I wonder if he sent them a magnifying glass as well

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

109 How many priests were documented in the Epstein files?

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 12:38 PM (dIske)

110 US Navy just took out 6 Iranian small gunboats. Tell Lloyd's that we got this covered and start moving ships

==

It Begins!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (GD0B3)

111 Still having a Pontifex Maximus seems pointless.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (AvxYT)

112 People in the 60s: What's the worst that could happen allowing gay priests?

People in 26: Oh, now I see.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

113 What’s that saying, any organization that is not explicitly right wing becomes left wing over time.

Catholic Church is no exception.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (c3Uld)

114 101 Show me in the Bible where a pope is justified. The position is a creation of man, not God.



Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (TezPK)

Matthew 16:13-20.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (tOcjL)

115 I am not a RC so forgive me if this is a stupid question. A RC doesn't preach in the same church every week, yes? I guess he can preach anywhere but he doesn't have a regular position at one church does he? So even if you lived in WV, he wouldn't be your regular priest, correct? So why couldn't you go to church and appreciate taking the Eucharist and then not show up when the Bishop attends?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (Yl2Ob)

116 Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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Is Ayala his married name?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (U6Usv)

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"EMA" is the common Hebrew word for mother.

/Things I learned watching "The Chosen"

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (JqXxE)

117 Follow the money.

I don't know the numbers, but the Catholic church was receiving a shit ton of money to place illegals.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (aZm/F)

118 >Eric Swalwell Sent Women 'Videos of Him Masturbating' and Other Perverted Messages After Joining Snapchat to Restore 'Faith' in 'Democracy': Report

Fucking guy was hiding in plain sight.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (rJ48h)

119 111 Still having a Pontifex Maximus seems pointless.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (AvxYT)

Is it live, or is it Pontifex™?

Posted by: Ah the golden age of commercials at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (TbWk/)

120 How about that.

>>@AmitSegal
·
2m
>>U.S. Central Command commander: We sank six Iranian boats that tried to interfere with our effort to free the ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)

121 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

I was pretty sure he wasn't married.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (U6Usv)

122 Catholics are some 6% of the WV pop; around 100k.

Maybe the pope ought to focus on growing the flock instead of antagonizing the people over politics?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (MtSIY)

123 Speaking of idiot liars . . .

AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (ndZc7)

124 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (Yl2Ob)

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Lots of us do that exact kind of thing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (aZm/F)

125 120 How about that.

>>@AmitSegal
·
2m
>>U.S. Central Command commander: We sank six Iranian boats that tried to interfere with our effort to free the ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)

======

"Saar! I can't move, saar! IRGC says they haven't received the crypto payment yet, saar! My boss will be mad, saar!"
-Indian tanker captain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (Y2NSe)

126 Fucking guy was hiding in plain sight.

When the left started PoundMeToo they assumed Trump was likely any leftwing make.

Turns out that was incorrect.

Also, kudos to Rose McGowan for pointing the movement at Fat Harv

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)

127 Matthew 16:13-20.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (tOcjL)

good argument for the Patriarch of Antioch

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (gKWVE)

128 Cela commence !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (GD0B3)

129 So why couldn't you go to church and appreciate taking the Eucharist and then not show up when the Bishop attends?

That's exactly what I do at my church. The bishops can KMA get no respect from me.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Riz8t)

130 123 Speaking of idiot liars . . .

AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (ndZc7)

=====

She doesn't seem like someone who lets random people touch her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Y2NSe)

131 I think the Vatican should tear down it's walls and allow Muzzies from other countries to enter as freely as they want illegals to enter the United States.

If they don't, they're hypocrites who hate Jesus.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

132 “The amount of school children who only speak Spanish has doubled since 1990.”

Tell me about it. Some Americans think we should be more like Canada, to include having our own little Quebec.

I’d rather the country not resemble it or Belgium.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (pY2C3)

133 115-Meant RC "Bishop"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Yl2Ob)

134 Isn't it great when we make the American Way hating immigrants citizens .

Assimilation is a dirty word to American Hating American born Leftists.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (kxLc1)

135 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Y2NSe)

136 @AmitSegal
·
2m
>>U.S. Central Command commander: We sank six Iranian boats that tried to interfere with our effort to free the ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz.
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countdown to the inevitable cries of "WAR CRIMES!!!" when it's followed up, "of course we didn't try to rescue the survivors--there were only parts and pieces left of them."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (MtSIY)

137 AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’

Taxes are my biggest expense.

In return I get shitty roads, shitty schools, and shitty mismanagement of healthcare.

But I'm sure if I just let them take another 20% of my income they'll fix all that instead of just stealing it like the rest.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

138 There's nothing prophetic here, but it's all shamefully political.

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I'm sure Cheap Justice Benedict Roberts would excoriate you for daring to insinuate that there are political Popes and Bishops -- just as there are no political Judges or Justices.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (JqXxE)

139 I think the Vatican should tear down it's walls and allow Muzzies from other countries to enter as freely as they want illegals to enter the United States.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

Curiously, the Vatican only has walls in the first place because of the Muzzies...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (iNUL3)

140 The new week started yesterday.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (ZVgZ4)

141 AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (ndZc7)

I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $800 Alex

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (c3Uld)

142 AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’

AOC gets a Nobel in physics is more likely.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (Riz8t)

143 130 123 Speaking of idiot liars . . .

AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (ndZc7)

=====

She doesn't seem like someone who lets random people touch her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Y2NSe)

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...

Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

144 What’s that saying, any organization that is not explicitly right wing becomes left wing over time.

Catholic Church is no exception.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (c3Uld)

Even the explicitly right wing ones do.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (U6Usv)

145 @Mediaite
Eric Swalwell Sent Women 'Videos of Him Masturbating' and Other Perverted Messages After Joining Snapchat to Restore 'Faith' in 'Democracy'

I didn't vote for this.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (gKWVE)

146 In my neck of the Catholic woods, our bishop only communicates in our general direction when he wants money. Heck, I'm sure a significant portion of our congregation doesn't even know who our bishop is.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (DgMqy)

147 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?

Does she have a Black Sun tattoo on her ass?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

148 Leo HAS to have a connection to Barky.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at May 04, 2026 12:43 PM (P+ul4)

149 Like James Bond or Remington Steele.

Mediaite
@Mediaite
Eric Swalwell Sent Women 'Videos of Him Masturbating' and Other Perverted Messages After Joining Snapchat to Restore 'Faith' in 'Democracy': Report

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:43 PM (ndZc7)

150 147 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?

Does she have a Black Sun tattoo on her ass?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

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Actual Nazi tattoos don't matter when the opposition candidate supports Nazi things like immigration enforcement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:43 PM (Y2NSe)

151 AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’
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I'll take things you made up because all leftists do is lie for nothing Alex

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:43 PM (U6Usv)

152 133 115-Meant RC "Bishop"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Yl2Ob)

Do they only drink RC Cola?

Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at May 04, 2026 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

153 "Mr. Pope Leo, Tear down this Wall !!"

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 12:43 PM (GD0B3)

154 Tell me about it. Some Americans think we should be more like Canada, to include having our own little Quebec.

I’d rather the country not resemble it or Belgium.


What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: The former Yugoslavia at May 04, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

155

They're obviously trying the same bullshit that they were successful in doing in Europe, fucking things up everywhere.

Where is this mincy little faggot pope talking about white people having large families.

Wonder why no one talks about that.

Surely they aren't trying to eradicate white people.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at May 04, 2026 12:44 PM (et1vG)

156
I don't like it, but nobody asked for my opinion before doing it.

If you're a Catholic, it's pointless and damaging to concern yourself with this stuff. Doctrine, all appearances aside, doesn't change that much. Read your Baltimore Catechism and try to live your life accordingly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 12:44 PM (HdYcL)

157 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?

—

Every Republican is a Nazi so yeah obviously.
- msm

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:44 PM (c3Uld)

158 Matthew 16:13-20.
Posted by: Nova Local

Okay that covers Peter, but I don't see any mention of "the rock" being a permanent position to be handed down.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 12:44 PM (TezPK)

159
Swalwell has "I know you want to watch me jerk myself off" written all over him.

I mean this is maybe the least surprising thing since this morning's sunrise.

No offense to anyone here.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:45 PM (U6Usv)

160 Girl power!

https://tinyurl.com/5d3vzb38

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:45 PM (ndZc7)

161 Leo HAS to have a connection to Barky.
Posted by: Question Authority

Axelrod.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

162 102 We just joined a PCA church yesterday. What a relief to have exegesis from the pulpit and hymns rather than worshiptainment!!!
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 12:28 PM (wLjpr)

PCA's pretty good for that. The denomination of God's Frozen Chosen might not be "exciting" but the systematic theology and scholarly approach to scriptural interpretation is pretty solid if that's your thing.
Posted by: Same cannot be said of PCUSA at May 04, 2026 12:37 PM (TbWk/)
Aye.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg)

163 Has any woman in the history of womanhood been turned on by a dude pleasuring himself?

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (c3Uld)

164 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?


A repeat from the Art Thread:

The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner.

It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years.

It's a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.

https://is.gd/jmc7k4

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

165 Good point about WV only being 6% RC. Imagine being a broke-ass Appalachian living in a leaky home. You might need some friends and community. And along comes this insufferable bishop telling you you have "privilege" and to get in line behind 500 million poor people from somewhere else.
He's going to conclude that Catholicism is a religion for everyone else but him. Big club. He's not in it.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

166 > By "small gunboats" they mean 30 foot boats with engines and a few dudes firing AK's into the air, right?
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I think the "small gunboats" are like the riverine boat used in the movie Apocalypse Now. .50's on the front and back. And, yeah, a couple dudes with AK's and one with a RPG.

They target the bridge of the commercial ships.

There's videos on YouTube of some encounters with Somali pirates in the Red Sea using these tactics. The videos that have armed security onboard the ships are especially entertaining.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (jehhT)

167 She doesn't seem like someone who lets random people touch her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:41 PM (Y2NSe)

Au contraire....

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (U6Usv)

168 ... all the while never allowing the illegals in Martha's Vineyard where their primetime hosts spend their summers.

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Two of the most dangerous places on the planet turn out to be:
. working as a "chef" in Martha's Vineyard for the Obamas; and
. working as a "housekeeper" in the DC Residence of the Obamas.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (JqXxE)

169 Doesn't this stupid stunt from the stupid Pope prove Trump right once again?

The Pope's actions are political, not sound theology and that's why Trump was irritated.

Plus, any idiot could see the Pope's comments + the 60 Minutes ridiculousness, plus the Pope meeting with Axelrod had "political hit" written all over its dirty fucking face.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (aZm/F)

170 Cromwell and Martin Luther did nothing wrong.

Posted by: sven at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (Int1s)

171 107 By "small gunboats" they mean 30 foot boats with engines and a few dudes firing AK's into the air, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Innocent fishing boats
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 04, 2026 12:38 PM (EcHpA)

Many, maybe most, of the "small boats" which are fiberglass hulled, have one or two anti-ship missiles mounted on them. Iran's strategy was to send several out at once, have them race around at high speed, dump their missiles and race back to cover.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (rGqqI)

172 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?

The bizarre thing to me is that this scumbag has me actually supporting Susan Collins. As awful as she is, at least she never openly claimed to be a Nazi.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (uEYKS)

173 The See was angry that day, my friends!

Where's George Costanza?

Posted by: Rex B at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (rgnea)

174 166 I think the "small gunboats" are like the riverine boat used in the movie Apocalypse Now. .50's on the front and back. And, yeah, a couple dudes with AK's and one with a RPG.

They target the bridge of the commercial ships.

There's videos on YouTube of some encounters with Somali pirates in the Red Sea using these tactics. The videos that have armed security onboard the ships are especially entertaining.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (jehhT)

=====

The video from a week or so ago of the IRGC taking a cargo tanker showed their gunboat.

There was no mounted gun. It was literally a small yacht.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (Y2NSe)

175 It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years.

Remember when the FNM went gonzo over some kid having "NAZI hair" a few years ago?

Turns out the kid had chemo and had few hair choices as his hair came back in.

But they treat an adult Senate candidate with kid gloves in comparison...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

176 AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism see my tits.’

Posted by: wth at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (UjdFS)

177 Matthew 16:13-20.

That can be interpreted a number of ways. I doubt Jesus was talking about a physical church and organized religion based on everything else in the New Testament. Of course that's just my personal opinion.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (kxLc1)

178 >>> Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump's treatment of immigrants.


What? Trump not taxing our own people to give free shit to aliens. Not taking food from our own babies to give to others?

Fuck this bishop. He should get booted for being an alien agitator.

Posted by: Operator Error at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (dJ8F3)

179 I'd think Catholics are also a small minority in WV, but I don't doubt that Pope Bob hopes to use it as a opening to entice more illegals to settle in that state.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (cWLG3)

180 163 Has any woman in the history of womanhood been turned on by a dude pleasuring himself?

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:46 PM (c3Uld)

Michelle Obama?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (ynpvh)

181 The See was angry that day, my friends!


Haha Yessssss.

Posted by: Ed McMahon at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (4NO2D)

182 Gotta give Trump credit.
Has any other President ever gone to war with the Pope AND the Ayatollah at the same time?

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (MNCvZ)

183 >> 65 There seems to be a significant divide between American Roman Catholics and the leadership of the denomination.

> Elites of all shapes and sizes seem to share a common defining characteristic in 2026: A complete and total inability to read the room.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (OUMaO)

The Worldies are a proto-neo-ethnicity -- which is Morissettean ironic, since they fancy themselves above such things. From all over the world, they all send their kids to the same English-language schools, where they are indoctrinated in the same Social Justice cult and go on to marry only each other. It's early days yet, but ever since the invention of the jet airliner, the process has been inevitable.

And they're supremacists, too, for their proto-neo-ethnicity. So, even when they accidentally encounter an opinion from an unhyphenated national, they immediately discount and disregard it.

Posted by: SciVo at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (Sy6m/)

184 >>U.S. Central Command commander: We sank six Iranian boats that tried to interfere with our effort to free the ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)
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I need to ask our building committee whether the shelter is ready for visitors again.

Open Source Intel @Osint613
6m

Confirmed. Iran targeted U.S. Navy ships…

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (D0X9e)

185 171 Many, maybe most, of the "small boats" which are fiberglass hulled, have one or two anti-ship missiles mounted on them. Iran's strategy was to send several out at once, have them race around at high speed, dump their missiles and race back to cover.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (rGqqI)

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*watches while laughing from several miles away*
-modern US Navy tracking capabilities

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (Y2NSe)

186 Speaking of idiot liars . . .

AOC: ‘Trump voters are pulling me aside and saying they want to join democratic socialism.’
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Reminds me, David French gave a long interview to some leftie podcast.
Used his adopted child as a prop. Because, of course he would.
Some story how in Memphis she and her friends were almost run down and called racist names by some guys in a pick up truck.

the conservative response, "yeah that never, ever happened"
The lefties are all, "you are and always will be conservative scum, having a black daughter will never absolve you of being a racist."

LOL, it's hard out there for a grifter and his grifter wife.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (MtSIY)

187 Girl power!

https://tinyurl.com/5d3vzb38

This may not be the career for her.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

188 172 Did you know that Susan Collins is the real Nazi in the Maine Senate race?

The bizarre thing to me is that this scumbag has me actually supporting Susan Collins. As awful as she is, at least she never openly claimed to be a Nazi.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:47 PM (uEYKS)

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She hasn't even started her campaign against him yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (Y2NSe)

189 I would like to see pretty much every R candidate get a video of Platner's tat in one of their campaign ads.

Remember in '06 when the whole campaign became about out GOP house candidate flirting with male interns? Let's make this one about NAZI Dems...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (sKqQm)

190 There should be no international borders and national coastlines that restrict the free movement of people!

Excepting the national borders and coastline of Iran, which must never be violated by Yankee Air Pirates ordered to do so by Trump!

Posted by: I'm Pope Leo and You're Not!!! Amen! at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (5rh/l)

191 Ha! My new hash anagram is anger. Fitting for the Seinfeld reference.

Posted by: Rex B at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (rgnea)

192 115 I am not a RC so forgive me if this is a stupid question. A RC doesn't preach in the same church every week, yes? I guess he can preach anywhere but he doesn't have a regular position at one church does he? So even if you lived in WV, he wouldn't be your regular priest, correct? So why couldn't you go to church and appreciate taking the Eucharist and then not show up when the Bishop attends?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (Yl2Ob

In my part of Canada, at my late Mother's RC church, the priest handled several churches in the area because of a priest shortage. So, on guy doing the masses at several of the same churches.

We have African priests now. Or from elsewhere.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (Sco7b)

193 179 I'd think Catholics are also a small minority in WV, but I don't doubt that Pope Bob hopes to use it as a opening to entice more illegals to settle in that state.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (cWLG3)

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Illegals are drawn to benefits.

They go to California where they get free MediCAL coverage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:50 PM (Y2NSe)

194 Chicago has a lot of explaing to do.

I heard Chicago is MAGA country. Some French actor said so.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

195 @191 SERENITY NOW!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 12:50 PM (cWLG3)

196 My boat is not small.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at May 04, 2026 12:50 PM (wVcYX)

197 186 the conservative response, "yeah that never, ever happened"
The lefties are all, "you are and always will be conservative scum, having a black daughter will never absolve you of being a racist."

LOL, it's hard out there for a grifter and his grifter wife.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (MtSIY)

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All those arch-conservatives in Memphis calling the black girl names because they've never seen a black person before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (Y2NSe)

198 I respect everyone’s religious beliefs, and appreciate our Catholic horde members. Personally, this reminds me of when our pastor points out religion vs. gospel and I am so grateful to him noting which is most important.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (Wmg4n)

199 Is French the one with the confederate flag on the cooler?

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (c3Uld)

200 184 >>U.S. Central Command commander: We sank six Iranian boats that tried to interfere with our effort to free the ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)
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Things are getting spicy out there.

Posted by: WisRich at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (G0vdT)

201 Did Pope Leo recently receive some large donations from prominent Democrats? What is the price for an illegal alien bishop appointment?

Or did Leo just do it on his own as a purely partisan act? Did Leo become leftist in Chicago, or in Peru?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (vbXSk)

202 182 Gotta give Trump credit.
Has any other President ever gone to war with the Pope AND the Ayatollah at the same time?
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 04, 2026 12:48 PM (MNCvZ)

I woulda, but the Muslims weren't making my love life an issue ...

Posted by: zombie Henry VIII at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (3sXRv)

203 This may not be the career for her.

Did you see the footage of those three "secret service" women at the hotel when the assassin went after Trump? I had to check repeatedly to see if it was freaking AI. All three cringed, screamed, and fell all over each other trying to run away.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (uEYKS)

204 Serenity!

Posted by: Rex B at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (rgnea)

205 BTW if the left was correct about illegals coming here to work, why don't we have a million fewer people with jobs after Trump deported 2M+ illegals?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

206 Matthew 16:13-20

That is the thinnest of the thinnest gruel upon which to claim that the massive religious bureaucracy and hierarchy of the Catholic Church was ordained in that moment, or that a permanent position of supreme leader of the church was created to be filled serially by heretics, nepots, degenerates, South American socialists, and the occasional actual Christian following Catholic dogma. It's a manmade institution based on a couple of verses subject to differing interpretation.

Posted by: Just not buying it at May 04, 2026 12:52 PM (TbWk/)

207 So, since we are past 100, what do you good people think about Palantir? I just read this thing here:
https://tinyurl.com/28kvp5xc (takes you to Dean Bundell's substack page), and I have the same concerns that he does for the most part, that Palantir is building the control grid for us, basically.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 12:52 PM (rzCjW)

208 I respect everyone’s religious beliefs, and appreciate our Catholic horde members.

One of the first things we'll all figure out kingdom come is how wrong we all were. I don't care much for the Roman Catholic leadership though. People don't get to that level of power and position by being good Christians and they seem very, very leftist.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (uEYKS)

209 201 Did Pope Leo recently receive some large donations from prominent Democrats? What is the price for an illegal alien bishop appointment?

Or did Leo just do it on his own as a purely partisan act? Did Leo become leftist in Chicago, or in Peru?
Posted by: illiniwek at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (vbXSk)

He had a closeted meeting with... was that Axelrod? Before the spate of recent moves. It's all manufactured, lame and gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)

210 I would like to see pretty much every R candidate get a video of Platner's tat in one of their campaign ads.

Remember in '06 when the whole campaign became about out GOP house candidate flirting with male interns? Let's make this one about NAZI Dems...

The election is no longer about Collins in Maine; it's a given she'll win. This is an opportunity for the GOP to make hay nationally.

"They call us Nazis, and then they ALL support this guy!"

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

211 117 Follow the money.

I don't know the numbers, but the Catholic church was receiving a shit ton of money to place illegals.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (aZm/F)
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I read that they ended up having to terminate over 75% of their "foreign goodwill" workers when USAID met it's end. The Catholic Church was using US taxpayer money to promote their own benovolence implying that is was a purely charitable endeavor(s), when it fact it was a forced charitable endeavor initiated with Americans paying taxes and never receiving due credit for these deeds.

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (dIske)

212 if the left was correct about illegals coming here to work, why don't we have a million fewer people with jobs after Trump deported 2M+ illegals?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

The explanation from the left is deporting illegals has caused a recession and millions of Americans have lost their jobs as well.

Yes this is how they think.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (c3Uld)

213 As a Roman Catholic West Virginian, this news made my day! Alleluia! ✝️❤️ I'm 100% here for the Pope trolling Trump.

A former illegal immigrant seems a rather interesting choice for a state that's overwhelmingly white and MAGA. I wonder if the Pope did that deliberately.

Sounds like the Pope is doing proper Pope things by giving us the medicine we need. "Bishop-designate Evelio Menjivar-Ayala speaks of the Christian values of caring for those in need, in opposition to President Trump's own xenophobic and racist rhetoric."

Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.Hes a human, child of god and now the bishop of West Virginia.

Yeah, we see Christian nationalist evangelicals in the US embracing and praising serial lawbreakers, cheats, and generally bad people. Pope Leo is a refreshing change of pace from that outright hostility to what is good and just.

So now we have to watch Roman Catholicism fight Christian Nationalism. I thank the pope for using his influence to undermine the current regime but it would be nice if we could put all the mythology away.

West Virginia will remain red as long as Obama remains black.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (ycI94)

214 192 115 I am not a RC so forgive me if this is a stupid question. A RC doesn't preach in the same church every week, yes? I guess he can preach anywhere but he doesn't have a regular position at one church does he? So even if you lived in WV, he wouldn't be your regular priest, correct? So why couldn't you go to church and appreciate taking the Eucharist and then not show up when the Bishop attends?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (Yl2Ob

A bishop has a public schedule where he will say Mass. Since he's in charge of the entire diocese, he tends to rotate the locations he says Mass each week, although he tends to say them most often at a Cathedral (if the diocese has one and he normally lives near that Cathedral).

A priest is assigned to a specific Church, and will say Masses just for that Church. Normally, in a healthy diocese, each Church will have 2-3 priests rotating the 5-6 Masses said on a weekend and the 2 daily Masses every weekday. In a less healthy or very small diocese, you might just have 1 priest per Church or even shared between 2 Churches. Then you have a reduced Mass schedule offered.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (tOcjL)

215 Speaking of West Virginia and the Left's retarded cognitive dissonance I present Grand Kleagle and Lion of the Senate , Robert Byrd.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (kxLc1)

216 201 Did Pope Leo recently receive some large donations from prominent Democrats? What is the price for an illegal alien bishop appointment?

Or did Leo just do it on his own as a purely partisan act? Did Leo become leftist in Chicago, or in Peru?
Posted by: illiniwek at May 04,

Probably both places, and it seems to me this Pope is struggling mightily with being human - it’s manifesting in “ no one is going to tell me what to do”.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (Wmg4n)

217 if the left was correct about illegals coming here to work, why don't we have a million fewer people with jobs after Trump deported 2M+ illegals?

between that and the 100k+ federal job reductions, one would expect job numbers to be horrendous. Yet somehow they are doing well. If it wasn't for those pressures, I think we'd see incredible numbers like last time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (uEYKS)

218 163 Has any woman in the history of womanhood been turned on by a dude pleasuring himself?
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Seriously?

Posted by: David French at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)

219 210 The election is no longer about Collins in Maine; it's a given she'll win. This is an opportunity for the GOP to make hay nationally.

"They call us Nazis, and then they ALL support this guy!"

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

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Democrats have kissed any chance to unseat Collins goodbye. Really, they never had a chance, the woman just wins in the state. But the whole, "Democrats are going to take the Senate, and the path to victory starts in Maine," is dead, deader with every passing X from a prominent leftist explaining away a Nazi tattoo.

I can't wait until they realize that Cooper in NC is actually an underdog.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (Y2NSe)

220 I respect everyone’s religious beliefs

Except for the Methodists, right? Right?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

221 Part of being Catholic is separating faith from poor (and sometimes vile) human leaders.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (2ap+5)

222
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:39 PM (Yl2Ob

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Diocesan priests are incardinated to a diocese and only exercise their functions with permission of the bishop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (HdYcL)

223 Just because our Pope is a fucking idiot doesn't mean we need to hear your thoughts on our beliefs.

Protestantism is no less man-made, based on what I'm reading here.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (aZm/F)

224 Did you see the footage of those three "secret service" women at the hotel when the assassin went after Trump? I had to check repeatedly to see if it was freaking AI. All three cringed, screamed, and fell all over each other trying to run away.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:51 PM (uEYKS)
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I don't think they were SS. Either hotel security or local cops. Either way, useless.

Posted by: WisRich at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (G0vdT)

225 ... and how Jesus really loved illegals.

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"EVERYBODY know Jesus himself was an illegal alien, h8r!"

/MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Narrative Engineers

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (JqXxE)

226 The election is no longer about Collins in Maine; it's a given she'll win. This is an opportunity for the GOP to make hay nationally.

"They call us Nazis, and then they ALL support this guy!"

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

They could not possibly care less about charges of hypocrisy. They care about defeating and killing you - that's all.

Anything that moves them closer to that goal is good. Anything that prevents them from achieving that goal is bad.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (iNUL3)

227 213 Yeah, we see Christian nationalist evangelicals in the US embracing and praising serial lawbreakers, cheats, and generally bad people. Pope Leo is a refreshing change of pace from that outright hostility to what is good and just.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (ycI94)

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Are people who cross our borders illegally, take medical care from ERs without any thought of payment, and steal identities also lawbreakers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (Y2NSe)

228 They call us Nazis, and then they ALL support this guy!"

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

You need Trump for it if there is hay to be made. That message won't resonate with normal people. In fact just reminding people that you are called a Nazi is not great "messaging".

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (U6Usv)

229 So now we have to watch Roman Catholicism fight Christian Nationalism.

90% of people who use that term have no idea what it actually means. Its sort of a modern shibboleth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (uEYKS)

230 211: I'd wager Lutheran World Relief was doing the same crap, getting USAID or other grants and importing illegals to become welfare queens.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 04, 2026 12:56 PM (PV+Zw)

231 All those arch-conservatives in Memphis calling the black girl names because they've never seen a black person before.
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Yup.
And condemns the whole state as racist.
For something he completely made up.
Just to try and impress his desired liberal audience.

Sean Davis has a brilliant take-down of that ponce.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:56 PM (MtSIY)

232 Here's an article on the IRGC's "small boats."

https://tinyurl.com/bd6py4dx

They've got several different varieties. And a lot of them. Or, had a lot of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:56 PM (jehhT)

233 The explanation from the left is deporting illegals has caused a recession and millions of Americans have lost their jobs as well.

Yes this is how they think.

I know, but the numbers on this are pretty easy to run.

If 50% of illegals work, and you deported 2M of them, then anything over a one million count job loss means citizens gained jobs in this time.

I tried to find job loss/gain numbers since Trump was inaugurated and oddly their isn't a simple number anywhere - just lefties complaining about FedGov job losses.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

234 Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (Sco7b)

I 've heard of a priest handling masses at several church. I haven't heard of a Bishop regularly filing in at one church. Bishops in other denominations show up when invited and do special events and do a lot of writing on various issues. You don't see them regularly unless you are being ordained so if WV has a small Roman Catholic population and already has priests it seems like he wouldn't show up that often.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (2sfNr)

235 Creepy Leo (nee Bob) is same old from Chicago.

Someone please explain to me how an entire Continent, blessed with almost infinite resources, is still a bunch of needy losers. Roman Catholics overwhelming majority of residents.

Grow some more ignorant, poverty-stricken cannon fodder. They'll vote and demonstrate the 'Chicago Way'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (2OYwF)

236 I don't think they were SS. Either hotel security or local cops. Either way, useless.

Might have been yeah. Utterly worthless, all out of shape. In fact, worse than useless, because they made things worse by panicking.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (uEYKS)

237 Except for the Methodists, right? Right?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

They're useful if you need a band of unsavory types to inflict violence on small towns, along with mugs, pugs, thugs, dimwits, nitwits, halfwits, bushwhackers, sidewinders, hornswogglers, vipers, snipers, and bulldykes.

Posted by: Building synergies at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

238 225 ... and how Jesus really loved illegals.

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"EVERYBODY know Jesus himself was an illegal alien, h8r!"

/MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Narrative Engineers

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (JqXxE)

Given that King Herod wanted him dead, his entry into Egypt was a real asylum case, not the fake ones we mostly see here in the US.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

239 I know we have faithful Catholics among the commenters. All I will say is, the Pope should stay in his lane- which, I understand, is ministering to the faithful and spreading the Gospel.

Leave politics to the real assholes.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (ZxPkt)

240 They could not possibly care less about charges of hypocrisy. They care about defeating and killing you - that's all.

Anything that moves them closer to that goal is good. Anything that prevents them from achieving that goal is bad.

Sure, but the point is that I doubt very much this will help them. It makes them look like the power mad, lying, disingenuous lunatics they are. That is not a good look, even for Dems.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

241 This guy was literally installed to be the anti-Trump. Glad I left the the RC church and joined the reformed faith after Bergoglio was installed.

Posted by: Williebrownsmattress at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (NXvyB)

242 Susan Collins is the real Nazi in Maine? Well she does have that head tremor like Adolf did at the end so...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (gu0hJ)

243 "EVERYBODY know Jesus himself was an illegal alien, h8r!"

/MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Narrative Engineers

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:55 PM (JqXxE)

Well. Not quite.

Jesus was only born in Bethlehem because his parents were forced (on pain of death) by the Government to return to their hometown to be taxed.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (iNUL3)

244 Given that King Herod wanted him dead, his entry into Egypt was a real asylum case, not the fake ones we mostly see here in the US.

Pretty sure that was just King Herod protecting the environment and helping Jewish women practice freedom of choice

Posted by: Some feminist at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

245 I'd wager Lutheran World Relief was doing the same crap, getting USAID or other grants and importing illegals to become welfare queens.

You can bank on Presbyterian organizations doing the same. Probably other faiths like Mormons doing it as well. It was big money and easy for well-meaning but foolish people to feel like they were Doing Good

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (uEYKS)

246 Can't wait for Bishop Maryland Man

Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (BGygK)

247 Democrats have kissed any chance to unseat Collins goodbye. Really, they never had a chance, the woman just wins in the state. But the whole, "Democrats are going to take the Senate, and the path to victory starts in Maine," is dead, deader with every passing X from a prominent leftist explaining away a Nazi tattoo.
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It's crazy how far they're going in defending proudly--until 6 months ago--sporting a Nazi tattoo.

By the end of July, they'll be explaining how Nazism was actually a good idea until Hitler ruined it, at the rate they're going.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (MtSIY)

248 Most politicians and political movers out of Chicago are the worst fucking people on earth. To include this Pope.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (aZm/F)

249 244 Given that King Herod wanted him dead, his entry into Egypt was a real asylum case, not the fake ones we mostly see here in the US.

Pretty sure that was just King Herod protecting the environment and helping Jewish women practice freedom of choice

Posted by: Some feminist at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

Their bodies, Herod's choice...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

250 As a Roman Catholic West Virginian, this news made my day! Alleluia! ✝️❤️ I'm 100% here for the Pope trolling Trump.

Well this particular Catholic sure understands the concept on Earth as it is in Heaven. *eyeroll*

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (Wmg4n)

251 West Virginia will remain red as long as Obama remains black.

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So you're saying West Virginia will remain half-red?

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Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (JqXxE)

252 Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future
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Is it a surprise that the person responsible for this quote was a kiddy fiddler.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (U6Usv)

253 240 Sure, but the point is that I doubt very much this will help them. It makes them look like the power mad, lying, disingenuous lunatics they are. That is not a good look, even for Dems.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

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Collins won in 2020, very bad Republican year (complete with a whole host of fraud), against a non-name by 8 points.

I think she's got a good chance in 2026 (lower fraud than 2020, with an antagonistic to Democrats DOJ watching) against dumbass former merc with an SS tattoo that he still hasn't actually covered up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (Y2NSe)

254 As a Roman Catholic West Virginian, this news made my day! Alleluia! ✝️❤️ I'm 100% here for the Pope trolling Trump.

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Blessed are the trolls for they shall win the internet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (ndZc7)

255 You need Trump for it if there is hay to be made. That message won't resonate with normal people. In fact just reminding people that you are called a Nazi is not great "messaging".

He would definitely help, but there are plenty of others who can help as well.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

256 Interesting article linked on the MR this morning about the Theosophists. Wing nuts, but, sadly, very influential wing nuts.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

257 251 West Virginia will remain red as long as Obama remains black.

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So you're saying West Virginia will remain half-red?

/

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (JqXxE)

Less than that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:00 PM (ynpvh)

258 If the predictions that AGI models will eliminate millions of jobs are accurate, then why the concern for low birth rates and a declining population?

Posted by: Oglebay at May 04, 2026 01:00 PM (2ap+5)

259 247 It's crazy how far they're going in defending proudly--until 6 months ago--sporting a Nazi tattoo.

By the end of July, they'll be explaining how Nazism was actually a good idea until Hitler ruined it, at the rate they're going.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (MtSIY)

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Their affectation with Jew Haters is going to lead us to, "Nazis were the good guys, and you can't vote for Republicans because they're Nazis."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:00 PM (Y2NSe)

260 It's crazy how far they're going in defending proudly--until 6 months ago--sporting a Nazi tattoo.

By the end of July, they'll be explaining how Nazism was actually a good idea until Hitler ruined it, at the rate they're going.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (MtSIY)

Point of fact - he's still got the tattoo. He hasn't covered it. He's just said he's going to.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (iNUL3)

261 Someone vandalized my church building late last week. They smashed lights, sprayed fire extinguishers, trashed the nursery, and spray-painted vulgar phrases everywhere.

We had to meet in a different building on Sunday.

Very upsetting.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (mkw2N)

262 260 Point of fact - he's still got the tattoo. He hasn't covered it. He's just said he's going to.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (iNUL3)

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He said more recently that he won't do that. He keeps going onto podcasts hosted by actual Jew haters and saying it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (Y2NSe)

263 They could not possibly care less about charges of hypocrisy.

Correct, hypocrisy means nothing to the left. Firstly, they have no integrity or honor to be offended or have shame about.

Second, the goal is not truth or to convince, its to conquer, to destroy. They are trying to bring down the culture and replace it, and to them it doesn't matter how you do it, only the end goal matters. It is so noble and heroic that it sanctifies any method they use.

Third, good and evil are rejected as outmode, oppressive concepts created by white males. Truth is what you make it, morality is simply that which accomplishes their ends.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (uEYKS)

264 Given that King Herod wanted him dead, his entry into Egypt was a real asylum case, not the fake ones we mostly see here in the US.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

Everybody was part of One Big Happy Roman Empire at the time, and they were ordered to be Happy about it, on pain of death.

Historical trivia - Mary and Joseph almost certainly went to Alexandria, which had the largest Jewish population at the time of any city outside of Jerusalem.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (rGqqI)

265 245 I'd wager Lutheran World Relief was doing the same crap, getting USAID or other grants and importing illegals to become welfare queens.

You can bank on Presbyterian organizations doing the same. Probably other faiths like Mormons doing it as well. It was big money and easy for well-meaning but foolish people to feel like they were Doing Good
_-_
Then there's HIAS.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (rzCjW)

266 Pope Leo's pick to be bishop of West Virginia is a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.

Was it a Buick?

Posted by: Rex B at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (rgnea)

267 I've long said we're not far from Dems straight up defending or promoting Nazis - not only because they've done it in the past but because they have to keep it moving. I'd put the timeline at 5 to 10 years.

Maybe we'll get some "Real Naziism has never been tried".

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (U6Usv)

268 The funniest thing about Platner losing Maine is going to be the Democrat Party's reaction.

"We gave you a white guy, fake populist, who loves Nazis. You know...another Trump. Why aren't white men coming back?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (Y2NSe)

269 He said more recently that he won't do that. He keeps going onto podcasts hosted by actual Jew haters and saying it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (Y2NSe)

They're gonna ride him all the way into the mountain...

I'm actually not even that surprised - what consequences will he ever bear? Losing to Collins? No. This is nationalizing him. He'll be on the presidential primary stage next time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:03 PM (iNUL3)

270 Most politicians and political movers out of Chicago are the worst fucking people on earth. To include this Pope.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 12:59 PM (aZm/F)

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"Miss me yet?"

