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Daily Tech News 23 October 2025

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  • A statement on superintelligence. (Superintelligence Statement)

    These people are idiots. Or at least, suffering from an epidemic of Engineer's Disease.

    If you outlaw AI that actually works, only outlaws will have AI that actually works.

    And nobody is working in superintelligent AI because nobody is working on intelligent AI.


  • Meta is laying off 600 people from its AI team. (CNBC) (archive site)

    Certainly not those guys.


Tech News

Musical Interlude




Disclaimer: Sandwiches are OFF.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (+qU29)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (BLOW1)

4 >>These people are idiots. ... The article is written by an idiot.

I'm detecting a pattern.

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 23, 2025 04:04 AM (sAmhv)

6 Old-fashioned reliable IT systems - mostly COBOL - saved US states around $40 billion in nine months in 2020. (Financial Times)

The headline now is:

Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

7 LOL the subheading now is:

Cobol snowballs

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

8 from the Financial Times article:

Covid-19 put a lot of strain the US state benefit systems.

I mean, who wrote this.

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)

9 BOING!

Exercise time!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 23, 2025 04:09 AM (WjhjO)

10 In many ways, I miss COBOL.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 23, 2025 04:10 AM (WjhjO)

11 >>These people are idiots. ... The article is written by an idiot.

I'm detecting a pattern.
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)

Idiots writing idiotically is the modern equivalent of the court jester and keeps us endlessly entertained.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 23, 2025 04:10 AM (JRP2U)

12 11 >>These people are idiots. ... The article is written by an idiot.

I'm detecting a pattern.
Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)

Idiots writing idiotically is the modern equivalent of the court jester and keeps us endlessly entertained.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 23, 2025 04:10 AM (JRP2U)

That, it do!

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)

13 COBOL
noun
a computer programming language designed for use in commerce.
ORIGIN
1960s: from co(mmon) b(usiness) o(riented) l(anguage).

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

14 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 23, 2025 04:14 AM (AOqz4)

15 Old-fashioned reliable IT systems - mostly COBOL - saved US states around $40 billion in nine months in 2020. (Financial Times)
The article comes to the opposite conclusion.
The article is written by an idiot.

Often the problem is down to a poorly written headline. It could be both! In this case, the headline-writer appears to have had his wrist slapped and his headline revised.

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:17 AM (RuTUS)

16 I think that in most normal, average neighborhoods, with the right amount of technology - not too crazy - and with AI, that we can get very close to zero out crime.

Yeah, that’s just silly.
At most it might reduce burglaries and porch pirates.

You’ll still get the domestic stuff like somebody murdering their spouse for hogging the remote.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:18 AM (6ydKt)

17 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: OkJohn at October 23, 2025 04:26 AM (NC/it)

18 Embracing solitude

1st Samuel 17:32-37:

https://tinyurl.com/yv36ndwz


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 04:28 AM (Nx5jP)

19
I think that in most normal, average neighborhoods, with the right amount of technology - not too crazy - and with AI, that we can get very close to zero out crime.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

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

I couldn't get to the article so I don't know if it announces new software for cops to review and analyze the explosion of terabytes of video of guys in hoodies, masks, and dark clothes burglarizing and porch pirating. It turns out that observing it is only half the job.

I watched a professional burglar of posh neighborhoods being interviewed about her techniques, and in particular those "Neighborhood Watch" signs. "They watch you go in, and they watch you go out," she said.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 04:30 AM (ldc7S)

20 Sharpened by iron -Proverbs 27:17-27

Devotional is followed by some insight and prayer:

https://tinyurl.com/yv36ndwz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 04:34 AM (Nx5jP)

21 I couldn't get to the article so I don't know if it announces new software for cops to review and analyze the explosion of terabytes of video of guys in hoodies, masks, and dark clothes burglarizing and porch pirating. It turns out that observing it is only half the job.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 04:30 AM (ldc7S)


They have added more features and a way for cops to request footage easier is one of them.

The only other new thing I saw in the article is an AI-powered “Search Party” feature which lets neighbors access pooled feeds to, according to the given example, look for a lost dog in the neighborhood.

Helpful features, no doubt, but nothing earth-shattering about it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:44 AM (6ydKt)

22 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:46 AM (hoCmQ)

23 Hitting that long road
See you when I get there hopefully

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 04:50 AM (+qU29)

24 Rivian isn't bankrupt yet?

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:50 AM (hoCmQ)

25 There’s no way I’d pay $4500 for that Rivian/Also (wtf kinda company name is “Also” e-bike.

It has some cool aspects to it, magnetic locks for the seat and handlebars making it too less to remove and replace them, a 5” screen, and a Zonal bike-lock that will unlock the wheels when the owner gets within 5’ of the bike.

The Chinese will copy everything and have a competitor on the market for $2500 by Christmas of ‘26.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:53 AM (6ydKt)

26 "As of October 19, 2025, Macroaxis estimates Rivian's Probability of Bankruptcy at 64%, which is substantially higher than both its sector and industry averages. Another analysis from ValueInvesting.io reports a 48.27% probability of bankruptcy within the next 24 months"

from Brave browser AI generated answer.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:54 AM (hoCmQ)

27 Rivian isn't bankrupt yet?
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 04:50 AM (hoCmQ)

Apparently they are still chugging along making e-Vans for Amazon. This Also bike company is a bought-out subsidiary it seems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:55 AM (6ydKt)

28 Sandwiches are OFF.

NYET!

Posted by: The Heavy at October 23, 2025 04:56 AM (O7YUW)

29 Off TF2 sock.

Also G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 23, 2025 04:57 AM (O7YUW)

30 I didn't know this song sung by the Gaither Vocal Band- "Only Jesus". I like it!

https://tinyurl.com/5n7kb442

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 05:05 AM (looXz)

31 Totenkophs off for Democrat candidate.

Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:06 AM (7NHGZ)

32 I think that in most normal, average neighborhoods, with the right amount of technology - not too crazy - and with AI, that we can get very close to zero out crime.

I've lived in my normal, average neighborhood for over 23 years. No doubt there are some ring cameras, probably not much AI involved. Insofar as I know, during that time... zero crime.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 23, 2025 05:08 AM (ExV1e)

33 Mornin' Pixy et al,

I've seen your reviews and comments about the low end NAS boxes available now and I was thinking of getting one to archive my astro photos.

I was hoping for it to have some level of RAID function and be pretty easy to setup and run and of course be secure.

What's out there now that is reasonable and has decent performance?

Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:10 AM (tqkKb)

34
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 23, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

35 Engineer’s Disease, also known as Engineer’s Syndrome, is a colloquial term used in engineering and related technical circles to describe the tendency of individuals with an engineering mindset to believe that their expertise in technical or systems-based problem-solving grants them competence and understanding in unrelated fields.

The term has also been applied to specific individuals and cases, such as Sam Bankman-Fried, whose approach to complex societal and economic problems was seen as emblematic of this syndrome.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 23, 2025 05:14 AM (hoCmQ)

36 Good early morning. Can't sleep, so I'm watching old Kolchak episodes. Up now: "The Spanish Moss Murders".

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 23, 2025 05:15 AM (kpS4V)

37 Is shutdown still on or not?

Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:17 AM (7NHGZ)

38 Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:06 AM (7NHGZ)

Were you able to get some sleep last night, Boss Moss?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 05:18 AM (ZeH0U)

39 Who loves you, baby.

Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:18 AM (7NHGZ)

40 Yes. I got some sleep. Early afternoon till evening.

Posted by: Bosd Moss at October 23, 2025 05:19 AM (7NHGZ)

41 @39/Bosd Moss:

Needs more lollipop.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 23, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

42 Kolchak, not Kojak!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 23, 2025 05:20 AM (kpS4V)

43 That's two or three times this week I misspelled my nic. The podcast is up.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025 05:21 AM (7NHGZ)

44 ON the AI front:

I've been using Grok for over a year. Asside from using it as a reference tool , I've been trying to get a handle on it's capabilities.

I'm not a "coder" in the traditional sense and my academic background is in physics.

So I decided to try to see how well it could handle graduate level physics problems. Obscure one. Hard ones. One's that I had experience with.

I took a couple of problems from Goldstein's "Classical Mechanics" and it actually solved them.

It first set up the problem mathematically resolving the vectors and their interactions.

Then it did a search to see if it could find any references to the problem as it was now stated in general mathematical terms. I purposely chose obscure problems and it wasn't able to find any references in the searches it did.

Then it proceeded with a pretty straight forward brute force solution that gave the proper equations of motion.

After it had done that, I told Grok where the problems were from. It then found where the problems were in the book and ,get this, solved them using the methods covered in the specific chapter the problems were from.

And it solved them correctly.

Graduate Physics problems.

Yikes!

Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:25 AM (tqkKb)

45 33 Mornin' Pixy et al,

I've seen your reviews and comments about the low end NAS boxes available now and I was thinking of getting one to archive my astro photos.

I was hoping for it to have some level of RAID function and be pretty easy to setup and run and of course be secure.

What's out there now that is reasonable and has decent performance?
Posted by: pawn


The Beelink Me Mini is pretty good (at least the reviews are good; mine is still in its box). It only takes SSDs, so not good for huge amounts of storage, but small, quiet, fast, and cheap.

It comes with Windows pre-installed, so you'd probably want to scrub that and install your preferred flavour of Linux, or maybe something task-specific like TrueNAS CE.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 23, 2025 05:30 AM (BLOW1)

46 "It comes with Windows pre-installed, so you'd probably want to scrub that and install your preferred flavour of Linux, or maybe something task-specific like TrueNAS CE."

I'm not really much of a coder or computer person, just use the applications as tools, so anything beyond Windows will involve a learning cure.

I'm already on a steep learning curve in advanced image processing so I would prefer a Windows box even though I know it probably is not the best thing to use.

Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:34 AM (tqkKb)

47 This is a note from Proverbs 11:9 from my l Life Application Bible:

Words can be used as weapons to destroy people or as tools to heal and build them up. Sadly, many people receive more destructive comments than comments that heal and edify. You can treat every person you meet today as either a demolition site or a construction opportunity. Your words will make a difference. Will they be weapons for destruction or tools for construction?. What you say to others matters more than you can imagine.

I apologize for ways I have not used constructive words on here.

Have a good day, everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 05:36 AM (lQ+/f)

48 You’ll still get the domestic stuff like somebody murdering their spouse for hogging the remote.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 23, 2025 04:18 AM (6ydKt)


Which really shouldn't be a crime anyway.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 23, 2025 05:37 AM (n9ltV)

49 Good morning, one and all. Any of you ever get what I call the "nagging voice" when you are driving into work? The one that says "Did you really turn off the stove? Are you sure that the house was locked?"

Thankfully I was not too far from home when that kicked in and yes, my stove was turned off.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:38 AM (99eI0)

50 What you say to others matters more than you can imagine.

I've seen that before. And I found out years after the fact that I'd helped someone when I was just being normal.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:39 AM (99eI0)

51 Is there a windows app that I can use on say the Beelink that will give me the functions I need to have a dependable network storage system?

Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 05:40 AM (tqkKb)

52 Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:38 AM (99eI0)

Mine is the garage door.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 23, 2025 05:41 AM (n9ltV)

53 Mine is the garage door.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


Glad to know it's not just a "me" thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 05:43 AM (99eI0)

54 Yes, that COBOL article was incredibly retarded.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:44 AM (HFfF4)

55 Howdy, all! Evening and morning to ever'body across the vast AoSHQ Empire.

A cool Thor's Day morning in Da Swamp: 64 F., 66% humidity. Utterly amazin'. Today is a workout day, so as soon as I get completely awake with coffee, I can change, stretch, and zip out to the walking trail a few minutes' walk/trot away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:46 AM (omVj0)

56 I didn't get to Cobol. I only had two semesters in the tech savvy highschool. I took basic and UCSD Pascal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025 05:48 AM (7NHGZ)

57 No one has pulled up to me in his car and offered to sell me some jewelry yet, like the did in NYC when I lived there.
With security systems rather cheap now, the French government couldn't afford to put cameras outside the windows of their crown jewels, or at least sensors on the doors. France is in worse shape than I thought. Got to be Specter, and the man with the white cat who is involved. Just ask MI6 or James.

Posted by: Colin at October 23, 2025 05:49 AM (wlQdF)

58 I mentioned this on a thread yesterday: SS sent me a letter to explain the mysterious one-time payment I got earlier this month. Seems they miscalculated my benefits as of Jan. '25, not taking my 2024 earnings into account. They'd been *underpaying* me. This was what I was owed up through this point; and then I'll see another $29 each month from now on.

I gotta say, SS may be slow, but they do what they need to do without me prompting them (or even knowing I should prompt them). Good thing. It's horrible to spend an hour on hold waiting to talk to one of their staffers -- who, to be fair, are pretty helpful once you get one on the line. I know; I've done it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

59 Back again

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 05:53 AM (xatjc)

60 I didn't get to Cobol. I only had two semesters in the tech savvy highschool. I took basic and UCSD Pascal.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025


***
I took more COBOL classes than I wanted to in night school, '89 to '94. The weird thing was, I never worked with it. First job in the field was working with FoxPro and SQL, and so was my last, in '01.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

61 Saw a video from Emily Baker concerning the latest shenanigans in the Karen Read trial. Apparently the Feds got Troopah Proctor's cell phone extraction when he went before the grand jury a while back. In this trial, his lawyer told the court that Proctor got a new phone, has auto delete every thirty days, so there is nothing really to submit for discovery. The Feds delivered the old phone data, and there are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of text/chat messages going back to 2013. This data will probably also affect old cases he was involved with.

Ooopsie!

The prosecution needs more time to sort through them

This happened Friday. On Saturday, Proctor withdrew his appeal to get beck on the force. On Monday, Proctor's lawyer noped out and asked to withdraw as his lawyer.

LMFAO.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:55 AM (HFfF4)

62 Pro tip for any wannabe writers:

Don't waste your time submitting anything to a Reedsy livestream. They received over a thousand "first lines" to examine and ended up doing only twenty seven.

And the reviewer was just AWFL. Had to keep yapping about stuff that didn't matter. One hour and eight minutes wasted.*

*I knew they wouldn't use mine, anyway.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 05:56 AM (uQesX)

63 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (I8Tp0)

64 Knew a guy who programmed COBOL
He was in charge of a legacy whole life program for a big old insurance company that had to figure out payments as people carked it.

He was the only guy that knew how it ran.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (HFfF4)

65 "And I found out years after the fact that I'd helped someone when I was just being normal."

Our normal is not the same as every other culture's normal.

There are youtube stories of the meanest stuff going on in famililes and it seems "too Asian."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (W7XSX)

66 And nobody is working in superintelligent AI because nobody is working on intelligent AI.

-----------

Glenn Beck claims that Sam Altman is pursing an an ASI (Artificial SuperIntelligence) that he's calling "Sam-God."

Grok tells me that this isn't true and actually refers to a single comment from a Sean Spicer podcast in which Spicer made reference to the former pursing a "Sam God" and calls it hyperbole.

HEY, that's MY schtick ... but as a former software developer: I'm with Pixy -- these are nothing but Data + Algorithms, not real human-like intelligence, and will possess the biases and imperfections of their algorithmic and (garbage-in garbage-out data) collections.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 23, 2025 05:59 AM (KsUM/)

67 And when I got to my academic office-manager job, I used MS Access to create my own database with tables, queries, and reports.

I'm still proud of the simple report I created listing graduate students assigned to each faculty, and then -- using the same data, just a different group and sort -- a list of students and their faculty assignments. Not to mention a much bigger list, of undergrad majors assigned to each faculty adviser. I don't think anybody in that job had done that before. At least not without a lot of labor. Which is what the computer is supposed to save us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)

68 Rather a nap than go work

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 06:01 AM (xatjc)

69 Rather a nap than go work
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 06:01 AM (xatjc)

Would you pick up a shipment of Coors in Texarkana and deliver it to me in Atlanta?

Posted by: Big Enos Burdette at October 23, 2025 06:03 AM (uQesX)

70 Not sure which it is but text document nerfing helps with old Total War games.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 23, 2025 06:04 AM (7NHGZ)

71 Yesterday "The Babylon Bee" had a picture of Trump in regal attire with the headline "Trump completed renovations of the White House Throne room. Today it's this:

https://tinyurl.com/4emudmkr

Must be fun to work at the "Babylon Bee"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2025 06:04 AM (lQ+/f)

72 - @62 OrangeEnt

Maybe hit em with "It was a dark and stormy night, and yet, it was quiet. Too quiet" right out of the gate.
Toss in a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch," a little ways in.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 23, 2025 06:05 AM (Sq4+7)

73 Knew a guy who programmed COBOL
He was in charge of a legacy whole life program for a big old insurance company that had to figure out payments as people carked it.

He was the only guy that knew how it ran.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025


***
Programmers would have all been better off if we hadn't let the code get so transparent that ordinary people could fix it. We should have kept it all quiet and mysterious: an arcane kabbalah that only we the adepts understood, and only after many years of training. "We'll see to it. You wouldn't understand."

Once the bosses understood that programmers could be replaced easily, they got replaced easily.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

74 Knew a guy who programmed COBOL
He was in charge of a legacy whole life program for a big old insurance company that had to figure out payments as people carked it.

He was the only guy that knew how it ran.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 23, 2025 05:58 AM (HFfF4)

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

Was trained to be a scientific programmer (Assembly, FORTRAN, and Pascal primarily).

Out of desperation, accepted a job at Ford Aerospace to do (snobbishly looking down upon) COBOL and SQL development.

On proprietary Tandem Computers and -- after having read ALL of their many manuals -- became quite an expert with subsequent highly lucrative contract gigs. Eventually migrated into Oracle DBA, Design, and Development (and despite getting interviews with both Tandem and Oracle back in the 90's, was NOT hired -- to my everlasting shame).

Yeah ... it wasn't sexy, but it got the bills paid and provided lots of travel to various cities for contracting gigs.

But these days? It feels like the software development world has passed me by big time ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 23, 2025 06:08 AM (KsUM/)

75 Maybe hit em with "It was a dark and stormy night, and yet, it was quiet. Too quiet" right out of the gate.
Toss in a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch," a little ways in.
Posted by: TeeJ at October 23, 2025 06:05 AM (Sq4+7)

It wouldn't surprise me if the reviewer wouldn't know the source of those. Fat, white, apologetic, youngish.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 06:08 AM (uQesX)

76 Great first line:

"We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped a girl off the bridge."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)

77 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 23, 2025 06:12 AM (kHop/)

78 wtf? You want to sit on your ass and get paid for knowing everything about some arcane system?

How about being happy developing new stuff?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 23, 2025 06:13 AM (W7XSX)

79 "We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped a girl off the bridge."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)

There were a few punchy ones like that, but a lot of turgid, overlong ones. The fat broad almost went into hysterics over a longer opening line that was set in an obviously LA plantation in the past. Tried to inject her political views. Hey tubby, it's a historical fiction piece, keep your signaling out of it. Just explain why the line is good and engaging, or not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 06:14 AM (uQesX)

80 I am fond of this opening line:

"On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2025 06:16 AM (99eI0)

81 "We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped a girl off the bridge."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025
*
There were a few punchy ones like that, but a lot of turgid, overlong ones. The fat broad almost went into hysterics over a longer opening line that was set in an obviously LA plantation in the past. Tried to inject her political views. Hey tubby, it's a historical fiction piece, keep your signaling out of it. Just explain why the line is good and engaging, or not.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025


***
That's the problem, I guess, that those reviewers (and, higher up, editors in general now) don't know "engaging," or a good solid story, when they see it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

82 "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, though the details are fuzzy. You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head."

(More of an opening paragraph than just one line, admittedly)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)

83 Ha, first full time job was creating a database of buildings and their vacancies on a PC database called Paradox. Created queries that would sort and designed forms that would print by location or region. It was actually pretty awesome.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 23, 2025 06:21 AM (cHNrw)

84 Ha, first full time job was creating a database of buildings and their vacancies on a PC database called Paradox. Created queries that would sort and designed forms that would print by location or region. It was actually pretty awesome.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 23, 2025


***
Wasn't Paradox another of the family of relational databases spawned by DBase? FoxPro was. Most programs written in DBase's language would run on FoxPro without much modification, or sometimes any. I think, though I am not sure, that Clipper was another cousin.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:25 AM (omVj0)

85 From the sidebar...Maine Kampf. Now that's funny!!

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 23, 2025 06:27 AM (qBdHI)

86 (More of an opening paragraph than just one line, admittedly)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)

One line was twenty words long. She screeched: "Too many words!" rawk "Shorter is better!" rawk

I understand: "He was dead when I got there." is punchier than: "The lilacs bloomed, the smell tickled my nose as I walked through the sun-dappled garden, when I beheld a body on the ground in front of me, covered in lavender." But, you have to do some setting up as well.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 23, 2025 06:27 AM (uQesX)

87 Time to change and stretch. It'd be easy just to sit on the couch, but: "We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

88
Good morning, Hordians. Going in for my annual exam today. I feel fine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2025 06:29 AM (tgvbd)

89 Good morning, Hordians. Going in for my annual exam today. I feel fine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2025 06:29 AM (tgvbd)

(sound of snapping glove)

"Good morning!"