-- Lori Lightfoot, starring in the upcoming sequel "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice"

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:03 PM (JqXxE)

271 Waste not, want not, ladies.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at May 04, 2026 01:03 PM (wVcYX)

272 Third, good and evil are rejected as outmode, oppressive concepts created by white males. Truth is what you make it, morality is simply that which accomplishes their ends.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (uEYKS)

And yet they somehow believe they are always right and you are always wrong.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:03 PM (U6Usv)

273 221 Part of being Catholic is separating faith from poor (and sometimes vile) human leaders.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 04, 2026

This isn’t limited to just Catholics, if that helps.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:03 PM (Wmg4n)

274 The funniest thing about Platner losing Maine is going to be the Democrat Party's reaction.

"We gave you a white guy, fake populist, who loves Nazis. You know...another Trump. Why aren't white men coming back?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:02 PM (Y2NSe)

And also, the election was stolen.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (iNUL3)

275 Platner keeps talking about the fact that he has Jewish relatives and a Jewish half brother. " I've always liked Jews", says the guy with a SS tattoo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (gu0hJ)

276 Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (mkw2N)

I'm so sorry to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (2sfNr)

277 Is it a surprise that the person responsible for this quote was a kiddy fiddler.

Its not that they are wrong here, its that they are incredibly selective about how they apply the principle.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (uEYKS)

278 My favorite defense of wearing a Nazi tattoo is the one where they're claiming it was originally used by some Austrian calvary regiment long before WWII.

yes, maybe.

by that measure, the swastika is an acceptable tattoo.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (MtSIY)

279 269 I'm actually not even that surprised - what consequences will he ever bear? Losing to Collins? No. This is nationalizing him. He'll be on the presidential primary stage next time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:03 PM (iNUL3)

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Well, he's rich like Beto.

So, he's gonna go the Beto route.

The problem is that Beto came kind of close to Cruz in his first race and had something like an argument that he could win the presidential primary...which he lost badly, and then governorship, which he lost badly.

Platner's going to start by losing badly.

They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas, just pave the way forward for the further blackening of the Democrat Party at the highest levels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (Y2NSe)

280 Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:01 PM (mkw2N)

Bastards.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (U6Usv)

281 This is a purely political appointment by a woke pope trying to shoehorn his open borders agenda into a state Trump has won by 40 points three times.

Or it's Operation Warp Speed

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (iFEms)

282 278 My favorite defense of wearing a Nazi tattoo is the one where they're claiming it was originally used by some Austrian calvary regiment long before WWII.

yes, maybe.

by that measure, the swastika is an acceptable tattoo.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (MtSIY)

Only if you mirror it...

Posted by: The Hindus at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

283 by that measure, the swastika is an acceptable tattoo.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (MtSIY)

You think they wouldn't defend that too? Of course they would.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (U6Usv)

284 They're gonna ride him all the way into the mountain...

Barney Frank: WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!!

Today's Dems: Naaaaahhhhhh. It'll be fine.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

285

A driver plowed into people in the center of the German city of Leipzig on Monday, leaving two people dead, authorities said.

The city's fire service director, Axel Schuh, said that another two people were seriously injured and taken to hospitals. He said that about 20 additional people were “affected,” without offering details.

Much about the incident remained unclear.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (Cqx++)

286 261 Someone vandalized my church building late last week. They smashed lights, sprayed fire extinguishers, trashed the nursery, and spray-painted vulgar phrases everywhere.

We had to meet in a different building on Sunday.

Very upsetting.
Posted by: bonhomme at

I am so sorry. It’s hard to pray for people who would do such a thing, yet they are the ones in need of Jesus the most.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (Wmg4n)

287 Second, the goal is not truth or to convince, its to conquer, to destroy. They are trying to bring down the culture and replace it, and to them it doesn't matter how you do it, only the end goal matters. It is so noble and heroic that it sanctifies any method they use.

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"Viva La Revolución, Comrades!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (JqXxE)

288 278 My favorite defense of wearing a Nazi tattoo is the one where they're claiming it was originally used by some Austrian calvary regiment long before WWII.

yes, maybe.

by that measure, the swastika is an acceptable tattoo.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (MtSIY)

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"I'm just a dedicated Buddhist."
-guy with Nazi paraphernalia all over his house

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (Y2NSe)

289 284 They're gonna ride him all the way into the mountain...

Barney Frank: WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!!

Today's Dems: Naaaaahhhhhh. It'll be fine.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

That's so Brokeback...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (ynpvh)

290
They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas

__________

The Reverend Jim Talarico Jones

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (HdYcL)

291 The left in America today is made of people operating at various levels of insanity.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (aZm/F)

292 They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas, just pave the way forward for the further blackening of the Democrat Party at the highest levels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (Y2NSe)

But with the recent SCOTUS decision, that's a sure-loser too.

But when 90% of your most reliable voters (who make up like half of your party) demands you do something...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (iNUL3)

293 They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas, just pave the way forward for the further blackening of the Democrat Party at the highest levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (Y2NSe)

What still gripes me about Beto is that I knew a couple (supposedly) Republican middle aged women who said they were voting for Beto because he was just so dreamy, and because Ted Cruz was a big meany.

Beto reminded them of the skater dude back in college that they always had a crush on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (rGqqI)

294 Grok, is the Catholic Church losing parishioners ?

"the Catholic Church is losing parishioners, with approximately 300,000 to 350,000 people leaving annually in the U.S. Only about 17% of U.S. Catholics attend Mass weekly, indicating a significant decline in participation"

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (GD0B3)

295 How did this guy become a US citizen? Don't you at least have to be a legal resident to even begin to qualify for naturalization?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (xAP/Y)

296 Very upsetting.
Posted by: bonhomme

That's terrible. I am so sorry.
Are cops looking into it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (re0Ak)

297 Barney Frank: WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!!

Today's Dems: Naaaaahhhhhh. It'll be fine.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

That's so Brokeback...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (ynpvh)

I didn't know Frank had radalt...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (iNUL3)

298 Are people who cross our borders illegally, take medical care from ERs without any thought of payment, and steal identities also lawbreakers?
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Blessed are the lawbreakers, and woe to he who hath denied even the smallest copper of welfare entitlements to the least of these.
- 2 Leo, New(er) Testament

Posted by: David French at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (Dv3i1)

299 They're gonna ride him all the way into the mountain

Consider their track record.
-They got a DA elected who said on tape that he wanted to kill a man and his entire family for disagreeing with him politically.
-They got a governor elected who said that she hated the state she now governs.
-They got a former Klan leader considered the "conscience of the Senate"
-They got a racist child molester into the presidency.
-They got a man who murdered his date and hid in a bar called the "Lion of the Senate"

And that's just a few highlights of the DNC

Why would they NOT try elect a Nazi to the Democrat Party in the Senate?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (uEYKS)

300 Well, he will always have Africa...

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (GD0B3)

301 Even the Pope wants to pad his vote count with illegals. Goodbye Catholic church!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (wBaIH)

302 OT:

The state of Washington just learned a $100M lesson: You can’t tax people who have private jets to leave.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

303 Lord Jesus Christ, please open the Pope's heart to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (5FXLr)

304 293 They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas, just pave the way forward for the further blackening of the Democrat Party at the highest levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (Y2NSe)

What still gripes me about Beto is that I knew a couple (supposedly) Republican middle aged women who said they were voting for Beto because he was just so dreamy, and because Ted Cruz was a big meany.

Beto reminded them of the skater dude back in college that they always had a crush on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (rGqqI)

Harding became president because women thought he was handsome...
Kumala didn't become president, despite her rather impressive oration skills...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

305 220 I respect everyone’s religious beliefs

Except for the Methodists, right? Right?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026

As long as they are honest in their convictions. 😊

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (Wmg4n)

306
Only about 17% of U.S. Catholics attend Mass weekly

___________

And when they do, they likely take Communion. Like they shouldn't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (HdYcL)

307 When did the "bishop" become formerly undocumented. He is still an criminal illegal invader.... and most likely a homosexual pederast.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (xvV+O)

308 292 But with the recent SCOTUS decision, that's a sure-loser too.

But when 90% of your most reliable voters (who make up like half of your party) demands you do something...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (iNUL3)

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Yes, that's the math.

The Democrat Party actively purged the white working class, making the only loyal demo left, black voters (especially women) with an outsized voice.

White, Manhattan progressives like Ezra Klein are going to find every excuse to support any black candidate who comes along no matter if they shit on his affluence agenda. Because party.

And they'll never waver, even if the ceding of electoral power to black women turns out to be a huge loser on the national stage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (Y2NSe)

309 "Probably both places, and it seems to me this Pope is struggling mightily with being human - it’s manifesting in “ no one is going to tell me what to do”.

Agreed. The Pope likely is thinking as men think, not as God thinks.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (DgMqy)

310 What still gripes me about Beto is that I knew a couple (supposedly) Republican middle aged women who said they were voting for Beto because he was just so dreamy, and because Ted Cruz was a big meany.

Beto reminded them of the skater dude back in college that they always had a crush on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (rGqqI)

The same dumb bitches who gave us George P Bush as Land Commissioner.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (gHfAU)

311 There is so much more wrong with Platner than his tattoo but if that's what gets him to lose so be it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (kxLc1)

312 Pope Leo's pick to be bishop of West Virginia is a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.

Was it a Buick?
Posted by: Rex B

Packard

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (TezPK)

313 Harding became president because women thought he was handsome...
Kumala didn't become president, despite her rather impressive oration skills...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

You misspelled 'oral.'
- Willie B, slingin' that D.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (iNUL3)

314 One of my favorite recent images is Buttgag telling a Texas crowd that we should get rid of the electoral college, a move that would have given us Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2024. Oh wait.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (uEYKS)

315 "I'm just a dedicated Buddhist."
-guy with Nazi paraphernalia all over his house
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He's only mostly a Nazi.

The Dems are (claiming) to just vote for the little part that isn't a Nazi.

Secret: They're voting for the Nazi parts as well

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (MtSIY)

316 293 What still gripes me about Beto is that I knew a couple (supposedly) Republican middle aged women who said they were voting for Beto because he was just so dreamy, and because Ted Cruz was a big meany.

Beto reminded them of the skater dude back in college that they always had a crush on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM (rGqqI)

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And he milked them for 3 elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (Y2NSe)

317 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 12:57 PM (2sfNr)

My mother was 'active' at the church here. A shrinking church population. The priest would join the group for coffee after Mass.

They onky heard about the bishop for cash grabs.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

318 261 Someone vandalized my church building late last week. They smashed lights, sprayed fire extinguishers, trashed the nursery, and spray-painted vulgar phrases everywhere.

We had to meet in a different building on Sunday.

Very upsetting.
Posted by: bonhomme at

Reach out to Dept Homeland Security. Believe it or not, they have active educational seminars on how houses of worship need to protect themselves - from vandalism up to mass shootings. I attended one or two a couple of years ago. It is worth exploring.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (N39Ws)

319 Rubio's getting a Pope hat?

Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (dIske)

320 303 Lord Jesus Christ, please open the Pope's heart to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (5FXLr)

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I give you credit for living your faith concerning this issue. I need lots of work.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (aZm/F)

321 309 "Probably both places, and it seems to me this Pope is struggling mightily with being human - it’s manifesting in “ no one is going to tell me what to do”.

Agreed. The Pope likely is thinking as men think, not as God thinks.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (DgMqy)

I assume he wasn't speaking ex-cathedra...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

322 10 Something something “ this turbulent priest”.
Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (Gqar

If Trump were to say that it would be the ultimate troll, for those knowledgeable enough to catch the reference, of course

Posted by: ed gibbon at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (BJ4Tw)

323 319 Rubio's getting a Pope hat?
Posted by: Orson at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (dIske)

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HA! Some of my favorite memes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:10 PM (aZm/F)

324 Same assholes who forced out Benedict still have the wheel.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (bss/y)

Nothing to add.
Just needed repeating

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 04, 2026 01:11 PM (zafwz)

325 311 There is so much more wrong with Platner than his tattoo but if that's what gets him to lose so be it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (kxLc1)

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It's rare to get such a perfect symbol and visual to use against a candidate in politics.

Words? Whatever.

An offensive tattoo? Damn...right on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:11 PM (Y2NSe)

326 There is so much more wrong with Platner than his tattoo but if that's what gets him to lose so be it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (kxLc1)

Yeah. Like he's an actual Nazi.

The tattoo is just a permanent, visible symbol of his political beliefs - beliefs to which he cleaves so strongly that he's gotten a symbol of those beliefs permanently inked onto his chest, near his heart.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:11 PM (iNUL3)

327 But with the recent SCOTUS decision, that's a sure-loser too.

But when 90% of your most reliable voters (who make up like half of your party) demands you do something...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:06 PM (iNUL3)

What I have suspected for some time, and am now sure of, is that because of the complete lack of any real leadership in the Dem Party (with all the 80 and 90 years olds slowly fading away) what's happened is the radical online groups have taken over, at least enough to swing primary elections. The most radical shit-posters and shit-talkers are the biggest winners, and their supporters are completely divorced from even the thought of any real world consequences.

It's much like the woman in Minnesota who was shocked that law enforcement was using real bullets. Everything to them is just one big LARP, and they think that if things go real bad they get to just hit reset and play again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:11 PM (rGqqI)

328 The same dumb bitches who gave us George P Bush as Land Commissioner.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (gHfAU)

He did a good job as Land Commissioner imo.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (kxLc1)

329 > Are cops looking into it?

I believe so. We recently started taking security more seriously. On Sunday we have guys in the lobbies working as greeters and as watchers. I'm one of them. We're not armed security like some churches have, but it's something.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (mkw2N)

330 what AOP said @ 64

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (VyBeY)

331 I assume he wasn't speaking ex-cathedra...

Appointment choices aren't doctrinal.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (DgMqy)

332 329 > Are cops looking into it?

I believe so. We recently started taking security more seriously. On Sunday we have guys in the lobbies working as greeters and as watchers. I'm one of them. We're not armed security like some churches have, but it's something.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (mkw2N)

I know local synagogues around here with armed guards...they need it. We had that synagogue shooting in Poway a few years ago.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

333 They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas, just pave the way forward for the further blackening of the Democrat Party at the highest levels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:04 PM (Y2NSe)

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The Dem operatives & billionaires will conclude that they just weren't left-wing enough -- and The Party needs to find even more radical psychopaths to run in the next cycle.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:13 PM (JqXxE)

334 I appreciate you guys.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:13 PM (mkw2N)

335 331 I assume he wasn't speaking ex-cathedra...

Appointment choices aren't doctrinal.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (DgMqy)

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If a pope said something ex-cathedra, it'd be real news.

It last happened by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:13 PM (Y2NSe)

336 But with the recent SCOTUS decision, that's a sure-loser too.

But when 90% of your most reliable voters (who make up like half of your party) demands you do something...
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Politico (or someone) claims to have run the numbers, and if every state aggressively redistricts, Rs will have something like 270 seats in the House.

Of course, it had states like WI and MN looking red like Alabama ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (MtSIY)

337 I believe so. We recently started taking security more seriously. On Sunday we have guys in the lobbies working as greeters and as watchers. I'm one of them. We're not armed security like some churches have, but it's something.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (mkw2N)

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Lots of churches in Texas have armed security and take it very seriously. I wish the Catholic church would do the same.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (aZm/F)

338 It's much like the woman in Minnesota who was shocked that law enforcement was using real bullets. Everything to them is just one big LARP, and they think that if things go real bad they get to just hit reset and play again.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Game Over!

Please deposit another soul to continue.

~Stan

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (TezPK)

339 He did a good job as Land Commissioner imo.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (kxLc1)

He was incompetent, which is one of the reasons he got trounced when he ran for AG.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (gHfAU)

340 336 Of course, it had states like WI and MN looking red like Alabama ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (MtSIY)

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WI's state legislature is majority Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (Y2NSe)

341 And he milked them for 3 elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (Y2NSe)

That image makes me shudder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (rGqqI)

342 One of the largest illegal immigrant resettlement agencies is HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). 64% of their revenue in 2023 alone (about $57 million) was from the US government.

You won’t ever here that on this site because they are Jewish, not Christian and it wouldn’t provide a chance to dump on them.

Posted by: That Guy at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (Kkd7+)

343 303 Lord Jesus Christ, please open the Pope's heart to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (5FXLr)

Neat comment number!

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (U6Usv)

344 Sorry, there a swastikas on the ruins of Troy, and even on American-Indian artifacts, but the Nazis ruined it for all time.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

345 I don't know how Baptists handle this, but I don't think James Talarico is officially ordained. He went to seminary and served as a youth pastor but he spent most of his career either as a school teacher or a politician.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (2sfNr)

346 > I know local synagogues around here with armed guards...they need it. We had that synagogue shooting in Poway a few years ago.

LDS church official handbook says we're not supposed to be armed at church. Local leadership won't sanction any sort of armed security. I ignore that handbook guideline and I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (mkw2N)

347 He should have gone with Pope Prius I

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (U6Usv)

348 Posted by: That Guy at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (Kkd7+)

You're just repeating shit you were told with no clue how accurate or in what context. Typical retard.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (kxLc1)

349 Appointment choices aren't doctrinal.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (DgMqy)

No, but they are indicative of where the Pope is steering the Church.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (iNUL3)

350 He did a good job as Land Commissioner imo.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:12 PM (kxLc1)

What does a Land Commissioner do except visit barbecue joints within a 50 or 60 mile radius of Austin?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (rGqqI)

351 343 303 Lord Jesus Christ, please open the Pope's heart to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (5FXLr)

Neat comment number!

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (U6Usv)

The HTTP 303 status code, also known as "See Other," indicates that the server is redirecting the client to a different URL using a GET request, typically after a POST request to prevent resubmission of form data. This is not an error itself but a redirection message that helps manage user actions on the web.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

352 LDS church official handbook says we're not supposed to be armed at church. Local leadership won't sanction any sort of armed security. I ignore that handbook guideline and I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (mkw2N)

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Well done. Let's hope that your fellow believers don't have the opportunity to thank you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:17 PM (aZm/F)

353
Deport him to Vatican City. Let him do his bishopin' from there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 01:17 PM (xG4kz)

354 I hope the pope reads the comments on his X account.
People need to also post things that the Left is doing like transing kids and teaching the propaganda starting in kindergarten.

The pope needs his eyes open to how evil the Democrat party is.

https://x.com/Pontifex

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 01:17 PM (NpAcC)

355 >Correct, hypocrisy means nothing to the left. Firstly, they have no integrity or honor to be offended or have shame about.
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Orwell mentioned 'doublethink'.

https://tinyurl.com/84w4nvnh

goes to wiki

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 01:17 PM (ZxPkt)

356 Yes, that's the math.

The Democrat Party actively purged the white working class, making the only loyal demo left, black voters (especially women) with an outsized voice.

White, Manhattan progressives like Ezra Klein are going to find every excuse to support any black candidate who comes along no matter if they shit on his affluence agenda. Because party.

And they'll never waver, even if the ceding of electoral power to black women turns out to be a huge loser on the national stage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:09 PM (Y2NSe)

It’s also worth remembering that they also are the party of the urban elite. They firmly reject the blue collar types in favor of the white collar “educated” ones. (I’m not using a Marxist phrase like “working class”; even hyper-evil rich people like Elon Musk work.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:17 PM (gHfAU)

357 The HTTP 303 status code, also known as "See Other," indicates that the server is redirecting the client to a different URL using a GET request, typically after a POST request to prevent resubmission of form data. This is not an error itself but a redirection message that helps manage user actions on the web.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (ynpvh)
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We caught them and we shot them according to Rule Three Oh Three!

Posted by: Harry "Breaker" Morant at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (xvhJH)

358 Organized religion leaves a lot to be desired. Certainly in this case. For decades this has been more of a political position inside the church than a leadership one.

I'm sure some will disagree. *shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:25 PM (jehhT)

All organizations are run by people, and have the issues that people bring with them, as in seeking power and forgetting the mission of the organization. The only thing new is the name of the pressure group.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (8avO+)

359 The Dems are (claiming) to just vote for the little part that isn't a Nazi.
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Funny how they're allowed to do that.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (U6Usv)

360 300 Well, he will always have Africa...
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 01:07 PM

Except Evangelicals are growing at a faster rate. That is, of course a big brush with which to paint.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (OoFl2)

361 The Borgias to Pope Leo: "Whoa, dude...."

That said, this former Episcopalian feels our Catholic brethren's pain.

Posted by: Beverly at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (reMys)

362
The same dumb bitches who gave us George P Bush as Land Commissioner.
Posted by: Cow Demon

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How is George P holding up anyway? (gonna be willowed but whatevs)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (n7rxJ)

363 Oh hey, Cole Allen has been removed from suicide watch.

Would be an ironic shame if he managed to hang himself in his cell when the cameras mysteriously glitch out and there is a guard change at the same time...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (bss/y)

364 345 I don't know how Baptists handle this, but I don't think James Talarico is officially ordained. He went to seminary and served as a youth pastor but he spent most of his career either as a school teacher or a politician.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (2sfNr)


From the Wiki stub:

While serving in the Texas House, Talarico earned his Master of Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (rGqqI)

365 I know local synagogues around here with armed guards...they need it. We had that synagogue shooting in Poway a few years ago.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

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I often go to the local rural high school track to do some running on Sundays. They have some Christian congregation using their facilities and holding services ("WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT -- REEEEEEEEEE!!!!!") -- and they've had voluntary armed security patrolling the perimeter ever since that 2017 Sutherland Springs Church Shooting, TX.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (JqXxE)

366 Pontifex Maximus was the position that Octavian and Marc Antony gave to Lepidus when they kicked him out of the Second Triumvirate.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

367 No, but they are indicative of where the Pope is steering the Church.

Well, maybe... the Pope may be pushing leftist politics, but "steering the church" ain't as easy as all that.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (DgMqy)

368 Oh hey, Cole Allen has been removed from suicide watch.

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His lawyers argued it was cruel and inhumane punishment.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (aZm/F)

369 352 LDS church official handbook says we're not supposed to be armed at church. Local leadership won't sanction any sort of armed security. I ignore that handbook guideline and I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:16 PM (mkw2N)

I see that the same way I see the sign at Wal-Mart that reads “Kindly refrain from carrying openly”. I don’t care where you are, evil exists, and “Evil Has No Boundaries” is not just a Slayer song. It’s a fact of life. Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition. You (sadly) just might need it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:20 PM (gHfAU)

370 He was incompetent, which is one of the reasons he got trounced when he ran for AG.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (gHfAU)

Incompetent how. By finally digitizing the oil and gas lease system? Or his handling Harvey?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:20 PM (kxLc1)

371 Cole Allen Didn't Kill HImself!

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:21 PM (JqXxE)

372 >I ignore that handbook guideline and I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one.
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check your state's law

In Colorado, if an establishment posts 'no guns allowed on premises', that has the force of law behind it.

you could find your self in a jam.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 01:21 PM (ZxPkt)

373 @232

The Republican Guard's Taregh patrol boats were relatively new to its fleet when I was flying on them during Operation Earnest Will in '87.

They've been upgraded a few times since then with more lethal, longer-range armament.

Still easy to take out, though, if need be.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 01:21 PM (Y1sOo)

374 367 No, but they are indicative of where the Pope is steering the Church.

Well, maybe... the Pope may be pushing leftist politics, but "steering the church" ain't as easy as all that.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (DgMqy)

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10 years of Francis ended with the American Catholic Church veering to the right in 2024.

The 48-50ish percent that typically voted Republican suddenly became 56%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:21 PM (Y2NSe)

375 Oh hey, Cole Allen has been removed from suicide watch.

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His lawyers argued it was cruel and inhumane punishment.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Just wait until he get's a load of me.

Posted by: Hillary, aka The Joker at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (TezPK)

376 345 I don't know how Baptists handle this, but I don't think James Talarico is officially ordained. He went to seminary and served as a youth pastor but he spent most of his career either as a school teacher or a politician.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (2sfNr)

He's not baptist, but PCUSA. Sadly, the Southern Baptist convention wants to join the other mainline protestants in apostasy as fast as they can, so I suppose it doesn't really make a difference his denomination. He is still in apostasy.

Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (wLjpr)

377 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (rGqqI

Yes; I knew that. Going to seminary does not mean you are ordained or officially called with laying on of hands.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (2sfNr)

378
Lots of churches in Texas have armed security and take it very seriously. I wish the Catholic church would do the same.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026

We have the state police provide security. They are in parking lots, and in our Church.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (OoFl2)

379 How is George P holding up anyway? (gonna be willowed but whatevs)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (n7rxJ)

Haven’t heard from him since getting beat 68-32 by Paxton in the 2022 primary.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (gHfAU)

380 373 @232

The Republican Guard's Taregh patrol boats were relatively new to its fleet when I was flying on them during Operation Earnest Will in '87.

They've been upgraded a few times since then with more lethal, longer-range armament.

Still easy to take out, though, if need be.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 01:21 PM (Y1sOo)

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I wonder if the American naval and air force resources in the region made efforts at eliminating them when they had air dominance over Iran for 5 weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (Y2NSe)

381
White, Manhattan progressives like Ezra Klein are going to find every excuse to support any black candidate who comes along no matter if they shit on his affluence agenda. Because party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Ezra Klein has let go of the notion that "government does it better." Too much counter evidence. I hope I live long enough to see him embittered by the outcome of DEI.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:23 PM (n7rxJ)

382
We have the state police provide security. They are in parking lots, and in our Church.
Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (OoFl2)

Too visible. The most effective deterrence is hidden.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:23 PM (gHfAU)

383 381
Ezra Klein has let go of the notion that "government does it better." Too much counter evidence. I hope I live long enough to see him embittered by the outcome of DEI.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:23 PM (n7rxJ)

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He will be 78 years old, in hospice, and then he'll put out a statement saying, "Obama wasn't the best president ever."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:23 PM (Y2NSe)

384 Pontifex Maximus was the position that Octavian and Marc Antony gave to Lepidus when they kicked him out of the Second Triumvirate.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 01:19 PM (77rzZ)
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And was happy to survive a civil war and sacrifice cows to my heart's content!

Posted by: M. Aemilius Lepidus at May 04, 2026 01:23 PM (xvhJH)

385 The judge apologized to Allen for his cell condition. Wonder if the judge apologized to 1/6 people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (gu0hJ)

386 Lots of churches in Texas have armed security and take it very seriously. I wish the Catholic church would do the same.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:14 PM (aZm/F)

Agree 100%. I'm sitting in the rear of the church just in case things get sporty. Including disturbances from the drug addled homeless.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (N39Ws)

387 In Colorado, if an establishment posts 'no guns allowed on premises', that has the force of law behind it.

you could find your self in a jam.
Posted by: Don Black

Just another reason to leave, as I already did. Calirado is sinking fast.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (TezPK)

388 > In Colorado, if an establishment posts 'no guns allowed on premises', that has the force of law behind it.

There are no signs.

Here's the quote from the handbook:
Firearms and other lethal weapons are not allowed on Church property. This includes concealed weapons. This does not apply to current law enforcement officers.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (mkw2N)

389
Haven’t heard from him since getting beat 68-32 by Paxton in the 2022 primary.
Posted by: Cow Demon

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He seems to me more like someone who was supported by good ol' boys from the machine than swooning ladies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (n7rxJ)

390 Thanks. I don't know where I got the idea he was Baptist and yes the PSUSA is very leftist. There is a more Consetvative Presbyterian group.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (2sfNr)

391 lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (VyBeY)

392 off sock

Posted by: Gref at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (5rh/l)

393 Has that troublesome priest been deported yet?
I expect it will be soon rather than later.

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (DKJPJ)

394
He's not baptist, but PCUSA. Sadly, the Southern Baptist convention wants to join the other mainline protestants in apostasy as fast as they can, so I suppose it doesn't really make a difference his denomination. He is still in apostasy.
Posted by: moki at

Modern Southern Baptists are pretty autonomous by Church.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (OoFl2)

395 What no trailer jokes?

Wise guys must be at lunch.

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (FhXTo)

396 385 The judge apologized to Allen for his cell condition. Wonder if the judge apologized to 1/6 people
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (gu0hJ)

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WTAF?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (aZm/F)

397 Deace is an idiot. "Sympathetic case" is for 9-yr old girls (now, effectively, 80% of the US population). And entering illegally after removal is a FELONY.

This pope is just as illiterate, and pernicious, as the last one, and seems a bit dumber, which is amazing.

Sad that Rubio's gonna kiss the ring. So much blood and disaster on that institution's hands, the sort of the administration is trying to end.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (U/Byj)

398 To misquote our last presidential president - "Pope Bob, tear down this wall!"

Posted by: human at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (Vu7A1)

399 George P got trounced in good part because his last name is Bush

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (gu0hJ)

400 I wonder if the American naval and air force resources in the region made efforts at eliminating them when they had air dominance over Iran for 5 weeks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:22 PM (Y2NSe)

Everything I've read leads me to believe that the US Command didn't take them seriously, which I think has proven to be a mistake. On the other hand, it's been estimated that Iran may have 3,000 of these, and while in harbor they are virtually indistinguishable from civilian boats.

Now me, I would have ordered every dock and port facility in the straits completely destroyed no matter what it looked like it was, but that didn't happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (rGqqI)

401 Incompetent how. By finally digitizing the oil and gas lease system? Or his handling Harvey?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 01:20 PM (kxLc1)

The Land office was a hideous mess when he left. So much so that it played into his getting beat 68-32 by Paxton in 2022. If he was this great organizational genius, you’d think it would be closer.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (gHfAU)

402 399 George P got trounced in good part because his last name is Bush

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (gu0hJ)

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Prediction:

The next governor of Texas will be closer to Ken Paxton than John Cornyn ideologically and tempermentally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (Y2NSe)

403 here is a more Consetvative Presbyterian group.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (2sfNr)

Presbyterian Church of America - we just joined one in our town. Solid scripture, and you gotta know your church history. But they have doughnuts with their six am catechism class!!!

Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (wLjpr)

404 Early stages, but looks like we're getting what I hoped for in the Strait.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (U/Byj)

405 The priests are all shockingly based (young guys less than a decade out of seminary, the African one in particular is based, who all take the mass much more seriously than the older ones they replaced) who stay away from politics and focus on the individual soul's obligations to God.


Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (Y2NSe)

Our parish is so blessed to have a based young priest.
We have Novus Ordo masses, but it is reverent; many of the responses are sung. Old traditions, like blessings during certain saint feast days, are joyfully observed. Confession is offered 3x/week (prior to him it was 1x/week)

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (re0Ak)

406 The tattoo is just a permanent, visible symbol of his political beliefs - beliefs to which he cleaves so strongly that he's gotten a symbol of those beliefs permanently inked onto his chest, near his heart.

"just like that evil white supremacist tattoo that Hegseth got on his chest!!!!"
--insane lefties

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (uEYKS)

407 We caught them and we shot them according to Rule Three Oh Three!
Posted by: Harry "Breaker" Morant at May 04, 2026 01:18 PM (xvhJH)

Thus redirecting the user actions to another place, preventing repetition of the error.


Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (rbvCR)

408 399 George P got trounced in good part because his last name is Bush
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (gu0hJ)

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And I respect every voter trying to kill the Bush legacy/dynasty/oligarchy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (aZm/F)

409 I despise this pope, worse than Francis. Leo openly shielded pedos in Peru. Tells you a lot about the Vatican

Posted by: night lifted at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (kJmLc)

410 Now me, I would have ordered every dock and port facility in the straits completely destroyed no matter what it looked like it was, but that didn't happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo

If it floats, make sure it doesn't.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (TezPK)

411 374
10 years of Francis ended with the American Catholic Church veering to the right in 2024.

The 48-50ish percent that typically voted Republican suddenly became 56%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:21 PM (Y2NSe)

So they elect an American pope who is also a lefty to fix that. (btw - I am a practicing Catholic). The Catholic Church - as a human institution - is destroying itself. I hope people can separate their Catholic faith from the shenanigans of Rome.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

412
He will be 78 years old, in hospice, and then he'll put out a statement saying, "Obama wasn't the best president ever."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Like Barney Frank. But I hope his whole socialist slop navel-deep "philosophy" fails and sends him into obscurity and disfavor long before he hits hospice.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (n7rxJ)

413 400 Everything I've read leads me to believe that the US Command didn't take them seriously, which I think has proven to be a mistake. On the other hand, it's been estimated that Iran may have 3,000 of these, and while in harbor they are virtually indistinguishable from civilian boats.

Now me, I would have ordered every dock and port facility in the straits completely destroyed no matter what it looked like it was, but that didn't happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (rGqqI)

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Weird how they didn't use them at all in the past 3 weeks when Iran was insisting that they controlled the strait and sent out small boats with small arms to fire at Indian tankers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (Y2NSe)

414 For the 3rd time. No US vessel has been hit either by drone or missile. T

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (z2aPa)

415 399 George P got trounced in good part because his last name is Bush
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (gu0hJ)

That was my sense at the time. The election wasn't about George P personally, it was that the Bush Family had run Texas either directly or from behind the scenes for over 20 years, and most Texans had grown sick of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (rGqqI)

416 US hit lots of FACs during first phase of the festivities. Grainy video thereof released several different times.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (U/Byj)

417 who stay away from politics and focus on the individual soul's obligations to God.

I'd rather they focused on the gospel and the Bible, but that's a failing of far too many churches in every denomination.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (uEYKS)

418
Too visible. The most effective deterrence is hidden.


Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026

Maybe, but knock on wood, no issues to note. They also direct traffic. Otherwise it would be very, very bad out there and take 190 years to get out of the parking lot.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (OoFl2)

419 399 George P got trounced in good part because his last name is Bush
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:26 PM (gu0hJ)

Part of it. Also, his handling of the Land Office.

Besides, it is worth remembering he was musing to himself what was the easiest way to weasel his way into TX politics. Eventually he decided on Land Commissioner. His goal was to work his way up from there to the governor’s office. Didn’t happen.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (gHfAU)

420 Have they pulled the "its just a tattoo get over it" move yet?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (U6Usv)

421 Trump needs to AT LEAST deport this asshole if not hang him. And we probably should bomb the vatican while we are at it. The pope and the jesuits have sided with islam and communism. They are enemies that need to be destroyed.

Posted by: JoshO at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (xL2KH)

422 400 comments, and no couch burning? It's West By God Virginia!

Sheesh

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (XuXeR)

423 411 So they elect an American pope who is also a lefty to fix that. (btw - I am a practicing Catholic). The Catholic Church - as a human institution - is destroying itself. I hope people can separate their Catholic faith from the shenanigans of Rome.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (N39Ws)

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The Catholic Church survived much worse. It will survive Leo.

We are in a transition period, and what comes afterwards will be better than what we have now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (Y2NSe)

424 "396 385 The judge apologized to Allen for his cell condition. Wonder if the judge apologized to 1/6 people
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (gu0hJ)

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WTAF?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (aZm/F) "

dc judge, so probably someone who is disappointed that their guy failed (again)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (VyBeY)

425 Those Iranian boats could self combust at dockside.

Posted by: torabora at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (DKJPJ)

426 410 Now me, I would have ordered every dock and port facility in the straits completely destroyed no matter what it looked like it was, but that didn't happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo

If it floats, make sure it doesn't.
Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (TezPK)

USS Idaho submarine Chief of Boat would like to enter the chat. "We are in the business of making coral reefs. We sink boats, cut throats. There are only two types of ships in the ocean: targets and submarines. We are the scariest thing in the ocean since the Cretaceous period"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (N39Ws)

427 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 04, 2026 01:29 PM (NcvvS)

428 23 Should have tried for a trifecta - illegal gay or transgender pedophile.

Reach across those aisles...
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 04, 2026 12:22 PM (Sco7b)

He did or course meet with 40 trannies, special luncheon for them.

Posted by: night lifted at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (kJmLc)

429 The Catholic Church - as a human institution - is destroying itself. I hope people can separate their Catholic faith from the shenanigans of Rome.

I wonder if the only way to save it is to just shut Rome out entirely and eliminate the entire top down hierarchy of power thing. I mean, how well has it served the denomination, let alone Christianity for centuries now?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (uEYKS)

430
focus on the individual soul's obligations to God.

___________

About half the congregation would be shocked by what they'd have to do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (HdYcL)

431
Modern Southern Baptists are pretty autonomous by Church.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:25 PM (OoFl2)

There's been a push by David Platt to draw in churches under the SBC aegis for fund contribution. Church Reform Initiative has an interesting series of videos describing what has happened during his tenure with the Convention government. Plus a huge push for DEI that's seen in the Sunday School material (Lifeway publications.) It's why we left.

Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (wLjpr)

432 For the 3rd time. No US vessel has been hit either by drone or missile"

Where's the panic in that?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 01:30 PM (XuXeR)

433 Have they pulled the "its just a tattoo get over it" move yet?

Tough to do after the hair on fire freaking out over Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (uEYKS)

434 Weird how they didn't use them at all in the past 3 weeks when Iran was insisting that they controlled the strait and sent out small boats with small arms to fire at Indian tankers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (Y2NSe)

The inscrutable Persian mind is too clever for us.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (iERP6)

435 He seems to me more like someone who was supported by good ol' boys from the machine than swooning ladies.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 01:24 PM (n7rxJ)

Both. Lots of women in Republican circles were swooning over him. “HE’S CUTE!!!” was an important factor. As was the insider crowd.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (gHfAU)

436 434
The inscrutable Persian mind is too clever for us.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (iERP6)

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But...IRGC are Arabs...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (Y2NSe)

437
Be fair now, Obama was the best gay president.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (rEIR1)

438 437
Be fair now, Obama was the best gay president.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (rEIR1)

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Buchanan was better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (Y2NSe)

439 The Catholic Church survived much worse. It will survive Leo.
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Alexander VI was allegedly chased around the room by seven devils while he was dying. Pretty spry, one would think.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 01:32 PM (xvhJH)

440 I appreciate you guys.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 04, 2026 01:13 PM (mkw2N)

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As you probably know, Las Vegas was a significant LDS city back in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up there (enjoyed many of the city & school leadership positions).

Virtually all of my high school friend were LDS, and they were always (lovingly) trying to convert me -- especially the babes! -- and I remain close to a handful to this day (all rock-ribbed patriotic conservatives; for the past four years we've gotten together in Provo to watch a BYU football game -- No More Scenic and Gorgeous Venue)!

Anywho, (sans individuals like Harry Reid, Mitt Romney, Jeff Flake, etl. al., I have tremendous respect for those of the LDS faith (even if the church leadership appears to have gone wobbly as regards #Woke).

Cheers!

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (JqXxE)

441 Tough to do after the hair on fire freaking out over Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (uEYKS)

They'll find a way because that's "different"

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (U6Usv)

442 USS Idaho was recently commissioned

big-time nuke submarine- torpedoes, missiles, all that stuff
their motto is 'sing boats, cut throats'

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (ZxPkt)

443
There's been a push by David Platt to draw in churches under the SBC aegis for fund contribution. Church Reform Initiative has an interesting series of videos describing what has happened during his tenure with the Convention government. Plus a huge push for DEI that's seen in the Sunday School material (Lifeway publications.) It's why we left.
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2026 01

None of this exists at my Church, and it’s a huge Church. It is also very clear we fall under the umbrella, but are autonomous with a capital a. Find a new Church home. They are out there. Praying for you.

Posted by: Piper at May 04, 2026 01:33 PM (Wmg4n)

444 Early stages, but looks like we're getting what I hoped for in the Strait.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (U/Byj)

The carrier groups are just the military side of things. The banking and diplomatic side are also hammering on the IRGC right now.

My prediction, delved out of my belly-button, is: Trump will start allowing the tankers that pay the Iranian bribe to sail, but will require the proceeds of the oil be funneled to an "Iranian state account" in a place like Qatar. Like Venezuela's forced agreement with the US the oil will be sold at market rates and the funds untouchable until the Iranians cry Uncle, and the ship owner will be recompensed out of that account for the bribe they paid to the IRGC to sail.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (rbvCR)

445 I'm going to ask:
What does West Virginia not being Hispanic got to do with ANYTHING in this story?

Who cares? Or are you saying the Pope should pick bishops based on racial/ethnic lines?

The real question is whether it was a political appointment to poke Trump in the eye or not. Because the selection of a bishop should have nothing to do with politics. (Also, yes, the Roman church has spent about 1,500 years choosing leaders based on politics. Doing that with the archbishopric of Mainz is part of what started Martin Luther's part of the Reformation.)

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 01:34 PM (6pIoG)

446 Weird how they didn't use them at all in the past 3 weeks when Iran was insisting that they controlled the strait and sent out small boats with small arms to fire at Indian tankers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 01:28 PM (Y2NSe)

I am still waiting for the weaponized dolphins

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:35 PM (rbvCR)

447 Platner's going to start by losing badly.

They'll toss him, blame white men, and, combined with Talarico's loss in Texas, just pave the way forward for the further blackening of the Democrat Party at the highest levels.

A liberal outfit released data over the weekend that if every state went maximalist gerrymander the Dems would have a large permanent minority in the House. Something like 2:1. Liberals who wanted to raise the alarm about that were being mass-blocked and called racist, and that wasn't even on BlueSky.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (2ocoG)

448
Both. Lots of women in Republican circles were swooning over him. “HE’S CUTE!!!” was an important factor. As was the insider crowd.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 01:31 PM (gHfAU)

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I believe several analyses have confirmed that a significant number of women vote for the candidate with "the best hair."

Second look at revoking the 19th Amendment?

/runs away from stiletto-carrying 'ettes ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 01:36 PM (JqXxE)

449 nood

Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2026 01:38 PM (rbvCR)

450 I'm going to say that the appointment of someone who "made good" after being a criminal would normally be a good move for the Roman Catholic church. Repentance, redemption... all of that is what the church is about*.

The problem is it absolutely looks like a political thumb in the eye over ILLEGAL immigration. Which SHOULD be against the church's doctrine, based on Matt 22:21, Eph 6:1, and Titus 3:1, to obey the authorities.

(* Or, should be, according to Scripture.)

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 01:41 PM (6pIoG)

451 The tattoo is just a permanent, visible symbol of his political beliefs - beliefs to which he cleaves so strongly that he's gotten a symbol of those beliefs permanently inked onto his chest, near his heart.

"just like that evil white supremacist tattoo that Hegseth got on his chest!!!!"
--insane lefties

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 04, 2026 01:27 PM (uEYKS)

You mean the one Jimmy Carter was buried under?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 01:43 PM (iNUL3)

452 I don't know how Baptists handle this, but I don't think James Talarico is officially ordained. He went to seminary and served as a youth pastor but he spent most of his career either as a school teacher or a politician.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 01:15 PM (2sfNr)

I don't either. But in the Lutheran Church, you are ordained at your first call. So, if he *served* as a youth pastor he was ordained when he was installed in that position - the way we do it.

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 01:47 PM (6pIoG)

453 320 303 Lord Jesus Christ, please open the Pope's heart to the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 01:08 PM (5FXLr)
***
Thank you. Two things I am not is a hypocrite or blind. This is the only way I pray for Leo and barely think of him otherwise. Which I may find out is wrong. However, being a conservative Presbyterian all of my life except the last two months is to blame. I stand firmly in what the PCA taught me. They don't bend to secular woke desires.

The main reason I left a perfectly good PCA Presbyterian local church is the lack of traditional music. The awful praise music, leaving the history of great music behind. The casualness of people during sermons getting coffee. The same message of the sermon, from a good pastor, weekly.

Whatever you find, wherever you find worship in your heart of God and the Trinity, there is where you need to be. Music plays a huge part of my worship and a piano, violin and great voices are what I desire at 0830 Mass.

I simply found my best worship in a local and huge Catholic parish in a conservative state. What they do in Rome barely makes my news, thoughts or prayers. My soul is all I need to save.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 04, 2026 02:31 PM (WONhk)

454 20 18 As long as the Vatican is a walled city I can't take anything the Catholic church says about immigration seriously.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (+9wcF)

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It's walled because of an Islamist invasion a few hundred years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:21 PM (Y2NSe)
———

They have prayer Muslim rooms in the vatican

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (nGraA)

455 .
Auntie Pope or Antipope ... you decide.
.
Fo'got the faggot.

Posted by: Marooned at May 04, 2026 03:28 PM (kt8QE)

MORNING RANT: There’s a Growing Preference Cascade for More Red States to Revoke the ABA’s Monopoly on Law School Accreditation

Among the most powerful institutions captured by the left is the American Bar Association, with its monopoly power on law school accreditation. Until very recently, a degree from an ABA-accredited law school was necessary in all 50 states to be able to take the bar exam. Concurrently, the ABA had become radically left-wing, imposing its agenda on law schools. For instance, to maintain accreditation, the ABA had imposed a requirement that law schools demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion, with statistical proof that its faculty and student bodies were diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.

As I documented at The American Spectator, Texas and Florida recently ended the ABA’s monolithic power, at least in those two states, and that the action of the two big red states should be a spark for other red states to follow suit. Specifically, ”The liberation of Texas and Florida law schools from mandatory, ABA-enforced woke orthodoxy is a major milestone. Other conservative states should quickly follow suit, helping accelerate the nullification of the ABA’s authority into a broad preference cascade.”

That preference cascade appears to be under way. The bright red state of Tennessee may be the next to defenestrate the ABA.

The Tennessee Supreme Court recently reached out to the Federal Trade Commission, seeking advice regarding the state’s reliance on the monopoly accrediting agency. Joined by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, the FTC has just assertively advocated for revoking the ABA’s monopoly in the state.

“FTC Urges Tennessee Supreme Court to Oppose the ABA’s Law School Accreditation Monopoly” [FTC Press Release – 5/01/2026]

Federal Trade Commission staff urged the Tennessee Supreme Court yesterday to open law school accreditation to competition by reducing its reliance on the American Bar Association (ABA) in determining which law schools provide sufficient education for their graduates to take the Tennessee bar examination. The letter was joined by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee and officials at the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.

Responding to the court’s invitation to comment on whether it should “modify, reduce, or eliminate” its reliance on the ABA, the letter recommended reforms to the current process.

Here is a link to the full FTC letter, which is also signed by Braden Boucek, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

While I’m not sure there should even be accrediting agencies – bar exam results should be the proof of whether a law school is doing its job well – I can state with authority that the imprimatur of the ABA should be considered a demerit for a law school. The American Bar Association is so comically partisan that when Joe Biden tweeted that the 28th Amendment (“Equal Rights Amendment” was now the law of the land, the ABA lent its support, urging ”all bar associations and the legal community as a whole to support implementation of the ERA” in accordance with Biden’s tweet.

Every red state governor needs to start being asked what actions are necessary in his or her state to eliminate the ABA’s accreditation monopoly, and to be pressed for a deadline to get it done. The preference cascade against the ABA is picking up speed, and it should soon be a badge of shame for any red state to still allow the ABA to retain control over its law schools.


[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 There is a distinct lack of monkey today.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 Hi everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 11:01 AM (/c5rf)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

4 SPONGE!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (skR0U)

5 'Shouldn't we turn on the lights?!'

'No. That's just what they'll be expecting us to do.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (bss/y)

6 One has to wonder why we permit this sort of stuff to continue. The ABA isn't a governmental entity anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (jehhT)

7 There's a reason that the government is full of lawyers.

Both create very little and exist to re-destribute wealth while taking a cut for themselves.

Posted by: Proudvastrightwingguy at May 04, 2026 11:03 AM (MNCvZ)

8 Seems every lawyer these days is a Leftist

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 11:03 AM (/c5rf)

9 Not a lawyer but even as an undergrad in Econ in the '80s I knew the ABA was biased trash.
It hasn't changed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 04, 2026 11:04 AM (8CTam)

10 I'm envisioning Congressional hearings on this topic. I'd put Brandon Gill in charge of the questioning to the ABA suits. Start with:

BG: Is the ABA politically neutral, or does it have a partisan bias? Is so, which way?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

11 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (skR0U)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

12 BG: Is the ABA politically neutral, or does it have a partisan bias? Is so, which way?

IOW, make the own it. If they deny it (they will) bring the receipts to humiliate them.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

13 Love the double-headed sledge-hammer AI gave the three-handed FL character.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (TezPK)

14 I have strong feeling about the thing.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (ZxPkt)

15 6 One has to wonder why we permit this sort of stuff to continue. The ABA isn't a governmental entity anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (jehhT)

People like to believe that there is order. A group who measures and supposedly rules on whether a company or group meets a standard (whatever that is.) People use that to determine 'Well, what do I believe' because it frees them from having to do their own research. See, someone else did the research (in a non biased manner.) I can 'trust' them.

It is one thing the leftists learned particularly well: in a high trust society, if you can capture the reliable institutions mentioned above and turn them to your own ends, then people will continue to believe in them (at least for a while) even if they are obviously captured.

See SPLC, NAACP, Courts, BBB, etc etc etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

16 There is a distinct lack of monkey today.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Buck generally doesn't use monkeys.

But I'd bet that'd change if he could find a picture of a monkey playing an upright bass.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

17 LOL at the AI fuckup in your pic, Buck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (utfVc)

18 While we're at it, let's do away with the law school requirement altogether.

One year of torts, contracts, property, criminal law, legal writing and research, and trial advocacy teams (coached by actual practitioners), followed by a few weeks of intensive study with a bar review course is all you need.

Of course, you shouldn't bother with any of the foregoing unless you can make 150+ on the LSAT. Don't use the LSAT as a barrier to entry, just a red flag that some people are wasting their time.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (GD2xa)

19 Just more evidence that liberalism sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

20 13 Love the double-headed sledge-hammer AI gave the three-handed FL character.
Posted by: Joe Mama at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (TezPK)

He's Darth Maul (LOL) in disguise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)

21 Willowed:

Why on earth is there a taxpayer funded waterpark?

I mean, I just had a colonoscopy and may still be high on propofol, but WTF?
Posted by: screaming in digital at May 04, 2026 11:01 AM (0SdQT)

"Epic Waters, an 80,000-square-foot space, opened in 2017 as a city-owned events park for Grand Prairie residents.

The waterpark cost taxpayers $88 million, and was funded by a quarter-cent sales tax on Grand Prairie residents, which was approved by voters in 2014, according to the Dallas Morning News.

The Muslim-only event in June is being organized and run by the East Plano Islamic Center."

>Hope you butt-scope went okay and they find nothing to be alarmed about.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (Y1sOo)

22 19 Just more evidence that liberalism sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Call them what they are- Pinko Commie Scum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)

23 The statement that ABA accreditation is a prerequisite to take a bar exam is not fully correct. In Tennessee, one can take the bar exam after graduation from the Nashville School of Law (formerly the YMCA Law School) and it is not ABA accredited. Some other states don't even require a law degree; you can "read for the law" under the supervision of licensed attorney and then sit for the bar exam. I know Virginia at least used to allow reading for the law. I recall that was the path Kim Kardashian took to sit for the CA bar exam.

Posted by: Martin Tell at May 04, 2026 11:09 AM (PxCem)

24 But I'd bet that'd change if he could find a picture of a monkey playing an upright bass.

Ask and ye shall receive.

https://is.gd/P3yhgE

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

25 LOL at the AI fuckup in your pic, Buck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (utfVc)


He as 2 hammers!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

26 The Tennessee Supreme Court recently reached out to the Federal Trade Commission, seeking advice regarding the state’s reliance on the monopoly accrediting agency.

What? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH!?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (svLOV)

27 Are there ANY alternatives to the ABA?

I know there are different layers of accreditation for higher education.

For instance the HLC accredits the university I work for as a whole, but different groups accredit the individual programs (e.g., ABET accredits our engineering programs).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (gnNyN)

28 I have strong feeling about the thing.
Posted by: Don Black

What are your feelings about the other thing?

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

29 Well the ABA has a miserable track record on suggesting (or rejecting) Supreme Court nominees. Take ABA out of the justice loop.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (LHPAg)

30 Call them what they are- Pinko Commie Scum.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)


Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

31 The waterpark cost taxpayers $88 million, and was funded by a quarter-cent sales tax on Grand Prairie residents, which was approved by voters in 2014, according to the Dallas Morning News.

The Muslim-only event in June is being organized and run by the East Plano Islamic Center."

Hire an airplane to swoop low over the event, and dump a load of chicharones.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (utfVc)

32 Bar exam results don't necessarily reflect well on a law school. Students highly likely to pass the bar, regardless of who teaches them the law and how, will self-select into certain law schools.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:11 AM (GD2xa)

33 The ABA is a complete left wing front group and has been for at least the last 30 years. I resigned when they started requiring an abortion loyalty oath.

Posted by: Martin Tell at May 04, 2026 11:11 AM (PxCem)

34 Florida guy has two sledgehammers. Florida reaaaallly hates the ABA.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 11:11 AM (c3Uld)

35 LOL at the AI fuckup in your pic, Buck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (utfVc)


He as 2 hammers!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

***

It's a follow-on to the art today. That's John Henry.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 11:11 AM (2WIwB)

36 33 The ABA is a complete left wing front group and has been for at least the last 30 years. I resigned when they started requiring an abortion loyalty oath.
Posted by: Martin Tell at May 04, 2026 11:11 AM (PxCem)

That is a tell of institutional capture.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:12 AM (bss/y)

37 The ABA is a complete left wing front group and has been for at least the last 30 years. I resigned when they started requiring an abortion loyalty oath.

Pffffft. Next thing, you'll be telling me the SPLC isn't a bunch of straight shooters.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

38 37 Pffffft. Next thing, you'll be telling me the SPLC isn't a bunch of straight shooters.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

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Eh.

Bunch of leftists directly funding National Socialists?

What's crooked about that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (Y2NSe)

39 BG: Is the ABA politically neutral, or does it have a partisan bias? Is so, which way?
Posted by: Archimedes
__________

They invited Clinton to speak at an ABA conference even after his license was suspended.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (XvL8K)

40 I get that you are happy to see this Buck, but isn't the ABA still in charge of devising and administering the Bar exams, as well as disciplinary processes for the various state bar associations?

In other words, law schools may be throwing off their shackles, or starting to, but isn't it true that lawyers themselves are still in total thrall to the ABA?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (NIwpn)

41 27 Are there ANY alternatives to the ABA?

I know there are different layers of accreditation for higher education.

For instance the HLC accredits the university I work for as a whole, but different groups accredit the individual programs (e.g., ABET accredits our engineering programs).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 11:10 AM (gnNyN)
Yes, I suggest qualified Moron lawyers deciding cases and picking candidates for judge positions. They can conduct their legal functions in a real bar.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 11:14 AM (LHPAg)

42
Sorry
OT before I split
there's a disco ball orbiting the planet

https://tinyurl.com/2yutzwsb

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (ZxPkt)

43 Mamma mia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (AvxYT)

44 43 Mamma mia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (AvxYT)

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Here we go again...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (Y2NSe)

45 The ABA is a complete left wing front group and has been for at least the last 30 years. I resigned when they started requiring an abortion loyalty oath.
Posted by: Martin Tell at May 04, 2026 11:11 AM (PxCem)


Brandon Gill asking that broad the other day about which was her favorite abortion method was kinda epic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

46 Seems every lawyer these days is a Leftist
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 11:03 AM

*polite cough*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (Hq3hB)

47 Sometimes someone describes something absolutely perfectly. This guy did that for the Dems like Matt Iglesias who are endorsing Platner, but it could just as easily be about the ABA.

The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner.

It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years.

It's a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.

https://is.gd/9KB8Y8

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

48 45 Brandon Gill asking that broad the other day about which was her favorite abortion method was kinda epic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

=====

That dude strikes me as having a future like a combination of Dan Crenshaw and Matt Gaetz.

I hope I'm wrong and he's straight and true, but I've seen so many promising R House reps go simply nuts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Y2NSe)

49 Mamma mia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (AvxYT)



Baby's go the diarrhea.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

50 *got

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

51 quarter-cent sales tax on Grand Prairie residents,

-

I hate when sales tax increases after framed this way. Oh it’s a quarter of a cent? No biggie bro. Sure I’ll vote for it.

No it’s not a quarter of a cent it’s a quarter PERCENT. As in $2.50 extra to the state for every $1000 you spend. In perpetuity.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (c3Uld)

52 States could chuck the multi state bar exam as well.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (w3u3d)

53 Eh.

Bunch of leftists directly funding National Socialists?

What's crooked about that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (Y2NSe)

Seems on brand really.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (bss/y)

54
I hope I'm wrong and he's straight and true, but I've seen so many promising R House reps go simply nuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Y2NSe)


There were rumors of him being fake MAGA during the primaries, but he's been pretty solid thus far.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

55 When I was much younger and living in Miami, local lawyer Sandy d'Alemberte twice served as ABA Big Cheese, and I blame him for implementing the DEI stuff during the Clinton Regime. He was a total asshat about that stuff.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (NIwpn)

56 53 Eh.

Bunch of leftists directly funding National Socialists?

What's crooked about that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (Y2NSe)

Seems on brand really.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (bss/y)

======

The SPLC defended Nazis in Illinois because they agreed with them.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (Y2NSe)

57 Many states use a Multistate Bar Exam (multiple choice in my day) produced by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. I don't see any direct affiliation between them and the ABA, although there is probably significant overlap.

The remainder of state bar exams are state-specific essay questions produced by that state's bar examiners.

The ABA has no direct involvement.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (GD2xa)

58 Brandon Gill asking that broad the other day about which was her favorite abortion method was kinda epic.

Yup. He seems to have no time for the usual "my friends across the aisle" nonsense.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

59 I hope I'm wrong and he's straight and true, but I've seen so many promising R House reps go simply nuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Y2NSe)

Eyepatch McCain is a good example, probably the epitome of what we are talking about. Even more than McCain himself- he was always a waffling, deceitful little shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:18 AM (bss/y)

60
I hope I'm wrong and he's straight and true, but I've seen so many promising R House reps go simply nuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:16 AM (Y2NSe)


I hate Illinois Nazis

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

61
That dude strikes me as having a future like a combination of Dan Crenshaw and Matt Gaetz.

I hope I'm wrong and he's straight and true, but I've seen so many promising R House reps go simply nuts.

I mean, the guy has a Superman spit curl in front. What more do you need to know?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

62 57 Many states use a Multistate Bar Exam (multiple choice in my day) produced by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. I don't see any direct affiliation between them and the ABA, although there is probably significant overlap.

The remainder of state bar exams are state-specific essay questions produced by that state's bar examiners.

The ABA has no direct involvement.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (GD2xa)

In response to Huck Follywood

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:19 AM (GD2xa)

63
Eyepatch McCain is a good example, probably the epitome of what we are talking about. Even more than McCain himself- he was always a waffling, deceitful little shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:18 AM (bss/y)


He attended the WEF every year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

64 61 I mean, the guy has a Superman spit curl in front. What more do you need to know?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

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Bizarro Superman?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (Y2NSe)

65 Seems every lawyer these days is a Leftist
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 11:03 AM

I did some consulting work for a small law firm. They were pretty cool, I liked working with them.

Then I got LinkedIn connected with the two partners partners. And holy fuck every other day there’d be some post from them about Trump how he’s a fascist, how democracy is in danger, the works.



Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (c3Uld)

66 Three lawyers walk into a bar...

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (3iyPp)

67 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (Hq3hB)

RMBS, I mentioned this on the last thread. Kemal Ataturk was born in Thessalonica. Do you know if the birthplace is still standing, and, if so, if it's marked?

I can't imagine the Greeks would want to commemorate it, but maybe they would anyway to accommodate tourists.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

68 63 He attended the WEF every year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

=====

Bessent was a Soros acolyte, apparently.

And there's no better cabinet member for Trump.

Just a note that sometimes this guilt by association isn't that predictive (though I'd been arguing that Crenshaw should be voted against in the general election for like 6 years).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:21 AM (Y2NSe)

69 He attended the WEF every year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

Crenshaw? Yeah, that would be a tell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:21 AM (bss/y)

70 Too many fucking laws, too many fucking lawyers.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 04, 2026 11:21 AM (g8Ew8)

71 45 Brandon Gill asking that broad the other day about which was her favorite abortion method was kinda epic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
======================
Married to Dinesh D'Souza's daughter, and had Laura Ingraham's old college job as Editor In Chief of the conservative Dartmouth Review.

I think he will be solid (unlike the very suspicious Josh Hawley, who I worry is a uniparty leader in the making).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (NIwpn)

72 70 Too many fucking laws, too many fucking lawyers.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 04, 2026 11:21 AM (g8Ew

'First: kill all the lawyers.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (bss/y)

73 Three lawyers walk into a bar...
Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM

*rubs head*

Ouch.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (Hq3hB)

74 I get that you are happy to see this Buck, but isn't the ABA still in charge of devising and administering the Bar exams, as well as disciplinary processes for the various state bar associations?

In other words, law schools may be throwing off their shackles, or starting to, but isn't it true that lawyers themselves are still in total thrall to the ABA?
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That varies by state. In NYS, the bar exam is administered by the state (Board of Bar Examiners, if I recall correctly, it has been a long time since i worried about the bar) and attorney admission and discipline is controlled by the state court system. There is no requirement to be a member of any bar organization (ABA, NYSBA, NYCBA, and others) to be admitted and to practice in NY. I do not belong to any bar association. The state bar association and city bar association have some say in the election and appointment of judges, but the reality is, at least where I practice, you have to be a democrat, because NYS is a one party state.

Some states have a separate bar association which handles attorney admission and discipline.

The bar exam is now some universal bar exam.

Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (Fbt5B)

75 Paul Pelosi says he is very, very interested in the AI art.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (jehhT)

76 Republican Congress critters do what their donors tell them. It’s impossible to win a federal election without their money. And the they’re beholden to them and not the voters. None of them mean anything they say.

Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (c3Uld)

77 *stifles OT comment when he notices we are not over 100*

So, lawyers, amirite?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (bss/y)

78 Teamsters > SEIU > AFSCME > AMA > ABA

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (RIvkX)

79 Bessent was not a "Soros acolyte" at all, at least politically. Bessent ran a hedge fund and Soros was a big investor.

Soros invests money in funds managed by all sorts of people, including Bessent and also Stanley Druckenmiller, another huge Republican donor and conservative.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:24 AM (NIwpn)

80 Married to Dinesh D'Souza's daughter

I was genuinely surprised at that. I didn't think D'Souza was so old.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

81 I looked it up. I guess the house where Ataturk was born is now a museum.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

82 Just like with legal marijuana, I have a warning: this makes sense and it should be done. But don't be dumb enough to be in the first few. Jump on the bandwagon after like 20 states have done it.

You don't want to be flooded with armies of attorneys. Even worse than a tidal wave of stoners.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 04, 2026 11:24 AM (BI5O2)

83 Thessalonica. Do you know if the birthplace is still standing, and, if so, if it's marked?

I can't imagine the Greeks would want to commemorate it, but maybe they would anyway to accommodate tourists.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:20 AM

Not sure about the birthplace, but there is an Attaturk museum. I'll be ignoring it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 11:25 AM (Hq3hB)

84 > NEA > AFT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:25 AM (RIvkX)

85 76 Republican Congress critters do what their donors tell them. It’s impossible to win a federal election without their money. And the they’re beholden to them and not the voters. None of them mean anything they say.
Posted by: Heroq at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (c3Uld)

That’s on us for not showing up and reminding them who they work for. Money is one thing. Votes are another.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 11:25 AM (gHfAU)

86 Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (Fbt5B)

I know the bar exam system is fair because of the number of powerfully connected Leftist retards who failed it multiple times.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (kxLc1)

87 We worked very hard to bring credit to the ABA.

Posted by: Julius Erving and Rick Barry at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (oftw2)

88 76 Republican Congress critters do what their donors tell them. It’s impossible to win a federal election without their money. And the they’re beholden to them and not the voters. None of them mean anything they say.

Posted by: Heroq

Step away from the black pill!

https://is.gd/FxO5p3

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

89 I got 2 more mailers after the election.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (AvxYT)

90 25 LOL at the AI fuckup in your pic, Buck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:07 AM (utfVc)


He as 2 hammers!

so he can hammer out danger and warning at the same time. efficient!

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 11:27 AM (oY6Yp)

91 WSJ reports several vessels struck by Iran on the Strait. US sends destroyers to”chase them off”.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 04, 2026 11:27 AM (zfkPG)

92 Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (Fbt5B)
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Thank you for that.

The DC bar discipline process allowed Kevin Clinesmith to keep his law license, ever after his repeated submission of knowingly false documents to the FISA court, and so I hope someday, the DC processes will be independent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:27 AM (NIwpn)

93 I looked it up. I guess the house where Ataturk was born is now a museum.

His picture is everywhere in Turkey. Many don't like Erdogan, but everyone appears to agree on Ataturk. He's safely dead.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

94 84 > NEA > AFT
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:25 AM (RIvkX)

Both should be destroyed. No public unions.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 11:28 AM (gHfAU)

95 We worked very hard to bring credit to the ABA.
Posted by: Julius Erving and Rick Barry at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (oftw2)
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heh.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 04, 2026 11:28 AM (ViCCR)

96 He as 2 hammers!

so he can hammer out danger and warning at the same time. efficient!

Ah, but can he hammer out the love between my brother and my sister, all over this land?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

97 His picture is everywhere in Turkey.
Posted by: Archimedes

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

98 I don't think it's a stretch to lump the ABA in with the likes of the SPLC or any other non-profit (or for profit) entities that work closely with FedGov.

It does appear that most, if not all of them lean decidedly left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 11:28 AM (jehhT)

99 there's a disco ball orbiting the planet

https://tinyurl.com/2yutzwsb
Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (ZxPkt)
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And?

Posted by: K.C. at May 04, 2026 11:29 AM (RIvkX)

100 Rick Barry at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (oftw2)

You shoot free throws like a girl. ( a very very good girl)

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:29 AM (kxLc1)

101 I know the bar exam system is fair because of the number of powerfully connected Leftist retards who failed it multiple times.
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Lol.

Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:29 AM (Fbt5B)

102 Wasn't Ataturk more secular?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:29 AM (AvxYT)

103 The ABA is one of the worst out-sourcing of governmental power to NGOs in America.

they have no right, not even a whisper of such, to set accreditation standards.

Imagine if a state gave Standard Oil the exclusive right to collect-and set!--gasoline taxes?
But also with no accountability or transparency in how the set or collect those taxes?
But then, imagine that Standard Oil donates 99.9%, millions per year, to the party that granted them that exclusive monopoly?

That's the ABA.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 11:30 AM (MtSIY)

104 96 He as 2 hammers!

so he can hammer out danger and warning at the same time. efficient!
--------
Ah, but can he hammer out the love between my brother and my sister, all over this land?

he's gonna need a whole *bag* of hammers!

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 11:30 AM (oY6Yp)

105 Wasn't Ataturk more secular?

Yes. Erdogan is trying to take it back to a more Islam-dominated state.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 04, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

106 The bar exam is now some universal bar exam.
Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (Fbt5B)

I saw The Max Rebo Band open for Sex Derringers, The Pioneers of Little Person Punk at the Universal Bar in Mos Eisley a long time ago.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 04, 2026 11:30 AM (w/O5Q)

107 99 there's a disco ball orbiting the planet

https://tinyurl.com/2yutzwsb
Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (ZxPkt)
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And?

party time!

Posted by: anachronda at May 04, 2026 11:31 AM (oY6Yp)

108 Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (GD2xa)
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Thanks to you as well for that explanation

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:31 AM (NIwpn)

109 i had a boss tell me one time: "If we didn't have lawyers, we wouldn't need them." (The more I thought about it, the more that idea is generalizable.)

Unfortunately, one you have them, then you need them. And can't get rid of them.

Posted by: yara at May 04, 2026 11:31 AM (WUJRe)

110 the greatest movie of all time is your personal favorite movie, whoever you are

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

In my case, this is not true. I love the greatest movie of all time but it's not my personal favorite #1 desert island movie.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:31 AM (U6Usv)

111 102 Wasn't Ataturk more secular?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:29 AM (AvxYT)

Yes. He was the one who started the tradition that Erdogan stomped on of the military acting as a check on runaway religious domination of the country.

Erdogan baited them (remember 16 or 17?) and crushed the military elements. False flag. See J6.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:32 AM (bss/y)

112 Wasn't Ataturk more secular?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yes. Because he and many of his associates were born in Europe, and saw themselves as Europeans.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

113 The ongoing descent to idiocracy. You really will be able to get your degree at Costco.

This is all according to the Christian Nationalist agenda, and yes, one of the primary goals is to replace secular authority and expertise with biblical authority, delivered with an iron fist. You know, like Iran.

Florida is doing everything to de-legitimize their university system.

As a Floridian, I hate Florida. I am also far left. I am also an educator and this is the right answer. If the ABA would stop being so anti-online law schools in 2026 this wouldn’t have happened. It’s not the 1930s. Online schooling is just as effective, and sometimes more effective, than in person classrooms. 100% the ABAs fault for calling these states’ bluffs.

I'm sure their timing has NOTHING to do with Trump's grudge against the ABA. Sovereign Citizen School of Law - Austin Campus.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (uYvMy)

114 I think Louisana's bar exam includes Napoleonic law or at least it did.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (kxLc1)

115
You shoot free throws like a girl. ( a very very good girl)

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:29 AM (kxLc1)

You're saying he shoots free throws like a dog?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (U6Usv)

116 The SPLC defended Nazis in Illinois because they agreed with them.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (Y2NSe)
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Heh. Wrong four letter Nazi-loving group, but your point stands.

Posted by: The ACLU at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (NIwpn)

117 Membah we used to measure dumbness by hammers until Sally Kohn came along.

Membah her? Good times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (RIvkX)

118 he's gonna need a whole *bag* of hammers!

I keep hearing that phrase when people are talking about me. Can someone explain why?

Posted by: AOC at May 04, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

119 83 Just like with legal marijuana, I have a warning: this makes sense and it should be done. But don't be dumb enough to be in the first few. Jump on the bandwagon after like 20 states have done it.

You don't want to be flooded with armies of attorneys. Even worse than a tidal wave of stoners.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 04, 2026 11:24 AM (BI5O2)
'You got that right.'
-formerly beautiful Colorado Springs.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 11:34 AM (LHPAg)

120 I think Louisana's bar exam includes Napoleonic law or at least it did.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Louisiana's laws are a mixed bag of Spanish, French, and English stuff. I've read that their bar exam takes the longest of any state's.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

121 ZH used this image in an article to throw shade at Trump, but I think it's pretty cool: https://tinyurl.com/yc4zruva

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (cWLG3)

122
The Muslim-only event in June is being organized and run by the East Plano Islamic Center."

Posted by: one hour sober

When is Amish day?
Buddhist?
Baptist?
Lutheran?
Catholic?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (8CTam)

123 113 This is all according to the Christian Nationalist agenda, and yes, one of the primary goals is to replace secular authority and expertise with biblical authority, delivered with an iron fist. You know, like Iran.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (uYvMy)

======

"Also, I root for Iran against America, I want to import millions of Muslims, and I have no problems with Muslims imposing Sharia on America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (Y2NSe)

124 The DC bar discipline process allowed Kevin Clinesmith to keep his law license, ever after his repeated submission of knowingly false documents to the FISA court, and so I hope someday, the DC processes will be independent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:27 AM (NIwpn)
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If I recall, he plead to a felony. That was world class bullshit by the DC court to sentence him to probation and let him back into practice within 2 years. In NYS, his ass would have been automatically disbarred by statute. Though I strongly suspect that the NYS court would certainly have not given him prison time, particularly with the 2019 "bail reform". Which is also bullshit, his ass should have done a few years at a minimum.

Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (Fbt5B)

125 In my case, this is not true. I love the greatest movie of all time but it's not my personal favorite #1 desert island movie.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:31 AM (U6Usv)

Yeah. A couple examples:

Citizen Kane. Beautiful movie. Insanely well done (as a visual art form.) Hate watching it.

Passion of the Christ. Best religious movie of all time (especially for a traditional Catholic.) Great visuals, acting, all of it. I own it on Blu-Ray. Never rewatched it.

By contrast, I love Fellowship of the Ring. Great movie but not the apex of the film making art. I would argue it is one of my most 'enjoyable' films because I continuiously want to reengage with it. Does that make it 'best'? I don't think so, per se.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (bss/y)

126 You're saying he shoots free throws like a dog?
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:33 AM (U6Usv)

I'm slow. That snark went over my head?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (kxLc1)

127 The bar exam is now some universal bar exam.
Posted by: Penfold at May 04, 2026 11:22 AM (Fbt5B)

Surely all states have a state specific portion of the test. But it's been awhile since I quit practicing law.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:36 AM (GD2xa)

128 Everybody hates lawyers until they're in the dock. Then they want the sleaziest, shysteryish lawyer that money can buy.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

129 In 1995, VA bar was probably the hardest exam I've ever taken. Thought I failed miserably. I passed. In 1996, I thought CA bar was a breeze. Even left early. I passed.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 11:37 AM (W5mpo)

130 Speaking of AI, law is the perfect application for it. I assume demand for paralegal work will go down significantly as firms incorporate AI into their workflow.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)

131 My top ten favorite movie list is basically a ten way tie.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:37 AM (kxLc1)

132 Surely all states have a state specific portion of the test. But it's been awhile since I quit practicing law.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:36 AM (GD2xa)

Aren't most state laws just copy/paste of other states laws.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:39 AM (3iyPp)

133 Every one knows Ghost Ship is the best marvel vid ever made.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 04, 2026 11:40 AM (3KDFs)

134 i had a boss tell me one time: "If we didn't have lawyers, we wouldn't need them." (The more I thought about it, the more that idea is generalizable.)
--
If you're the only lawyer in town, you'll go bankrupt pretty quick.

If there are two lawyers in town, you'll both get rich.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (MtSIY)

135 Prometheus. It’s like I don’t even know you all anymore.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)

136 By contrast, I love Fellowship of the Ring. Great movie but not the apex of the film making art. I would argue it is one of my most 'enjoyable' films because I continuiously want to reengage with it. Does that make it 'best'? I don't think so, per se.
_____

It's the best of the trilogy. As a long time reader of the books before the movies came out, FOTR was the closest adaptation of the 3. Changes from book to movie were expected and the choices Jackson made were defensible. Not so much for TT. And worse for ROTK, which makes it nearly unwatchable knowing that it could have been so much better with a more faithful adaptation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (Dv3i1)

137 >> ZH used this image in an article to throw shade at Trump, but I think it's pretty cool:

You mean the Russian propaganda site whose views you continue to push?

Posted by: Vengeance at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (zfkPG)

138 My brother, a law professor, was once rated by his students as "a windbag who loves to hear himself talk". We who love him most agree with that description; it may even be charitable. But I also think that might be a core attribute of being a lawyer.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (qLtr3)

139 Aren't most state laws just copy/paste of other states laws.
Posted by: Reforger

In some cases. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is an example. Though it's not total copy/paste, as each state has tweaked it some to suit its needs.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

140
Q: How many lawyers does it take to shingle a roof?








A: Depends how thin you slice them.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (+p5er)

141 Surely all states have a state specific portion of the test. But it's been awhile since I quit practicing law.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 11:36 AM (GD2xa)

Aren't most state laws just copy/paste of other states laws.
Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:39 AM (3iyPp)

Missouri has a unique "pics or it didn't happen" statute.