Posted by: Hadrian's Doctor at October 23, 2025 06:30 AM (uQesX)

90 76. “When somebody dropped a girl off the bridge”
Without DDG ing that line, I can tell you one of the Travis Mcgee novels starts out like that. Perhaps there are many crime novels that start out like that.

Posted by: Fenderbender at October 23, 2025 06:31 AM (1FEc1)

91 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 23, 2025 06:32 AM (WV0oi)

92 Skip, how is your dad post surgery?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2025 06:36 AM (I8Tp0)

93 "it was nearly midnight on Jones Beach when the little bastards began to fall"

Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2025 06:37 AM (tqkKb)

94 E bike, E cigs, E people, whatever.

Posted by: Eromero at October 23, 2025 06:43 AM (jgmnb)

95 “When somebody dropped a girl off the bridge”
Without DDG ing that line, I can tell you one of the Travis Mcgee novels starts out like that. Perhaps there are many crime novels that start out like that.
Posted by: Fenderbender at October 23, 2025

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That's it exactly, Darker Than Amber, the seventh McGee. Made into a decent film in 1970 with Rod Taylor as Travis.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

96 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 23, 2025 06:50 AM (XmFj4)

97
A statement on superintelligence.


Oh, noes! Did Barky throw out his shoulder again patting himself on his back while bragging how wise he knows himself to be? The guy reads Niebuhr, you know.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 23, 2025 06:55 AM (xG4kz)

98 mornin yall

"first full time job was creating a database of buildings and their vacancies on a PC database called Paradox"

I used Paradox to create a program to store and retrieve birth certificates for the county. Birth certs were scanned in and the data (DOB, Name, location, etc) were entered by clerks. They could find a birth certificate and print it to make a certified copy. I eventually sold the the program to a couple of other counties that got grants to implement it. I moved on though and never pursued it further. I don't really like programming anymore.

Posted by: fd at October 23, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

99
We choose not to do these things because they are hard, but because we are lazy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 23, 2025 07:01 AM (xG4kz)

100 They should just shut down the AWS servers for two weeks during the summer and everyone takes a vacation like the Europeons.

Posted by: fd at October 23, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - October 22, 2025 [TRex]

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb debris. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

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"Sir, it is time for the Wednesday ONT."

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This is not AI. This is not fake.

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Last Wednesday, we featured ESPN's coverage of the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship Finals. I wasn't looking for it, but happened to be flipping through channels over the weekend and stumbled across ESPN coverage of kickball.

Kickball at least has a more credible argument than Excel to be considered a sport.

Guess some respect is due to whomever figured out how to turn kickball into a thing. They call it "Turf Wars" and hold tournaments across the US. The "National Championship" is scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Austin.

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Public Service Announcement: Apologies to drivers in cities that I previously characterized as "the worst." Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston. Wow.

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Since this is a quasi-smart military blog (sometimes):

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This seems like...something. Micro nuclear reactors for the military?

Army announces Janus Program for next-generation nuclear energy

The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power program that will deliver resilient, secure, and assured energy to support national defense installations and critical missions.

Executive Order 14299, "Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security," directs the Department of War to commence operation of an Army-regulated nuclear reactor at a domestic military installation no later than September 30, 2028.

The program will build commercial microreactors through a nimble, milestone-based contracting model in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter.

This initiative represents a substantial investment in military and national energy dominance and will help chart the course for widespread deployment of Microreactor Power Plants.

The program will field nuclear microreactors capable of operating independently of the civilian power grid, ensuring uninterrupted power for forces in any environment through collaboration with the Department of Energy (DOE). By leveraging its nuclear regulatory authorities in partnership with the DOE, the Army will move forward with microreactors that are safe, resilient, and adaptable.


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Shopping for real estate in the North Carolina mountains?

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Out of this world: Former North Carolina NASA campus for sale, listed for $30M

The former satellite tracking facility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Rosman, North Carolina, is now up for sale, according to a listing posted on NAI Piedmont Triad.

The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is a 192-acre site, built in 1963, that features more than 30 buildings, including a welcome center, library, exhibits, dorms and staff housing, and dining facilities. The site is selling for $30 million.

From the listing:

Nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) offers a rare, ready-made gateway to the stars. This scientific landmark is ready for next-gen use, from AI research and data archiving to aerospace communications, STEM education, and even quantum computing.

Originally developed by NASA in the 1960s as part of the space race, this 192-acre campus helped capture the first images of Earth from space, and later, was used by the NSA during the Cold War as a key satellite communications hub. Today, the site is an International Dark Sky Park for public education, surrounded by over a half-million acres of protected national forest, ideal for astronomical observation and scientific research. But it's not just that past that makes PARI extraordinary, it's the future.

Nearly a quarter-billion dollars of investment has primed PARI's infrastructure to nurture the future's innovators, technological breakthroughs, and connections to the stars. Located in an electromagnetically quiet zone, one of only about 100 in the world, PARI is decidedly positioned to leverage its institution-grade elements in an environment where few other sites can.

Some of the scientific and technological highlights include two NASA-built dishes, two radio telescopes, Solar and Jupiter radio arrays, and an Eight-Meter Transient Array. Of the more than 25 optical telescopes, PARI features a Coronado Solarmax 40, Polaris 12-inch Cassegrain, SPACE 10-inch Cassegrain, and a 16-inch DFM Research Grade Telescope with a 7-inch Questar Finder Scope.

NC MoMe location?

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What could go wrong with building a utopia in California?

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Billionaire-Backed Group California Forever Unveils Master Plan for "Next Great American City"

An ambitious real estate consortium known as California Forever has unveiled its detailed 40-year master plan to build a vast new community from scratch on former farmland northeast of San Francisco.

California Forever CEO Jan Sramek touted the plan as a key step in creating "the next great American city," which the group envisions as the eventual home of 400,000 people living in "affordable homes in safe, walkable neighborhoods."

The plan filed on Tuesday reveals that California Forever now plans to build the master-planned community as an extension of nearby Suisun City, a community of 30,000 that stands to dramatically expand its tax base by annexing the new development.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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Reba for the big ONT finish:

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 Yes, Virginia, there is a MAGA movement!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Beam me up, Scottish at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (Qqyu2)

2 1

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (Z8Qvl)

3 Yay!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (mAdag)

4 Rats.. good job, MWW

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (Z8Qvl)

5 The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program

Janus was the two-faced god...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (ynpvh)

6 "Sir, it is time for the Wednesday ONT."

You sure Marco's not saying, "It's the Trump phone, sir?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

7 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (Wnv9h)

8 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (FVLcK)

9 Out of this world: Former North Carolina NASA campus for sale, listed for $30M

How many of those telescopes can be repurposed as directed-energy weapons?

None?

Not interested, then.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (nhCoE)

10 Hello!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (F2xQR)

11 top 10? we'll see

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (JFzrp)

12 That NASA campus for sale is your chance to own the World's Largest Birdbath, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (dyewR)

13

Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

14 The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

The first and last ones just sound like Karens in their natural habitat.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (nhCoE)

15 From Cafe thread:


227
Srsly, I wonder if Newsom is sweating lightly because of these accidents.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:59 PM (ldc7S)

I'm sure he doesn't give a crap!

What's chilling is wife and I were supposed to be in that part of town and freeway at that time but her Mom's Dr appt got moved so we didn't have to go.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

16 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

17
The former satellite tracking facility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Rosman, North Carolina, is now up for sale, according to a listing posted on NAI Piedmont Triad.


Is its mosque constructed for "Muslim outreach" included in the sale?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (xG4kz)

18 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

(snaps fingers)

Left out again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:06 PM (uQesX)

19 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:06 PM (ynpvh)

20 12 That NASA campus for sale is your chance to own the World's Largest Birdbath, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (dyewR)

Too much yardwork...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:06 PM (ynpvh)

21 11 top 10? we'll see
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (JFzrp)

Missed it by that 🤏 much.

Posted by: Don Adams at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (FVLcK)

22 Read the content: newbie mistake!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

23 The program will build commercial microreactors through a nimble, milestone-based contracting model in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter.

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So when can I expect to have my own Iron Man suit?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (dyewR)

24 A kickball tournament can't be any worse than a Hobby Horse tournament.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

25 I really want the NASA property! It’s Atomic Ranch Mid Mod nirvana! I promise we could host whatever MoMes there! Ben Had would get a penthouse suite to gaze at stars.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)

26
Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Why, quitting, of course!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (xG4kz)

27 Too much yardwork...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


If you can afford $30 million digs, you can afford a couple legal immigrants to keep the weeds short enough for your HOA.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (nhCoE)

28 Hiya T!
Nice ONT ya got there...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (mAdag)

29 Reba is a lovely lady, but her singing voice is close to veering into a speech impediment. I cannot stand it. Awful.

sucks, because my wife love Reba.

Sigh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)

30 15 From Cafe thread:


227
Srsly, I wonder if Newsom is sweating lightly because of these accidents.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:59 PM (ldc7S)

I'm sure he doesn't give a crap!

What's chilling is wife and I were supposed to be in that part of town and freeway at that time but her Mom's Dr appt got moved so we didn't have to go.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

As long as he gets the votes he needs, and it doesn't personally impact him, he really doesn't care. See Ref. eating at the French Laundry Restaurant during COVID...you couldn't go to church (but strip clubs were okay), and YOU couldn't go out to eat, but he could go out to eat. Laws and Rules are for the plebes, not the ruling class.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM (ynpvh)

31 Quit wearing ribbons.

Posted by: Kosmo Kramer at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (i0F8b)

32 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (lUFok)

33 Thanks for another dandy Wednesday ONT, TRex!

Once again, the Pittsburgh scanner hits it out of the park! I'm sure the downtick in reports is only temporary.

Love the photo of the barn up top. Nothing decorates a barn as well as our great American flag!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (kB9dk)

34 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (ULPxl)

35 . . . .directs the Department of War to commence operation of an Army-regulated nuclear reactor at a domestic military installation no later than September 30, 2028.

The program will build commercial microreactors. . . in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter.
- - - - - - -

Um. . . . . haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

36 By the map, that planned wonderful city in CA isn't "northeast of San Francisco" except in the most technical sense.
It's closer to Suckatomato both in crow miles and especially in driving miles.
The climate there is not going to be the coastal climate of the SF Bay, but rather the "cook an egg on the sidewalk in the summer" and "feel your way through the Tule fog in the winter" climate of the Central Valley.
"NE of SF" is bait and switch.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (z4gd/)

37 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

38 The site is selling for $30 million.



The little known massive array of sub-basements alone are worth that much.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)

39 28 Hiya T!
Nice ONT ya got there...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:08 PM
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COMM!! Please send me an email. For reasons.