Posted by: Internet facts at May 04, 2026 11:42 AM (+IsEU)

142 In 1995, VA bar was probably the hardest exam I've ever taken. Thought I failed miserably. I passed. In 1996, I thought CA bar was a breeze. Even left early. I passed.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
__________

The multistate was definitely the hardest exam I've ever taken. Out of 200, I was absolutely sure of my answer on less than 10. A lot of the questions seemed to be picking the least wrong of four wrong answers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 11:42 AM (XvL8K)

143 I misread the title as "ABBA" and this clip I saw yesterday came to mind:

https://youtu.be/iEikjzZO2N8

Posted by: pookysgirl was punished with ABBA as a kid at May 04, 2026 11:42 AM (Wt5PA)

144 And worse for ROTK, which makes it nearly unwatchable knowing that it could have been so much better with a more faithful adaptation.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (Dv3i1)

Agreed on this. I hate watching people go crazy over th movie version of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.

Dammit. 'Surprise' Cavalry charge. 'Surprise'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:43 AM (bss/y)

145 Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

I got my real estate license just so I could put it on my resume when I graduated college even though I had no intention of using it . It was known to be a difficult test to pass at the time so a plus on a resume.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:43 AM (kxLc1)

146 m slow. That snark went over my head?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (kxLc1)

You said a very very good girl

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:43 AM (U6Usv)

147 If I recall, he plead to a felony. That was world class bullshit by the DC court to sentence him to probation and let him back into practice within 2 years. In NYS, his ass would have been automatically disbarred by statute.
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Those disbarment rules are merely suggestions--If you're on Team Evil.

See how they disbarred Rudy.
And Trump's lawyer in CA.

neither of which committed any crime at all.

And they both were perfectly within all the ethical rules of "zealous advocacy for your client."

Fuck the ABA, fuck the state bar associations--all are illegal exercises of governmental power.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 11:44 AM (MtSIY)

148 I'm sure some might remember how many commie lawyers were offering pro-bono services to rioters during the BLM riots. The institution is lousy with them.

Posted by: fb at May 04, 2026 11:44 AM (D/cuw)

149 Hell, the Rankin Bass kid's version captured it better. Everything is at it's darkest. The Witch King is confronting Gandalf. All seems lost.

Then a single ray of sunshine breaks through. A cock crows. And then the Rohirrim smash into the Forces of Darkness like the Fist of an Angry God.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:45 AM (bss/y)

150 Trump raped me in the men's room during my bar exam in New Jersey in 1966.

Call me Donald!

Posted by: Barney Fag, almost dead at May 04, 2026 11:45 AM (AP4bj)

151 Rick Barry at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (oftw2)

You shoot free throws like a girl. ( a very very good girl)

As I recall, he offered to teach Shaq how to hit free throws and Shaq replied that he'd rather miss than shoot underhand.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 04, 2026 11:45 AM (vTZFs)

152 The biggest problem we have is that too many lawyers become politicians.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 04, 2026 11:45 AM (g8Ew8)

153 You said a very very good girl
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:43 AM (U6Usv)

Heh. Thanks Ben.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:46 AM (kxLc1)

154 Am I really hanging out with a bunch of lawyers?
I don't know a single one in meatspace.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:46 AM (3iyPp)

155 The multistate was definitely the hardest exam I've ever taken. Out of 200, I was absolutely sure of my answer on less than 10. A lot of the questions seemed to be picking the least wrong of four wrong answers.
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Yup.
They try so hard to make every answer partially to mostly right that every year, they have to go back and give credit for multiple right answers on questions because of that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 11:46 AM (MtSIY)

156 152 The biggest problem we have is that too many lawyers become politicians.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 04, 2026 11:45 AM (g8Ew

You have identified two problems here.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar8)

157 I’m old enough to remember all the top tier law firms fighting to represent Gitmo terrorists pro bono.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 11:47 AM (4KUe5)

158 I thought ABA was a Swedish pop music group.

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2026 11:49 AM (PVV5z)

159 Thx Buck. When I became a lawyer that n 89 I joined the ABA. After about a year of their fundraising and their left wing magazine I got rid of my membership. NY Bar Association is even worse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 11:49 AM (gu0hJ)

160 Am I really hanging out with a bunch of lawyers?
I don't know a single one in meatspace.
Posted by: Reforger


Seems like most of the Horde are either lawyers or lawyer-adjacent (I was a paralegal) or some kind of engineer.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

161 158 I thought ABA was a Swedish pop music group.
Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2026 11:49 AM (PVV5z)

You thought 'Dancing Queen' was about a girl?

Class Action Attorney.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:50 AM (bss/y)

162 I don't hate lawyers. They're like bees. You need them. But you don't want them swarming all around you. Let other states become Lawyerville USA and let them get entrenched there before pulling the trigger yourself.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (BI5O2)

163 ABA has a lot more power than the AMA.

Get rid of both.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (2OYwF)

164 The disintegration of the mythology around professional institutions and "experts" is where high trust societies go to die.

I guess we can blame the Boomers for this.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (wBaIH)

165 I thought ABA was a Swedish pop music group.
Posted by: Weasel

You know who was a big ABBA fan? G. Gordon Liddy! He had them on his radio show once.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

166 The Louisiana real Estate exam multiple choice section was below or something similar.

A.
B.
C.
Both A and C
Neither A and C
All of the above
None of the above

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:52 AM (kxLc1)

167 164 The disintegration of the mythology around professional institutions and "experts" is where high trust societies go to die.

I guess we can blame the Boomers for this.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (wBaIH)

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America was more American and more high trust before the ABA was ever formed and when Abraham Lincoln learned how to be a lawyer just reading from books.

The infatuation with large institutions as some kind of authority in American life is an aberration that needs to die, replaced with smaller scale, more localized support.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:53 AM (Y2NSe)

168 You know who was a big ABBA fan? G. Gordon Liddy! He had them on his radio show once.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

He also passed a bar exam.
I'm starting to see a connection.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:54 AM (3iyPp)

169 168 You know who was a big ABBA fan? G. Gordon Liddy! He had them on his radio show once.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

He also passed a bar exam.
I'm starting to see a connection.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:54 AM (3iyPp)

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There are no coincidences!

Wake up sheeple!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:54 AM (Y2NSe)

170 Favorite Lawyer movie

The Lincoln Lawyer


Man there are a ton of layers movies.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:55 AM (kxLc1)

171 The infatuation with large institutions as some kind of authority in American life is an aberration that needs to die, replaced with smaller scale, more localized support.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Agreed. Well said.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

172 137 >> ZH used this image in an article to throw shade at Trump, but I think it's pretty cool:

You mean the Russian propaganda site whose views you continue to push?
Posted by: Vengeance at May 04, 2026 11:41 AM (zfkPG)
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You have me mixed up with someone else. Anytime I mention them it's to criticize the anti-American slant of their articles, not to mention the virulently antisemitic comment sections.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 11:55 AM (cWLG3)

173 170 Favorite Lawyer movie

The Lincoln Lawyer


Man there are a ton of layers movies.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:55 AM (kxLc1)

My Cousin Vinny

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2026 11:55 AM (KL70k)

174 Antihamite.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:56 AM (AvxYT)

175 My Cousin Vinny
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 04, 2026 11:55 AM (KL70k)

That was a contender.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 11:56 AM (kxLc1)

176 Speaking of Law, this female should be arrested ASAP: "Gray-haired woman in 'Make America Kind Again' t-shirt filmed delightedly beating Donald Trump pinata to pulp with metal bar"



Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 11:57 AM (GD0B3)

177 My wife says that the articles on ZH are good, but she stays out of the comments.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

178 Our local county bar association decided to make recommendations on judges . We took a vote at a restaurant meeting and argued about it . Myself and a few others argued that rating qualifed or unqualified would seem like a popularity contest or sucking up. We were defeated. Literally the public wrote letters to the editor of our local rag when the ratings were made public. The letters echoed exactly what we argued. A year later the bar association stopped their rating. Warmed the coccles of my heart to see the self important twits smacked back

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 11:57 AM (gu0hJ)

179 176 Speaking of Law, this female should be arrested ASAP: "Gray-haired woman in 'Make America Kind Again' t-shirt filmed delightedly beating Donald Trump pinata to pulp with metal bar"



Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 11:57 AM (GD0B3)

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It's Trump's fault she has no grandchildren because she aborted all of her spawn 40-60 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:57 AM (Y2NSe)

180 "While sporting the golden rule on her back, she ferociously beat a pinata made to resemble Donald Trump, until the replica's head was decapitated.

The MAKA woman smiled and laughed, delivering more vicious blows as the cheers from the surrounding crowd grew louder."

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 11:58 AM (GD0B3)

181 The infatuation with large institutions as some kind of authority in American life is an aberration that needs to die, replaced with smaller scale, more localized support.
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[In Dalek voice] - Consolidate, consolidate, consolidate . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 11:58 AM (2OYwF)

182 Because every Subject Matter Expert shoud give testimony worthy of an Oscar.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 11:58 AM (3iyPp)

183 Favorite Lawyer movie
The Lincoln Lawyer

Man there are a ton of layers movies.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
_________

Worst lawyer movie, from a lawyer perspective: The Verdict.

After the judge struck the testimony of his expert, Newman's case would have been dismissed on a directed verdict.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (XvL8K)

184 180 "While sporting the golden rule on her back, she ferociously beat a pinata made to resemble Donald Trump, until the replica's head was decapitated.

The MAKA woman smiled and laughed, delivering more vicious blows as the cheers from the surrounding crowd grew louder."

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 11:58 AM (GD0B3)

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The Democrat candidate for PA Senate who was arrested for leaving threatening voicemails for Fetterman's (including threats to cut his daughter's throat) has a "Be Kind" pennant hanging in his office where he does video interviews.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (Y2NSe)

185 Antihamite.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:56 AM (AvxYT)

I may prefer Curly, Larry, and Moe, but I am in no way an antiShempite.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (utfVc)

186 ABA - prepare to be assimilated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 12:00 PM (2GVsD)

187 The Democrat candidate for PA Senate who was arrested for leaving threatening voicemails for Fetterman's (including threats to cut his daughter's throat) has a "Be Kind" pennant hanging in his office where he does video interviews.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (Y2NSe)

Sociopaths.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 12:00 PM (GD0B3)

188 187 The Democrat candidate for PA Senate who was arrested for leaving threatening voicemails for Fetterman's (including threats to cut his daughter's throat) has a "Be Kind" pennant hanging in his office where he does video interviews.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (Y2NSe)

Sociopaths.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 12:00 PM (GD0B3)

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He will murder everyone who doesn't match his politics until human nature is changed and we have the New Socialist Man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (Y2NSe)

189 Miracle on 34th Street has entertaining courtroom drama.

Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (wVcYX)

190 @185 I'm against anyone who hams up the situation.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (cWLG3)

191 It's a great start.

Now do medical schools. Nobody fesses up as to who keeps the med school slots so low, but Trump is a builder and a solver, so get some schools built, or we will continue importing doctors, and their entire families and friends, from places that are not our friends.

Posted by: PJ at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (+jscL)

192 > The infatuation with large institutions as some kind of authority in American life is an aberration that needs to die, replaced with smaller scale, more localized support.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think this infatuation also elevates people's social and political status when they "get close" or are part of those institutions. It's like the caste system. Only aligned with ideological and political postures and not, necessarily, money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (jehhT)

193 176 Speaking of Law, this female should be arrested ASAP: "Gray-haired woman in 'Make America Kind Again' t-shirt filmed delightedly beating Donald Trump pinata to pulp with metal bar"
____

Far lefty in the neighborhood has a sign on his tree lawn that says "Hate won't make America Great". No kidding, so how about stopping all the hate coming from the left, you jerk.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 12:02 PM (Dv3i1)

194 192 I think this infatuation also elevates people's social and political status when they "get close" or are part of those institutions. It's like the caste system. Only aligned with ideological and political postures and not, necessarily, money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (jehhT)

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Who cares about being King of the Lousiville group of lawyers when one can be the King of the Kentucky group of lawyers?

Who cares about being King of the Kentucky group of lawyers when one can be the King of the American group of lawyers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:03 PM (Y2NSe)

195 After the judge struck the testimony of his expert, Newman's case would have been dismissed on a directed verdict.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (XvL8

Yep their law consultants were lacking. Could have come up with a different scenario to get the same direction to the desired ending.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:03 PM (kxLc1)

196 Antihamite.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 11:56 AM (AvxYT)

I may prefer Curly, Larry, and Moe, but I am in no way an antiShempite.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (utfVc)

Disorder in the Court!

Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at May 04, 2026 12:03 PM (wVcYX)

197 The Indiana Pacers used to be in the ABA.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2026 12:03 PM (Cqx++)

198 Liddy was an ADA in Dutchess county across the river from me. Led a raid on an estate where Timothy Leary was staying. Then led a raid on Bard College arresting amongst others Becker and Fagen. He also pulled a gun on someone in a traffic dispute. Interesting lunatic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:04 PM (gu0hJ)

199 the next to defenestrate the ABA.

Punishment fits crime.

I love that there's a specific word for throwing someone out a window.

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 12:04 PM (FhXTo)

200 It's Trump's fault she has no grandchildren because she aborted all of her spawn 40-60 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:57 AM (Y2NSe)

This is actually a really big issue. There are millions of women out there that have had one. Their minds are made up. They will never admit they made a mistake and killed their own kid. To conceive of abortion as murder...
Rope the poor girls into the murder cult early on and it's support for life.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 12:04 PM (3iyPp)

201 It riot impossible to do. There's a model.
Back in the dark ages, no one could sell any device which plugged in to 110V (the electrical grid) without that device being approved by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a private organization, like the ABA, which gave it, again, like the ABA, life and death power. The complaints were not political, instead they were economic; their charges for approval reflected that monopoly status.
The government (I believe it's the FTC) has established standards for NRTLs (Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories) and now there are multiple organizations whose approval is sufficient to allow sale of electrical devices.
Following that, the government needs to establish standards for accrediting organizations which would apply to both schools and post-education as well.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 04, 2026 12:05 PM (TNGIV)

202 121 ZH used this image in an article to throw shade at Trump, but I think it's pretty cool: https://tinyurl.com/yc4zruva
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 04, 2026 11:35 AM (cWLG3)
Aarrrggggghhhh!

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 12:05 PM (LHPAg)

203 The Vagina Squires.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:05 PM (AvxYT)

204 we will continue importing doctors"

Of course! Who wants white guys going to med school?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 12:05 PM (XuXeR)

205 200 This is actually a really big issue. There are millions of women out there that have had one. Their minds are made up. They will never admit they made a mistake and killed their own kid. To conceive of abortion as murder...
Rope the poor girls into the murder cult early on and it's support for life.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 12:04 PM (3iyPp)

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There's a reason the birth replacement rate of American conservatives is roughly 2.1 and the birth replacement rate of American progressives is about 1.2.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:05 PM (Y2NSe)

206 Best courtroom sceen is The Fountainhead.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 12:05 PM (3iyPp)

207 182 Because every Subject Matter Expert shoud give testimony worthy of an Oscar.
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Mona Lisa Vito!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (Dv3i1)

208 The ABA also disbarred John Eastman for being Trump's lawyer because Eastman gave Trump advice on possible ways to handle the crooked 2020 election results.

The ABA is rotten to the core, and should be burned, it's land salted so nobody ever can use it again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

209 I love that there's a specific word for throwing someone out a window.
Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 12:04 PM (FhXTo)

Inorite? (shrugs)

Posted by: zombie Augusto Pinochet at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (utfVc)

210 208 The ABA also disbarred John Eastman for being Trump's lawyer because Eastman gave Trump advice on possible ways to handle the crooked 2020 election results.

The ABA is rotten to the core, and should be burned, it's land salted so nobody ever can use it again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

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Wasn't that the California bar that did that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (Y2NSe)

211 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 04, 2026 11:59 AM (XvL8

Then again the NY judge allowed a tort claim to go forward when the plaintiff couldn't provide a date of loss.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (kxLc1)

212 192 I think this infatuation also elevates people's social and political status when they "get close" or are part of those institutions. It's like the caste system. Only aligned with ideological and political postures and not, necessarily, money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:01 PM (jehhT)

======

Who cares about being King of the Lousiville group of lawyers when one can be the King of the Kentucky group of lawyers?

Who cares about being King of the Kentucky group of lawyers when one can be the King of the American group of lawyers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:03 PM (Y2NSe)

Being The Texas Hammer has been a good gig for 50+ years.

Posted by: Jim Adler at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (wVcYX)

213 Why isn't defenestrate in the original Russian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:07 PM (AvxYT)

214 Lawyers in Love

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 12:07 PM (Gqar8)

215 ....Tort claim against Trump

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:07 PM (kxLc1)

216 Its amazing how DeSantis implementing just the basics of vote integrity not only turned FL from purple to deep red, but now he and the rest of FL are actually the most active conservative state in the country.

And again, he didn't beat Gillum by that much...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:08 PM (sKqQm)

217 Being The Texas Hammer has been a good gig for 50+ years.
Posted by: Jim Adler at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (wVcYX)

He gave great Christmas parties.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:08 PM (kxLc1)

218 215 ....Tort claim against Trump

I have a torte claim. It's waiting for me in the fridge.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (Dv3i1)

219 216 Its amazing how DeSantis implementing just the basics of vote integrity not only turned FL from purple to deep red, but now he and the rest of FL are actually the most active conservative state in the country.

And again, he didn't beat Gillum by that much...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:08 PM (sKqQm)

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"Cleaning up the vote in FL doesn't matter because all the progressives in New York are moving to Tampa to turn the state blue."
-2020

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (Y2NSe)

220 love that there's a specific word for throwing someone out a window"

Toss me...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

221 There's a reason the birth replacement rate of American conservatives is roughly 2.1 and the birth replacement rate of American progressives is about 1.2.

The most impactful thing with feminism is that it persuade non-FSA class left wing women to stop having kids.

You would struggle to come up with a more immediate and negative reaction to an ideology...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (sKqQm)

222 California bar recommended disbarring Eastman. The court acted on it. Bar associations can recommend disbarment but a court has to do it. The ABA has no power to do anything unless people give it to them, ie rating law schools

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (gu0hJ)

223 Great lawyer movies:

The Cain Mutiny
Breaker Morant

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

224 The Supreme Court has restored your right to sacrifice your children to Moloch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (AvxYT)

225 And again, he didn't beat Gillum by that much..."

We tried!

/Dade county elections

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

226 > There's a reason the birth replacement rate of American conservatives is roughly 2.1 and the birth replacement rate of American progressives is about 1.2.
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At some point down the road, I'd think the progressives would become... extinct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:11 PM (jehhT)

227 The other hard left accreditation group that needs to be defenestrated forthwith is the American Medical Association. I have read that only 17% of doctors actually belong to it but they really throw their weight around in the Public Square and most people believe they represent all doctors in the United States.

Posted by: Beverly at May 04, 2026 12:11 PM (reMys)

228 215 ....Tort claim against Trump

I have a torte claim. It's waiting for me in the fridge.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (Dv3i1)

You'd better snarf that down, torte sweet!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 12:12 PM (wVcYX)

229 The best courtroom scene is in "Deliverance" when the hillbillys cross examine the canoeists and find Ned Beatty guilty.

Posted by: How Real Courts Work at May 04, 2026 12:12 PM (AP4bj)

230 At some point down the road, I'd think the progressives would become... extinct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:11 PM (jehhT)

Not a chance.

They're recruiting a solid 85% of every student who goes through the school system in any capacity or at any level.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (iNUL3)

231 Great lawyer movies:

The Cain Mutiny
Breaker Morant
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

Add To Kill A Mockingbird to that excellent list.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (wVcYX)

232 Great lawyer movies:

The Cain Mutiny
Breaker Morant
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

I hate the end scene with the defense lawyer scolding the defendants. Pure Hollywood.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (kxLc1)

233 Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 12:04 PM (gu0hJ)

Liddy and Leary later toured together, debating LSD among other topics.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

234 226 > There's a reason the birth replacement rate of American conservatives is roughly 2.1 and the birth replacement rate of American progressives is about 1.2.
---------
At some point down the road, I'd think the progressives would become... extinct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:11 PM (jehhT)

======

Studies show that at least 60% of one's politics comes from family. About 20% is explained by environment.

So, 80%, at least, of the conservative kids should end up conservative while 20% of the progressive kids are open to switching to conservative.

There's honestly only so much schools can do to undermine that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (Y2NSe)

235
Am I really hanging out with a bunch of lawyers?
I don't know a single one in meatspace.
Posted by: Reforger

Seems like most of the Horde are either lawyers or lawyer-adjacent (I was a paralegal) or some kind of engineer.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)



Which explains a lot about Teh Horde...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (e4Xc5)

236 We tried!

/Dade county elections
Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

Pikers.

Posted by: Philadelphia at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (3iyPp)

237 226 > There's a reason the birth replacement rate of American conservatives is roughly 2.1 and the birth replacement rate of American progressives is about 1.2.
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At some point down the road, I'd think the progressives would become... extinct.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 12:11 PM (jehhT)

This is why they have conquered the Education field, from Preschool to Post Doctoral. They Make Progressives.

Posted by: tubal at May 04, 2026 12:14 PM (Gqar8)

238 hate the end scene with the defense lawyer scolding the defendants. Pure Hollywood.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Are you kidding me? That's an awesome scene.

The Fred MacMurray character was a real scumbag.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

239 210 208 The ABA also disbarred John Eastman for being Trump's lawyer because Eastman gave Trump advice on possible ways to handle the crooked 2020 election results.

The ABA is rotten to the core, and should be burned, it's land salted so nobody ever can use it again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

=====

Wasn't that the California bar that did that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 12:06 PM (Y2NSe)

Same people.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

240 We tried!

/Dade county elections
Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

Pikers.
Posted by: Philadelphia at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (3iyPp)

Amateurs.

Posted by: Fulton County, GA at May 04, 2026 12:15 PM (wVcYX)

241 Which explains a lot about Teh Horde...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (e4Xc5)

Contrarian. The horde? No way!

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:15 PM (kxLc1)

242 Its amazing how DeSantis implementing just the basics of vote integrity not only turned FL from purple to deep red, but now he and the rest of FL are actually the most active conservative state in the country.

And again, he didn't beat Gillum by that much...
Posted by: 18-1


That shows you how much cheat was going on.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 04, 2026 12:15 PM (qoyWV)

243 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)

244 Are you kidding me? That's an awesome scene.

The Fred MacMurray character was a real scumbag.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

Not surprised you liked it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 04, 2026 12:16 PM (kxLc1)

245 I believe it was Giuliani who described how a truck full of fraudulent ballots was intercepted in Florida, which is why Gillum conceded.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (qoyWV)

246 The Best Court scenes are...

My Cousin Vinny
A Few Good Men
12 Angry Men *Not truly court but court adjacent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (XV/Pl)

247 Like James Bond or Remington Steele.

Mediaite
@Mediaite
Eric Swalwell Sent Women 'Videos of Him Masturbating' and Other Perverted Messages After Joining Snapchat to Restore 'Faith' in 'Democracy': Report

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (ndZc7)

248 Liddy and Leary later toured together, debating LSD among other topics.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

They actually became really good friends. The other weird Liddy one that I remember is an interview he did and Marylyn Manson was there too. They were almost high fiving each other at the end of it.

Posted by: Reforger at May 04, 2026 12:17 PM (3iyPp)

249 Buck generally doesn't use monkeys.

But I'd bet that'd change if he could find a picture of a monkey playing an upright bass.
Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM

Apes prefer the Long Necked Rickenbacker.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (4NO2D)

250 government needs to establish standards for accrediting organizations
=====
How did we get into this quagmire in the first place?

Moar Government!

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 12:18 PM (2OYwF)

251 Florida Man is dual-wielding sledgehammers, as only a Florida Man can.

Posted by: Florida Man. Tough as nails, crazy as hell. at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (TbWk/)

252 The SPLC defended Nazis in Illinois because they agreed with them.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (Y2NSe)


OK. That was the ACLU
Otherwise, your point stands.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 04, 2026 12:20 PM (zafwz)

253
love that there's a specific word for throwing someone out a window"

Toss me...
Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 12:09 PM (XuXeR)




Don't tell the elf.

Posted by: Gimli at May 04, 2026 12:23 PM (e4Xc5)

254 I struggled in a 3rd rate law school, but when I sat for the MD bar (way back when), I looked around at all these pointy headed people and concluded I would definitely do better than at least half of them. Passed, but I agree that about 95% of my answers were definitely least worst option.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 04, 2026 12:29 PM (AdHga)

255 Dammit! Where the hell is my hammer?

Posted by: Grabthar at May 04, 2026 12:31 PM (XeU6L)

256 Excellent -- thanks Buck!

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 12:33 PM (JqXxE)

257 " Until very recently, a degree from an ABA-accredited law school was necessary in all 50 states to be able to take the bar exam."

Not true for all 50 states. For decades California, for example, has allowed graduates of state accredited law schools that were NOT ABA accredited to sit for the California Bar, and to practice law if they passed the Bar; not a sure thing as the last Bar passing rate for California-only accredited schools was about 14%. Some lawyers who get admitted to the California Bar through this process can, or could in the past, get admitted to practice in other jurisdictions by taking other states' bar exams or through admission on foreign license. I've known a lawyer or two in the past who have done that.

California also had a program allowing students to "read law" with a California lawyer and if the student met the program requirements he or she could take the state bar without any law school whatsoever.

At different times other states have also had such programs; before WW 11 (eleven) my uncle took the Indiana Bar exam and practiced law without being a law school grad-he finished law school later, while he was practicing law.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 04, 2026 01:58 PM (7ZRgl)

258 It is one thing the leftists learned particularly well: in a high trust society, if you can capture the reliable institutions mentioned above and turn them to your own ends, then people will continue to believe in them (at least for a while) even if they are obviously captured.

See SPLC, NAACP, Courts, BBB, etc etc etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

The timeless quote from Iowahawk about skinsuits and demanding respect has entered the chat.

Speaking of quotes, there’s one from an old Dave Barry column about dealing with countries that give us problems. He advocated for dropping lawyers on them. If that didn’t work, drop more lawyers, and if that still didn’t work, put parachutes on the lawyers. I suspect he wrote that after some legal difficulties.

Posted by: Advo at May 04, 2026 02:08 PM (jO4mz)

259 Quit the ABA in 1991 when they came out against Clarence Thomas's nomination. Still have the no annual fee credit card though.

I have always held the same philosophy in politics. Never waivered on anything. The only way I used to be liberal was being against most wars, and now that is conservative too.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 04, 2026 02:09 PM (wGerL)

260 "I get that you are happy to see this Buck, but isn't the ABA still in charge of devising and administering the Bar exams, as well as disciplinary processes for the various state bar associations?"

Also not true. The ABA does not administer bar exams in all states and never did; I doubt they do so directly anywhere. The ABA has some influence on the law of a state (and thereby influences questions asked on the bar exam) through providing model rules of procedure which mostly have been adopted by the statest. I sat on my state's Ethics 2000 committee to evaluate the ABA's model Rules of Professional Responsibility. Our adoption recommendation included some modifications to the ABA's proposed rules.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners does prepare and administer the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam which is part of the Bar Exam for most or all US jurisdictions. The NCBE provides resources and assistance for bar exams to states and other bar jurisdictions. The NCBE is independent of The ABA, but they have a cooperative and interdependent relationship. Both The ABA and the NCBE draw their membership from roughly the same establishment.

lawyer discipline cont

Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 04, 2026 02:20 PM (7ZRgl)

261 Lawyer discipline

Lawyer discipline is handled differently in the various states, districts and territories in the US. More than half of all states are what is known as "unified bar states." Those states require lawyers to be members of the state bar association (most or all state bar associations are part of The ABA) and lawyer discipline is done by the state bar association (DC has a unified bar).

In other states lawyer discipline is handled by a government agency, generally as a part of the state court system administered by the state's highest court. Although the ABA drafted the model Rules of Professional Responsibility used, as modified by each state, for lawyer discipline in most or all states, I don't believe the ABA has an actual role in lawyer discipline anywhere-it might provide assistance or witnesses in high profile cases thought I never saw it.

lawyer discipline cont below...

Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 04, 2026 02:34 PM (7ZRgl)

262 Lawyer discipline-federal court...

Lawyer discipline for misconduct in Federal Court is handled by the individual districts or circuits-admission to federal court is done by the individual district and circuit courts. I never studied the subject, so I don't know if different district or circuit courts have different rules. What I know about the topic is through experience. I was once loaned out by my state's disciplinary agency to assist a federal court in investigating a case of lawyer misconduct in federal court. The District Court's rules allowed for such a joint investigation as the district court simply didn't have the resources or expertise to easily investigate the case on its own; the case also involved a state law violation so I would have investigated the case for my agency anyway.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 04, 2026 02:42 PM (7ZRgl)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Marsh Locomotive1.jpg

Locomotive Watering
Reginald Marsh

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (DSLf3)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (R11M+)

3 The EPA is outraged.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (jehhT)

4 I thought they took in water upfront?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (DSLf3)

5 Lotta breath comin' out of that locomotive.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (gtcuf)

6 The locomotive was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

7 Industrial. Needs an appropriate factory wall.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (L035F)

8 In the shuffling madness...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (skR0U)

9 I love trains!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

10 often hydrated, never lubricated.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

11 Is it a cloudy day? Or is there just that much smoke and steam in the air?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (21V+K)

12 Hey, there was a sale on black paint. I overbought!

Posted by: Reginald Marsh at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

13 Now I want a cigarette.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (i+SAx)

14 Oh, very nice. Love train art. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

15 9 I love trains!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

Me too!

Posted by: Graham Platzkreig at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (gtcuf)

16 Steam. It just works.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (Fbc0I)

17 . . . all de live-long day . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

18 A painting we punsters can get fired up about.

Posted by: Oh, no... at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

19 "Down at the station
Early in the morning
See the big 'ole pufferbelly
Standing in the road

See the engine driver
Pull his shiny throttle
"Choo Choo, Woo Woo"
There he goes!!"

I have continued to sing that song to all the babies I hold. They love it - just as I did.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (Kyh8Y)

20 A choo-choo!

Posted by: Joey Biden at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (T6PKz)

21 Trains = prime hobo-hunting grounds.

Posted by: fly gal at May 04, 2026 09:35 AM (IByKi)

22 Thomas the Blackpilled Tank Engine

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 09:35 AM (vjCCj)

23 Iron child out of a vulcan's forge
Metal scream and thrash
Red steel in the driving wheel
Hear the pistons clash
Black dragon breathing big black smoke
Howling up the tracks


Shit Lemmy said.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (snZF9)

24 A painting we punsters can get fired up about.
+++
Once we get up a head of steam.

Posted by: Groan at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

25 I have a wealthy left leaning train enthusiast in my circle of people I know.

He's constantly arguing the US should spend more on commuter rail but then again he vacations in Europe, south America and the Caribbean so not like he will be taking those train rides...

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

26 Good Grief! Serendipity --

Sister just sent me links to 'Big Boy' steam engine tour in the midwest. Last time one of the big steam engines came by, major highways were backed up for miles. We were going to use the opportunity for a family party because last time, we were not prepared for the interest.

Painting itself is a little too dark for me, but the fond associations are priceless.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (2OYwF)

27 Too much black in that painting.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

28 18 A painting we punsters can get fired up about.
Posted by: Oh, no... at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

Now I'm feeling pressured to join in.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 04, 2026 09:37 AM (i+SAx)

29 Bein' six years old I had seen some trains before
So it's hard to understand what we're at the depot for
Trains are big and black and smokin'- hotter'n July 4
But everybody's actin' like this might be something more...


...Look out here she comes she's coming
Look out there she goes she's gone

/The late Guy Clark

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:37 AM (I0N4X)

30 This painting makes me want to cough.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

31 The Paolo, how you say, is very familiar with the 'Big Boy'.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 04, 2026 09:38 AM (Kyh8Y)

32 It's kinda nice, but it would have to be hung in a hobby room or something.

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 09:38 AM (T6PKz)

33 OK Art.

She took the last train out my heart ooo-ooh
She took the last train now I think I'll make a brand-new start
She took the last tra-INE... out my heart...

(starts crying)

GREAT SONG

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (DgMqy)

34 The coal and oil trains roll thru here daily. I can't imagine why.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (Fbc0I)

35 Looks like the scene in Bill Kristols wife's room every Friday night.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (vjCCj)

36 And I ain't seen sunshine since I don't know when.

Posted by: The man in black at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Such a steamy piece of art on a Monday morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 04, 2026 09:40 AM (0nHVk)

38 Oil fired steam locomotive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 09:40 AM (4NO2D)

39 That was indelicate.

Posted by: Sifty boones at May 04, 2026 09:40 AM (vjCCj)

40 Train punz? Let's get 'em back on track.

Posted by: Arrrgh at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Midnight Train to Georgia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (ndZc7)

42 For those into steam trains, the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (world's largest operating steam locomotive) is traveling the United States in celebration of 250th anniversary.

Sunday, July 19th St. Louis Union Station
On display 0900 - 1500 hrs



Find public viewing locations here:

https://tinyurl.com/yz9tjt94

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (DSLf3)

43 I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (Fbc0I)

44 The Hooterville Cannonball has to wait for the Bradley girls to finish bathing.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (YFgeq)

45 Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

46 Pufferbelly Station restaurant at the train depot in G Jitty City serves a cinnamon roll as big as your face.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (I0N4X)

47 Midnight Train to Georgia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (ndZc7)

*synchronized dance moves*

Posted by: The Pips at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (wVcYX)

48 Midnight Train to Georgia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

"Woo! Woo!"

As a young man, it was my greatest desire to be a Pip.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (Kyh8Y)

49 Immediately thought of Jethro Tull.
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (gu0hJ)

50 You’d have to be crazy to want to make train puns. You’d have to have loco motives.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

51 Still beats working in a mine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (JkO4W)

52 Kind of ... childish? Not sure that is the right word.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (bss/y)

53 I need to water the locomotive, iykwimaityd.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 04, 2026 09:43 AM (8mulE)

54 Castles by the sea you made from sand
Hovercrafts and drones you built by hand
Forever fearless asking why and how
Locomotive just look at you now
No one else on earth has ever been so far

- Styx ("Locomotive" from THE MISSION)

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:44 AM (gtcuf)

55 She used to be an iron horse, twenty years ago
Used to bring the mail to me, through the ice and snow
I've sat alone and watched her, steaming through the night
Ninety tons of thunder lighting up the sky

She was a princess of the night
I saw the writing on the wall
She was a princess of the night
I take a ride across the sky

Speeding, sparks like lightning ,engine working hard
Furnace on the foot plate, shining in the night
Iron striking metal, the sound of racing steel
It's all I ever want to hear, it's music to my ears

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:44 AM (snZF9)

56 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

57 "Immediately thought of Jethro Tull."

*ahem*

Posted by: The Doobie Brothers at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

58 That's a pretty big locomotive for only six driving wheels.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

59 That hobo in the foreground ain't long for this world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (gnNyN)

60 He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls

Posted by: God took the handle and the train it won't stop going at May 04, 2026 09:47 AM (TbWk/)

61 When I was a kid in my hometown, the city had a park called "Mother Goose Land". A bunch of wonderful attractions for us kidlings: A sliding board that was built to resemble a wedge of swiss cheese, an Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe thing that you could crawl around in, Monstro the Whale from Pinocchio again, that you could walk into and many others.

The star attraction though was an old Nickle Plate RR loco with no fencing around. They did weld shut the boiler entrance but everything else was available to you. All the valves and pedals, etc. It was glorious.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (Kyh8Y)

62 With enough water and sunshine eventually it will grow into a great BIG train.

Posted by: That's science! at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (TbWk/)

63 The name's Jones. KC Jones.

Posted by: KC Jones at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

64 Is this the train that goes to Morrow?

https://youtu.be/zdEkm__55ik

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at May 04, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

65 4 I thought they took in water upfront?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (DSLf3)

That would be in the butt, Bob.

Posted by: Roy at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (qwype)

66 If you look closely you can see Nell Fenwick tied to the tracks.

But, never fear, Dudley Do-Right is on his way!

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (gtcuf)

67 Casey Jones was a sonofabitch.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

68 Casey Jones was a brave engineer
Told his brakeman, told him not to fear
All I want is my water and coal,
Look out the window see my drive wheels roll

Mississippi John Hurt

https://is.gd/C4hAsm

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

69 I can jump that Stillhouse Trestle.

Posted by: Steve Broady, Old 97 at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

70 >Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)
---

huh
I learned a different version

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:50 AM (ZxPkt)

71 The name's Jones. KC Jones.
Posted by: KC Jones


And this is my band. The Sunshine Band.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:50 AM (DSLf3)

72 I've gone to buy a ticket now, as far as I can
Ain't a-never coming back
Ride me a southbound, all the way to Georgia now
'Til the train, it run out of track

Posted by: Can't you see? at May 04, 2026 09:51 AM (TbWk/)

73 A. It didn't cost $124 billion

B. It will still get you from Bakersfield to Merced faster than Newsom's bullet train

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 09:51 AM (CybdD)

74 Pardon me, boy...is this the Mid-morning Art Thread?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 09:51 AM (Hq3hB)

75 Shake shake shake, shake your caboose. Shake your caboose.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (gtcuf)

76 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

Southbound. All the way to Georgia.
'Till the train run out of track.

Posted by: Marshall Tucker at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX)

77 America. We built it.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (LHPAg)

78 Thanks for the painting, CBD. Reminds me of the time Charlie and I rocketed the Cannonball Express to 11 MPH rounding Deadman's Curve. The squeal of the wheels upset the Ziffel's pigs and Newt Kiley's cow didn't give milk for a week!