Posted by: TRex - dino greetings at October 22, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 Shenanigans was a 1964-65 childrens game show hosted by veteran entertainer Stubby Kaye. Started local in NYC, then picked up nationally by ABC.

Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers! at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (oftw2)

41 22 Read the content: newbie mistake!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 10:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

Only if you don't care to be SPONGE!!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (ynpvh)

42 37 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (Wmg4n)

43 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
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LOL. Thanks for the ONT, Dino. And all the mystery clicks.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (41CYW)

44 33 Thanks for another dandy Wednesday ONT, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM
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Good evening LS!

Posted by: TRex - sufficient dino at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

45
Quit wearing ribbons.
Posted by: Kosmo Kramer


Mitch Miller and the Gang - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

https://youtu.be/NDFkpyDB-cs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM (xG4kz)

46 >>> 2 1
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (Z8Qvl)

Blackjack!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:12 PM (ULPxl)

47 Is its mosque constructed for "Muslim outreach" included in the sale?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison!

Oh, planning on raising some pigs I see.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)

48 34 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (ULPxl)

How much are the property taxes?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (ynpvh)

49 Word on the rue is that Dominique Boffin is rolling back certain aspects of her initiative to democratize art.

The museum has cancelled its program to allow patrons to check out masterpieces for a week so they can be displayed at home.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (dyewR)

50 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...
Posted by: jim

Mmmmm, not so sure. Mom and Dad left in the mid-50's as Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

51
It's closer to Suckatomato...


Suckatomato -- LOL!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (xG4kz)

52 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
************
We're actually doing math now?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

53 No need to rub it in, tankdemon lol.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 10:14 PM (UZVey)

54 8 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM
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Mmmmmm....pudding....

Posted by: TRex - pudding pop dino at October 22, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

55 I live in NC and have a satellite dish, but I'll admit it's not as fancy as NASAs.

Posted by: Also Ran at October 22, 2025 10:15 PM (oftw2)

56 This is well trod ground. Read up on the SL-1 reactor incident in Idaho in 1961. An Army private yanked a 100 pound control rod completely out and the steam explosion blew up the whole thing instantly, killing himself and two others. He was impaled on the ceiling by the control rod.

The idea generally, the AEC tested all kinds of power plant ideas. Camp Century was another one, constructing a “set it and forget it” nuclear reactor is tougher than it appears. They wanted something requiring minimal oversight and easy modular construction, portability etc etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (C8TKZ)

57 42 Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:11 PM
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Great idea. If nothing else, dinos are known for being tasteful.

Posted by: TRex - tasteful dino at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

58 50 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...
Posted by: jim

Mmmmm, not so sure. Mom and Dad left in the mid-50's as Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

Kali elected Ronnie Reagan in 1966, and he served two years...granted Moonbeam was elected right after Ronnie left office...
So Kali is a bit bi-polar...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (ynpvh)

59
Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.


That's not pudding ... nor is it chocolate.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (xG4kz)

60 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
*********
Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

61 54 8 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM
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Mmmmmm....pudding....

Posted by: TRex - pudding pop dino at October 22, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

Not baby oil?

Posted by: Sean "Diddy" Combs at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (ynpvh)

62 I’ll see your kick ball and raise you with quidditch. Saw it some cable channel. It was the world championship and held in Clearlake, Texas.

College-age fairies prancing around a field with pvc pipe ‘brooms’ between their legs. Man-bun coaches arguing the finer points of rules disputes with referees.

Once seen it cannot be unseen.

Posted by: Chunk at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (yxDyH)

63 Shenanigans was a 1964-65 childrens game show hosted by veteran entertainer Stubby Kaye.

The kids are in the very best of hands.

The best of hands!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (EXyHK)

64 6 "Sir, it is time for the Wednesday ONT."

You sure Marco's not saying, "It's the Trump phone, sir?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

"Your wife is on the phone, and she sounds pissed!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 22, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

65 We're actually doing math now?
——

That’s actually Arithmetic. So it’s OK, right?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:18 PM (KMICP)

66 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
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*Unfolds lawnchair. Sets down six pack.*

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

67 Larry Talbot: Knock knock
Frankenstein's Monster: Who's there?
Talbot: Ahhh.
Monster: Ahhh who?
Talbot: Werewolves of London!

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (FVLcK)

68 50 Kalifornia used to be a sane state...
Posted by: jim

Mmmmm, not so sure. Mom and Dad left in the mid-50's as Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

It should be a cereal...
https://tinyurl.com/mt67ur2b

Posted by: Sean at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (ynpvh)

69 Some Rat! Just got home today, and while unpacking was admiring our autographed commemorative plate!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

70 Um. . . . . haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
* * * *
Maybe... wonder if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission knows about this. If the microreactors are already in use then the 2028 deployment deadline for the "new" ones shouldn't be a problem!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (kB9dk)

71 What kind of pudding?

Posted by: Dr. Huxtable at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

72 I’ll see your kick ball and raise you with quidditch. Saw it some cable channel. It was the world championship and held in Clearlake, Texas.

College-age fairies prancing around a field with pvc pipe ‘brooms’ between their legs. Man-bun coaches arguing the finer points of rules disputes with referees.

Once seen it cannot be unseen.
Posted by: Chunk

It's 43 man squamish for me or nothing.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (TfUTr)

73 56 This is well trod ground. Read up on the SL-1 reactor incident in Idaho in 1961. An Army private yanked a 100 pound control rod completely out and the steam explosion blew up the whole thing instantly, killing himself and two others. He was impaled on the ceiling by the control rod.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM
***
Little known fact: One of the three deceased is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He is the only one that the Army has no control over. His remains may only be disturbed by permission of the NRC because he is considered contaminated.

Posted by: TRex - trivial pursuit dino at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

74 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
*********
Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

You could always include a dummy in the Dino's mouth, as a reminder of what happens for bad behavior.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)

75 Great ONT TRex!

I like Vicki Lawrence's version of TNTLWOIG better. Maybe because it's the one I recall from my youth and which would play in my mind as I drove home from college thru Georgia with NY plates back in the late '70's. I'd gas the car as full as I could get it on the SC side and not stop until I hit the Florida welcome station. (You inna heapa trouble, boy!)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (QGaXH)

76
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)

As long as he gets the votes he needs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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

That's exactly what I'm talking about, the votes. Enough of these incidents and it could affect his chances in 2028.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (ldc7S)

77 That's not pudding ... nor is it chocolate.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM (xG4kz)

At least we know where Trump can go to re-arm his No Kings Rally jet fighter.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (FVLcK)

78 ¡fuera, calcetín!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (ynpvh)

79 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
************

60% tax rate? Is this a British lottery?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (EYmYM)

80 *********
Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

Hear me out…what if we have it where it pops out and yells “Boo!” If someone, like a sales person, annoying neighbor, or, say a friend who is not shutting up about dinosaurs when she should, comes over. Think of the viral videos!

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (OoFl2)

81 The Army can't even procure a good new battle rifle, but we're expected to believe they're going to run a nuclear reactor.

"The program will build commercial microreactors through a nimble, milestone-based contracting model in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), accelerating delivery of advanced energy solutions to the warfighter."

They forgot to mention that they also are going to proactively manage their synergies.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (SnC8S)

82 >>Trust me, you are picking the wrong side in this debate..
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
----------

Well, then I suppose I shouldn't suggest that TRex searches am'zon for "inflatable Christmas dinosaur"...

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

83 Are you a large scale dino looking for a home? We can help.
**************
Again? Haven't we already covered this?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October

Well you are designing a new house. Perhaps there could be a small park like spot for a Dino tastefully peeking around a tree.
Posted by: Piper
--------------
*Unfolds lawnchair. Sets down six pack.*
Posted by: scampydog
************
it's all fun and games til we get to the Golden Birthdays





Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

84 Some Rat! Just got home today, and while unpacking was admiring our autographed commemorative plate!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Thank you!
I am hoping to live long enough to see one on the Antiques Roadshow.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (TfUTr)

85 71 What kind of pudding?

Posted by: Dr. Huxtable at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

Your pudding would be roofied...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM (ynpvh)

86 Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.
——-

1950s? Yeah, the fruits were kind of nutty, and …the nuts were kind of fruity. Situation has deteriorated since that time, I expect.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (C4nCF)

87 "Your wife is on the phone, and she sounds pissed!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 22, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

"Give her free rein, Marco. They won't know what hit them."

Posted by: Trump! at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (uQesX)

88 Sorry I'm late, the pudding started to overflow the hot tub.
Posted by: tankdemon

Mmmmmm....pudding....
Posted by: TRex


A hot-tub-full would be about the equivalent of a pudding cup for a T-Rex, right? I don't wanna do the math after the admonition at #52.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (nhCoE)

89 I just want you people to know, that

Posted by: Don Black at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (AOsQT)

90 >>> 79 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
************

60% tax rate? Is this a British lottery?
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (EYmYM)

It's a pessimistic estimate of feralgov, state, and possibly city taxes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

91 The sane Californians imported the Jobs Californians Won't Do and lobbied Reagan to amnesty them.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 PM (gKWVE)

92 86 Dad said it 'was full of fruits and nuts' even back then.
——-

1950s? Yeah, the fruits were kind of nutty, and …the nuts were kind of fruity. Situation has deteriorated since that time, I expect.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:23 PM (C4nCF)

Spacious outdoor bathrooms!
Voting representation of endangered groups: illegals, dead, imaginary!
High utility rates!
Insane legislators!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

93 62 College-age fairies prancing around a field with pvc pipe ‘brooms’ between their legs. Man-bun coaches arguing the finer points of rules disputes with referees.

Once seen it cannot be unseen.
Posted by: Chunk at October 22, 2025 10:17 PM (yxDyH)

And I thought that hobby-horse "equestrian" events were the ultimate evidence of de-evolution.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (FVLcK)

94
The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program
Janus was the two-faced god...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Waaaayyyy back, i was deputy program manager on a nato contract, where we were basically teaching the euroweenies how to do missile defense. The damned euroweenie MIC partners on my contract voted for Team Janus as the team official name for exactly that reason. I called the entire cluster fuck Team Anus to their faces, in front of the damned nato customer.