Posted by: Floyd Smoot, Conductor at May 04, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)

79 Pardon me, boy...is this the Mid-morning Art Thread?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Yeah, man...

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM (DSLf3)

80 The economy is so bad, Gladys Knight is down to one Pip.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM (gtcuf)

81 Oooh! Choo choo trains! Joey likey!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM (9CBNQ)

82 Well, train, train, take me on out of this town
Train, train, Lord, take me on out of this town
Well, that woman I'm in love with, Lord, she's Memphis bound

Posted by: Get yourself a money man at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (TbWk/)

83 I'll take the midnight train goin' anywhere.

Posted by: A small-town girl livin' in a lonely world at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

84 We're all ridin' that train.
High on cocaine.

Posted by: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (oftw2)

85
Choo-choo, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (HdYcL)

86 He was going down the grade making 90 miles an hour
His whistle broke into a scream
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle
Scalded to death by the steam

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (iERP6)

87 Three conductors, twenty-five stacks of mail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (CybdD)

88 Juggernaut coming down the line, hear the banshee cry
Engineer likes to lose his mind, glory in his eye
Too fast to live this way, too young to die

I'm riding on the thunder chief
Spit in the Devil's eye
No force on earth can stop me now
I like to see them try
Hey, hey, ridin' with the driver

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (snZF9)

89 The bullet train to San Francisco has never looked better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:54 AM (Fbc0I)

90 Guy Clark - Texas 1947

https://is.gd/VoK3nn

Things got real quiet, then momma jerked me back
But not before I got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)

91 Drivin' that train high on cocaine.

Better watch that speed.

Posted by: Casey Jones at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (9CBNQ)

92 Put that same locomotive in 1930’s Russia and all the hope goes out of the picture.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (LHPAg)

93 Gonna take that midnight train to Georgia....

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (lJ0H4)

94 I tell my boss that I'm afraid of flying and I get this action twice a year. It's a cathouse on wheels! Hey, listen, come on. It's something about the movement of the train that does it. All that motion makes a girl horny.

Posted by: Bob Sweet at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (wVcYX)

95 I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car

They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars

Posted by: Some Guy Stuck in Folsom Prison at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (CybdD)

96 I've been trying to shut down that wretched Cannonball Express for decades. Unprofitable, inefficient, aged.

Posted by: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (oftw2)

97 But not before I got the chance to lay a nickel on the track.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)

When I was a wee lad, my dad would take me along to pick up visitors at the train station, and he would usually put a penny on the tracks as a treat for me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 04, 2026 09:56 AM (iERP6)

98 Posted by: Casey Jones at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (9CBNQ)

Beat me to it by >< that much

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

99 44 The Hooterville Cannonball has to wait for the Bradley girls to finish bathing.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (YFgeq)
________
You don't want to miss seeing how the town got it's name, do you?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (AlhUl)

100 A train song I like. Al Stewart's Night Train to Munich. It's about spies and shit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pB9zuS4Ay8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (ndZc7)

101 Is this a thing? Because this looks like it could be a thing. On X:

BREAKING:

OBAMA'S HOUSEKEEPER FOUND DEAD INSIDE WASHINGTON DC RESIDENCE: POLICE - The DC Metropolitan Police reportedly responded to the home of former President Barack Obama in the early hours of Sunday morning regarding a DECEASED INDIVIDUAL who was later identified as the Obama family's housekeeper. The individual is said to be a male in his mid-30s but no name or other identifying information has been publicly released at this point. Reports indicate that Barack and Michelle Obama WERE HOME at the time of this incident, the man was pronounced dead at the scene with no cause of death yet publicly released and a FULL INVESTIGATION is underway. Stay tuned for more updates on this BOMBSHELL STORY. Why do young men who work for the Obamas keep ending up dead? Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?

https://tinyurl.com/m8zv9w7y

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (DSLf3)

102 Locomotive watering?

Metaphor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (2GVsD)

103 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

104 She came down from Birmingham
One cold December day
As she rolled into the station
You could hear all the people say
There's a girl from Tennessee
She's long and she's tall
She came down from Birmingham
On the Wabash Cannonball

Posted by: John Cash at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

105 I'm leavin' baby
On a southbound train
Don't know when
I'll be passin' this way again

Posted by: T-Bone Montgomery at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

106 I can see global warming from here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

107 Locomotion's the way he moves
He drags me 'round just like an old caboose
I'm tellin' you, girls, that man's insane
My baby thinks he's a train

Posted by: Roseanne Cash at May 04, 2026 09:58 AM (wVcYX)

108 ...the monkey's got the locomotive under control...


https://is.gd/RsIUlq

Dave Rawlins version

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (I0N4X)

109 There's no way their faces wouldn't be black as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

110 Oh, set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style

My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back

Posted by: Doing you a favor as I take all your money at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (TbWk/)

111 That housekeeper and the chef complained that my balls smell bad. Sho'nuff.

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 09:59 AM (9CBNQ)

112 Elvis train song

https://youtu.be/njw2oB8oRTs

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 10:00 AM (ZxPkt)

113 Wait. What?

Work Begins on Quentin Tarantino’s Django/Zorro Crossover Movie

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Instead of making a Z, Tarantino's Zorro will make an M for m*th*rf*ck*r.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)

114 I lived in Riverdale, Bronx on Palisade Avenue right above the Hudson, Metro North tracks below. My son and I would go down to the river and put nickels and pennies on the tracks. Found most of them.

Posted by: Spuyten Duyvil Station. at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (oftw2)

115
I'm sorry I never took up railfanning when younger.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (HdYcL)

116 A reason to watch Euphoria?

Season 4 Sidney Sweeny is dressing up with dog ears and a leash.

OnlyFan bimbos upset at the accurate portrayal of their 'profession.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (2GVsD)

117 Why do young men who work for the Obamas keep ending up dead? Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?

https://tinyurl.com/m8zv9w7y
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (DSLf3)

Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.

Posted by: Captain Terrill at May 04, 2026 10:01 AM (wVcYX)

118 Come on baby, do the loco-motion...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (jehhT)

119 It's the last train to Clarksville.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

120 OBAMA'S HOUSEKEEPER FOUND DEAD INSIDE WASHINGTON DC RESIDENCE: POLICE

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Han Solo warned us. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (CybdD)

121 Sydney Sweeney is dressing up with dog ears and a leash

Ew.

Posted by: Tyler Robinson at May 04, 2026 10:02 AM (E6ouU)

122 A tender moment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (utfVc)

123 Lived in the shadow of a lovely mountain. Til Mr. Peabody's Coal Train done hauled it away.

Posted by: John Prine Paradise at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (oftw2)

124 No paddle boards were reportedly involved in this incident.

Posted by: Local media at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

125 There's no way their faces wouldn't be black as well.
Posted by: Sponge

That's 'faces of color'!! if you please Sir!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (Kyh8Y)

126 What's the deal with corpses showing up in the family compound?

Posted by: the Kennedys at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (E6ouU)

127 Martini Farmer, you asked for it

https://youtu.be/POWsFzSFLCE

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:03 AM (2GVsD)

128 Somebody robbed the Danville train!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

129 US military has escorted 2 ships through the Strait this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:04 AM (z2aPa)

130 129 US military has escorted 2 ships through the Strait this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:04 AM (z2aPa)

=====

"Saar, impossible, saar. Iranian mines everywhere. I can't go, saar. The mines will kill me, saar."
-Indian tanker captain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (Y2NSe)

131 56 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

Are you just a city boy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y)

132 is that willow charcoal?

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)

133
131 56 Is the train going anywhere at midnight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 09:45 AM (Y2NSe)

Are you just a city boy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y)

======

Yeah, but from North Detroit, not South Detroit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (Y2NSe)

134 Back to the AM thread for a sec. .

Wonder if the "OMG Gas prices" is the first real manifestation of the left/right national bifurcation? Purely speculation on my part, but 15 years of the left shutting down oil/gas production and transportation might be a factor...

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (XuXeR)

135 "Saar, impossible, saar. Iranian mines everywhere. I can't go, saar. The mines will kill me, saar."
-Indian tanker captain
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:06 AM (Y2NSe)

Is the Indian Captain Gunga Din?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (bss/y)

136 Yeah, but from North Detroit, not South Detroit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM (Y2NSe)

It's a lonely world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (bss/y)

137 Speaking of Gaylord

People forget how expensive gasoline was during his occupation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (2GVsD)

138 Somebody wake up the fast boat captains quick !

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (z2aPa)

139 Choo choo kachoo

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (GHUOd)

140 File under No Shit.

Identity Politics Linked to Lower Mental Well-Being Among Progressives: Study

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

141 i did not buy an o. winston link cell a few weeks before he passed. they were pretty reasonable at the exhibit.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:09 AM (R11M+)

142 LOVE THIS PAINTING!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 04, 2026 10:09 AM (dmDsy)

143 Aetius

If they worked for Gaylord, it would be Gurgle Din.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (2GVsD)

144 Hmmm, it would be interesting if you had a time machine and you could go back to say London or Chicago at around 1900 or so. I am betting 'smoky' would be a mild descriptor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (bss/y)

145 What a card!

Jimmy Kimmel “Joked” About Rudy Giuliani Being “In Grave” Only Days Before Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

146 This is art!

Posted by: Jerry Jeff Walker at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (BYG0B)

147 Good night, America, how are ya?
Don't you know me, I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans . . .
=====

I was thinking about attempting a trip to Memphis to visit sister living over the border in Georgia. Grandma and I took City of New Orleans to Memphis when I was almost 3 and I still remember the sleeper. Aside: my grandma was really brave and the passengers very patient.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (2OYwF)

148 TRAINS!! Can't go wrong with trains!

Posted by: Persnickety at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (NXsA/)

149 Aetius

London fog back then was known for being multi-colored. Long before Pride Month.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:11 AM (2GVsD)

150 If they worked for Gaylord, it would be Gurgle Din.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (2GVsD)

I have not seen the movie in... 30 years? Am I having a stroke or was Cary Grant in that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:11 AM (bss/y)

151 Chicks dig trains!

Posted by: Gomez Addams at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (wVcYX)

152 It's a goose/gander thing.

Trump Turns Tables on Hakeem Jeffries, Floats Impeachment for the Top House Democrat

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (ndZc7)

153 If you make it larger you can really see the movement... Well done...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (dFjQQ)

154 @134

>>but 15 years of the left shutting down oil/gas production and transportation might be a factor...

The US is the largest producer of Gas and Petrolium products in the world, the issue is petroleum is sold in a market, and the market is currently destabilized with the current ME quagmire.

Any time gas gets above 2.50 a gallon, negative economic consequences ensue.

Average price is now 4.45.

So that's as the kids say, sub-optimal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

155 Pardon me, boy...is this the Mid-morning Art Thread?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Yeah, man...
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:53 AM

But is that Track 29?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (Hq3hB)

156 A train song I like. Al Stewart's Night Train to Munich. It's about spies and shit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

**********

That's fun!

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (I0N4X)

157 London fog back then was known for being multi-colored. Long before Pride Month.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:11 AM (2GVsD)

Yeah 'Pea soupers'. I also remember a textbook from from school where it showed local moths had adapted a much darker coloration to blend in to the sootier trees and walls of the city environs.

But yeah, now is global warming/climate change/commies good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (bss/y)

158 Obama maid found dead. I guess that threesome didn't go well.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (z2aPa)

159 144 i remember seeing how the moths darkened their appearance during the coal years and then lightened after the shift towards cleaner fuels. and how the dense cover caused rickets.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (R11M+)

160 1939 Gunga Din, yes Cary Grant.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (2GVsD)

161 People forget how expensive gasoline was during his occupation"

That was the first major wave of petro shutdowns, combined with loads of taxpayer cash to mask effects...

Hey, Solyndra is gonna be lit!

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (XuXeR)

162
But is that Track 29?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (Hq3hB)


How's Greece?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Owebama's chef, now his maid.

Anyone gonna investigate?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

164 So that's as the kids say, sub-optimal.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

It's always weird. 4.19 seems to be the rule in Lexington. I went to get groceries... Saturday night and as son as I hit the county line going into Georgetown Casey's had 3.99.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:14 AM (bss/y)

165 Average price is now 4.45."

Hey, we're helping!

/kaliforny

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 10:14 AM (XuXeR)

166 137 Speaking of Gaylord

People forget how expensive gasoline was during his occupation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:08 AM (2GVsD)

=====

It was higher 4 years ago at the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.

And the disruption to worldwide oil supply there was smaller, the US government was less receptive to producing oil to fill the market, and it didn't lead to the region in question fast tracking a series of pipelines to bypass the impass.

The oil market is...weird. The gas market even weirder.

But one thing's for sure: outside of some kind of calamity that destroys oil production in several oil producing regions at once, oil recovers quickly because too many people rely on it and too many people (even hostile actors) rely on its sale.

This ain't the 70s anymore where the clear majority of oil production is in the Middle East.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (Y2NSe)

167 160 1939 Gunga Din, yes Cary Grant.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM (2GVsD)

Don't tell me they remade it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (bss/y)

168 147 the direct to new orleans trip is nice. bunks, three good squares, bring sammies, hooch, oil pen, some limes, laptop and a good book. it was 18hrs from chitown.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

169 At least this one has an excuse for being all browns and blacks; and they're nicely done. I like that the only dabs of color in this sooty scene are the three faces.

Posted by: mindful webworker - loco motivated at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (k0Y0k)

170 This ain't the 70s anymore where the clear majority of oil production is in the Middle East.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:15 AM (Y2NSe)

Unless you are California.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (bss/y)

171 132 is that willow charcoal?
Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:07 AM

You can only get that at the very end of the line.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Hq3hB)

172 145 What a card!

Jimmy Kimmel “Joked” About Rudy Giuliani Being “In Grave” Only Days Before Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

=====

Can we get him to joke about Hakeem Jeffries' death next?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Y2NSe)

173 What a card!

Jimmy Kimmel “Joked” About Rudy Giuliani Being “In Grave” Only Days Before Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

Odd he keeps seeming to be so prescient.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (bss/y)

174 But what about our anti-lock brakes?

NY Times Accuses Supreme Court of Banishing “Seatbelt of Our Democracy”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

175 Put that same locomotive in 1930’s Russia and all the hope goes out of the picture.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:55 AM (LHPAg)

Not sure why, but I giggled. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (snZF9)

176
Can we get him to joke about Hakeem Jeffries' death next?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Y2NSe)


Can anyone joke about him becoming the next Howard Beale?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Do you hear that whistle down the line?
I figure that it's engine number forty-nine
She's the only one that'll sound that way
On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe

Posted by: Johnny Mercer at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

178 For those into steam trains, the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (world's largest operating steam locomotive) is traveling the United States in celebration of 250th anniversary.

Thank you for that. It's coming into my area! 12 million pounds. We must take better care of our tracks than we do our roads.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (ScG/9)

179 174 But what about our anti-lock brakes?

NY Times Accuses Supreme Court of Banishing “Seatbelt of Our Democracy”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:17 AM (ndZc7)

Am I the only one who kind of does not like anti-lock brakes? Scares the crap out of you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (bss/y)

180 How's Greece?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:13 AM

Beautiful. Snow still on the mountains. Saw incredible monasteries, saw the house where my grandfather was born, met cousins. And it's only Monday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Hq3hB)

181 Pardon me, boy, but is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

182 stammering moron had help selling off much of our "strategic oil reserves."

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (R11M+)

183 Beautiful. Snow still on the mountains. Saw incredible monasteries, saw the house where my grandfather was born, met cousins. And it's only Monday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Hq3hB)


That's packin' it full.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

184 154 The US is the largest producer of Gas and Petrolium products in the world, the issue is petroleum is sold in a market, and the market is currently destabilized with the current ME quagmire.

Any time gas gets above 2.50 a gallon, negative economic consequences ensue.

Average price is now 4.45.

So that's as the kids say, sub-optimal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

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Demand destruction has started in Africa. Reportedly 5-6 million barrels of oil daily no longer needed.

All while exports ramp up here, and exports find a way in the ME. The disruption to physical oil transportation is honestly overstated. The only major impact is that Iran can't export its 2 million a day, half of which we've already made up for in exports. Otherwise, it's Indian tanker captains afraid of sea mines that don't exist.

The medium term effects are going to be that Iran will have destroyed its ability to threaten the oil lifeline nearby as UAE and Saudi Arabia build more pipelines to bypass the strait and get oil from the Persian Gulf region to places like the Oman Gulf and the Mediterranean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Y2NSe)

185 181 Pardon me, boy, but is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

There's gonna be
A certain party at the station
Satin and lace
I used to call "funny face"
She's gonna cry
Until I tell her that I'll never roam

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:20 AM (bss/y)

186 Can we get him to joke about Hakeem Jeffries' death next?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:16 AM (Y2NSe)


Can anyone joke about him becoming the next Howard Beale?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)


I don't want him as next Speaker of the House...{{{shudder}}}

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (dFjQQ)

187 Put that same locomotive in 1930’s Russia and all the hope goes out of the picture.


Oh, boo hoo. Wait, is that a P-47 Jug?

Posted by: Engineer on a 1945 German locomotive at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (Riz8t)

188 Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:57 AM (DSLf3)

Think that's fake as Obamao himself

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (U6Usv)

189 163 Owebama's chef, now his maid.

Anyone gonna investigate?
Posted by: Sponge
--------

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

190 I don't want him as next Speaker of the House...{{{shudder}}}
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 10:21 AM (dFjQQ)/i]


I meant Kimmel. But, yes, you are correct to worry about that. Jeffries is a mental midget.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?


Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide

https://tinyurl.com/yekyw66b

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (4NO2D)

192 That's packin' it full.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:19 AM

We're actually taking it pretty easy. We're about 25 clicks from the Albanian border at the moment. Heading to Thessaloniki tomorrow.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (Hq3hB)

193 Big train.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (sl73Y)

194 Is this just a strange coincidence or is the most CORRUPT President in US history also a STONE COLD KILLER?


You asked for it...........


https://youtu.be/VEyOE2XwFY4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

195
Big train.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:22 AM (sl73Y)

___________

What are we talking about, this painting or Walter Johnson?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (HdYcL)

196 What, did someone else die under suspicious circumstances around Obamby?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (bss/y)

197 Art asked for it.......



https://youtu.be/Uuegke22rdA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

198 Before I forget, for train enthusiasts with younger kids:

Train Whistle, wood, about 6" long 1 1/2" per side, great whoo-whoo sound. I am looking around my house for one because kids loved it. Not as piercing as regular whistles, so I could even tolerate it for a while.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (2OYwF)

199 But is he an austere religious scholar?

Los Angeles Times
@latimes
Cole Allen's journey from young athlete and Caltech grad to accused gunman in D.C. attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

200 What, did someone else die under suspicious circumstances around Obamby?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (bss/y)


The maid.

I'm betting she was pregnant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Maybe next Kimmel will joke about Hillary's crimes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (2GVsD)

202 If Obama was sexually involved with his maid, I'm guessing her name was Peg.

Posted by: Wally at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (BYG0B)

203 https://youtu.be/Uuegke22rdA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Holy fuck, I forgot they existed. LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)

204 Tull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oS179o2lXw

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (FhXTo)

205 @latimes
Cole Allen's journey from young athlete and Caltech grad to accused gunman in D.C. attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)


Accused? I think him running through security with a shotgun makes him an actual gunman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

206 And always light, aerial, underneath
Goes the elate metre of her wheels.
Steaming through metal landscape on her lines
She plunges new eras of wild happiness
Where speed throws up strange shapes, broad curves
And parallels clean like the steel of guns.
At last, further than Edinburgh or Rome,
Beyond the crest of the world, she reaches night
Where only a low streamline brightness
Of phosphorus on the tossing hills is white.
Ah, like a comet through flame, she moves entranced
Wrapt in her music no bird song, no, nor bough
Breaking with honey buds, shall ever equal.

--Stephen "Big" Spender

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (zdLoL)

207 The maid.

I'm betting she was pregnant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Big Mike's pull out game is weak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (bss/y)

208 The maid.

I'm betting she was pregnant.

By whom?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (2GVsD)

209 200 big mike knocked her up.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (R11M+)

210
I'm betting she was pregnant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

___________

With Big Mike's kid?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (HdYcL)

211 The real prescient among the celebrity-class seems to be Sting.

Posted by: Murder By Numbers, 1 2 3 at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (E6ouU)

212
Holy fuck, I forgot they existed. LOL.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:25 AM (bss/y)


A shame. They had a lot of good stuff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

213 OT, if there is one, I was randomly clicking on Yahoo " news" feeds this morning, mostly sports and science/historical Articles, and the writing was pretty consistently terrible, bordering on illiterate or incomprehensible.
I'm kind of hoping it was AI, otherwise the decline in human capabilities is scary.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 04, 2026 10:26 AM (sl73Y)

214 the housekeeper was male. not a "her" unless Barry forced him to be.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (E6ouU)

215 In other news

Dirt bikers took over in CA a bay bridge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)

216 We're actually taking it pretty easy. We're about 25 clicks from the Albanian border at the moment. Heading to Thessaloniki tomorrow.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I've driven that area quite a bit. Beautiful scenery. Can get a little motion sick in the mountains, especially as a passenger. There's quite a bit to see in Thessaloniki. We did a day trip there at the White Tower on the coast....all sorts of historical monuments and such within walking distance, with nice information boards in English.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (uYvMy)

217 The maid might have identified as 'she.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)

218 The Stars couldn't solve the riddle of the Minnesota goaltender.

Colorado hung 7 on him last night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

219 the housekeeper was male. not a "her" unless Barry forced him to be.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (E6ouU)


Oh, then Owebama was definitely banging him and there must've been evidence, so he had to be dealt with.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

220 217 The maid might have identified as 'she.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)

Reverse Thai Lady Boi shock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (bss/y)

221 Carbon Footprint == 2 Godzillas

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (JqXxE)

222 Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide
https://tinyurl.com/yekyw66b
Posted by: toby928(c)

That is good. Just one hypothetical act needed to create a realistic story.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:29 AM (ScG/9)

223 215 cali banned them years ago, but we had a local remark yesterday that if you hadn't lost the cops on a two stroke, you weren't all that.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM (R11M+)

224 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:18 AM (Hq3hB)

That's great!. I seem to recall /if I correct about this- that you're Eastern Orthodox-Have you seen any churches in addition to one at the monastery?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM (79HwH)

225 Lobos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h62zKFMoPPM

Posted by: DaveA at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM (FhXTo)

226 @184

>>The only major impact is that Iran can't export its 2 million a day, half of which we've already made up for in exports. Otherwise, it's Indian tanker captains afraid of sea mines that don't exist.

Markets are largely driven by psychology and emotion rather than facts and empirical data.

The markets are going to continue to be roiled until some event causes a psychological change in the entities that control the market.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

227 Thank you for that. It's coming into my area! 12 million pounds. We must take better care of our tracks than we do our roads.
Posted by: t-bird

Tracks are, in most cases, owned by for profit businesses. Roads are maintained by government entities.

There is some causal relationship there but damned if we can figure it out.

-- The media

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (Kyh8Y)

228
Colorado hung 7 on him last night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

___________

I don't see many Western Conference games because they run past the time for me to take care of the dogs and go to bed. More's the pity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (HdYcL)

229 I would really like to know why this particular pre-workout causes my scalp to tingle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y)

230 This Train is Bound For Glory

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Kb2uciHpe4U&list=RDKb2uciHpe4U&start_radio=1

[remove space]

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (2OYwF)

231 Posted by: Military Moron at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM

Niice. The dad's side of the family is from up here. It's nice getting a chance to see it.

Route 15 was an interesting road to drive on. Lots of hairpin turns and few guardrails. Some chick in a BMW decided she wanted to pass me at one point. We saw her a minute later stopped by the police. Oops. Patience, young lady...patience.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Hq3hB)

232 I don't see many Western Conference games because they run past the time for me to take care of the dogs and go to bed. More's the pity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (HdYcL)


It should end up with Colorado / Carolina in the finals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

233 we had a saying at the barn while working 16s, "playoff run can be hard on a man."

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:34 AM (R11M+)

234 226
Markets are largely driven by psychology and emotion rather than facts and empirical data.

The markets are going to continue to be roiled until some event causes a psychological change in the entities that control the market.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

=======

It's obvious to me that Trump and the rest of the US leadership expected the world to come to its damn senses about the dangers of Iranian threats. All we've gotten is small arms fire here and there for weeks as well as footage of a small Iranian speedboat boarding a mostly empty cargo vessel.

This was also part and parcel with his effort to strong arm Europe into defending their own waterways that they rely on.

"Fucking fine. We'll do it. Now, shut up." seems to be the order of the day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:34 AM (Y2NSe)

235 I would really like to know why this particular pre-workout causes my scalp to tingle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y)


Last time I took a pre-workout, my heart started skipping beats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

236
Tracks are, in most cases, owned by for profit businesses. Roads are maintained by government entities.

_____________

We have more track mileage than any other country except, maybe, Russia. It is used, quite properly, for freight.

I love those graphics about how much high-speed rail China has added since 2000. Anyone riding on it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (HdYcL)

237 What, did someone else die under suspicious circumstances around Obamby?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:24 AM (bss/y)

---------

Barry has an alibi -- he was playing Spades again with Reggie.

Posted by: ShainS at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (JqXxE)

238 Cole Allen's journey from young athlete and Caltech grad to accused gunman in D.C. attack

Hard to judge. In one of the takes he had a long gun. In an earlier (?) take, he didn't. I'm waiting for the outtake where he tried to run thru the portal with the gun cross-ways, like when dogs carry a stick that is too long for a gate.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (ScG/9)

239 Obama maid found dead? How do we know it wasn't the Mooch trying to eliminate another (male) "bimbo eruption" a la Hillary?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (AdHga)

240 Route 15 was an interesting road to drive on. Lots of hairpin turns and few guardrails. Some chick in a BMW decided she wanted to pass me at one point. We saw her a minute later stopped by the police. Oops. Patience, young lady...patience.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Hq3hB)

Yeah, it is one thing that people never seem to get a handle on. No, I am not going to race you. Yes, I have 435 hp, but a Mustang draws cops attention like a turd does flies. They find you fascinating.

But if you are doing 20 over even (or especially) at night, cops will pull you over even if you are in a Honda Odyssey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

241 Speaking of steam, the UP Big Boy 4014 is making its way cross country and will be traveling along Horseshoe Curve is a couple of weeks. It'll be a zoo there, but my son and I will be attempting to get some HD videos and still shots of the largest steam engine ever built when she makes the run on Reading and Northern trackage from Jim Thorpe to Reading Outer station in June. A beautiful 4-8-8-4 articulated oil fired locomotive built in 1941 and restored by Union Pacific from 2013 to 2019.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (5xuJ/)

242 The brewery owner who was offering free beer if Trump was killed got a visit by the USSS and FBI.

And forced state Democrats to run away from him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:37 AM (2GVsD)

243
Speaking of steam, the UP Big Boy 4014 is making its way cross country and will be traveling along Horseshoe Curve is a couple of weeks.

___________

Man, what i wouldn't give to be there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 10:37 AM (HdYcL)

244 RMBS, how is the trip going? Good food ?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (z2aPa)

245 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Neat art. Big chop chop. Cool!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

246 240 Route 15 was an interesting road to drive on. Lots of hairpin turns and few guardrails. Some chick in a BMW decided she wanted to pass me at one point. We saw her a minute later stopped by the police. Oops. Patience, young lady...patience.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:33 AM (Hq3hB)

Yeah, it is one thing that people never seem to get a handle on. No, I am not going to race you. Yes, I have 435 hp, but a Mustang draws cops attention like a turd does flies. They find you fascinating.

But if you are doing 20 over even (or especially) at night, cops will pull you over even if you are in a Honda Odyssey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

Especially in a cash-strapped jurisdiction.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (gHfAU)

247 @234

>>This was also part and parcel with his effort to strong arm Europe into defending their own waterways that they rely on.

I understand what Trump is trying to achieve and I agree with the over-arching plan, but there are realities that cannot be ignored.

Gas is too damn high.

We had just normalized from the Crazy Biden Years and... BAM....

Gas is too damn high again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

248 Last time I took a pre-workout, my heart started skipping beats.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

This is Jocko's brand. It is strange. Ingredient list is almost exactly the same as other energy drink mixes. Except for 'Dynamine'. Not sure, must be the cause.

It has a bit more caffeine than the regular energy drink (200mg caffeine instead of 140.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (bss/y)

249 I think it’s a little late to water that locomotive.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (gHfAU)

250 BMW, speeding, you got money, lights go on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (2GVsD)

251 JJ Walker, "Dynamine!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (2GVsD)

252 That's great!. I seem to recall /if I correct about this- that you're Eastern Orthodox-Have you seen any churches in addition to one at the monastery?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:30 AM

Correct. We saw a Byzantine church at Kalambaka dating back at least to the 11th century. Sources differ on that. It could be 4th-5th c. Odd discrepancy there. This afternoon we got to tour the church where my grandfather was baptized. Very nice village church.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (Hq3hB)

253 247 I understand what Trump is trying to achieve and I agree with the over-arching plan, but there are realities that cannot be ignored.

Gas is too damn high.

We had just normalized from the Crazy Biden Years and... BAM....

Gas is too damn high again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

======

The point of pointing out the grand strategy is to say that the gas price spike won't last into summer.

People will hurt a bit in the spring, everything will be forgotten by fall, and everyone will have moved onto the next thing as to why Republicans will lose the midterms.

People whinging in Spring means shit for Fall.

Remember how months is forever in politics?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:40 AM (Y2NSe)

254 Gas is too damn high again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Summer blends and the whole Iran thing doesn’t help. With any luck we can drill more here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:40 AM (gHfAU)

255 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:39 AM (Hq3hB)

That's neat. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful, interesting and safe time!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RKlIw)

256 Dirt bikers took over in CA a bay bridge.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:27 AM (2GVsD)
====

Mrs. F. just showed me the report. One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

257 I put non-ethanol in the tractor while taking it out to the property.

Somehow, Ethanol Free gas was 10 cents MORE than DIESEL.

We're being robbed blind and no one in power seems to care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

258 helios creed, "mountain mystery"

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (R11M+)

259 254 Gas is too damn high again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Summer blends and the whole Iran thing doesn’t help. With any luck we can drill more here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:40 AM (gHfAU)

=======

The only actual impact of the Iran thing is that Iran can't export its 2 million barrels a day anymore.

Outside of that, it's Indian tankers afraid of phantom sea mines and believing every threat from some asshole with a radio on the Iranian shore.

Meanwhile, the UAE started building a new pipeline about 4 weeks ago to completely bypass the strait, all while roughly 10.5 million barrels of the 20 million that normally went through the strait is getting out through existing pipelines (Saudi Arabia's went from about 500,000 a day to 7 million a day).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (Y2NSe)

260 RMBS, how is the trip going? Good food ?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM

Great, so far. The food has been excellent. I have pictures. 😄

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (Hq3hB)

261 Correct. We saw a Byzantine church at Kalambaka dating back at least to the 11th century. Sources differ on that. It could be 4th-5th c. Odd discrepancy there. This afternoon we got to tour the church where my grandfather was baptized. Very nice village church.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

One of the greatest experiences of my life was visiting Hagia Sofia. Magnificent building.

Too bad it's gone back to being a heathen temple.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

262 Mrs. F. just showed me the report. One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

I just had a mental image of you seated at your desk and your wife breathlessly rushing up to you with a freshly printed sheet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)

263 I just had a mental image of you seated at your desk and your wife breathlessly rushing up to you with a freshly printed sheet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)


As teletype machines whirr in the background.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

264 That's neat. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful, interesting and safe time!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM

I'm traveling with the RMBS Mom, but thanks!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:43 AM (Hq3hB)

265 As teletype machines whirr in the background.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Reading glasses were adjusted. Flags moved on the map table.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y)

266 Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Trump is attempting to make us the unquestioned power of the world by choking the supply of energy through us. If it works prices will not merely come down, the Uniparty will lose the leverage over us they usually enforce by palling around with our enemies.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (U6Usv)

267 Reading glasses were adjusted. Flags moved on the map table.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y)


"What can you make of this?"

"I can make a hat. A broach. A pterodactyl."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Trump is attempting to make us the unquestioned power of the world by choking the supply of energy through us. If it works prices will not merely come down, the Uniparty will lose the leverage over us they usually enforce by palling around with our enemies.
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 10:44 AM (U6Usv)

Also reduces the amount of money the asshats have to throw around.

Or, create our own, domestic assholes who can throw around money to force the whores to do what WE want...

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (bss/y)

269 I just had a mental image of you seated at your desk and your wife breathlessly rushing up to you with a freshly printed sheet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)
=====

That's pretty much how she works. News must be delivered immediately. She shouted at me from upstairs as I opened the front door, "Your grandma died!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

270 One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

ebikes?! That paints an entirely different picture. Where's an illegal truck driver when you need one?

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (ScG/9)

271 I suspect the gas prices are being manipulated. This happened at the end of Dubya's term just before everything imploded in mid September.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (E6ouU)

272 Also reduces the amount of money the asshats have to throw around.

Or, create our own, domestic assholes who can throw around money to force the whores to do what WE want...

Huh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (bss/y)


I've said it for years. You want to combat terrorism?

Stop buying middle eastern oil.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

273 "What can you make of this?"

"I can make a hat. A broach. A pterodactyl."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:45 AM

There's a sale at Penny's!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (Hq3hB)

274 @259

>>The only actual impact of the Iran thing is that Iran can't export its 2 million barrels a day anymore.

It's all psychological, people were paying 75 bucks to fill up during the crazy Biden years, then Trump got it down to 45 dollars a fill up, it's now up to 75 bucks a fill up.

Politically, this is not optimum long term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

275 "What can you make of this?"

"I can make a hat. A broach. A pterodactyl."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

How about some coffee, Johnny?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (bss/y)

276 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo, but many of us are going to attempt at least one sighting so we can grab some video and stills. Once in a lifetime chance to see this million pound locomotive in action.

https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/schedule

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (5xuJ/)

277 That's pretty much how she works. News must be delivered immediately. She shouted at me from upstairs as I opened the front door, "Your grandma died!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

ROFLMAO.

Or not. Condolences.

*trying to stifle snickers*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (bss/y)

278 Strelnikov!

Posted by: Pasha at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (AP4bj)

279 "Rapunzel! Rapunzel! To the tower!"

Johnny needs to stop taking meth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:48 AM (2GVsD)

280 274 @259

>>The only actual impact of the Iran thing is that Iran can't export its 2 million barrels a day anymore.

It's all psychological, people were paying 75 bucks to fill up during the crazy Biden years, then Trump got it down to 45 dollars a fill up, it's now up to 75 bucks a fill up.

Politically, this is not optimum long term.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

Just pout and whine. It’s much easier than doing something about it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (gHfAU)

281 I like art that is representational of something, preferably kinetic.

Still lifes bore me.

Abstracts are sometimes OK if they consist of a design or pattern. Random Pollock-esque is sh!t.

So this painting should be in the bullseye except I also like variances in color and light. So no.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (GD2xa)

282 274 It's all psychological, people were paying 75 bucks to fill up during the crazy Biden years, then Trump got it down to 45 dollars a fill up, it's now up to 75 bucks a fill up.

Politically, this is not optimum long term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)

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Remember the red ripple of 2022?

Gas prices have shockingly little effect on elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (Y2NSe)

283 People people people!

Long term gain can't compete with short term benefit.

It's like I don't know those of you who refuse the black pill.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (zBgIx)

284 >>We saw a Byzantine church at Kalambaka dating back at least to the 11th century. Sources differ on that. It could be 4th-5th c. Odd discrepancy there. This afternoon we got to tour the church where my grandfather was baptized. Very nice village church.


Very cool, RMBS!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 10:50 AM (5xoct)

285 Art.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 04, 2026 10:50 AM (NPa2x)

286 283 People people people!

Long term gain can't compete with short term benefit.

It's like I don't know those of you who refuse the black pill.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 10:49 AM (zBgIx)

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All I know is that Democrats were so afraid of losing the midterms that they didn't go maximalist in their policies like opening the borders in order to affect long-term change.

Why can't Republicans govern like Democrats?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:50 AM (Y2NSe)

287 I've said it for years. You want to combat terrorism?

Stop buying middle eastern oil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Asia: (stops to think about it)

“Oh, OK”.

Sure.

In the meantime, we can make it less valuable by tapping the resources of a country which can out export them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (gHfAU)

288 There's quite a bit to see in Thessaloniki. We did a day trip there at the White Tower on the coast....all sorts of historical monuments and such within walking distance, with nice information boards in English.
Posted by: Military Moron

Kemal Ataturk was born in Thessalonica (sorry, going with the normal English spelling). I wonder if the birthplace is still there, and, if so, if it's marked.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

289 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo

I figure it will be heading back from Philly on the route 30 tracks. All sorts of stretches to see it. I hope it doesn't break any bridges

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (ScG/9)

290 >>One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

>>ebikes?! That paints an entirely different picture. Where's an illegal truck driver when you need one?


Reminder: a lot of major cities give SNAP beneficiaries *free* eschooter rentals and greatly reduced ebike rental fares. Local taxpars may well have underwritten this event unknowingly.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 10:52 AM (5xoct)

291 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo, but many of us are going to attempt at least one sighting so we can grab some video and stills. Once in a lifetime chance to see this million pound locomotive in action.
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Lotsa fun and good luck. Pro tip from the midwest, find a junction town.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (2OYwF)

292 @280

>>Just pout and whine. It’s much easier than doing something about it.