Never again. That 3 year experience swore me off of program management, supervisory roles, and set me solidly on my path to corporate technical fellow where i am now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (1l1S+)

95 90 >>> 79 So, if you won $100 million in the lottery, and say $60 million of that goes to taxes, then you'd still have $10 million left after buying the PARI campus.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
************

60% tax rate? Is this a British lottery?
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:21 PM (EYmYM)

It's a pessimistic estimate of feralgov, state, and possibly city taxes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

96 Hey Rat! Was there actually commemorative plates?!
Darn! I miss ALL the good stuff...☹

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:26 PM (mAdag)

97 94
The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program
Janus was the two-faced god...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Waaaayyyy back, i was deputy program manager on a nato contract, where we were basically teaching the euroweenies how to do missile defense. The damned euroweenie MIC partners on my contract voted for Team Janus as the team official name for exactly that reason. I called the entire cluster fuck Team Anus to their faces, in front of the damned nato customer.

Never again. That 3 year experience swore me off of program management, supervisory roles, and set me solidly on my path to corporate technical fellow where i am now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (1l1S+)

Coulda called it Hugh Janus...

Posted by: Anass Rhammer at October 22, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

98 71 What kind of pudding?
Posted by: Dr. Huxtable at October 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)

Jell-O.

But without the quaaludes.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (FVLcK)

99 It's a pessimistic estimate of feralgov, state, and possibly city taxes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Friend of mines son works for a MLB team. His tax return runs to something like 40+ pages....and you left off County taxes!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (TfUTr)

100 I am off to bed before Grateful throws me out of the nearest window. Everyone try to behave.

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

101 Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing well, and your enemies have intense itching problems (due, no doubt, to their degenerate lifestyles).

Spent too much at Criterion today. Probably spend even more tomorrow.

Have a lovely evening, every one of you deserves it. May the stars align.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 10:27 PM (CHHv1)

102 haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?
Posted by: Tonypete
-----
I'm not privy to military secrets, but I don't think so.
What we have had is a thermoelectric generator that runs off the heat off some nuclear material, I think one of the Plutonium isotopes.
That Coleman cooler that you plug into the cig lighter is a thermoelectric cooler. It runs by pushing a current through the device, the part inside gets cool, while the part outside the insulated portion (but still inside the external box) get hot. A fan cools that hot part and blows in into your car. Hey, no free lunch.
A thermoelectric generator is the same thing, except that you heat the one part while keeping the other part cool and, viola'! A current flows.
A microreactor is going to a lot more complicated device, with different nuclear material that will be controlled to.increase and decrease the reaction to generate a lot more heat - enough to boil water and run a steam turbine. The "micro" part refers to."smaller than a large industrial campus", probably not the size of a refrigerator like the thermoelectric.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (z4gd/)

103 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
************
Really? It's my unfortunate experience that CA taxes everything, including what they "bleive" you may have in the future...with no basis for that belief...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

104 Um. . . . . haven't we had microreactors for decades now in use for extremely remote listening stations and other spooky facilities where they officially 'aren't'?
Posted by: Tonypete


I don't know about that, but the Navy has had reactors on their submarines since Carter was swabbing decks.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (gKWVE)

105 82 Well, then I suppose I shouldn't suggest that TRex searches am'zon for "inflatable Christmas dinosaur"...

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM
***
Dinos are notoriously festive. Wonder if I can get a quantity discount and get a herd of dinos. After all, Santa has nine reindeer...

Posted by: TRex - ho ho ho dino at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 Darn! I miss ALL the good stuff...☹
Posted by: COMountainMarie

{{{Marie}}} Reach out to DDS, she has your swag bag!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr)

107 Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power program that will deliver resilient, secure, and assured energy for you and your neighborhood.

The program will enable real estate developers to install nuclear microreactors capable of operating independently of the incompetently managed, not so ready, power grid, ensuring uninterrupted power for your neighborhood. In co-operation with nuclear regulatory authorities and in partnership with the DOE, real estate developers will move forward with microreactors that are safe, resilient, and adaptable.

Never again will your HVAC shut down when it’s eighteen degrees and everyone’s heat is turned up high. Never again will the power fail when it’s one hundred and eleven and your A/C is pulling a full load.
Say good bye to the State Kilowatt monopoly and turn it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 10:29 PM (XwyaG)

108 103 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
************
Really? It's my unfortunate experience that CA taxes everything, including what they "bleive" you may have in the future...with no basis for that belief...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

https://tinyurl.com/spyy4ba2

Posted by: Anass Rhammer at October 22, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

109 Fruits, nuts and vegetables. The voters of the Democrat party.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)

110 Team Anus

youtu.be/WK5eEPmbJ1w

Posted by: gKWVE, juggalo at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

111 Hot tub pudding is 50% bodily secretions.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (z5QST)

112 *Unfolds lawnchair. Sets down six pack.*
Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

Hi Scampydog- I saw your hiking question the other night too late to respond. I haven't done much hiking since mid-June but I did start walking six miles a day in late August. Getting discouraged because I haven't lost much weight despite my efforts. I guess I'm supposed to diet also along with the walking.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (QGaXH)

113 What could go wrong with building a utopia in California?

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

Unicornutopia, amirite?

"You call some place Paradise ...
Kiss it good-bye"

/Enjoyed meeting and chatting with you, TRex!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (KsUM/)

114 TRex, thank you for a fine ONT! Let the good times roll.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (TfUTr)

115 Cosby prowled the Playboy Mansion for decades, but his first Playmate girlfriend was Paige Young, a lovely Playmate of the Month in 1968. She was Cosby's steady for several years and people said she always seemed drugged in Cosby's presence. She committed the terrible crime of turning 30, Cos dumped her and she blew her brains out in 1974. Lovely lady and maybe Cosby's first victim.

Posted by: Hey, Hey, Hey... at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (oftw2)

116 I don't know about that, but the Navy has had reactors on their submarines since Carter was swabbing decks.
Posted by: gKWVE

Need lots of water.
IOW - 29 Palms isn't getting on.

Or most other Army posts.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

117 113 What could go wrong with building a utopia in California?

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

Unicornutopia, amirite?

"You call some place Paradise ...
Kiss it good-bye"

/Enjoyed meeting and chatting with you, TRex!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM (KsUM/)

https://youtu.be/YlUKcNNmywk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

118 Good evening morons and спасибо Дино

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (tyC0D)

119 110 Team Anus

[suspicious youtube link]

Posted by: gKWVE, juggalo at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM
***
I am NOT clicking on that link.

Posted by: TRex - IT trained dino at October 22, 2025 10:32 PM (IQ6Gq)

120 82 Well, then I suppose I shouldn't suggest that TRex searches am'zon for "inflatable Christmas dinosaur"...

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:22 PM
***
Dinos are notoriously festive. Wonder if I can get a quantity discount and get a herd of dinos. After all, Santa has nine reindeer...
Posted by: TRex - ho ho ho dino
************
Ah darling, unfortunately for you, you are not Santa...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

121 Fruits, nuts and vegetables. The voters of the Democrat party.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Don't forget us!

Posted by: The dead and not the band. at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)

122 111 Hot tub pudding is 50% bodily secretions.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (z5QST)

(Activate "sexy" voice But which bodily secretions?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (FVLcK)

123 "Bad driving" is a direct function of the number of foreigners driving cars, trucks, and scooters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (tyC0D)

124

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (1l1S+)

Coulda called it Hugh Janus...

Posted by: Anass Rhammer


Ohhhh, dude! One of the weapons ipt members works on my analysis team now and I am so gonna call it that now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (1l1S+)

125 113 /Enjoyed meeting and chatting with you, TRex!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM
***
Likewise! Love your nic.

Posted by: TRex - dino likes tapioca at October 22, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

126 95 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

Nor Social Security to my complete and udder amazement!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)

127 122 111 Hot tub pudding is 50% bodily secretions.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (z5QST)

(Activate "sexy" voice But which bodily secretions?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:34 PM (FVLcK)

Punchline: "Okay, who farted?"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

128 After Rickover got his nuclear submarines, the Air Force decided what they really needed was a nuclear powered bomber, that could stay in the air for months at a time. Really.

Contracts were let, and testing proceeded on nuclear powered jet engines. Turns out lightweight aircraft made of thin aluminium and such, and heavy power plants, shielding, don’t really mix very well. Nothing was ever built that could fly, and JFK deleted the program soon after inauguration.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:36 PM (QPjUO)

129 108 103 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
************
Really? It's my unfortunate experience that CA taxes everything, including what they "bleive" you may have in the future...with no basis for that belief...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

https://tinyurl.com/spyy4ba2
Posted by: Anass Rhammer
**************
I have every confidence they will rectify this error very soon

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

130 114 TRex, thank you for a fine ONT! Let the good times roll.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:31 PM
***
Thank you, Sir. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Posted by: TRex - not santa dino at October 22, 2025 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

131 Evening Horde , thx TRex.
The NASA campus would make a great lair for an evil Bondian billionaire. I can hear Bernie yelling "oligarch" already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 10:37 PM (8RjCi)

132 I make bubbles in the bathtub all the time. Used to really bother Ashley.

Posted by: El Presidente Emeritus at October 22, 2025 10:38 PM (oftw2)

133 Howdy Dino! Good stuff up there*







* (probably - I may or may not have read the content)

Posted by: Doof at October 22, 2025 10:38 PM (QMAsf)

134 Fruits, nuts and vegetables. The voters of the Democrat party.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM (CHHv1)


Just a nitpick; Fruits, nuts and vegetables are the politicians in the Democrat Party.

Their voters are demented.

Posted by: RickZ at October 22, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)

135 126 95 Kalifornia, amazingly, does NOT tax lottery winnings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

Nor Social Security to my complete and udder amazement!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:35 PM (QGaXH)

Now you're just milking it for all it's worth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

136 The most disgusting thing after a NYC Port Authority Bathroom Stall is when the pumps are turned off of a well used hot tub.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 10:39 PM (XV/Pl)

137 I had not known of the 1961 SL-1 incident before. Read up on it, that was gruesome.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 10:40 PM (WtEb/)

138 128 After Rickover got his nuclear submarines, the Air Force decided what they really needed was a nuclear powered bomber, that could stay in the air for months at a time. Really.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:36 PM
***
Bonkers. A small scale test reactor from the program is on display at ERB-1 in Arco, ID.

Posted by: TRex - not radioactive dino at October 22, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

139 U-Hawk helicopters - unmanned. Okay, but the first thing I think about is, how soon will it be radio-blocked, or even hacked? Aww, that could never happen. Right?
🤨

Posted by: mindful webworker - Jesus nut and wifi bolts at October 22, 2025 10:41 PM (Qqyu2)

140
Team Anus

[suspicious youtube link]

Posted by: gKWVE, juggalo at October 22, 2025 10:30 PM
***
I am NOT clicking on that link.