I mean, I have zero power to affect anything, and my whining is simply cautionary in that if conditions do not materially change vis-a-vis Iran within the next 6 months, don't be surprised if the donks take the house and Senate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

293 Great

Figure kit I bought last night, is now on sale for $20 less at same site.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:54 AM (2GVsD)

294 my one pally, born in sparta, tells me famiies have a grave plot and a cave. freshies go into the plot, the exhumed go into the cave with all the ancestors.
kinda cool.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:54 AM (R11M+)

295 UP 4014 Eastern tour schedule. Every normal railfan location will be a zoo, but many of us are going to attempt at least one sighting so we can grab some video and stills. Once in a lifetime chance to see this million pound locomotive in action.

https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/schedule
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy



Would love to see it, but the closest location is like three states away.

Not for a couple of minutes of viewing. I'll have to settle for online video.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 10:55 AM (DSLf3)

296 292
I mean, I have zero power to affect anything, and my whining is simply cautionary in that if conditions do not materially change vis-a-vis Iran within the next 6 months, don't be surprised if the donks take the house and Senate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

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They will probably take the House because political gravity.

They won't take the Senate. They'd have to win senate races in several Trump+15 states in addition to pulling Collins out against the literal Nazi and holding onto MI (about to nominate a terrorist sympathizing Muslim) and GA (Ossoff is darkhorse upset territory with the feds focusing on Fulton).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:55 AM (Y2NSe)

297 293 Great

Figure kit I bought last night, is now on sale for $20 less at same site.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 10:54 AM (2GVsD)

Steam was having a paradox sale this weekend. So I figured, wth, and bought some dlc for stellaris. And then realize they completely changed how everything works in the game and I will have to relearn from the ground up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y)

298 @282

>>Gas prices have shockingly little effect on elections.

The biggest factor that determines elections is how much cheat can the donks do.

And which party can convert/hold seats stemming from redistricting.

This upcoming mid-term is going to be very telling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (XV/Pl)

299 A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash by organizing a Muslim-only day to celebrate Eid.

Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a 'modest dress code' and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat.

Posters for the event say it will be 'for Muslims only' to create a 'family-friendly environment', with tickets starting at $55 each.

The waterpark's website notes that men and women will not be separated during the event, but attendees are told to 'uphold Islamic etiquette' by 'lowering the gaze' throughout the day.

'Please follow the event’s modest dress code, and practice ḥayāʾ (modesty) through respectful behavior,' the event says.

All attendees are 'expected to dress in accordance with Islamic values', and the waterpark says all swimwear must meet Muslim guidelines.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (Y1sOo)

300 They will probably take the House because political gravity.

They won't take the Senate. They'd have to win senate races in several Trump+15 states in addition to pulling Collins out against the literal Nazi and holding onto MI (about to nominate a terrorist sympathizing Muslim) and GA (Ossoff is darkhorse upset territory with the feds focusing on Fulton).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:55 AM (Y2NSe)

Even with the redistricting in the South?

I'll admit I have nfc how things are going to work out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y)

301 Mrs. F. just showed me the report. One hour closure of the main road link between SF and Oakland. 100 ebikes seized.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

EE-lectric dirt bikes? How gay is that?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (utfVc)

302 Hard to see very well on my phone but looks good

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 10:57 AM (/c5rf)

303 The original " Murder on the Orient Express" is the greatest movie of all time

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 10:57 AM (LOZbR)

304 300 Even with the redistricting in the South?

I'll admit I have nfc how things are going to work out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y)

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Redistricting war is largely a wash.

There may be a switch of 4-5 more seats from places like TN and SC total.

The redistricting in response to Callais will be felt more fully in 2028.

I'd still lean towards a narrow Democrat majority in the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 10:58 AM (Y2NSe)

305 an entire water park wall to wall with eyes looking through rectangle slots. will they disrobe for the rides?

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (R11M+)

306
All attendees are 'expected to dress in accordance with Islamic values', and the waterpark says all swimwear must meet Muslim guidelines.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (Y1sOo)


Texas is failing. It's incredibly sad what's happening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

307 @303

>>The original " Murder on the Orient Express" is the greatest movie of all time

And if by Murder On The Orient Express, you mean Jaws, then yes, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (XV/Pl)

308 A water park in Texas in June

Oh the heat strokes ... lawsuit city.

Call Morgan&Morgan now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (2GVsD)

309 I figure it will be heading back from Philly on the route 30 tracks. All sorts of stretches to see it. I hope it doesn't break any bridges
Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2026 10:51 AM (ScG/9)

UP, over the past year, has been out here along the route doing surveys on trackage, bridges, curves, etc. They pretty much have all their ducks in a row. I have the O Gauge model running on my basement layout. Even with that, I've had to swap out many curves to a larger radius because of the wide swing. The model has all the sounds of the real Big Boy, including whistle, bell, chuffs and, of course, smoke. It's a monster! Weighs about 10 pounds.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (5xuJ/)

310 "I mean, I have zero power to affect anything, and my whining is simply cautionary in that if conditions do not materially change vis-a-vis Iran within the next 6 months, don't be surprised if the donks take the house and Senate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

You have zero power to affect anything?

Hopeless much?

You can't drive less? You can't take a bus? You can't walk more places? You can't ride a bike? You can't consolidate your errands, so you do them all at once instead of one today, then one tomorrow, then one every day after?

You can't carpool with anyone?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (zBgIx)

311 And if by Murder On The Orient Express, you mean Jaws, then yes, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (XV/Pl)

Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

312 301 most offroad complaints stem from noise...
ebikes let you sneak onto more property with stealth.

Posted by: cmeat at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (R11M+)

313 Meanwhile, here, Norfolk Southern is still struggling to recover from Helene. Norfolk Southern suffered 21,000 feet of washed-out track, 50,000 feet of track damaged by scour and over 15,000 feet of fill failure.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (XeU6L)

314 As revealed Saturday on the hobby thread I'm a car nut, I have a nice photo of my 1963 Thunderbird Sport Roadster in front of the UP 3985 locomotive. That monster is only a 4-6-6-4, I got to crawl all around and over it when it came to Houston when G. Bush was on his way to parachute at the dedication of his library at A&M.

The reason they made those monsters was to have an engine powerful enough to cross the Rockies. Now they just stack a few diesel electrics and have at it. Trying to sync steam engines is not practical.

Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (8uzBS)

315 .
NOOD! Rant!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

316 A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash
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Why on earth is there a taxpayer funded waterpark?

I mean, I just had a colonoscopy and may still be high on propofol, but WTF?

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 04, 2026 11:01 AM (0SdQT)

317 And if by Murder On The Orient Express, you mean Jaws, then yes, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 10:59 AM (XV/Pl)

Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

That honor is reserved for Where Eagles Dare.

Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (wVcYX)

318 @311

>>Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?

Per QT, Jaws is the greatest movie of all time.

I have my problems with QT, but I have to agree with him here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (XV/Pl)

319 For those into steam trains, the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (world's largest operating steam locomotive) is traveling the United States in celebration of 250th anniversary.
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I have an awesome picture of Jesse next to Big Boy 4004, which is on display at a city park in Cheyenne. Even parked, it's an impressive sight. Would love to see one in action.

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 04, 2026 11:02 AM (0SdQT)

320 As revealed Saturday on the hobby thread I'm a car nut, I have a nice photo of my 1963 Thunderbird Sport Roadster in front of the UP 3985 locomotive. That monster is only a 4-6-6-4, I got to crawl all around and over it when it came to Houston when G. Bush was on his way to parachute at the dedication of his library at A&M.

The reason they made those monsters was to have an engine powerful enough to cross the Rockies. Now they just stack a few diesel electrics and have at it. Trying to sync steam engines is not practical.
Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2026 11:00 AM (8uzBS)

Many of those monsters had helper engines in the middle and the tail end of the consist back then. Many DVD's out there of old movies of them. 5 miles of train. Incredible.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 11:03 AM (5xuJ/)

321 jaws is not the GOAT movie

I don't know what is, but it isn't Jaws

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:05 AM (ZxPkt)

322 Are Democrats promising to do anything about gas prices? Are they even associated with good energy prices?

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:06 AM (U6Usv)

323 Jaws is great. One of the best uses of acting, visuals and music ever. But greatest movie of all time?
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Zulu

[mic drop]

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2026 11:12 AM (2OYwF)

324 I hate to go out on a limb but it's The Godfather. A perfect film.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (U6Usv)

325 let's face it

the greatest movie of all time is your personal favorite movie, whoever you are

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

326 325 let's face it

the greatest movie of all time is your personal favorite movie, whoever you are

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

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"best movie ever" is a conversation killer.

It's for people who don't want to talk but only dictate.

It's uninteresting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 04, 2026 11:14 AM (Y2NSe)

327 I hate to go out on a limb but it's The Godfather. A perfect film.
Posted by: ...
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Pfft.

Posted by: Dr. Zhivago at May 04, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)

328 I don't know what the GOAT movie is, but I bet Charlton Heston is in it

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 11:17 AM (ZxPkt)

329 I will admit that for one night in 1974 Jaws was, in fact, the greatest movie of all time. You see, my small town had to wait 6 months to get "Jaws" so it became a town social event, you had to be somebody to get a ticket to the first run premier showing at 7:30. I had 2 tickets and the fiery vixen that was Rhonda Fleenor sat next to me. She made it clear beforehand that I was being used for my connections and I was not allowed to touch her in anyway

Oh yeah. I was 12 in 74.

Anyway, glory be unto the heavenly host and all 7 devils that head came out of the bottom of the boat

She shot straight up into the air 4 feet and landed square in my lap

Grabbed me for all she was worth replacing my face with her chest

After the show was over she told me that she detested my presence and never wanted to see me again dead or alive

I didn't care.

Rhonda, if you read this I touched your titties.

The end

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 11:18 AM (LOZbR)

330 @328

>>I don't know what the GOAT movie is, but I bet Charlton Heston is in it

Touch of Evil is pretty damn good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 11:23 AM (XV/Pl)

331 Wishmaster II

Posted by: Big Mike at May 04, 2026 11:26 AM (9CBNQ)

332 If by CH being in the goat you mean "The Mountain Men" I would agree.

If you mean "Airport 74" I would fart in your direction

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at May 04, 2026 11:46 AM (LOZbR)

333 I like it.

Posted by: TrainmanTim at May 04, 2026 12:49 PM (lycPY)

The Morning Report — 5/ 4/26

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Good morning kids. Sad to have to kick off a new week and first full week of May with this troubling news:


“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition, the spokesperson said in a statement. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak. We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor – Rudy Giuliani.” It’s unclear what ailment the 81-year-old ex-mayor and former Trump attorney is being treated for while in the care of a Florida hospital.

Considering who and what is occupying City Hall these days the parallels and metaphors are in your face self-evident.

New Yorkers, you’ve been slacking — so the mayor wants to organize you. Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t happy that only 400 people showed up to last year’s Rent Guidelines Board hearings. In response, last Wednesday, he launched Organize NYC, a supposed volunteer effort to have New Yorkers participate in local government... Taken straight from the Democratic Socialists of America’s community-organizing playbook, Mamdani is calling it “a long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”

Don’t be fooled. Organize NYC is a thinly veiled, taxpayer-funded effort to embed campaign-style political organizing inside city government, dress it up as civic virtue and deliver Mamdani’s campaign promise under a veneer of official neutrality.

Having been born and raised in New York, and coming of age during bad old days of grime and crime in the 60s and 70s, the Giuliani years were absolutely miraculous both in terms of making it America's nd arguably the world's premier city and a truly great place to live. Considering the city's long-standing status as a Democrat/Liberal if not necessarily hardcore leftist bastion (a few isolated pockets and a couple college campuses notwithstanding) Rudy's election and incredible success was somewhat miraculous all things considered, and a perpetually ultra-liberal/leftist city council underscores that.

And so when NYC was on life support it rebounded spectacularly. Perhaps both Rudy and the city itself can one day come back once again. Momdani is going to lay waste to Gotham, but this time around will there be an electorate that rises up to elect another Rudy or are the younger generations so brainwashed and self-absorbed as to make that utterly impossible. I fear that to be the case since as the saner/older cohort of the baby boomers pass away leaving nothing but the younger generations who have no real collective memory nor desire for America as founded and sane Western Judeo/Christian values, since they were barely if at all taught and raised with them.

From this we go to the alleged deathbed "confession" if you will of someone who is a complete polar opposite of Rudy Giuliani:

Former Rep. Barney Frank spent decades as one of the Democrat Party’s most recognizable left-wing figures. Now, in what may be one of his final public warnings, he is telling Democrats that their loudest activists have pushed the party into territory the public simply is not buying. Frank’s warning, delivered as he enters hospice, is blunt. He is not attacking the left from the right. He is saying the left has made a strategic mess of things by turning its most controversial causes into purity tests and then acting surprised when voters balk. . . That is a polite Washington way of saying the fringe has taken over the message and made the party look reckless. Frank also sees a broader pattern in Democrat politics, one that should worry anyone who thinks slogans are a substitute for results. By his telling, too many Democrats have fallen in love with whatever the current thing is, regardless of how radical it is.

Well, as we have seen when (or if) voters balk then the Democrats wield molotov cocktails and rent-a-mobs along with assassins. Funny how he's complaining about the very thing that allowed him to be elected in the first place. In a way perhaps there is a sea change taking place insofar as the DOnald Trump MAGA revolution could not have taken place were it not for the utter disasters engendered by Clinton(s), and the Bushes and GOP-e are in the mix here, make no mistake, and then of course the insanity of Obama and Biden. Nixon's silent or not-so-silent anymore majority must still exist at least to a level that keeps things in check, but how long will that last and will the Socialist-loving Yoots take over the asylum or will America, that is Can America be reborn as we approach 250, or are we destined to fall?

On that cheery note... Here's wishing for a full and speedy recovery for Mayor Giuliani.

Have a good day!


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1 You're up early, JJ

Posted by: Halfhand at May 04, 2026 06:37 AM (NdsRs)

2 Pretty early all up in here.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 06:40 AM (2Ez/1)

3 ¡Happy Cinco de Cuatro!

Posted by: Barky at May 04, 2026 06:40 AM (jo6FO)

4 You're up early today, J.J. G'morning!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 06:42 AM (O7YUW)

5 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 06:42 AM (VyBeY)

6 Okay, I might as well go into work early. I've got paperwork to hand in. Have a good morning everyone.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 06:43 AM (O7YUW)

7 Well, when you have lost Barney Frank...

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

8 Interesting article on occultists. I will go with traditional Christianity.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 06:45 AM (Yl2Ob)

9 Well, when you have lost Barney Frank...


I’m old enough to remember when Barney Frank was the lunatic fringe……

Posted by: Cookie at May 04, 2026 06:46 AM (6piUq)

10 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 04, 2026 06:46 AM (cOQG+)

11 Mornin’, Morons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 04, 2026 06:47 AM (ewuvP)

12 And God bless Fr. Larry Holland. MAID wants to decrease the surplus population as quickly as possible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 06:47 AM (Yl2Ob)

13 "USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Says 14,000 on SNAP Were Driving Luxury Vehicles: ‘This Ends Now’"

You can't expect these people to have to choose between eating and an oil change.

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

14 >>And God bless Fr. Larry Holland. MAID wants to decrease the surplus population as quickly as possible.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 06:47 AM (Yl2Ob)
****
Good morning all. And from the same article "Canada set to surpass 100,000 assisted suicides". Unbelievable.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 04, 2026 06:57 AM (ang5x)

15 Good morning again Horde. Thx JJ hope you and Mrs JJ are doing well.
Go onto any site that discusses Giuliani being in critical condition and read the absolutely vile comments from leftists. I thought Barney Frank was a political scumbag but I wish him Godspeed as he shucks off this mortal coil. With such a split in the way people look at reality, "coming together" isn't in the cards

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 06:58 AM (gu0hJ)

16 A United flight from Venice to NYC was doing fine, right up until it tried to land. It hit a light pole, pushing the pole into a jeep on the highway, and it crushed the top of a truck, sending the driver to the hospital. Since that airport is surrounded on all sides by highways, the advice to drivers seems to be, look up!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 06:58 AM (7wjQ7)

17 May the Fourth be with you.

Posted by: Decaf at May 04, 2026 06:59 AM (Tbs6N)

18 I saw the reports of the shooting at Arcadia Lake and I thought "she was a really pretty porn actress in the 70-80s". The memories of a somewhat misspent youth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:01 AM (gu0hJ)

19 Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 06:58 AM (gu0hJ)

This is why I try not to read any comments by leftists on various sites, if I can possibly avoid them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 07:01 AM (Yl2Ob)

20 16 A United flight from Venice to NYC was doing fine, right up until it tried to land. It hit a light pole, pushing the pole into a jeep on the highway, and it crushed the top of a truck, sending the driver to the hospital. Since that airport is surrounded on all sides by highways, the advice to drivers seems to be, look up!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 06:58 AM (7wjQ7)


Oh yes, have traversed the Van Wyk Expwy and Belt Pkwy many times on the way to JFK. Lived for a time in Forest Hills with jet traffic constantly overhead heading to and from JFK and LAG.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2026 07:01 AM (x0n13)

21 Posted by: Paul at May 04, 2026 07:01

Thanks for the laugh. You're still convincing nobody here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 07:03 AM (Yl2Ob)

22 Perhaps both Rudy and the city itself can one day come back once again. Momdani is going to lay waste to Gotham, but this time around will there be an electorate that rises up to elect another Rudy or are the younger generations so brainwashed and self-absorbed as to make that utterly impossible.
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Not gonna happen. The city is example A in replacement theory politics, with productive people moving away and welfare cases encouraged by socialist jihadist Madmani to move right in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:03 AM (7wjQ7)

23 not sure what the troll is trying to express ... too stupid to express itself clearly, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 07:04 AM (VyBeY)

24 @20 Fen, probably a good policy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:04 AM (gu0hJ)

25 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

26 Al Jizzya is reporting two missiles hit an American warship. Nobody else is reporting anything other than IRGC threats.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:06 AM (z2aPa)

27 "USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Says 14,000 on SNAP Were Driving Luxury Vehicles: ‘This Ends Now’"
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Does it?

Hope so, but on this one, the "nothing will change" guy may be right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:06 AM (iqCyx)

28 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

29 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 04, 2026 07:06 AM (ExV1e)

30 Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:04 AM (gu0hJ)

I did read some comments from the "NY Post" which is not a left wing paper ,and except for one, they admired Giuliani and were grateful for his leadership and also expressed that they were praying for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 07:09 AM (2sfNr)

31 So today everyone has to do the whole Star Wars Day thing I guess.
According to Al Gore's Amazing Internet™ the movie was released on May 25, 1977. If my trusty Bomar calculator is to be believed, that's like almost 49 years ago, dude.
And it still holds a prominent place in our culture.

So what does that mean?
1. We haven't grown up as a society.
2. We love the idea of space travel.
3. It's somehow a timeless story.
4. We're really bored.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

32 For the moment, Trump is letting Iran make him look like a fool regarding the Straits. They’ve called his bluff on opening the straits.
It’s time to either Go Big or Go Home.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 07:11 AM (XcvNy)

33 Greetings and good morning, one and all! Now to read the articles.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 07:11 AM (BpO1e)

34 U.S. Senate Candidate Arrested for Trump Threats

While everyone knew that he's a Democrat, the article took five paragraphs to get around to mentioning it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 04, 2026 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

35 A Catholic priest said that while seeking treatment for a hip injury at a Canadian hospital, medical workers twice offered him the option of assisted suicide, despite knowing that he was religiously and morally opposed to the practice.
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I see you stubbed your toe. Must hurt. Wanna die and be pain-free?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:12 AM (iqCyx)

36 NYC?

I got no shits to give.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 04, 2026 07:13 AM (qFwJc)

37 San Franpsycho

My advice to the IRCG is this is not the day to take a motorboat out for a spin. The USN starts escorting ships out of the Persian Gulf today.

Some eager pilots will be looking for targets. They like to paint enemy symbols under their canopy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

38 For the moment, Trump is letting Iran make him look like a fool regarding the Straits.
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Wow- I sure don't see it that way. Iran makes a lot of PR threats, which are then amplified by the Propaganda Press, but I haven't seen much aggressive action from Iran. Be a little bit patient, maybe, and lets see how this goes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:15 AM (iqCyx)

39 Huck Follywood

Is the relentless pressure for MAID in Canada because organs from the dead extend the leadership's lives?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

40 Bill Maher is annoying the fvck out of me today.

The last video I saw posted of Gavin Newsom he was was seriously altered and raving. Ketamine probably.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:16 AM (RIvkX)

41 Point of order.
There is only ONE Strait of Hormuz.

Plural requires an appearance by Mark Knopfler and that would be dire indeed.

Posted by: Map nerd at May 04, 2026 07:16 AM (2Ez/1)

42 I used to have a different nic

Good morning.

The Leftist media make flat-earth people look smart.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

43 "At least 12 wounded in shooting at Oklahoma’s Arcadia Lake following large party of young people"

Aspiring Okie rappers?

Posted by: fd at May 04, 2026 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

44 fd

Weed is involved somehow. Lots of weed stores in OK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

45 Star Wars was unlike any movie before it and made science fiction massively popular.

While Star Wars itself may suck as a franchise it gave life to all of Star Trek post the animated series.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:21 AM (RIvkX)

46 .
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Yay ! ! !
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Monday ?
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Posted by: Marooned at May 04, 2026 07:21 AM (kt8QE)

47 Iran makes a lot of PR threats, which are then amplified by the Propaganda Press, but I haven't seen much aggressive action from Iran. Be a little bit patient, maybe, and lets see how this goes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:15 AM (iqCyx)
-

Open Source Intel @Osint613
14m
NEW 🔴

UAE: Vessel belonging to Adnoc hit by two Iranian drones in Hormuz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 07:21 AM (5UTWB)

48 Salty I just wish the president would finish this already.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)

49 No one beats the Van Wyck!

Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld Reference at May 04, 2026 07:22 AM (oftw2)

50 The Canadian government expects to pass 100,000 people killed this year (2026) in it's MAiD Murder Program, which is twice the Canadian casualties in all of World War Eleven.

That's a lot of soylent green.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:23 AM (7fn5T)

51
Well, I've finished my spreadsheet on Lacey's show career:

http://soyaraborzoi.com/LaceyCareer.htm

The late Bea Godsol said, "All dogs have faults, but the great ones wear them well." That's Lacey to a T. She didn't have the prettiest head nor the strongest front, but she could move like nothing else and just oozed charisma.

In every one of her 378 shows as a special, she was handled by Her Majesty, who knew how to get the best out of her. Lacey loved to show and roared into the ring saying, "Here I am. Adore me!" And it was borne out by her record as the biggest-winning breeder-owner-handled Borzoi bitch ever.

So when I looked at who beat her in some of the shows where she lost, I just had to shake my head and say to the (likely now departed) judge, "What the hell were you thinking?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 07:24 AM (HdYcL)

52 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 07:25 AM (jehhT)

53 They say no one has ever beaten the Van Wyck...

https://youtube.com/shorts/MrEfewzeT8I

Posted by: Elaine at May 04, 2026 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)

54 I just saw two different Utube posts that said the Republicans replaced Thune as Senate majority leader. I assume those are more Hopium delusions.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 04, 2026 07:26 AM (Da7Vv)

55 San Franpsycho

To finish it soon would be to grind the power and water infrastructure of Iran into dust.

This alienates a potentially helpful group of Iranians, that just want the assholes out of power, so they can rebuild.

The IRGC wants us to take that path, as they see the world hating America for that action, even after they are gone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

56 At the rate things are going with Rubio, the physical copy of his resume is going to have to be hauled in a wheelbarrow.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 07:28 AM (BpO1e)

57 FBI shifts agents out of DC. Good! "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/3ztypwzb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Yl2Ob)

58 If Minnesota is flying a Somali flag, burn the whole place down, and give it to canada.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Fbc0I)

59 Decolonization doesn’t have a happy ending.
South Africa’s New Apartheid
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Right up the list of "most spectacular places on Earth", but now they seem to be busy destroying what's left of civil society. When they start attacking the tourists, which sounds likely, that'll be the end of SA.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:28 AM (WQ6e2)

60 So when I looked at who beat her in some of the shows where she lost, I just had to shake my head and say to the (likely now departed) judge, "What the hell were you thinking?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 07:24 AM (HdYcL)
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The judiciary is corrupted everywhere!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

61 So today everyone has to do the whole Star Wars Day thing I guess.
According to Al Gore's Amazing Internet™ the movie was released on May 25, 1977. If my trusty Bomar calculator is to be believed, that's like almost 49 years ago, dude.
And it still holds a prominent place in our culture.

So what does that mean?
1. We haven't grown up as a society.
2. We love the idea of space travel.
3. It's somehow a timeless story.
4. We're really bored.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

Its special effects were revolutionary which got people excited and allowed them to overlook problems in the story. SW, and ESB, were both good films, better than most of what we get nowadays, and they happened in boomer youth. People tend to hang on to things which were a big deal in their youth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 04, 2026 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

62
Dr. Kevorkian had plastic surgery, changed his name to Carney and is now running Canada.

Useless eaters.

Posted by: Auspex at May 04, 2026 07:29 AM (IrYHD)

63 Huck Follywood

Sounds like a few dystopian societies from science fiction.

The question I have is grandparents add a great deal to children's development. What if they are gone? What arc does child-raising in Canada take?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

64 I remember seeing the first Star Wars movie in the theater when I was a young pup. The wonder I had stayed with me through the trilogy and it was a fun set of memories.

And then the dark times arrived with Phantom Menace.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 07:30 AM (BpO1e)

65 56 At the rate things are going with Rubio, the physical copy of his resume is going to have to be hauled in a wheelbarrow.
Posted by: NR Pax

Trash Day here. Pretty sure I just saw Li'l Marco on the back of the garbage truck goin' down the street.

Posted by: Waste Management, Inc. at May 04, 2026 07:30 AM (oftw2)

66
The Canadian government expects to pass 100,000 people killed this year (2026) in it's MAiD Murder Program

_____________

The exceptional becomes normal. The normal becomes mandatory.

What had been normal becomes marginalized, then forbidden.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 07:30 AM (HdYcL)

67 Reports from the Strait of Hormuz are that two missiles have been fired at a US frigate . Stop effing around , stomp the IRCG out of existence

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:30 AM (gu0hJ)

68 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 07:24 AM (HdYcL)

It sounds like you enjoyed your work on this, and obviously had great affection and appreciation for Lacey.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 07:31 AM (Yl2Ob)

69 Moar covevfe please.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:33 AM (WQ6e2)

70 Huck Follywood

May I suggest, after South African society is all tribal, primitive, and without law, that we send young American Leftists and their teachers to South Africa.

Their current plan is similar, and I would like to see how they cope with the results of their actions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

71 Take that report about the missiles being fired with a grain of salt.
Al Jizzya said this happened 3 hours ago
Other news agencies have nothing about it.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:34 AM (z2aPa)

72 Again, unless we go in and debathafy the Iranian regime, this mini quagmire is going to emanitze into a full blown quagmire.

Gas is up over 4 bucks a gallon here an something like 10 bucks in parts of Europe.

Anytime gas goes above 2.50 a gallon, sh*ts get difficult for most people because of the knock on effects from high fuel prices.



Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 07:36 AM (XV/Pl)

73 The Van Wyck Expressway is 14 miles paved with fear, hate, desperation, and anger.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

74 "Reports from the Strait of Hormuz are that two missiles have been fired at a US frigate."

+++

That would be tough to do since the US Navy currently has NO FRIGATES in commission today.

Posted by: Ship nerd at May 04, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)

75 "Trump Announces Humanitarian Mission To Free Ships Stranded By Iran War"


Another opportunity to earn the Humanitarian Service Medal. I had two when I retired.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2026 07:38 AM (0N4FZ)

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

If Flight tracking shows all US KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-46 Pegasus have turned off their transponders, then I would be concerned.

We have the plans, equipment and ordnance is ready, and the pilots are bored. Not a good time for IRCG to start something.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

77
67 Reports from the Strait of Hormuz are that two missiles have been fired at a US frigate . Stop effing around , stomp the IRCG out of existence
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:30 AM (gu0hJ)

As to this stupid story, breathlessly repeated by the AP - there are no US frigates in the Straits.

There’s good news and bad news in that; the good news is that this claim by the Iranians is a pathetic fantasy.
The bad news is that the statement by Trump that the US would escort merchant shipping through the Straits was a big bluff (at least so far). We have not sent any ships in to do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 07:39 AM (XcvNy)

78 Kamala Harris’ new $8.15 million Malibu home sits on a hill overlooking bougainvillea-dusted streets that sweep down toward the surf — a secluded idyll in a neighborhood of defensive shrubbery and eccentric statuary, where surveillance cameras swivel and the quiet feels carefully curated
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Mr. Kamala Harris must be getting paid well in his part-time gig at Wilkie Farr. Or maybe the money is flowing now for Kamala herself, in hopes she can be bought off and stay clear of the 2028 primary race.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:39 AM (UVJ0A)

79
And so on to chronicling Dutch's specials career, a more melancholy story. Dutch was built like a brick shithouse with both doors open. On examining his front, one judge asked Her Majesty, "Is this all him?" And for a huge dog, the Beeg Boy was amazingly light on his feet (nothing worse than a heavy-footed Borzoi).

But Dutch was more complex. He liked showing but not traveling. Little things bothered him. He would do what we wanted but no more than was asked. And all that is reflected in his record.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 07:41 AM (HdYcL)

80 Ship nerd

Same as every gun is a Glock to the Media.

Could mean patrol craft from Gulf nations, a DDG of the USN, or just wishful thinking.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

81 The Van Wyck Expressway is 14 miles paved with fear, hate, desperation, and anger.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 07:36 AM (RIvkX)
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I've always thought it hilarious someone decided to call the Van Wyck an "Expressway" and not a parking lot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:41 AM (UVJ0A)

82 I always take reports from the Iranian area with a massive grain of salt. This was in the Jerusalem post.
However my main point stands : Stomp the eff out of the IRGC and end this

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:41 AM (gu0hJ)

83 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 04, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1)

84 The IRGC is going to do two things about us escorting ships. Doodley and squat

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:43 AM (z2aPa)

85 May I suggest, after South African society is all tribal, primitive, and without law, that we send young American Leftists and their teachers to South Africa.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)
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Teach them to shoot, first.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:43 AM (UVJ0A)

86 Honestly, I'm fine with Kamala living in a gated community. But I want that as well and should be able to do so without judgement.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 07:43 AM (BpO1e)

87 @81 try the Long Island Expressway, commonly known as the world's longest parking lot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:43 AM (gu0hJ)

88 "...neighborhood of defensive shrubbery and eccentric statuary..."

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There's a Monty Python joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Smell the Glove, Jpost isn't much better than al jizzya .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:44 AM (z2aPa)

90 You know things are bad when an old pouf like me has to warn the democrats they have gone too far in their race to Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean I'm a nasty rump ranger but I never let it interfere with my ability to rip off the US taxpayer. Being the first openly gay butt pirate in Congress I hope future faggots will heed my warnings.

Posted by: Barney Fag, Almost Dead at May 04, 2026 07:45 AM (AP4bj)

91 Li'l Marco just called me regarding my car's warranty lapsing.

Posted by: Shut-In By Choice at May 04, 2026 07:45 AM (oftw2)

92 Huck Follywood

Nay, let those Americans be true to their ideology.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

93
54 I just saw two different Utube posts that said the Republicans replaced Thune as Senate majority leader. I assume those are more Hopium delusions.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 04, 2026 07:26 AM (Da7Vv)

We’ve come into the era where people post openly false and easily disproven lies regularly online, and they face no negative consequences for doing so. In fact they’re rewarded financially by the Utube and X algorithms that reward clickbait.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 07:46 AM (XcvNy)

94 Iran's water supplies in all 5 reservoirs around Tehran at at less than 20% capacity.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:47 AM (z2aPa)

95 83 It's just another Merlot Monday.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff

Into your second box yet?

Posted by: Rum Dum at May 04, 2026 07:48 AM (oftw2)

96 Ben Had

Tousi TV highlighted this. The IRCG are actively not helping.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

97 Gav was known to enjoy a bump.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 07:50 AM (W5mpo)

98
May the LORD be with you.

Posted by: Second Corinthians 13:14 at May 04, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)

99 It was widely reported over the weekend that the IRGC had spent this "cease fire" digging out its stockpile of missiles and drones for what is presumed to be another round of attacks on Israel and other Gulf States.

Whether this represents a "last gasp" of the IRGC is unknown.

I would presume the war's back on at this moment.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 07:51 AM (jehhT)

100 "We’ve come into the era where people post openly false and easily disproven lies regularly online, and they face no negative consequences for doing so. In fact they’re rewarded financially by the Utube and X algorithms that reward clickbait.
Posted by: Tom Servo"

See "Big Penguin".

Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 04, 2026 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

101 Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

102 However my main point stands : Stomp the eff out of the IRGC and end this
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:41 AM (gu0hJ)

Do you advocate:

- Destroying all the infrastructure in Iran and impoverishing the people for generations?
- Nuking Iran and killing millions of people who want the IRGC gone also?
- Deploying hundreds of thousands of US ground troops to root out the IRGC?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 04, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

103 "We’ve come into the era where people post openly false and easily disproven lies regularly online..."
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Tee hee.

Posted by: Russian bots at May 04, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

104 There have been nearly 3.5 million fewer enrollees for SNAP benefits since July 2025 as the number fell from an average of 42.1 million in the previous fiscal year to 38.5 million as of Jan. 2026, the WSJ reported, citing federal data.
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A reduction of roughly 8 %, which is only a good start, and the Democrats regard the drop as a crisis.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:52 AM (tqvfY)

105 "It was widely reported over the weekend that the IRGC had spent this "cease fire" digging out its stockpile of missiles and drones for what is presumed to be another round of attacks on Israel and other Gulf States."

How much do they have left to dig out? I'm guessing it's not very much. If they had it, would of used it already.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 07:53 AM (zBgIx)

106 Why would anyone believe that we don't have surveillance on those bombed out weapons storage sites?

Another throw shit at the wall and see what sticks report.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:53 AM (z2aPa)

107 Barney's Frank was chairman of the oversight committee that allowed the subprime mortgage crisis to explode and wreck the economy, giving us Obummer as prezy. Ran a gay brothel out of his apartment. Truly vile and corrupt.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 04, 2026 07:54 AM (R86kT)

108 Will Robinson

The Iranians have just enough missiles left to unite the Sunni Islamic world against them. Could get sporty.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

109 It doesn't matter how much they can dig out, they are still in power and can continue to strike like a mosquito here and there and generally destabilize the region, which is not good long term.

It seems have not learned one damn lesson about fighting wars in the ME.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 07:55 AM (XV/Pl)

110 This statement is why Trump needs to act; note the source (and it is confirmed). This is the official position of the Iranian Government as of this morning:

“ The Spokesman of Iran National Security Council: “The Strait of Hormuz isn't closed by a tweet to be opened by a tweet, The path to opening the Strait of Hormuz is either accepting defeat, reaching an agreement, and acknowledging Iran's sovereignty and supremacy over the Strait of Hormuz, Or returning to the battlefield, accepting another humiliating defeat, and acknowledging Iran's sovereignty and supremacy over the Strait of Hormuz, No path remains other than this.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 07:55 AM (XcvNy)

111 @102 nope , I advocate carpet bombing the IRGC facilities when as many of their members are inside. Use the intelligence assets we have in Iran to determine when the largest amount are present and hit the sites

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 07:58 AM (gu0hJ)

112 Rhode Island lawmakers are back at it — pushing a sweeping gun ban that should set off alarm bells far beyond the Ocean State. Their latest proposal, SB 2710, would outlaw the possession of some of the most commonly owned firearms in America, targeting semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns that millions of law-abiding citizens rely on for self-defense, sport and tradition.
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Just a warning shot across the bow; Let them try to actually enforce it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:58 AM (59SIy)

113 Tom Servo, tell me you honestly don't believe that statement you just cited.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:59 AM (z2aPa)

114 Tom Servo

Pretty clear what our path forward should do.

I still think an Operation Jedburgh plan could work, starting in rural areas. But then pearls would be clutched.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

115 "It seems have not learned one damn lesson about fighting wars in the ME."

U.S. Casualties? Ships sunk? Aircraft lost? How do those losses compare to irak and a-stan?

*AWK* how many BOOTS on the GROUND *AWK* do we have in Iran? **

Money spent is well worth it when it helps free 90 million people from a brutal dictatorship.

** The parrot must be fed!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 07:59 AM (zBgIx)

116 50 The Canadian government expects to pass 100,000 people killed this year (2026) in it's MAiD Murder Program, which is twice the Canadian casualties in all of World War Eleven.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 07:23 AM (7fn5T)

I'll bet they're offering nifty incentive packages for the staff.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 07:59 AM (b4LBp)

117 See "Big Penguin".
Posted by: Penguin Facts

United in our new alliance, we will fight on against rampant discrimination and hate groups.

Posted by: Puffin/Penguin Steering Committee at May 04, 2026 08:00 AM (oftw2)

118
I'll bet they're offering nifty incentive packages for the staff.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 07:59 AM (b4LBp)

They throw in a family member, free!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 08:00 AM (HdYcL)

119 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:00 AM (DSLf3)

120 Will Robinson, well stated.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:01 AM (z2aPa)

121 What had been normal becomes marginalized, then forbidden

The reverse is also true. Sick bastards for sure

Posted by: Common Tater at May 04, 2026 08:01 AM (Y4gci)

122 It seems have not learned one damn lesson about fighting wars in the ME.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 07:55 AM (XV/Pl)

Deal-making dithering here may become Trump's undoing.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:02 AM (b4LBp)

123 Good morning!

>> That is a polite Washington way of saying the fringe has taken over the message and made the party look reckless. Frank also sees a broader pattern in Democrat politics, one that should worry anyone who thinks slogans are a substitute for results. By his telling, too many Democrats have fallen in love with whatever the current thing is, regardless of how radical it is.



To paraphrase Auron McIntyre, everyone wants the train to end at their stop. You started down the path and now you want moderation after getting what *you* want. LOL, it doesn't work that way.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:02 AM (5xoct)

124 Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Supreme Court system is “working” in a Sunday interview where he reflected on the country’s founding principles. .... “Americans file about 50 million lawsuits a year, and you give us the 70 hardest ones, where lower court judges have disagreed about what the law means about a statute or a provision of the Constitution dictates in a particular case — there are nine of us. Can you get nine people to agree on where to go to lunch?” he asked Bream

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:03 AM (u9LDy)

125 Posted by: Second Corinthians 13:14 at May 04, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)

And also with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 08:03 AM (2sfNr)

126 Will Robinson, well stated.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:01 AM (z2aPa)

Not to mention we spent years in both those places trying to bring Jeffersonian Democracy to 7th century savages and have only been involved in Iran for couple of months.

But whatta I know bout n-e-ting?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 08:04 AM (zBgIx)

127 Common Tater

If all of this Canadian insanity is well documented, we will have definitive data to choose social programs from, for a wise society. Trying to look on the bright side.

I don't think the Canadian path has been used outside Inuit communities pre-contact. Even the Nazi and Soviet thugs did not just target the old.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

128 Trump has rejected 4 outright proposals from the regime the last one that saw them making the biggest concessions yet
PDT said NO.

Lots of sucky armchair generals around here.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:05 AM (z2aPa)

129 >>Barney's Frank was chairman of the oversight committee that allowed the subprime mortgage crisis to explode and wreck the economy, giving us Obummer as prezy.

IIRC, his BF at the time was an exec at Freddie Mac.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:05 AM (5xoct)

130 federal agents arrested a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate

This clown threatened Trump and Sen Fetterman’s teenage daughter

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:05 AM (u9LDy)

131 Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Supreme Court system is “working” in a Sunday interview where he reflected on the country’s founding principles. .... “Americans file about 50 million lawsuits a year, and you give us the 70 hardest ones, where lower court judges have disagreed about what the law means about a statute or a provision of the Constitution dictates in a particular case — there are nine of us. Can you get nine people to agree on where to go to lunch?” he asked Bream
Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:03 AM (u9LDy)

Only lawyers could have difficulty with the idea that racial discrimination in drawing Congressional districts is not permitted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 04, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

132 Anyone looking to adopt a doggie?

https://tinyurl.com/TheySurvivedFauci

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 08:07 AM (nzMXI)

133
113 Tom Servo, tell me you honestly don't believe that statement you just cited.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 07:59 AM (z2aPa)

I believe - in fact it is self evident - that this is the current official position of the Iranian Government. Which means that all further negotiations are a farce, and that they are openly mocking Trump’s current hesitation to reopen hostilities.

Trump laid down what so far looks like a big bluff about opening the straits. Iran has now openly called his bluff. What is the US going to do about it? And when?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 08:07 AM (XcvNy)

134 Ready to have your mind blown

It costs over $100,000 on average to build a single family home in California just in fees

This isn’t building, labor, or materials, this is just bureaucracy

- Pure building permit + plan review fees for a new single-family home are often in the $20,000 - $40,000 range
- Total “soft costs,” meaning permits + impact fees, school fees, utility connections, environmental reviews, traffic mitigation, parks, etc often reach $100,000+ in major cities and counties
- One home in Fremont cost $160,000 just in government fees before any building started

Contrast this with Texas

Texas base building permits for a new single-family home are typically $1,000–$3,000. Impact and development fees average under $1,000 per unit

San Francisco planned on spending $1.7 million to build a public toilet, after extreme backlash online they were able to build it for around $200,000 and it’s now open

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:07 AM (u9LDy)

135 I'm quite content to keep the blockade of Iran and let them slowly strangle themselves. Inflation in Iran is hitting Zimbabwe levels, the unemployment rate is skyrocketing, they aren't getting any food or other supplies, at least not enough and they only price we are paying is a short term spike in gas.

I assume Trump and team no a hell of a lot more about the situation and the situation of our allies in the region at the moment than we do. Time is on our side not Irans. And Trump is getting ready to visit Iran's sponsor Xi.

No rush.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:07 AM (viF8m)

136 128 Trump has rejected 4 outright proposals from the regime the last one that saw them making the biggest concessions yet
PDT said NO.

Lots of sucky armchair generals around here.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:05 AM (z2aP


Some proposal... We will "open" the Straight and in a few months we will "talk" about nukes ... wink... wink...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 08:08 AM (dFjQQ)

137 25 Years from now - decades after Iran has seen its last Ayatollah as its government leader - you will still be reading some missive from some bearded cave dweller calling himself the leader of the "Iranian Security Counsel" or some such made up shit and suggesting they're still controlling the strait of Hormuz and America is moments from its death.

This is who these people are - this is what they are...



Posted by: Boswell at May 04, 2026 08:08 AM (V7158)

138 We'll offer to pay for your assisted suicide death because you broke your hip. Canada's MAID program has morphed, as any sentient (non leftist) person would've guessed, into something monstrously evil. It's so diabolical, it's hard to believe it's real.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 04, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

139 I wonder what the people working on the targeting software and such (Iron Dome and whatever stuff we're using out there) are doing with all the data received these past months. There's no training like real life.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 08:10 AM (W5mpo)

140 Someone said it perfectly: to the Iranians negotiations are just another form of warfare. They keep stringing you along until you lose interest in the fight

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 08:10 AM (gu0hJ)

141 “ The Spokesman of Iran National Security Council: “The Strait of Hormuz isn't closed by a tweet to be opened by a tweet, The path to opening the Strait of Hormuz is either accepting defeat, reaching an agreement, and acknowledging Iran's sovereignty and supremacy over the Strait of Hormuz, Or returning to the battlefield, accepting another humiliating defeat, and acknowledging Iran's sovereignty and supremacy over the Strait of Hormuz, No path remains other than this.”
Posted by: Tom Servo



WTF is in the ME water? Why is EVERYONE over there acting like Baghdad Bob?

Who has had their "Supreme Leader" blown up so many times that no one wants the job?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:11 AM (DSLf3)

142 It's me donna, the last proposal was a 15 year moratoium.on nuke production, removing all 60% material and opening the Strait without collecting a toll and PDT still said no.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:11 AM (z2aPa)

143 Time is on our side not Irans.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:07 AM (viF8m)

That's the question. Is it really?

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

144 142 It's me donna, the last proposal was a 15 year moratoium.on nuke production, removing all 60% material and opening the Strait without collecting a toll and PDT still said no.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:11 AM (z2aPa

Like they can be trusted....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 08:12 AM (dFjQQ)

145 Today Is National Orange Juice Day. 🍊

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

146 It's so diabolical, it's hard to believe it's real.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 04, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)
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Islam and Marxism are both death cults, so...this checks out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)

147 >>We'll offer to pay for your assisted suicide death because you broke your hip. Canada's MAID program has morphed, as any sentient (non leftist) person would've guessed, into something monstrously evil. It's so diabolical, it's hard to believe it's real.


UK did it first, years ago: Liverpool Care Pathway.

Doctors could put elderly (and disabled) on pathway to death with out patient's and their family's knowledge or consent. They were providing cash incentives to hospitals for meeting and exceeding target "participation" rates. Doctors finally revolted after administrators were pressuring to kill more patients for more government $$$.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:14 AM (5xoct)

148 the last proposal was a 15 year moratoium.on nuke production, removing all 60% material and opening the Strait without collecting a toll and PDT still said no.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:11 AM (z2aPa


As if any of that meant anything. As long as they're breathing, they're lying. As long as they're in power, they're ignoring any terms of any deal.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:14 AM (b4LBp)

149 Kamala Harris Blames Israel for ‘Dragging U.S. Into War With Iran’

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Proving that there is no bottom to stupidity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:14 AM (ndZc7)

150 It's me donna, that is exactly why PDT said no.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:14 AM (z2aPa)

151 >>Today Is National Orange Juice Day.

Real, or pulp fiction?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:15 AM (5xoct)

152 *Today Is National Orange Juice Day.*

May the froth be with you.

Posted by: Anita Bryant at May 04, 2026 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

153 We'll offer to pay for your assisted suicide death because you broke your hip. Canada's MAID program has morphed, as any sentient (non leftist) person would've guessed, into something monstrously evil. It's so diabolical, it's hard to believe it's real.
Posted by: Lady in Black


I've never understood liberal math.

You kill off your taxpayers, bring in turd worlders who don't pay taxes & profit?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:15 AM (DSLf3)

154 Like they can be trusted....
Posted by: It's me donna

15 year moratorium?

*We* can't be trusted.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 08:16 AM (W5mpo)

155 We'll offer to pay for your assisted suicide death because you broke your hip. Canada's MAID program has morphed, as any sentient (non leftist) person would've guessed, into something monstrously evil. It's so diabolical, it's hard to believe it's real.

All leftist roads lead to misery, poverty, hunger, death and erectile dysfunction.

Posted by: Blue Pill Men at May 04, 2026 08:16 AM (AP4bj)

156 Dems Revive Court-Packing Threats After Being Told They Can’t Do Racist Gerrymandering

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Op-Ed: If We Stop Discriminating Based On The Color Of People's Skin, The Racists Will Have Won

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:17 AM (ndZc7)

157 Dude at the top looks like Tommy Chong.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 04, 2026 08:17 AM (W5mpo)

158 "I've never understood liberal math.

You kill off your taxpayers, bring in turd worlders who don't pay taxes & profit?"
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at May 04, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

159 The IRGC has nothing left but blustery bullshit. They can adopt no other position than that.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:17 AM (z2aPa)

160 Dude at the top looks like Tommy Chong.
Posted by: Dark Litigator


Thank you!

I'm not the only one.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:18 AM (DSLf3)

161 DEI requires making it a crime to urinate while standing.

90% of Dems will vote for those laws.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 08:18 AM (p7tu9)

162 Newsom also boasted that “no other state has outperformed the economy of the State of California.”

That’s another lie. For months, California had the worst unemployment rate of all 50 states.

Last month’s report moved California up a notch, into the second-worst spot, ahead of Delaware. The state’s 5.3% unemployment rate is still a full percentage point behind the national rate of 4.3%.
--California Post

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This slick psycho lies like he breathes. He literally has barely a grasp on reality and may in fact be a psychopath.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

163 >>That's the question. Is it really?

Aside from a little pain in the pump, not as bad as it was under Biden, what changes in our lives has the war made? If the media wasn't constantly bleating that Trump is losing would most Americans even know there was a war going on?

Iran, on the other hand, is watching their economy implode and haven't got a prayer of getting out of this militarily. Everyday this blockade goes on they get closer to the edge.

There's a cost to destroying Iran that doesn't get talked about much. I don't see Trump being a nation builder but someone has to do it. And if that happens gas is likely to be higher for a long time. I suspect Trump is ready to attack when he feels he has to but I don't think we are there yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:19 AM (viF8m)

164 WTF is in the ME water? Why is EVERYONE over there acting like Baghdad Bob?

Who has had their "Supreme Leader" blown up so many times that no one wants the job?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:11 AM (DSLf3)

In large part because every one in the ME views negotiations as a sign of weakness and a willingness to surrender. The Iranian leadership quite clearly believe that the US does not have the nerve to continue the fight, and are openly mocking us now because of that.

Waiting 6 months for the shipping shutdown to have an effect is a fine tactical plan, but horrible politically. If the US is to retain any credibility, the Straits must now be reopened by force.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 08:19 AM (XcvNy)

165 >>Thank you!

>>I'm not the only one.

You aren't. I was think the same thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:20 AM (viF8m)

166

*types*

*deletes*


Posted by: Will Robinson at May 04, 2026 08:21 AM (zBgIx)

167 My observation is, there is an ebb and flow to politics and something changed radically. Within the last couple decades Democrats no longer had to moderate their message or tack to the center or compromise on anything. Just full speed ahead on Crazy.

Are they completely insane? Well - yes, but the only rational explanation really is a well entrenched system of election fraud.

They don’t care about polling or citizens or public opinion because they no longer have to. While many constantly shorthand things like “50% of the country thinks X is great!!?” it’s nowhere near that. America has been subjected to the most sophisticated gaslighting in world history, it’s not even close.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 04, 2026 08:22 AM (Y4gci)

168 TomServo, what are the IRGC going to use to combat all the resources we have in the area?
Israel has given the UAE advanced air defense systems.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:22 AM (z2aPa)

169 Is It Possible for the Left to Engage in Principled Debate on Iran?

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Why should debate on Iran be any different?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:23 AM (ndZc7)

170 Reagan trusted Tip O'Neil on immigration and got screwed. Trump isn't going to trust Iranian "promises" and suffer the same fate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 08:23 AM (gu0hJ)

171 163 >>That's the question. Is it really?

Aside from a little pain in the pump, not as bad as it was under Biden, what changes in our lives has the war made? If the media wasn't constantly bleating that Trump is losing would most Americans even know there was a war going on?

Iran, on the other hand, is watching their economy implode and haven't got a prayer of getting out of this militarily. Everyday this blockade goes on they get closer to the edge.

There's a cost to destroying Iran that doesn't get talked about much. I don't see Trump being a nation builder but someone has to do it. And if that happens gas is likely to be higher for a long time. I suspect Trump is ready to attack when he feels he has to but I don't think we are there yet.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:19 AM (viF8m)

Pain at the pump is gonna trickle down to all prices. We're nearing the point of no return on that. And with wages lagging price increases (remember 2021 - those who get govt benefits feel way less pain than the wage earner), Trump voters will be feeling more pain than D voters...

So, understating the pain to Trump voters won't be a winning message...he's the party of working people.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 08:24 AM (tOcjL)

172 >>At least 12 wounded in shooting at Oklahoma’s Arcadia Lake following large party of young people


"young people" in the photo looked like your typical city mobbing

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:24 AM (5xoct)

173 A federal grand jury in Hammond has indicted a Northwest Indiana restaurateur and more than 20 others, accusing them of running a sprawling, multimillion-dollar illegal sports betting operation that relied on threats, money laundering and a network of local businesses.

James L. Gerodemos, a Schererville resident known as “Jimmy the Greek,” is alleged to have led the operation, which prosecutors say operated across multiple states.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:24 AM (u9LDy)

174 unfortunate that Barney Frank can't see his sexual orientation and marriage used to exist beyond what was "politicaly acceptable." Pushing politics beyond the 'acceptable' boundries is kind of the point of progressive politics is it not?

Guy broke boundaries and was responsible for legislation that killed the wealthy’s loopholes and these people are like “just die already old man!” with homophobic insults and you wonder why progressives are so unpopular.

Imagine going into HOSPICE CARE and still finding the energy to shit on progressives. Talk about narcissism. Its time to rest buddy

Frank was an incrementalist. And that's why we're in this situation. I can acknowledge his individual tremendous successes while criticizing his overall work.

The two specific issues he mentions in the article are “defund the police” and “open borders”,[/b[ which of course are not Democratic policies. Hopefully he articulates a more nuanced position in the book and it’s not just the same talking points people have heard a million times.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 04, 2026 08:25 AM (ycI94)

175 "Youth" means black.

Posted by: In case you didn't know at May 04, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

176 Canadian Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip

Oh, Canada what have you done?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

177 JustTheNews:

Here is Barack Obama giving an interview to NPR—unwittingly revealing the conclusion of the CIA’s Intelligence Community Assessment, claiming Russia helped Donald Trump win the election—before they had even started the work.

@jsolomonReports
: “This is an interview he gives to NPR, and I guess he forgot that they hadn’t done the work yet. So he tells NPR he expects to see the CIA reverse itself and conclude that Vladimir Putin tried to help Donald Trump. The problem is, the CIA hadn’t really even started the work—it had just gotten going. And he’s so embarrassed that he comes back later and tries to walk it back a little bit, saying they still want to see where it goes. It is the sort of proof that John Durham should’ve found in his investigation.”

Barack Obama used the entire federal government to overthrow the United States government in 2016 and the duly elected president in 2017.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:27 AM (u9LDy)

178 Newsom also boasted that “no other state has outperformed the economy of the State of California.”
That’s another lie.

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What's worse than bird hands? Newsom hands!

https://tinyurl.com/4ksztpdz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:27 AM (ndZc7)

179 >>"Youth" means black.
Posted by: In case you didn't know


We all know. Just checked the story link to confirm, euphemism intact.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:27 AM (5xoct)

180 >>Pain at the pump is gonna trickle down to all prices. We're nearing the point of no return on that. And with wages lagging price increases (remember 2021 - those who get govt benefits feel way less pain than the wage earner), Trump voters will be feeling more pain than D voters...

And how much of that pain do you think we will all feel if Iran is blown up? Who is going to be filling the void created by no oil from Iran for a very long time? The idea that Iran can be completely destroyed, and thats what we are talking about if the mullahs don't surrender, is a painless exercise is a fantasy.

Short term pain or long term pain.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:28 AM (viF8m)

181 I'm shocked, shocked! to hear there is gambling going on in this part of the state.

Posted by: a Northwest Indiana restaurateur at May 04, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

182 Canadian Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip

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What part of Heaven don't you understand?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:28 AM (ndZc7)

183 Imagine going into HOSPICE CARE and still finding the energy to shit on progressives. Talk about narcissism. Its time to rest buddy
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Shorter: shut up and die already old dude!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

184 >>Iran, on the other hand, is watching their economy implode and haven't got a prayer of getting out of this militarily. Everyday this blockade goes on they get closer to the edge.

Is it really? I dont see the signs of suffering and it seems the oil is being stored or moved somewhere. The wells aren’t being shutdown and we were told three days ago that would happen already. It’s kinda like the deadlines the president keeps setting- nonsense. Russia is helping them arm up and providing them more manpads like the one that shot down our F-15. At the moment we look a bit foolish for not finishing what we started. This has dragged on through unserious after unserious Iranian proposal. It’s getting to be a joke. No, we’re close. Really. No this time I mean it.

It’s frustrating and I’m betting by Friday of this week nothings change. They won’t collapse. They won’t surrender. They won’t change. Hope I’m wrong. I hope by Friday we are bombing the shit out of what’s left. But I seriously doubt the bullshit that’s being peddled.

Posted by: The Crow at May 04, 2026 08:29 AM (h/6op)

185 180 >>Pain at the pump is gonna trickle down to all prices. We're nearing the point of no return on that. And with wages lagging price increases (remember 2021 - those who get govt benefits feel way less pain than the wage earner), Trump voters will be feeling more pain than D voters...

And how much of that pain do you think we will all feel if Iran is blown up? Who is going to be filling the void created by no oil from Iran for a very long time? The idea that Iran can be completely destroyed, and thats what we are talking about if the mullahs don't surrender, is a painless exercise is a fantasy.

Short term pain or long term pain.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:28 AM (viF8m)

No, that's not the only option. The other option is Trump takes the Iranian "promises" and decides to leave with what he's done. Kicking the can vs theorectically ending what seems now to be the unendable (b/c if we don't want to kill or harm the Iranian people, we've hamstrung ourselves too far to probably do much more without their direct help, which still is not coming)...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

186 https://tinyurl.com/4ksztpdz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:27 AM (ndZc7)
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Neighbor says coke. I say ketamine.

What say you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

187
168 TomServo, what are the IRGC going to use to combat all the resources we have in the area?
Israel has given the UAE advanced air defense systems.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:22 AM (z2aPa)

As of this moment, all of those great resources are just sitting there doing nothing. The defense systems are good, but not perfect. Plenty of Iranian missiles and drones got through to the Gulf States, and would again. They must be shut down at the source.

President Trump has stated that the US will keep the Straits open for any neutral commercial shipping. As of this morning, the straits are still closed, and no commercial shipping is moving through. The Iranian leadership is openly mocking us for this.

Power only exists when it is used.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 08:32 AM (XcvNy)

188 Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:19 AM (viF8m)

I'm not arguing the necessity or rightness of what he's doing.

But there is a political clock ticking on this as in every action a President takes that involves immediate costs, especially in the hothouse, ADD culture we live in. It is wildly optimistic to say that time is on our side.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:32 AM (b4LBp)

189 This RC paper on the Catholic priest, Fr. Holland shows him with the hospital chaplain, another Catholic priest. I am glad Fr. Holland has friends who appreciate and support him:

https://tinyurl.com/478wjyx9



Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 08:33 AM (Yl2Ob)

190 Pain at the pump "

Let's not discount the effects of local taxes and other fees.

Drove N and back across Texas... three fiddy something at Bucees near Fort Worth, low three bucks north of Houston... and it's not that expensive to transport.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

191 What's worse than bird hands? Newsom hands!

https://tinyurl.com/4ksztpdz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:27 AM
+++
That IS bizarre. Perhaps it's AGSL.
American Grifter Sign Language

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

192 With the demise of Spirit Air aka "Soul Plane," Anthony Cumia just lost a major source of content.

He did post a "touching" tribute LOL

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (gtcuf)

193 Heh, I saw Defensive Shrubbery and Eccentric Statuary open for Fountains of Wayne at the Boston Garden in '01.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (5xoct)

194 The Crow, 75%+ inflation on a collapsed monetary system. Food, medical and water supplies in distress. Businesses with out internet access for trade. Yes, their economy is in deep trouble.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (z2aPa)

195 Today is the first day of early voting in California.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

196 and no commercial shipping is moving through"

An interesting assertion, not backed by current maps.

Ah well.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

197 Pain at the pump "

Let's not discount the effects of local taxes and other fees.

Drove N and back across Texas... three fiddy something at Bucees near Fort Worth, low three bucks north of Houston... and it's not that expensive to transport.
Posted by: man


Most that moves north out of Houston does so thru pipelines. They finished a pipeline hub just east of Melissa when we moved up here from the DFW megaplex.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 08:36 AM (DSLf3)

198 Pain at the pump

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Left hand on a forty, [puffin onna blunt]
Pumped my shotgun, homies don't jump
Lala la la lala la laa.....

Posted by: Cypress Hill at May 04, 2026 08:37 AM (AP4bj)

199 194 The Crow, 75%+ inflation on a collapsed monetary system. Food, medical and water supplies in distress. Businesses with out internet access for trade. Yes, their economy is in deep trouble.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (z2aPa)

And if they cared...or their people rose up...or they had free elections...this would matter more.

But Iran has shown they don't care if their people suffer as long as they stay under their thumb. Crashing their economy is not yet making them quit...

I mean, this is a land of irrational hatred towards us...getting them to quit for rational reasons may not work.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 08:37 AM (tOcjL)

200 Our military is nonpareil and they've done a phenomenal job, no question. But we're in the post-military phase now, and that's always where the f*ck-ups and backsliding take place. We either go back to bombing them to oblivion, or we get out while the getting is good. These dilatory "negotiations" are farcical.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:38 AM (b4LBp)

201 Most that moves north out of Houston does so thru pipelines."

Yep. Mrs worked w/Transport 4 for years... that's an interesting industry.

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 08:40 AM (XuXeR)

202 Is this about us?

Posted by: Farcical dilatory negotiations at May 04, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

203 The IRGC are the gangsters yelling, "You'll never take me alive, coppers!"

Posted by: davidt at May 04, 2026 08:41 AM (Q+gd/)

204 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 04, 2026 08:41 AM (53oGX)

205 Have the Iranians who were told to shelter in place until they received the bat signal to riot, loot and kill received the bat signal to riot, loot and kill?

Why not?

Posted by: Sheep Dip at May 04, 2026 08:41 AM (AP4bj)

206 >>Imagine going into HOSPICE CARE and still finding the energy to shit on progressives. Talk about narcissism. Its time to rest buddy



Well, they are true to themselves, aren't they?
They want all oldsters to die, even the ones who helped them bigly.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 08:42 AM (5xoct)

207 What Historians Make of America’s 250th Anniversary

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Didja see this? Who hates America?

https://tinyurl.com/2wzsdyye

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)

208 203 The IRGC are the gangsters yelling, "You'll never take me alive, coppers!"
Posted by: davidt
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Take THAT, ya filthy animal!

Posted by: Home Alone movie reference at May 04, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)

209 Ordinary American

Every day, have an unexpected explosion destroy one power plant's transmission lines.

Repeat.

A ratchet mechanism should be better than an all-out assault to change minds that are insane.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

210 And how much of that pain do you think we will all feel if Iran is blown up? Who is going to be filling the void created by no oil from Iran for a very long time? The idea that Iran can be completely destroyed, and thats what we are talking about if the mullahs don't surrender, is a painless exercise is a fantasy.”

The pain from the loss of oil is not from Iranian oil alone; for the first time since the Gulf Wars, Kuwait last month exported no oil at all, because the straits were closed. There is far more capacity taken offline right now than just Iranian exports, that is why it is having such an impact.

Iran does not have to be destroyed; but the Straits must be reopened militarily. This will almost certainly require the use of amphibious troops to seize and occupy all of the small islands in the straits, which serve as observation posts and weapons platforms for the Iranians.

This should have already been done, which leads me to suspect (although of course I don’t know) that this is the step that Trump is balking at.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 08:44 AM (XcvNy)

211 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 08:44 AM
+++++++

How many straits are there?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 04, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

212 Make good on the prior threats - destroy all the infrastructure, and send the country back to the stone age. Declare victory over the rubble and ashes, inform the Iranian people that they shouldn't expect us to liberate them any more than we liberated the people of Venezuela, and then go home.

That's my proposal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 04, 2026 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

213 "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States’ maximum economic pressure campaign on Iran has sent the regime into "crisis" during an appearance Wednesday on "Kudlow."

The effort, known as Operation Economic Fury, is aimed at crippling Tehran’s financial lifelines by seizing Iranian assets, freezing bank accounts and pressuring foreign governments to cut ties with the nation.

"We are freezing bank accounts everywhere. More importantly, we are making people less willing to deal with the regime," Bessent said.

"We can see that every day, it is more pressure on the regime. The retirement funds that they thought that they had outside of Iran, we are freezing. We're holding those for the Iranian people. Same with all their villas in the south of France and all over the world, and we are going to track them down."

⏳⏳

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 08:46 AM (GD0B3)

214 27 "USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Says 14,000 on SNAP Were Driving Luxury Vehicles: ‘This Ends Now’"
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Does it?

Hope so, but on this one, the "nothing will change" guy may be right.

In my suburb there is Section 8 housing just down the street. There's a Mercedes and a BMW parked in the driveway and three satellite dishes.

Posted by: Concord at May 04, 2026 08:48 AM (eXSKe)

215 I’m a lot less sanguine about a resolution in Iran unless there is some kind of major movement this week. Should we restart military action the stakes are higher. Russia has been providing armaments during the pause, and helping them understand which sites have been surveilled. They are also rebuilding infrastructure. So they are moving assets and hardening defenses. That increased our military risk factors. Remaining leadership has gone underground which will make them harder to reach. All doable but potentially more costly. A kinetic restart is an admission our intervening efforts have failed and only succeeded in helping the enemy reinvigorate their defenses. Personally I think it was a huge tactical mistake from which all current downstream impacts like gas prices and the strait closure flows. YMMV.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 08:48 AM (+ffGB)

216
How many straits are there?
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 04, 2026

***
"Dire" is first on the list!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 08:49 AM (wzUl9)

217 Anyone wonder why the US hasn't offered up convoy or escort services through the Hormuz for commercial traffic? Would the shippers in the region even take advantage of it?

Answers to those questions hinge on "can't" or "won't."

Suggesting many different things the administration is mulling over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 04, 2026 08:49 AM (jehhT)

218 Did Iran offer a new deal ? Last I heard it was gonna be in "stages" and they weren't giving up their nuclear materials but would "discuss" it in 3 months ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 08:49 AM (dFjQQ)

219 500 million dollars in crypto is a lot of money; for them - no money coming in, they need to use reserves, to pay Iraqi and Afgani rifraf that is roaming Tehran and is killing innocents in the streets; and that's where Bessent finds them

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 08:49 AM (GD0B3)

220 "Dire" is first on the list!

George #1, in Texas at least.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 08:49 AM (gtcuf)

221 Platner's priorities.

https://tinyurl.com/494pbw3z

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:50 AM (ndZc7)

222 is an admission our intervening efforts have failed and only succeeded in helping the enemy reinvigorate their defenses. Personally I think it was a huge tactical mistake from which all current downstream impacts like gas prices and the strait closure flows. YMMV.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 08:48 AM (+ffGB)

Agreed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:50 AM (b4LBp)

223 Watching the left defend an actual Nazi tattoo is crazy.
Most are trying some version of "no one knew it was a Nazi tattoo."

Especially crazy as they were all arguing just a few years ago the the "ok" hand sign was a well-known, common white supremacist symbol.

It's not Nazis they're opposed to--it's just the "nationalist" part of the National Socialism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 04, 2026 08:50 AM (MtSIY)

224 Operation Economic Fury is the lamest possible name.

Operation Starving Koranimal would be much better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 04, 2026 08:51 AM (BI5O2)

225 Unless Iran offers unconditional surrender, it will all be rejected by Trump.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 08:51 AM (GD0B3)

226 Wow. Someone needs to send the comment section to Hegseth and PDT since they obviously don't know what they're doing in Iran. They should have finished Iran off in the first 24 hours according to many here. Yep, let's nuke it all, even the innocents living there who have endured unimaginable cruelty from the mullah, the islamic police and the military.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 04, 2026 08:51 AM (2NHgQ)

227 221 Platner's priorities.

https://tinyurl.com/494pbw3z

Zero self-awareness. Next he'll be tweeting "Make Showers Great Again."

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 08:52 AM (gtcuf)

228 CAF training platoon with 83% non-citizens devolved into ethnic infighting

A confidential Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School report has revealed a complete breakdown in basic officer training following a surge in permanent resident enrolment.

One French-language platoon, which had over 80 per cent non-citizens, was reportedly wracked by an inability to communicate fluently, a lack of respect towards female CAF members and infighting between Cameroonian and Côte d’Ivoire candidates.

The Quebec platoon saw fewer than one in two recruits graduate, while allegations of racial discrimination were made in multiple directions, from candidates against staff and between candidates of opposing ethnic blocs themselves. Additionally, command saw “challenges” in training permanent residents as they lacked “respect towards women” peers and superiors.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

229 Is It Possible for the Left to Engage in Principled Debate on Iran?

No; they have no principles.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 08:52 AM (ynpvh)

230 Yep, let's nuke it all, even the innocents living there who have endured unimaginable cruelty from the mullah, the islamic police and the military.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 04, 2026 08:51 AM (2NHgQ)


And they continue to execute their citizens

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 08:52 AM (dFjQQ)

231 I love how "boomer" is applied to anyone over the age of 25.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 08:53 AM (9CBNQ)

232 I don't think that the Trump administration is counting on the people to rise up and fight the IRGC. But you know, if y'all are frustrated and confused and don't know, imagine how the IRGC feels !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (GD0B3)

233 We may have to get serious and send James Taylor to Iran.

Posted by: davidt at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (Q+gd/)

234 Graham Platner's campaign office.

https://tinyurl.com/5xnmea8n

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (ndZc7)

235 Trump just posted-

When a devastated (he was crying like a baby!) Van Jones of CNN came to me with a group of African American leaders, he had “DEAD” in getting Criminal Justice Reform approved in Congress."

"Van Jones and these Black reps had been unsuccessfully fighting to get “Reform” for many years. He was just wasting everyone’s time - Needed 5 Conservative Senators - there was no chance, or even hope, for a win."

"I liked some of the people he was with, agreed with what they were saying, and quickly rounded up the votes needed to get CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM approved. It was NOT easy!"

"Nobody else, including Obama, who tried to for years, could have done this! Now I watch this guy, Van Jones, every chance he gets, calling me a “Dictator,” and far worse. He should be ashamed of himself!!! President DJT"

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

236 White nationalist groups like Patriot Front and others have been descending on storm-ravaged areas across the U.S. to help rebuild communities and recruit new members, according to a 60 Minutes report on Sunday.

Correspondent Leslie Stahl interviewed Robert Rundo, co-founder of white nationalist group “Active Club,” who said his group participates in “disaster tourism” to change peoples’ perceptions of what it means to be an avowed fascist.

“Going to a disaster relief is directly helping our people,” Rundo said.

Stahl added, “You go in to help white people,” to which Rundo answered, “Yeah.”

Stahl said Rundo co-founded the group in 2020 “as a place for disgruntled, young white men to work out together, while sharing their ideology.”

With more than 90 chapters, Active Club is described by watchdog groups “as one of the country’s fastest growing white supremacist networks that are antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-democracy,” Stahl said.

“We get together with the boys. We box, we travel,” Rundo said.

“Do you think of it as fun?” Stahl asked.

“Of course. You know

... of course, 60 Minutes never mentioned FEMA avoiding Trump supporters

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

237 233 We may have to get serious and send James Taylor to Iran.
Posted by: davidt at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (Q+gd/)

Iran will surrender for sure.... Isn't that against the Geneva Convention ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 08:55 AM (dFjQQ)

238 An interesting assertion, not backed by current maps.

Ah well.
Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

2 ships transited the straits this morning, according to latest reports. Iran fired in two others this weekend. Hundreds of cargo ships are stuck, waiting to see his this is resolved. My point is simply this - this is the moment when the situation must be resolved. The US has the raw power to do so; all that is required now is the Will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 08:55 AM (XcvNy)

239 >>@CENTCOM
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38m
>>U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom. American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping. As a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant

Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2026 08:55 AM (viF8m)

240 Yep, let's nuke it all, even the innocents living there who have endured unimaginable cruelty from the mullah, the islamic police and the military.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 04, 2026 08:51 AM (2NHgQ)

Why nuclear?

We can end that nation with conventional weapons.

I don't care about the Iranian innocents - that's a them problem, not an us problem.

The fuel shock will be a bitch, but the Middle Eastern oil states will eventually work around the problem, and in the interim, the US is one of the very few countries that can live with the inconvenience without too much difficulty.

It's time. Raze Iran and go home.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 04, 2026 08:55 AM (BI5O2)

241 Frank was an incrementalist. And that's why we're in this situation. I can acknowledge his individual tremendous successes while criticizing his overall work.
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Translation: "Let's go full Che Guevara"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 08:55 AM (/2jl7)

242 I'm re-branding my campaign "The Platzkreig."

And my economic platform "Work Shall Set You Free."

What. What are you all looking at?

Posted by: Graham Platzenfeffer at May 04, 2026 08:56 AM (gtcuf)

243 Barely a week after the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, federal agents arrested a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate accused of leaving violent voicemails aimed at Trump and a member of Congress’ family. The suspect, Raymond Eugene Chandler III of Wilkinsburg, is now facing federal charges.

IIRC he also threatened to kill Fetterman's daughter. But remember the left is peaceful and the right is violent.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

244 Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the first Mayor of NYC after it was consolidated with all five boroughs at the turn of the 20th Century.

Posted by: The Ice Trust Scandal at May 04, 2026 08:57 AM (oftw2)

245 I'm re-branding my campaign "The Platzkreig."

==

Will you build more trains and will they run on time????

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 08:57 AM (GD0B3)

246 To paraphrase Auron McIntyre, everyone wants the train to end at their stop. You started down the path and now you want moderation after getting what *you* want. LOL, it doesn't work that way.

John Cleese is in a similar boat, though he isn't as excretable as Frank.

And this again goes back to Chesteron. Leftists saw a bunch of fences, tore them down without a thought as to why they were there, and no wonder how all these wild animals are now in their yard, and soon their houses as the next generation has decided doors are racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

247 Read von Clausewitz about the suspension of action. Like many things, the MG is correct on that point.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (+ffGB)

248 I think Trump, with his extravagant faith in the military, believed we'd achieved the military victory we sough and wished to be magnanimous (not to mention merciful, which he is by nature) and wanted to work out a surrender negotiation. But I believe this was a conceit that misjudged, and continues to misjudge, the Islamic mind. This is where Kipling is useful, that is, a reminder of the "never the twain shall meet" mindset. We're not dealing with people who perceive the world and humanity in the same way. We're dealing with pure savages. You annihilate them, or you regret not doing so.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (b4LBp)

249 We're up to $4.50 for regular in the tri-state area around Philly. The normies are getting restless.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (9CBNQ)

250 Too much information.

https://tinyurl.com/222ecwfk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:00 AM (ndZc7)

251 From what I'm reading, Iran will have to cap its wells which will freeze its oil industry and end revenues for many months. Not capping will make it worse. China hardest hit, after Iran.

Thus, winning one war and preventing another without our having to pay a butcher's bill.

But people still whine.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2026 09:00 AM (dtajH)

252 249 We're up to $4.50 for regular in the tri-state area around Philly. The normies are getting restless.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (9CBNQ


$6.09 in NorCal

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 09:00 AM (dFjQQ)

253 237 233 We may have to get serious and send James Taylor to Iran.
Posted by: davidt at May 04, 2026 08:54 AM (Q+gd/)

Iran will surrender for sure.... Isn't that against the Geneva Convention ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 08:55 AM
++++++

I'm ready. Just say the word.

Posted by: Yoko Ono at May 04, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)

254 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

255 $6.09 in NorCal

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Guess Rs will lose all those NorCal votes, San Francisco, etc.?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)

256 Yoko Ono

Yikes. There are some things even the IRCG should be spared.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

257 I am kidding, Donna !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)

258 The US does not need to completely defeat Iran in order to take military control of the Straits. But taking military control of the straits at this time is absolutely essential.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (XcvNy)

259 2 ships transited the straits this morning, according to latest reports. "

We're to believe reports... from those demonstrably unable to differentiate between a "glock" and an "AR", but they're rock solid on bulk vs VLCCs...

Ok, sure.