Posted by: TRex - IT trained dino

Just some really bad electronic rap. Almost Psycostick in their aspirations. Safe for work if you have headphones.

*queues up "we couldn't think of a title"*

Y'all should give track 11 a go. Funneh AF.
Link goes to ewe toob music.
https://is.gd/O3W6Eo

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (1l1S+)

141 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)

142 U-Hawk helicopters - unmanned. Okay, but the first thing I think about is, how soon will it be radio-blocked, or even hacked? Aww, that could never happen. Right?
🤨
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jesus nut and wifi bolts at October 22, 2025 10:41 PM (Qqyu2)

Or taken out with a drone.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (uQesX)

143 106 Rat

I'll do it! How very cool💕💕!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 10:43 PM (mAdag)

144 Contracts were let, and testing proceeded on nuclear powered jet engines. Turns out lightweight aircraft made of thin aluminium and such, and heavy power plants, shielding, don’t really mix very well. Nothing was ever built that could fly, and JFK deleted the program soon after inauguration.
Posted by: Common Tater
-------

I have wandered the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory in Dawson Forest, Georgia. Kinda ignored all of the radiation warning signs. It was deserted and run down...kinda spooky. Some pics:
https://shorturl.at/bxpzQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 10:44 PM (XeU6L)

145 Public Service Announcement: Apologies to drivers in cities that I previously characterized as "the worst." Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston. Wow.
_________________________

Try Montreal next. And, if you get a rental, take the insurance coverage. You'll need it.

Concerning the NC NASA...the Chinese will be buying that, so don't even bother making a bid.

About that California Utopia ego driven nonsense. Wasn't there a movie about that sort of thing? It didn't end well. I think it was called Downsizing. They shrink you down to 5" and everyone lives in perfect little place called Leisure Land. Except, that perfect little place develops its own slums, crime and elitism. Shocking.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 10:45 PM (dIske)

146 I'm on San Carlos AZ Apache (Geronimo) Irrigation district Electric. Worst power ever. 56 times out over two hours this year. I bypassed the nuclear mini power and went with a 48KW Generator that will run the whole house, pool heater, shop and underground bunker. Have enough propane to run full throttle for 4 weeks. Much cheaper than Nuclear.

Posted by: DBCooper at October 22, 2025 10:46 PM (ZaqT5)

147 >>Dinos are notoriously festive. Wonder if I can get a quantity discount and get a herd of dinos. After all, Santa has nine reindeer...
Posted by: TRex - ho ho ho dino
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There's a house, couple miles away, what puts up a small herd of dinos at Christmas. I imagine they have child(ren) what enjoy that display of 5 or 6 various sizes and types of dino.

Bonus: They *are* festive, indeed, but also collapse into small space for storage afterward.

I'd love to send a pic, but don't know the people and shall respect their privacy... It's an adorable display, take my word for it, LOL!

Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble at October 22, 2025 10:46 PM (rdVOm)

148 Everybody sucks at driving but me.

Mrs b says its a book I should have wrote. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

149 California Forever now plans to build the master-planned community… from scratch on former farmland… 400,000 people living in "affordable homes in safe, walkable neighborhoods."

Umm… I can't see any flaws or potential problems here, nope. Just a big boon to the citizens… like Levittown. Yup Yup.
🤔

Posted by: mindful webworker - central planning for your own good at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (Qqyu2)

150 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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NASA? Bwahahahah. It was NSA. Period. SIGINT.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)

151 Somebody been plugging Tubi and some Japanese scary movie Trigger 100 or something...

I stumbled upon "Strain 100"...
Really bad zombie show.
Near the end sum dude out of nowhere appears and starts popping Zs in the head... Looks like Hickok 45, turns out it is him.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

152 When I was 5 I found out my grandpa had a twin when I saw him after my grandpa's funeral. A fucking heads up would have been nice.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (YHRP6)

153 That CA Forever thing makes me wish the USAF hadn’t upgraded the C-5M from the GE TF39 engines.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (vwL3N)

154 Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (1l1S+)

He doesn't like doing laundry

Posted by: nor dishes, it seems at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (gKWVE)

155 I'd love to send a pic, but don't know the people and shall respect their privacy... It's an adorable display, take my word for it, LOL!
Posted by: JQ, looking for trouble
************
Thank you, I will absolutely take your word for it. And since it's been done once, and so well done, there is absolutely no need to replicate it.
I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

156 As I recall, Russia is using Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in a couple of their Icebreaker ships. Have been for a few years.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)

157 “Concerning the NC NASA...the Chinese will be buying that, so don't even bother making a bid.”

Not if a former RSA citizen has anything to say about it.

Posted by: SpaceX at October 22, 2025 10:49 PM (vwL3N)

158 I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Posted by: JQ, looking for the payoff at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

159
The claim that a 155 mm artillery shell fired from Camp Pendleton, detonated several hundred feet in the air above Interstate 5 is looking kind of weak. Nobody in the assembled crowd saw a large shell detonate in midair?

Governor Newsom (a confirmed sociopath) ostentatiously and self righteously said he would shut down the highway to protect the public from Trump's recklessness. And then a handful of magic fragments appeared, that slightly dented the hood of a CA highway patrol car. And no observed shellburst. I smell a rat.

If this was faked, let it be known. If a shell exploded, let it be known.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM (azNOR)

160 Why is the Army the lead organization on SMRs? Hello, what about the Navy? Heard of them?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (vwL3N)

161 Reba sold out.

Her music means so much less. Meh. It’s ok. But whatever.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (mT+6a)

162 Good Lord. A friend of mine posted tonight on Facebook a video of the East Wing of the White House that some tourist did several years ago. Video now claims that all of it is gone, the entire East Wing. Friend has tearful emoji posted on her page. It’s frightening how stupid so many people are in this country..

Posted by: Jen the original at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (mI5Z1)

163 As I recall, Russia is using Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in a couple of their Icebreaker ships. Have been for a few years.
Posted by: Orson

Weren't some of the Atlas sites powered with dissimilar metal nukes?

Posted by: The dead and not the band. at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (TfUTr)

164 158 I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Posted by: JQ, looking for the payoff at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

165 By the map, that planned wonderful city in CA isn't "northeast of San Francisco" except in the most technical sense.
It's closer to Suckatomato both in crow miles and especially in driving miles.
The climate there is not going to be the coastal climate of the SF Bay, but rather the "cook an egg on the sidewalk in the summer" and "feel your way through the Tule fog in the winter" climate of the Central Valley.
"NE of SF" is bait and switch.
Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 10:09 PM (z4gd/)
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We need to talk about your lawn.
--the HOA

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (lkBjo)

166 Oops.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (TfUTr)

167 There are many gifted Oklahoma singers, but Reba ain't one of them.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (47diA)

168 This is well trod ground. Read up on the SL-1 reactor incident in Idaho in 1961. An Army private yanked a 100 pound control rod completely out and the steam explosion blew up the whole thing instantly, killing himself and two others. He was impaled on the ceiling by the control rod.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:16 PM

I thought that was a murder/suicide, because one of the other two guys had been messing around with the first guy's wife/girlfriend.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 10:52 PM (lFFaq)

169 158 I will send you a check tomorrow girlfriend.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Posted by: JQ, looking for the payoff at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino
************
sorry dear, can't read you...internet is breaking up

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 22, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

170 An ambitious real estate consortium known as California Forever

Sure, go ahead and taunt the earthquake spirits with a name like that for your real-estate boondoggle.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:54 PM (nhCoE)

171 Scott Pressler is going to Indiana to try and get the idiot Republicans to wake up an redistrict. This should be fun to watch. Some are saying Pence is behind it , I wouldn't be surprised

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 10:54 PM (8RjCi)

172 Video now claims that all of it is gone, the entire East Wing. Friend has tearful emoji posted on her page. It’s frightening how stupid so many people are in this country..
Posted by: Jen the original at October 22, 2025 10:51 PM (mI5Z1)

How sad. Now they have to take down the sign that says "George Washington slipped here."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 22, 2025 10:54 PM (uQesX)

173 149 California Forever now plans to build the master-planned community… from scratch on former farmland… 400,000 people living in "affordable homes in safe, walkable neighborhoods."

Umm… I can't see any flaws or potential problems here, nope. Just a big boon to the citizens… like Levittown. Yup Yup.
🤔
Posted by: mindful webworker - central planning for your own good at October 22, 2025 10:47 PM (Qqyu2)

Didn't Sefton have a link in this morning's report to an article on how democrat controlled California is so regulated and controlled by politicians, regulations, enviros and bureaucrats that it's impossible to build ANYTHING?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:55 PM (QGaXH)

174 What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex
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Not really. Ah practikly done *told ya* where 'n' how to git yer own!

Posted by: JQ, just lil ol' JQ at October 22, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

175 The claim that a 155 mm artillery shell fired from Camp Pendleton, detonated several hundred feet in the air above Interstate 5 is looking kind of weak. Nobody in the assembled crowd saw a large shell detonate in midair?

Governor Newsom (a confirmed sociopath) ostentatiously and self righteously said he would shut down the highway to protect the public from Trump's recklessness. And then a handful of magic fragments appeared, that slightly dented the hood of a CA highway patrol car. And no observed shellburst. I smell a rat.

If this was faked, let it be known. If a shell exploded, let it be known.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 10:50 PM (azNOR)

It's another Single-Round occurrence!

Posted by: Zombie Arlen Specter at October 22, 2025 10:56 PM (wVcYX)

176 The whole 155mm shell pre-mature burst over I-5 thing sounds preposterous to me.

Any red-legs about who can talk from experience about the technical details here?

As noted by Semi-Literate Thug, a bursting 155mm shell - in broad daylight, and at fairly low altitude (just starting its arc after being fired about 1/4 mile away, I think) would be seen/heard by hundreds of witnesses.

Saw a photo of the chunk of metal that fell on a CHP cruiser. About the size of a small torch lighter. And that was the only debris reported/claimed to have fallen. And as noted by the initial USMC statement, everything that day was done according to long-established safety protocols.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 10:56 PM (U/Byj)

177 "Moderate Priced Housing" Hell, call it "High Crime Area" and save money on the renaming.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)

178 Howdy! Enjoyable ONT TRex! Thanks for scouting the NC MoMe location :-)

Posted by: Iris at October 22, 2025 10:57 PM (bOJ2I)

179 What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino
************
sorry dear, can't read you...internet is breaking up
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Heh!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 10:58 PM (TfUTr)

180 There are many gifted Oklahoma singers, but Reba ain't one of them.
Posted by: LRob
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True

Posted by: Leon Russell at October 22, 2025 10:58 PM (XeU6L)

181 When I was 5 I found out my grandpa had a twin when I saw him after my grandpa's funeral. A fucking heads up would have been nice.
Posted by: Muchas buchas

At my HS girlfriend's mother's funeral service, we all found out GF had two other sisters that she never knew about.