(Disclosure - fired a Glock once, didn't like it, never looked at one since)

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

260
Guess Rs will lose all those NorCal votes, San Francisco, etc.?
Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)


LOL... As you know CA has a new congressional map... Good bye 4 Rep seats....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (dFjQQ)

261 May GOD bless Mayor Giuliani.

Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (LHPAg)

262 One French-language platoon, which had over 80 per cent non-citizens, was reportedly wracked by an inability to communicate fluently, a lack of respect towards female CAF members and infighting between Cameroonian and Côte d’Ivoire candidates.
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Je me souviens bitchez.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

263 >>We may have to get serious and send James Taylor to Iran.


Better send Noel Gallagher, too, for good measure - "Don't Look Back in Anger," you guyz!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (5xoct)

264 I've recently built an addition on my home. We needed more living space.

Why are you all looking at me like that?

Posted by: Graham Platzkreig at May 04, 2026 09:03 AM (gtcuf)

265 And this thing with the left and violence is interesting, because it is another example of what I call narrative overdrive, and here from two directions.

First, on the media side, the left keeps coming up with more and more extreme statements about Trump. They are rewarded with attention (which means money) for the one that says the most extreme thing. So as time as good on Trump has gone from simple Orangemanbad to a mixture of Hitler, Mussolini, George III and the villain from Cannibal Holocaust.

And at the same time calls for violence have gone through the same process, from arrest him, to kill him, to kill his family, kill everyone around him...and their families...and on and on.

Then in turn you get attention for first calling for it but more so doing it. Interestingly Luigi got the better end of this then the Kirk shooter, but any number of leftwing losers are being told if they engage in violence they'll because heroes overnight and they will keep rushing to more extreme examples because that is what is being incentivized.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

266 I was talking to some friends in NY. They were telling me about their neighbor with electric cars laughing about gas prices. He asked them if they did the math, since NY has one of the highest energy prices in the country. Also, that rates are predicted to go even higher due to NY’s law eliminating fossil fuels. Contrast that to the eventual drop that is coming in gas.

Silence.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 09:04 AM (+ffGB)

267 Frank’s warning, delivered as he enters hospice

Yeah, Barney looks bad. I saw him on NewsMax last week and it was shocking.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 04, 2026 09:05 AM (4NO2D)

268 4.50 for regular in the tri-state area around Philly"

Isn't PA one of the annual wholesale gas tax increase states? Also one of the highest taxes overall?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

269 There should be no 'negotiating' with the IRGC. These people are fanatics, and they come from a culture that embraces lies and deception as virtues. They have an apocalyptic vision of the world, and place no value on human life in pursuit of their goals.

You can't bargain with or engage with an enemy like that. And I would hope there are people on Trump's team who know that. My counsel would be to quit fucking around and do what needs to be done.

Trump opened the ball on the IRGC, and there's no turning back. He has made assurances to the Iranian people. Now was he sincere, or just shooting from the lip, as he sometimes does? If the combined military might of the US is unable or unwilling to bring the IRGC to heel, it will be a major blow to US prestige and a shameless betrayal of the Iranian people.

YMMV. Line forms to the right.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:05 AM (ZxPkt)

270 >>CAF training platoon with 83% non-citizens devolved into ethnic infighting

A confidential Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School report has revealed a complete breakdown in basic officer training following a surge in permanent resident enrolment.


[cue clip of Hegseth testifying last week disparaging the US Military's old mantra "diversity is our strength!"]

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 09:05 AM (5xoct)

271 a lack of respect towards female CAF members

Just like "you can have mass immigration or a welfare state" you also have to choose as "you can have mass immigration of feminism"

Now, many would ask why the hell would the left choose immigration over all the things it cares about? And the answer is simple. Immigration is a much better way to make money and get power then feminism or a traditional welfare state ever were.

And the left never really cared about any of that stuff.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

272 People unearthed documentary evidence from Platzkreig's past. Appears he was a neo-nazi since his youth ! Before he joined the military.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:06 AM (GD0B3)

273 >>>It's time. Raze Iran and go home.
~~~~~

I really hope you're just playing devil's advocate for the sake of argument.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 04, 2026 09:06 AM (3ImbR)

274 The Overton Window?

Never heard of it. Must be b.s.

Posted by: Bill Big Brain Maher at May 04, 2026 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

275 and infighting between Cameroonian and Côte d’Ivoire candidates."

But they're all POC!

/wineboxer

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

276 A Nazi tattoo
Rich boy fake working man slop
Gonna lose to an old lady
Platzkrieg bop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 09:07 AM (gu0hJ)

277 We're up to $4.50 for regular in the tri-state area around Philly. The normies are getting restless.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (9CBNQ)

$4.29 in our area, One Exxon station was $3.99. On June 8, 2022, gas was $4.91.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 09:08 AM (5xuJ/)

278 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Looking at death sooner rather than later, Barney Frank becomes a man for all people? Nah. Still an egotistical, evil b*tch who did a great deal of harm to the country so he could be legend to the rich & the poor & pad his own pockets.

AI Overview: Critics argue that Barney Frank’s housing policies, particularly his advocacy for affordable housing mandates on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, contributed to the 2008 financial crisis by pushing low-income individuals into homeownership they could not afford. These policies and related lending mandates allegedly incentivized lenders to create high-risk subprime mortgages, contributing to a $6 trillion loss in housing value.

Politico, 4/28/26, on his 'Final Act' - “I worry a little bit about the tendency on the Democratic side to fall for the flavor of the month,” he said, though he credited Platner for focusing his attacks on incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins, not Mills."

What? Just dumb.

>Maine Public, May 3, 2026, Senate hopeful Graham Platner and candidates for governor take stage at Democratic convention

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 09:08 AM (NFX2v)

279
And, this from the Politico article, “One of my regrets,” he said, “is that I won’t see the continued implosion of [President] Donald Trump.”

Ship Frank to Canada for a hastened final countdown.

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Good day 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 09:08 AM (NFX2v)

280 Isn't PA one of the annual wholesale gas tax increase states? Also one of the highest taxes overall?

yeppers

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at May 04, 2026 09:08 AM (j+aD2)

281 People unearthed documentary evidence from Platzkreig's past. Appears he was a neo-nazi since his youth ! Before he joined the military.

This guy is actually important for the insight he supplies into the left.

They had a stereotypical feminism leftist in the Senate race. And she wasn't a nobody - she was the governor!

But the left came to believe she can't win so they are willing to run an actual Neo-NAZI because they think he has a better chance of winning.

Not only should the Maine Republicans point this out, every single R running nationally should talk about Platner. Make this election "Republicans versus NAZIs" and it will be hillarious to watch the left argue that isn't fair...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

282 but any number of leftwing losers are being told if they engage in violence they'll because heroes overnight and they will keep rushing to more extreme examples because that is what is being incentivized.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

Yes. The Left has only one end, one direction, and all energies gather toward that. They now feel as empowered as they ever have in their miserable, hateful, ragtag history in America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 04, 2026 09:09 AM (b4LBp)

283 I'm not going to lose to the old lady. It's not looking good for me at the moment, but just wait. I have a final solution.

Posted by: Graham Platzkreig at May 04, 2026 09:09 AM (gtcuf)

284 On June 8, 2022, gas was $4.91."

Trumps fault!

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

285 Besides Frank one of the other people responsible for the mortgage implosion was Andrew Cuomo. He war Sec of HUD under Clinton and was encouraging banks to lend to people using unemployment insurance checks as collateral.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 09:10 AM (gu0hJ)

286 Iran's oil production in Octoberish 2025 was highest ever. 4.3 million barrels /day of crude. China being a huge consumer. So the way it worked was, China was robbing the US, to pay Iran , who would pay Russia to develop its oil fields, so Iran could pump more oil, to feed China's domination. Guess what is left of that little arrangement courtesy of Epic Fury ?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:10 AM (GD0B3)

287 Sorry, forgot this gem:

NPR, Elections
In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting, May 4, 2026

In small part, ""The election denier movement still represents a tiny, tiny minority of the country," Fischer said. "But it is an energized and active force within Republican politics. It's an organized interest group that [Republican candidates and lawmakers] need to be at least somewhat responsive to."

Another that rides that horse into the ground.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 09:11 AM (NFX2v)

288 You missed a wild hockey game last night, MIN @ CO. Final score, Avalanche win, 9-6.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:12 AM (ZxPkt)

289 268 4.50 for regular in the tri-state area around Philly"

Isn't PA one of the annual wholesale gas tax increase states? Also one of the highest taxes overall?

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Yes. NJ and DE used to be lower gas tax states, believe it or not, but the prices in these states pretty much the same as PA.

Wawa, in particular, seems to have settled on $4.49 no matter which state you are in.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 09:12 AM (9CBNQ)

290 Doctors Can Fraudulently Code ‘Trans’ Child Genital Mutilation To Bypass Bans: Report

**********

Don't be surprised to see a surge in precocious puberty (early-onset puberty) diagnoses in 12 and 14 year olds, replacing 'gender dysphoria'. This is the type of stuff I've been warning about. The pro-trans groomers are not admitting they have been fundamentally wrong. They are retrenching and re-tooling to keep pushing their delusions on children and alienating parents.

STOP TRANSING CHILDREN!!

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:12 AM (I0N4X)

291 On June 8, 2022, gas was $4.91."

Trumps fault!
Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

Yep, he actually convinced Biden to raise the price of gasoline. Is there anything Orangemanbad™ can't do?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 09:12 AM (5xuJ/)

292 I'm not going to lose to the old lady. It's not looking good for me at the moment, but just wait. I have a final solution.

I hear his forces are about to launch a new operation in the east that will cement his reign for a thousand Senate terms...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)

293 Yoko Ono

Yikes. There are some things even the IRCG should be spared.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Where no man has gone before.

https://tinyurl.com/24b56zby

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)

294 We're up to $4.50 for regular in the tri-state area around Philly. The normies are getting restless.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 08:59 AM (9CBNQ


$6.09 in NorCal
Posted by: It's me donna


$3.79 at Sam's in McKinney, Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:14 AM (DSLf3)

295 The Avs are damn good.

As a Sabres fan in CO, I'm worried my Sabres make it to the Cup finals and lose to the Avs.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:14 AM (gtcuf)

296 This is a global chess game my friensh. Guess who is controlling the flow traffic in the Strait of Malacca, just in case I-ran tries to sneak a few billion barrels to China?? Yep , that would be the United States of America.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:14 AM (GD0B3)

297 In small part, ""The election denier movement still represents a tiny, tiny minority of the country," Fischer said. "But it is an energized and active force within Republican politics. It's an organized interest group that [Republican candidates and lawmakers] need to be at least somewhat responsive to."

The left: Our elections are pure as driven snow. It is scientifically proven that an election can not be stolen and only a racist would claim they could.

Also the left: The elections of 24, 16, 04, 00, and 80 were all stolen.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

298 Speaking of Senate races.. I saw a poll last week saying Talerico in TX is ahead of both Cornyn and Paxton ? Tell me that's not true....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (dFjQQ)

299 You missed a wild hockey game last night, MIN @ CO. Final score, Avalanche win, 9-6.
Posted by: Don Black


Dayum. That's baseball score area.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (DSLf3)

300 There is the occasional off-brand station that keeps the price at $3.99, but they might be pumping Valu-Rite Vodka for all we know, lol.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (9CBNQ)

301 Vote for me and we'll invade Poland. Well Poland , Maine anyway.
- Oberstfuhrer Platner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (gu0hJ)

302 >>Now, many would ask why the hell would the left choose immigration over all the things it cares about? And the answer is simple. Immigration is a much better way to make money and get power then feminism or a traditional welfare state ever were.


Also, they've already won the feminism war. Look at Gen Z women, they are totally brainwashed and may well be incapable of forming lasting relationships/stable families.

They always discard the conquered minority after they've served their purpose. Just ask blacks now being displaced by illegal immigrants and refugees, and gays being replaced with trans.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (5xoct)

303 I suspect Trump launched the operation when he did to give enough time for oil prices to recover before the election.

Generally the LIVs/moderates/low propensity voters start deciding when/whether to vote around Sept, so that's really his time frame to get this resolved.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm)

304 Speaking of Senate races.. I saw a poll last week saying Talerico in TX is ahead of both Cornyn and Paxton ? Tell me that's not true....
Posted by: It's me donna



LOL. Not true.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:16 AM (DSLf3)

305 There is the occasional off-brand station that keeps the price at $3.99, but they might be pumping Valu-Rite Vodka for all we know, lol.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (9CBNQ)

Exxon was 3.99 on Saturday.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 04, 2026 09:17 AM (5xuJ/)

306 Speaking of Senate races.. I saw a poll last week saying Talerico in TX is ahead of both Cornyn and Paxton ? Tell me that's not true....
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 09:15 AM (dFjQQ)

If by "ahead" they mean single digits , then yes. X has turned into absolute garbage foreign op for Islamo-Nazis and Marxist-Jihadists, and Musk is too busy with his head in the clouds and detached from reality to notice.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:17 AM (GD0B3)

307 Also, they've already won the feminism war. Look at Gen Z women, they are totally brainwashed and may well be incapable of forming lasting relationships/stable families.

It is amazing watching young female influencers. Not to say they are all bad but...yeah a lot of them are pretty bad.

Sneako and Tate get a lot of attention, but their female equivalents are every bit as bad.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:17 AM (sKqQm)

308 297
Also the left: The elections of 24, 16, 04, 00, and 80 were all stolen.

80? Reagan beat Carter like a narc at a biker rally.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:18 AM (gtcuf)

309 >>NPR, Elections
In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting, May 4, 2026



Pass the d@mn Save America Act and see how many "election deniers" there are on the left in 2028.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 09:18 AM (5xoct)

310 Sunday Funday concert in Oklahoma shooting sounds different from the typical gunplay with handguns at a "teen" event.

"Teen" is journospeak for those-we-will-not-name.

The spotty reporting is saying men with rifles firing from woods are the perps.

Posted by: M. Gaga at May 04, 2026 09:18 AM (KiBMU)

311 Russia and Iran are connected by the Caspian Sea.

I wonder what's going on there.

Posted by: CapeFear at May 04, 2026 09:18 AM (z4PrY)

312 I see there’s a new biography of Rasputin out. I know what my birthday gift request is gonna be.

Posted by: Bulg at May 04, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

313 80? Reagan beat Carter like a narc at a biker rally.

The left argues that Bush 41 stole a Blackbird and flew to Iran to convince them to keep the hostages until after Reagan won.

A different sort of "they stole it" conspiracy theory but still...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

314 I think it was last week one of the Dem House members said Trump stole the 24 elections on the House floor - Slotkin I believe

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:20 AM (sKqQm)

315 I just have to put in a short rant about polls.

Media should announce when elections are and then what the results are.

Presenting polls prior is just an indication of dysfunctional / malevolent media. The media should have no interest in a candidate's transitory popularity or lack thereof.

I'll say it: You can't hate the media enough.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 09:20 AM (DgMqy)

316 No, that's not the only option. The other option is Trump takes the Iranian "promises" and decides to leave with what he's done. Kicking the can vs theorectically ending what seems now to be the unendable (b/c if we don't want to kill or harm the Iranian people, we've hamstrung ourselves too far to probably do much more without their direct help, which still is not coming)...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

Kicking the can is why we are where we are now.

Posted by: Ann at May 04, 2026 09:20 AM (SHHm+)

317 What a difference a new FBI director can make.
Kash just posted this video-

https://tinyurl.com/262a5t43

Posted by: redridinghood at May 04, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

318 The left's insistance that 2020 was "the most secure election in history" is entirely based on "all the ballots were counted." They won't address the actual issue: All the ballots were not valid.

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:21 AM (gtcuf)

319 Is there nothing he can't do?

Additional footage of Marco Rubio DJing at a family wedding last night.

https://tinyurl.com/ycunuen4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:21 AM (ndZc7)

320 Presenting polls prior is just an indication of dysfunctional / malevolent media. The media should have no interest in a candidate's transitory popularity or lack thereof.

I'll say it: You can't hate the media enough.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 04, 2026 09:20 AM (DgMqy)

Agree.. Last week there were polls that said Trump was at his lowest approval rating of any President followed by one that said he is higher at this point in his second term than Obama was. Then the Dems lead in congressional poll by ten and same week it's tied...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 09:23 AM (dFjQQ)

321 Trying to do an accurate and fair poll is hard.

Different voters show up at each election, so your work isn't just to find a group of voters reflecting what candidate the people prefer, but also to get a reflective sample of the people going to vote.

And you have two other problems - right leaning voters don't trust you and won't talk to you, and a non-trivial number of votes coming out of the cities are fake. How do you account for that?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)

322 Why would Barney Frank want to live longer so he can see the implosion of Donald Trump? Barney . Frank supposedly has a partner he's been with since 2012. He wouldn't want to be his partner and/or enjoy nature, or something other than obsessing about Trump. He may have heart disease, but that wish just doesn't sound well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 09:24 AM (sk+Tm)

323 FWIW, a local suburban Maryland gas station (Liberty) exceeded $5 per gallon this weekend for Premium (for the first time). Oddly, premium and regular are closer than I've seen in a long time. Everyone is buying the "cheap" stuff now I guess.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 04, 2026 09:24 AM (AdHga)

324 Everyone is hyperfocused on gas prices...but oil powers our economy...the price increases which will soon be trickling in will be on everything (home energy bills, groceries, clothing, rent, company overhead passed on in every industry, shipping, etc)...

And it will trickle in without appropriate wage increases. Fixed income SS and disability earners and welfare folks are fine - they get the inflation increase every year, no matter how high. Wage earners don't.

Trump is the party of the doers, not the receivers. His folks will be sufffering more...that's his issue...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 04, 2026 09:24 AM (tOcjL)

325 Yoko Ono

Yikes. There are some things even the IRCG should be spared.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Where no man has gone before.

https://tinyurl.com/24b56zby
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 04, 2026 09:13 AM (ndZc7)
====================
Outstanding

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 09:25 AM (9IlGV)

326 Guys, you won't believe this, but. . . more fraud found, this time in Ohio: Luke Rosiak at Daily Wire:

MEDICAID MILLIONAIRES: How The Feds Pay Immigrants Billions To Hang Out With Their Families

I’ve been investigating federal waste and fraud for 20 years. This is the biggest scandal I’ve ever found.

DOGE published a massive trove of data in February that, for the first time, lets the public see what companies are billing Medicaid for. For decades, the payouts have been shrouded in secrecy. One of the largest government programs was a black box.

I’ve spent the past two months diving into the numbers. What I found was the most blatant waste of federal dollars that I have encountered in my two decades as an investigative reporter. . . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 09:25 AM (5xoct)

327 How are polls conducted nowadays?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 04, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

328 Maybe Russia is arming the Iranians, but they seem to be having a great deal of trouble protecting themselves from the Ukrainians and I recall the Chinese rearmed the Iranians after the 12 Day War with the most sophisticated weapons on earth. At this point I worry about everything and believe nothing.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 04, 2026 09:26 AM (EcHpA)

329 Big old bear strolling by outside our front yard right now. Dogs are going bonkers. Bear couldn't care less.

Posted by: muldoon at May 04, 2026 09:26 AM (I0N4X)

330 327 How are polls conducted nowadays?

Slaughter a goat and read its entrails?

Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:27 AM (gtcuf)

331 The problem with Chinese tech is the same problem with everything coming out of China.

They have terrible quality control and fraud is everywhere.

Now if you are buying something simple maybe it will work since the gains for half assing it are low but an advanced weapons system? LOL.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 04, 2026 09:28 AM (sKqQm)

332 330 327 How are polls conducted nowadays?

Slaughter a goat and read its entrails?
Posted by: Delurker at May 04, 2026 09:27 AM (gtcuf)

Probably be more accurate

Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2026 09:28 AM (dFjQQ)

333 Just paid $98 for an oil and filter change on my late wife's Mini.

Yikes!

Going to sell it soon, probably to Carvana. Should've let the next owner pay for an oil/filter change.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (Y1sOo)

334 >How are polls conducted nowadays?


Propagandists making up stuff they want people to hear and believe.

Posted by: davidt at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (Q+gd/)

335 The story about our ships being hit is pure bullshit.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 09:30 AM (z2aPa)

336 What ever happened to John Kerry? Isn't he the ambassador to some climate change tribe? Some global warming scheme?

I miss his long face. We need a Gore/Kerry ticket for 2028.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (Fbc0I)

337 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2026 09:31 AM (DSLf3)

338 Owens and Fuentes in a musical together
youtu.be/kmzPnpn63nA

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (E6ouU)

339 >>What ever happened to John Kerry? Isn't he the ambassador to some climate change tribe? Some global warming scheme?


Probably consulting the Iranians behind the scenes. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (5xoct)

340 ou oh...
"JUST IN: The Federation of Korean Seafarers’ Unions says an IRGC strike hit a South Korean vessel in the Strait of Hormuz"

Operation Freedom of the Seas (or whatever it's called) is about to Commence!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (GD0B3)

341 Rev. Wishbone

We need a John Kerry/Sarah Jessica Parker ticket for 2028. "Why the long face?"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2026 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

342 I don't think anyone on the left thinks Harris won '24. She got bent over the desk.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 04, 2026 09:34 AM (E6ouU)

343 >>How are polls conducted nowadays?
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First, you have to decide what result(s) you want. Then you put together the group of respondents most likely to deliver that result.

Posted by: Don Black at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (ZxPkt)

344 First ships have been escorted through the Strait by the US military

Posted by: Ben Had at May 04, 2026 09:36 AM (z2aPa)

345 Just paid $98 for an oil and filter change on my late wife's Mini.
"

No jiffy lube?

Posted by: man at May 04, 2026 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

346 As soon as they are in full charge of the nation, they will be for the national part too. Hell, remember all their talk of "patriotism" from 2021 to 2024? And that was with Republicans still alive.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 09:41 AM (U6Usv)

347 They should run Al Franken and Jill Stein. It would be the Franken Stein ticket.

Posted by: ... at May 04, 2026 09:42 AM (U6Usv)

348 Morning

Posted by: Mick at May 04, 2026 09:47 AM (HFx9z)

349 39 Huck Follywood

Is the relentless pressure for MAID in Canada because organs from the dead extend the leadership's lives?
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The lives of their bosses in China, yes.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 04, 2026 10:00 AM (FpP3s)

350 CA is officially recognizing evil Islamic holidays because Islam is SO SUPER-NEATO!!! Unlike boring Christianity. But no matter: people will be shrieking instead about Gov “Fox News” Abbott and why he isn’t ordering TX DPS to kill every evil Muslim in this state be abuse WE WILL BE A CALIPHATE BY THE END OF THE YEAR IF HE DOESN’T!!!!

Late to the party but I work early and hit break early.

(Yes, I get the threat of Islam but I have no easy answers, especially given 1A. No one does.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (gHfAU)

351 350 CA is officially recognizing evil Islamic holidays because Islam is SO SUPER-NEATO!!! Unlike boring Christianity. But no matter: people will be shrieking instead about Gov “Fox News” Abbott and why he isn’t ordering TX DPS to kill every evil Muslim in this state be abuse WE WILL BE A CALIPHATE BY THE END OF THE YEAR IF HE DOESN’T!!!!

Late to the party but I work early and hit break early.

(Yes, I get the threat of Islam but I have no easy answers, especially given 1A. No one does.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 04, 2026 10:36 AM (gHfAU)

This isn't a 1st Amendment issue...Gov't doesn't have 1st Amendment protection, the people do against Gov't. Here Gov't is showing preference to a religion, something that, when applied to Christian festivals and holidays, the ACLU and their ilk were more than happy to fight tooth and nail. Now that it's for the Muzzies, I don't expect even a whimper from them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

352 350.
Happening all over the country. 🤷‍♀️

The PA House has passed bills to recognize Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, as an official state

Further legislative efforts (such as HB 363) have aimed to recognize both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, alongside Jewish holidays.

These designations serve as symbolic acknowledgment of the Muslim community's significance in Pennsylvania, rather than requiring employers to treat them as paid legal holidays.
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More annoying, our very well paid politicians. (An automatic cost of living adjustment bumped state lawmakers’ salaries to $113,000 per year, for rank and file members. Dec. 2025)

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Pennsylvania legislators are among the highest paid in the country.
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>Designating Eid al-Fitr as a State Holiday
March 21, 2025 to All House Members
Circulated By Representative Carol Kazeem

Where'd Rep. Kazeem make her mark?

BLM protests 2020 in towns they/she didn't reside or have regular dealings.

Fashionable news/BS, such as but not limited to, 6 ABC Action News, 'Tensions escalated between BLM and Blue Lives Matter protestors in Ridley Township' Sunday, August 2, 2020

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 04, 2026 01:42 PM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 4 May 2026

Top Story

  • Utah has decided to make it a crime to use VPNs to bypass age verification checks. (Tom's Hardware)

    Since anyone can set up a VPN of their own in minutes using open source software and any of a thousand cloud service providers, and tear it down right after leaving no trace of its existence, this is stereotypical malicious idiocy.

    So of course the UK and France are pushing similar legislations as fast as they can.


Tech News



Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: Beep.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM




Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 04:31 AM (RtN13)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 04:31 AM (5UTWB)

4 Leaked documents reveal that the EU wants to force a merger of Bluesky and Twitter. (Gript)

Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
ELO + Bluesky

haha ELO is almost Elon

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 04:37 AM (RtN13)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

6 The 550 5.7.9 Delivery Status Notification (Failure) response email that I received yesterday referencing an email that I had just sent from one of my accounts: that email that I had just sent did indeed fail, was not received by my Intended Recipient. So it was True!

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 04:43 AM (RtN13)

7 Ace, wake up and eat your heart out!

https://tinyurl.com/hf66szuj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 04:47 AM (5UTWB)

8 There's one man on earth who can bring Spirit Airlines back from the brink.

Try not to laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/yvza9wak

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 04:51 AM (5UTWB)

9 7 Ace, wake up and eat your heart out!

https://tinyurl.com/hf66szuj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 04:47 AM (5UTWB)

Quoth the raven

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 04:51 AM (RtN13)

10 ELO! I have quite a few of there CDs in my vast collection. Still listen to them quite a bit. Great band and Jeff Lynne seems like an alright dude.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 04, 2026 04:54 AM (sAmhv)

11 You all know the name Soros.

But do you know who the Goodlanders are? You need to.

https://tinyurl.com/2fusjdrs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 05:03 AM (5UTWB)

12 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy.
Always liked ELO, but the best thing Jeff Lynne ever did was help bring together the Traveling Wilburys

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:05 AM (gu0hJ)

13 Long commute today
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2026 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

14
a merger of Bluesky and Twitter.

Right. How about a merger of North and South Korea?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 05:06 AM (n7rxJ)

15 Um... so you wanna star in a ton of Hollywood blockbuster movies?

https://tinyurl.com/7awmhsxk

https://tinyurl.com/22hpvh3f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 04, 2026 05:09 AM (5UTWB)

16
TUIs are back? And to think, we all laughed at that hokey MS-DOSSY computer on the Nostromo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 05:09 AM (n7rxJ)

17 14 a merger of Bluesky and Twitter.

Right. How about a merger of North and South Korea?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 04, 2026 05:06 AM (n7rxJ)

Fine people on both sides ...?

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 05:10 AM (RtN13)

18 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 04, 2026 05:15 AM (VyBeY)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 04, 2026 05:15 AM (8iYDv)

20 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

Happy springtime!

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 05:16 AM (RtN13)

21
With the collapse of Spirit Airlines, where will in-flight drama players find a location to perform?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:18 AM (xG4kz)

22
Bluesky and Twitter were once merged. It was called, surprisingly enough, "Twitter".

Then when the woke and statist types, would be authoritarians all, could no longer ban the unclean thinkers within Elon Musk's Twitter, they bounced to their new utopia, Bluesky.

Whereupon they formed new circular firing squads and took pot shots at the impure ones among their hitherto unsullied ranks. More just desserts could not have been found.

And you Euroweenies calling for a rejoining of matter and anti-matter, you can fuck right off. What makes you think that you are in charge?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:27 AM (xG4kz)

23 21 With the collapse of Spirit Airlines, where will in-flight drama players find a location to perform?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:18 AM (xG4kz)

They've been dispirited, you might say.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 05:31 AM (RtN13)

24
And you Euroweenies calling for a rejoining of matter and anti-matter, you can fuck right off. What makes you think that you are in charge?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:27 AM (xG4kz)

_____________

We should respond in that tone of voice adults use toward children who propose something childish, "Isn't that nice? Well, you run along and let us grown-ups talk."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 05:32 AM (HdYcL)

25
I guess that "... gonna take me up, spirit in the sky ..." is right out, yah?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:33 AM (xG4kz)

26 All the people who flew Spirit Airlines either won't fly or will go to other airlines. Coming to a plane near you , in flight brawls

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 04, 2026 05:33 AM (gu0hJ)

27
We should respond in that tone of voice adults use toward children who propose something childish, "Isn't that nice? Well, you run along and let us grown-ups talk."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

When howling and bloodthirsty mobs of Islamic rage boys storm and demolish the Euroweenies' offices in Brussels, will they protest, "But we haven't finished forcing our diktats upon the world!!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:36 AM (xG4kz)

28
I am taking my every-two-years trip in a flying machine next month. Truly, I cringe at how much more public behavior will have declined when I get to the airport.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 05:36 AM (HdYcL)

29
ELO --

I've got a fever ... and the only thing that will cure it is MOAR ANVIL!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:39 AM (xG4kz)

30 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

31
A really enterprising airline would hire the "That fucker is not real!" babe and have her deliver her performance art on random flights throughout their system. Feed the zeitgeist, as it were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:43 AM (xG4kz)

32 That's 2GB for the game and 30GB for Windows.

lol

Microsoft is never going to be able to get over what they've done to Windows.

They better hope this impending 'revamp' of Win11, to better satisfy customer complaints, goes well. I'm not too confident with the same people in charge of the same employees.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 05:45 AM (6ydKt)

33 Bluesky and Truth Social...now that would be fun.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at May 04, 2026 05:45 AM (glnUu)

34 Happy Birthday to Frederic Edwin Church- man who started the Hudson River School- born 200 years ago today:

https://tinyurl.com/3cewr6ub

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 05:50 AM (2sfNr)

35 That's 2GB for the game and 30GB for Windows.

lol

Microsoft is never going to be able to get over what they've done to Windows.

They better hope this impending 'revamp' of Win11, to better satisfy customer complaints, goes well. I'm not too confident with the same people in charge of the same employees.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

It is pretty amusing. The initiative to fix Windows is named K2, like after the mountain because it is difficult to climb and take complete commitment to make the summit. K2's nickname is the Widowaker because it is considered the deadliest 8000 meter class mountain to climb.

And just like that behold: Widowmaker 11. Killing off credibility because we can!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at May 04, 2026 05:52 AM (glnUu)

36 22 Bluesky and Twitter were once merged. It was called, surprisingly enough, "Twitter".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:27 AM (xG4kz)

Good point.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 05:53 AM (RtN13)

37
When howling and bloodthirsty mobs of Islamic rage boys storm and demolish the Euroweenies' offices in Brussels, will they protest, "But we haven't finished forcing our diktats upon the world!!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 04, 2026 05:36 AM (xG4kz)

And their last words as the Musloids slit their throats will be to gurgle, "You stupid Americans!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 04, 2026 05:53 AM (HdYcL)

38 Brussels has drawn up plans that would effectively see the operations of US-owned social media platforms — including Elon Musk’s X — forcefully merged with those of their more EU-favoured counterparts, such as BlueSky and Mastodon.

The 275-page document published on April 29 discusses the feasibility of forcing both vertical and horizontal interoperability onto all major social media applications, naming X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube as major targets.

According to the study, these platforms could be forced to platform content from their more moderation-focused rivals, as well as be legally obligated to make their recommender algorithms, news feeds, and user accounts interoperable with websites more favoured by Brussels, such as BlueSky.

The EUSSR is going to have to find out the hard way that U.S. companies are not going to be their political censors while also being their piggy banks to which they can add huge fines to the huge taxes they already collect.

At some point U.S. tech corps are going to determine the juice is not worth the squeeze and pull out completely.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 04, 2026 05:54 AM (6ydKt)

39 Leaked documents reveal that the EU wants to force a merger of Bluesky and Twitter.

And when I dream, I have a pony.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 05:55 AM (BpO1e)

40 Looks like a nice weather day ahead, which is welcome after a chilly weekend.

May your day be healthy and productive!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 05:55 AM (ytIvj)

41 Franz Stanislaus Spindler was born on May 4, 1763. He went on to become a music composer. He probably should have become a sausage maker.

https://youtu.be/k6r2gaI62MI

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at May 04, 2026 06:01 AM (glnUu)

42 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Boop.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 04, 2026 06:02 AM (xvhJH)

43 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 04, 2026 06:04 AM (2Ez/1)

44 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers!

Okay. It's Monday; stipulated. But remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr[/]?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

45 “ But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”

Isaiah 53:5

Posted by: Marcus T at May 04, 2026 06:12 AM (qTrmL)

46 Microsoft is never going to be able to get over what they've done to Windows.

I despise Microsoft. I've thought many times about switching over to Linux. But I play a lot of games on my laptop and always worried some wouldn't work anymore.

Posted by: Biergood at May 04, 2026 06:12 AM (PwgSL)

47 Are there VPNs that don't cost you money? Or if so, only a one-time charge?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

48 I vaguely recall a guest post here several years ago reviewing popular VPN's, discussing security, cost, speed etc.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026 06:17 AM (BIg7z)

49 The "cool" weather we've had the last two days is waning. High today is 79, 82 tomorrow with returning humidity, 86 on Wed., and then T-storms on Thurs. and Fri. I need to wash and wax the car today.

Anyway! I'm up, sipping my coffee, trying to convince myself that working out is a good idea. My first sentence above is pretty strong motivation.

I have not seen the mouse that I encountered in here on Saturday night, and the cats have not been acting like prey is around. Linda brought me a plug-in "rodent repeller"; it's supposed to broadcast something only mice and rats can hear and will flee from. I hope it works. Hantavirus is not something I have ever aspired to experience.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

50 I vaguely recall a guest post here several years ago reviewing popular VPN's, discussing security, cost, speed etc.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 04, 2026

***
The Brave browser I use offers a VPN with a seven-day free trial.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

51 The only VPN I can recommend against is Surf Shark.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 04, 2026 06:22 AM (BpO1e)

52 When God winks at you. The power of what others might call "coincidence" in your life. Crosswalk site:

https://tinyurl.com/kz28ywe6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2026 06:22 AM (2sfNr)

53 And when I dream, I have a pony.
Posted by: NR Pax

I want a cheetah. Beautiful cats.
I wish i had time to play video games. I barely have time to dream.

Posted by: Dark L at May 04, 2026 06:25 AM (W5mpo)

54 ...Hantavirus is not something I have ever aspired to experience.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

Come now, what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger ... or possibly leave you a shattered, bedridden husk.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 04, 2026 06:27 AM (EcHpA)

55 Come now, what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger ... or possibly leave you a shattered, bedridden husk.
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 04, 2026

***
A Hulk! Well, aside from being green, that sounds like an exciting . . .

Oh, wait. You said "husk." Never mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

56 PCMag and Wired both recommend Proton's VPN, the same people who offer the solid email program. Wired does say that the free VPN Windscribe is an exception to the rule that you shouldn't trust free VPNs, though, and PCMag says "Proton has the best free VPN subscription we've seen."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 04, 2026 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

57 See how that Fen is? Always pushing the Church art.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 04, 2026 06:37 AM (zdLoL)

58 Remember, whatever doesn't kill you still tried to kill you.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 06:38 AM (2Ez/1)

59 JJ up

Posted by: Halfhand at May 04, 2026 06:38 AM (NdsRs)

60 @46/Biergood: "But I play a lot of games on my laptop and always worried some wouldn't work anymore."

That's anchoring a lot of people to Windows right now.

I want to experiment with a dual boot scenario where the Linux side uses Proton. Game compatibility is tracked at:
https://www.protondb.com/

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 06:39 AM (O7YUW)

61 Yup. That's a NOOD.

J.J. must have eaten his Wheaties today or something.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 06:42 AM (O7YUW)

62 Geez, we didn't even crack #60 before the Morning Report came roaring in.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 04, 2026 06:43 AM (O7YUW)

63 @46

>> I despise Microsoft.

To the extent I have to use Microsoft, I bury it in a VM so I don’t have to deal with it directly.

If I didn't have serious money invested in msft I’d love nothing more than to see it crash and burn to the ground.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2026 06:48 AM (XV/Pl)

64 So, the EU wants a monopoly? Interesting.
Probably easier to control one than two.

Posted by: GWB at May 04, 2026 07:23 AM (T6PKz)

65 Posted by: Biergood at May 04, 2026 06:12 AM (PwgSL)

That's what's always stopped me as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 04, 2026 08:27 AM (lFFaq)

66 The mountain K2 is horrorific. But there is another possibility. I have two Everest K2 typewriters. Maybe that is the basic they are aiming for

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 04, 2026 08:46 AM (wOXCn)

67 Utah has decided to make it a crime to use VPNs to bypass age verification checks.

This isn't about child safety, it's about monitoring and control of citizens. Govts want to know everything about you, but want to keep you unaware of the dirty deeds they do in the dark...which is completely backward from what the Constitution is founded on: Govt in fear and obedience of it's citizens, not the other way around.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 04, 2026 09:04 AM (ynpvh)

68 58 Remember, whatever doesn't kill you still tried to kill you.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 04, 2026 06:38 AM (2Ez/1)

Ha!

Posted by: m at May 04, 2026 12:13 PM (RtN13)

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