Wow was THAT a day!!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

182 178 Howdy! Enjoyable ONT TRex! Thanks for scouting the NC MoMe location :-)

Posted by: Iris at October 22, 2025 10:57 PM
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Thanks and good evening!

Posted by: TRex - non-Oklahoma singing dino at October 22, 2025 11:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

183 Calling it an early night....good night all!

Try not to trash the place.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 11:01 PM (QGaXH)

184 At my HS girlfriend's mother's funeral service, we all found out GF had two other sisters that she never knew about.

Wow was THAT a day!!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

Yikes! As if she didn't have enough to deal with already.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 11:01 PM (lFFaq)

185 HAWK - Tactical Unmanned Aircraft

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (3uBP9)

186 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)

We'll need a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

187 Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston.

Business trips to Texas in '80. We were in Houston for two weeks. I watched -more than twice- someone come across 6 lanes to make the exit.

Forward to '88, I was driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. I drove the long way around Houston rather than experience that anxiety again.

Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (SWsf/)

188 Glock is cancelling all their non-slim models and rolling out a new 'V' model that will not be able to be put into happy full semi-auto mode via the Glock Switch.

If you want to stock up, now is the time. All existing stock will stop being shipped Oct 31st ish IIRC.

There will be new V model Glocks coming out in November.

This is in response to a multiple state lawsuits and Cali banning Glocks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (xcxpd)

189 Inflatable Christmas Minotaurs for the Nativity Display?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (wVcYX)

190 I remember seeing cool full-on amphibious exercises at Pendleton while riding north in the family car as a kid. One time I asked dad to pull over (as many were doing) to watch - there were armored vehicles swarming all over the beach-side of I-5, very close, and guys hanging on lines from Hueys crossing over the freeway. Dad said no. But I still got a great look.

This area is probably one of the only ones left in America where one can encounter watch military operations without leaving a developed area. I-5 along Pendleton has long been a fun drive when the Marines are active. Miramar is always active and low-flying screeching F-18s/-35s are commonplace all around the area - my favorite cigar shop has a good view/earful of them when they're circling doing touch-n-gos.

And if you're timing is right, on the third hole at Coronado public golf course (a beautiful and ridiculously cheap course), as you walk up to approach your second shot, just yards away, in the water, SEAL instructors in kayaks with megaphones will be yelling at BUDS sailors flipping/righting their small rafts in a team-work exercise. Always fun to explain to the incredulous out of towners.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

191 186 Perhaps we could pool our money and bid on the NASA campus. I can't think of a finer group to spend my time with.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (QGaXH)

We'll need a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

Strip club and massage parlor also, please.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

192 189 Inflatable Christmas Minotaurs for the Nativity Display?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (wVcYX)

There's a Halloween Minotaur about two blocks away. It's adorable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

193 We'll need a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Fuck yeah. Distillery too. Galt's Gulch FTW

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 11:05 PM (PXFlo)

194 Strip club and massage parlor also, please.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

Fuck yeah. Distillery too. Galt's Gulch FTW

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 11:05 PM (PXFlo)

All covered in the viking long house. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:07 PM (snZF9)

195 Inflatable Christmas Minotaurs for the Nativity Display?
Posted by: Count de Monet


Don't give the current pope any ideas.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE)

196 Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston.

Business trips to Texas in '80. We were in Houston for two weeks. I watched -more than twice- someone come across 6 lanes to make the exit.

Forward to '88, I was driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. I drove the long way around Houston rather than experience that anxiety again.
Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (SWsf/)

All true. All the international cultural diversity on display on the roads here.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (wVcYX)

197 Minotaurs? Decoder ring not working.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (q26vr)

198
Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

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Don't forget MCRD right out your window as you land at Lindberg Field. You might even see a busload of new arrivals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (ldc7S)

199 We need to talk about your lawn.
--the HOA
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Need to plant one first... after, of course, you set up the irrigation system. My front yard is red cinder gravel.
Oh, yeah, set up an HOA, too.
😁

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 11:08 PM (z4gd/)

200 Bers - ice rink. No, ice rinks. One 200 X 85, one international size. Only hockey allowed, nothing else. And the wave tank for inland body-boarding and surfing (those things have become quite impressive).

Gotta have well-rounded recreational facilities.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:09 PM (U/Byj)

201 This "California Forever" thing will proceed unabated because all the "right" people have put money into it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 11:10 PM (tyC0D)

202 I'd rather drive off a cliff than drive through Houston.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:11 PM (F2xQR)

203 I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

If the ranges could double up as trebuchet areas, that'd be swell.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 11:12 PM (wVcYX)

204 This "California Forever" thing will proceed unabated because all the "right" people have put money into it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 11:10 PM (tyC0D)


Yep. Just like Theranos

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:13 PM (rbvCR)

205 You Want:

191 a viking long house for parties and heavy drinking, a live music venue, our own army, an atmospheric dome, a huge ass moat for pirate ship racing, a drag strip, a fabrication shop for all things ICE, a golf course, a motocross track, a shooting range, a missile range, a rocket launch pad, a hospital..definitely a hospital, a mall, and a pizza place. I think that covers it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)

Strip club and massage parlor also, please.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

You'll settle for:

Modest 3 bd/2 bath ranch on small lot

You'll get:

Burned out former meth lab house trailer on cement blocks on BLM desert land


Good Night for real now - LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

206 Direct Energy Weapon to Deploy in San Francisco.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (q26vr)

207 Gotta have well-rounded recreational facilities.
Posted by: rhomboid

Will there be a bounce house?

Posted by: Some Rat at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (TfUTr)

208 Bers - ice rink. No, ice rinks. One 200 X 85, one international size. Only hockey allowed, nothing else. And the wave tank for inland body-boarding and surfing (those things have become quite impressive).
Posted by: rhomboid
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Add a curling rink. By convention, they all come with a bar overlooking the rink.
Either that, or a bowling alley, which, coincidentally, also has a bar as standard equipment.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (z4gd/)

209 Blonde Morticia, oh yes, MCRD, landing or taking off (right side of airplane). Take-offs usually even better, when they're on the obstacle course or climbing the ropes. Ooorah.

Landing, always get left side. The fleet at 32nd Street and the carriers at North Island, plus downtown (shockingly close for newbies). Most "attention-intensive" landing in the US according to airline pilots.

Unfortunately they've stopped, but the Marines used to shoot Ma deuces on their east range (formerly Camp Elliott, WWII mortar training base), and if the weather was right, I could hear the pleasing metallic chink-a-chink-a-chink of the 50 cal on my back porch.

15 years ago or so, there was a non-binding local proposition on the ballot asking the USMC to give up Miramar to the city for a new airport. It was trounced on election day. One of the last good election results in this area, and reassuring. A good amount of default normal pro-military sentiment - somehow - survives here.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 11:17 PM (U/Byj)

210 Burned out former meth lab house trailer on cement blocks on BLM desert land
Good Night for real now - LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

That'll do too, lol

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 11:17 PM (FWGpx)

211 NC MoMe location?

Wait. Is there an occasional North Carolina MoMe?

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 11:17 PM (mADJX)

212 Evenin’, TRex, All.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:18 PM (77rzZ)

213 212 Evenin’, TRex, All.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:18 PM
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Bulg!!

Posted by: TRex - tired dino at October 22, 2025 11:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

214 They turned the government back on?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:19 PM (q26vr)

215 Direct Energy Weapon to Deploy in San Francisco.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:16 PM (q26vr)
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Finally an end to all the poop?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 11:20 PM (IC093)

216 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 11:20 PM (sAmhv)

217 The NASA place is located in Transylvania County, so vampires might be a problem. Liquid Fence ought to keep them away.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 11:22 PM (mADJX)

218 AC DC did a song about a ballroom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:22 PM (q26vr)

219 179 What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted by: TRex - cool hand dino
************
sorry dear, can't read you...internet is breaking up
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba


LOL I think Grateful is communicating very clearly...

Posted by: Iris at October 22, 2025 11:23 PM (bOJ2I)

220 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Today is DD#1's birthday (#39) - she had a connecting flight at DFW, so we drove out there with a Mama's Pizza for her and sat outside of Terminal A (it was a beautiful day) and spent some time with her. Poor thing just texted us - she is STILL at DFW; her flight was delayed (again).

I spent the afternoon getting my front right tooth fragment extracted in preparation for an implant. Apparently my body processes dental numbing medication REALLY fast - they had to numb my mouth THREE times while they were doing the extraction 😲😲😲

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:24 PM (SRRAx)

221 The NASA place is located in Transylvania County, so vampires might be a problem. Liquid Fence ought to keep them away.
Posted by: Paco
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See 150

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 11:26 PM (XeU6L)

222
Everybody sucks at driving but me.

_________

People who drive slower than me are idiots.

People who drive faster than me are maniacs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:28 PM (tgvbd)

223 Zoran Mamdani NYC's next mayor killed it tonight i
--

Really? He killed NYC already?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 11:28 PM (XeU6L)

224 223 👍, Hadrian.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:29 PM (77rzZ)

225 There is no prize money if you get to the Kroger a minute early.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:29 PM (q26vr)

226 Teresa, glad you got to spend part of the layover with your DD on her birthday. Good luck with the tooth!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:30 PM (F2xQR)

227 Public Service Announcement: Apologies to drivers in cities that I previously characterized as "the worst." Those assessments were made in good faith with solid grounds, but also made before visiting Houston. Wow.

The freeways of Houston were where I learned to drive (Driver's Ed class) - I always said that after that, I wasn't afraid to drive anywhere 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:30 PM (SRRAx)

228
Business trips to Texas in '80. We were in Houston for two weeks. I watched -more than twice- someone come across 6 lanes to make the exit.

_________

The TexEx: six lanes, fifty feet, no turn signal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:31 PM (tgvbd)

229 Small towns are better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:32 PM (q26vr)

230
I once asked Her Majesty where she learned to drive. She replied, "India". That explains a lot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:34 PM (tgvbd)

231 Genius! Lets build another 400K city, that does not have any industry to support itself.

Once upon a time, cities were essentially aggregations of labor... whatever the city built, it housed the labor needed.

From Detroit and Cars, to Los A with Trains and Aircraft and movies... to New York banking and business... hell, Chicago was once a YUGE slaughter plant.

Now, most cities don't produce enough real products to support the drain on the economy its population creates. Look at the Bay Area... built around shipping, but now the vast majority of labor has nothing to do with it. Now most cities are just Yuge Human Storage facilities... with most of the population just supporting the rest of the population.

So yeah! Lets take productive FARMLAND, where shit is actually produced, and created a city with no industry! GENIUS!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 11:35 PM (mP0Kj)

232 By leveraging its nuclear regulatory authorities in partnership with the DOE, the Army will move forward with microreactors that are safe, resilient, and adaptable.
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I can't imagine they respond well to bullets.

Posted by: Jack Ryan at October 22, 2025 11:36 PM (vSvIl)

233 Sympathy, TiFW. I had an industrial accident and got debris in my eyes. In '88, I had a procedure to clean up scar tissue under my right eyelid. It took three shots of lidocaine to get numbed.
In '98, I had the left eye done. I told the doc about the previous and she said that she would use pricocaine. So, shot then procedure and then walk up to the front to write a check. By this time, the injection was wearing off. Just under an hour since the stick. Normal time for pricocaine is 4 to 6 hours.

Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:36 PM (SWsf/)

234 231
I once asked Her Majesty where she learned to drive. She replied, "India". That explains a lot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 11:34 PM (tgvbd)

Still one of the all time great movie lines, from The Muppet Movie:

Kermit: Where did you learn how to drive?
Fozzie: I took a correspondence course.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 11:36 PM (FVLcK)

235 >>... hell, Chicago was once a YUGE slaughter plant.
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In fairness, it still IS.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

236 Industry is bad. Think of the Delta Smelta It.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:37 PM (q26vr)

237 “And He Built A Crooked House…” by Robert Heinlein, first published in 1941, starts by claiming all the crazy Americans are in California. That’s before centering the craziness on a Hollywood address that would be across the street from where RAH then lived.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 11:37 PM (ZVgZ4)

238 I spent the afternoon getting my front right tooth fragment extracted in preparation for an implant. Apparently my body processes dental numbing medication REALLY fast - they had to numb my mouth THREE times while they were doing the extraction 😲😲😲

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:24 PM (SRRAx)


I went through that with one of my front teeth. Yeah, it was fun.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:38 PM (snZF9)

239 Raimondo is right.
Cuomo sucks and needs to quit the race or else, indeed, Mamdani will be mayor.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)

240 The Madmani across the water.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:40 PM (q26vr)

241 240 So, who’s the best alternative to the Muzzie commie in NYC, and does such person even have a chance?

Asking for 3AM Thai takeout.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:43 PM (77rzZ)

242 Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)

And if Cuomo quits, Mamdani will win with 80% of the vote.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 22, 2025 11:45 PM (n9ltV)

243 There's a Halloween Minotaur about two blocks away. It's adorable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 22, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

Does he have his handy girl with him?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:46 PM (WtEb/)

244 Gonna clock out now and go watch another episode of Eureka with MiladyJo. We're re-watching the series, and it's amazing how much I don't remember from when it first ran a mere decade ago.

https://youtu.be/EJjguwW9634

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - too smart for my own good at October 22, 2025 11:47 PM (Qqyu2)

245
Really? He killed NYC already?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

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

Islam -- for FAST ACTION!!!
(image of jet heading for skyscraper)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 11:50 PM (ldc7S)

246 So, who’s the best alternative to the Muzzie commie in NYC, and does such person even have a chance?

Asking for 3AM Thai takeout.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:43 PM (77rzZ)

Anything is a better alternative. A muzzie commie is a doomsday scenario for NYC. In the end I don't give a shit. If thats the crap they vote for it will become a no man's land and they can rot in it. As I said before, its better to just blow the frigging brides, flood the tunnels, and mine the fucking waters. Let them starve themselves into extinction.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:51 PM (snZF9)

247 If you want to read the RAH short story, here it is:

https://is.gd/WF9l6a

Link goes to Internet Archive.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 11:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

248 Well, its been another wonderful ONT evening.
Girldog says it's time for naps. See youz guys tomorrow 💤💤💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 11:56 PM (mAdag)

249 it's amazing how much I don't remember from when it first ran a mere decade ago.
Posted by: mindful webworker
------
Wait, it gets worse.
I used to.pick up.A book at the library, read a few pages and say, "Hey, I read this 15 years ago."
Now, I pick up a book, read a few pages, decide it looks interesting, take it home, and figure out, 8 chapters in, that I read it 2 years ago.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 22, 2025 11:57 PM (z4gd/)

250 217 The NASA place is located in Transylvania County, so vampires might be a problem. Liquid Fence ought to keep them away.
Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 11:22 PM (mADJX)


DD#3 and her husband live in that county (in my parents' old house) - that is a BEAUTIFUL part of the country.

It would be cool to have a NC MoMe in that part of NC - we would make the trip!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:05 AM (SRRAx)

251 I couldn't care less about NYC. Sorry, not sorry. Nobody should live like that, crammed into too little space, with crazy people wondering around, murderous gangs, garbage everywhere, everything smelling like piss and vomit. Whatever happens there affects me not at all, by design. If they want to elect the devil incarnate, so be it. I hope they get it good and hard at this point.

They can fucking well fix it themselves or not.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:07 AM (urtE/)

252 Goodnight, All. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at October 23, 2025 12:07 AM (77rzZ)

253 I spent the afternoon getting my front right tooth fragment extracted in preparation for an implant. Apparently my body processes dental numbing medication REALLY fast - they had to numb my mouth THREE times while they were doing the extraction 😲😲😲
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 22, 2025 11:24 PM (SRRAx)

When I had mine pulled, I went with the goofy gas. It hurt, but I really didn't care. In fact, I don't really remember much of it. And that's how I like it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:10 AM (urtE/)

254 its better to just blow the frigging brides,
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 11:51 PM (snZF9)

2025 NY (really any blue city) in a nutshell

Posted by: Methos at October 23, 2025 12:16 AM (vSvIl)

255 Im really horrible at the dentist. They have to knock me out, complete sedation. I had a root canal and a bone graft and was out but I guess I woke up in the middle of it and tried to leave. They had to give me more juice in the iv. I ended up sleeping for 2 days after.

Posted by: Megthered at October 23, 2025 12:20 AM (NHKs8)

256
They can fucking well fix it themselves or not.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK

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

I know what you mean, but I'd also love to see Mamdani crushed and sent back to his rap studio, defeated by a Cuomo+Sliwa team (no other way to do it). Just the pleasure of his being crushed and shamed.

The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 12:32 AM (ldc7S)

257 The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
--------

It is a cancer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 12:33 AM (XeU6L)

258 When I had mine pulled, I went with the goofy gas. It hurt, but I really didn't care. In fact, I don't really remember much of it. And that's how I like it.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:10 AM (urtE/)


They were also prepping it for a tooth implant; there was some other stuff involved, I think.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

259 The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 12:32 AM (ldc7S)

I'm not in a city. I'm not in a town. I'm not in a suburb. I'm not concerned. I have a year's worth of food and heating oil. I just don't care.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (urtE/)

260 They were also prepping it for a tooth implant; there was some other stuff involved, I think.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

Yeah, they drilled out the bone and set the attachment anchor. I don't remember much. That's good.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 12:37 AM (urtE/)

261 >>>Forward to '88, I was driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. I drove the long way around Houston rather than experience that anxiety again.
Posted by: clarence at October 22, 2025 11:02 PM (SWsf/)

All true. All the international cultural diversity on display on the roads here.
Posted by: Count de Monet
------------------

Just consider it road warrior training.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:41 AM (XwyaG)

262 They were also prepping it for a tooth implant; there was some other stuff involved, I think.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 23, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

Were they planning on doing the implant on the day of extraction? I went through hell with mine. They extracted the tooth, cut my frigging gums, did the bone implant, was in pain for a week, then I had to wait 6 months. 6 months later, the bastard cuts my gum open and says yeah, the graft didn't take, sometimes I don't have luck with front teeth, you'll probably need a bridge. WHAT?? I go see my dentist who sent me to this bastard, and he says If I was you I would go for the implant. I said he can't do it. Oh I got another guy who is cutting edge. The new guy tells me yeah no problem, it should have been done when it was extracted, I'll get a nurse from Saint peters to extract a few vials of blood, I'll use your DNA to make the bone graft, no pain, no swelling, and the implant will be done. Sure as shit, by 5pm, there was no pain, no pain killers needed, no swelling, and the implant was done.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 23, 2025 12:46 AM (snZF9)

263 257 The other thing, I worry that if he wins, it won't just be New York's problem. Socialists in other big cities will be emboldened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It is a cancer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
-----------------------------------------

Trump is going to these secondary cities, fighting in the courts and eventually winning lasting judgements. He loves NY and by the time Mandami wins Trump shall have won all the judgements necessary to send Troops and the DoJ, hand in hand, into NYC, take it over and clean it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:47 AM (XwyaG)

264 Trump shall have won all the judgements necessary to send Troops and the DoJ, hand in hand, into NYC, take it over and clean it up.
--------

Hope springs eternal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 12:49 AM (XeU6L)

265 >>>
I'm not in a city. I'm not in a town. I'm not in a suburb. I'm not concerned. I have a year's worth of food and heating oil. I just don't care.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK
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Smarty pants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:49 AM (XwyaG)

266 My latest Fiery Spicy Latina infatuation:
youtube.com/watch?v=7oJToggt3pw

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 12:51 AM (7imtn)

267 >>>nuclear reactor is tougher than it appears. They wanted something requiring minimal oversight and easy modular construction, portability etc etc.
Posted by: Common Tater
----------------

Bezos is planning on building 13 small one's for his AI toys.
Others are looking at same. These wiz kids, if anybody, can make the idea work. Miniature reactors will be a game changer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:53 AM (XwyaG)

268 128 After Rickover got his nuclear submarines, the Air Force decided what they really needed was a nuclear powered bomber, that could stay in the air for months at a time. Really.

Contracts were let, and testing proceeded on nuclear powered jet engines. Turns out lightweight aircraft made of thin aluminium and such, and heavy power plants, shielding, don’t really mix very well. Nothing was ever built that could fly, and JFK deleted the program soon after inauguration.

Not to mention the potential huge disaster of an aircraft with a functioning nuclear reactor crashing into a populated area. And military planes used to crash a lot back then, especially cutting edge ones.

Posted by: Anonymous this time at October 23, 2025 12:58 AM (3/XaG)

269 Well, sleepiness is overtaking me. Time to call it a night. Good Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 23, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)

270 Hey Horde, how are you all this evening?

COMM, if you are still around, I have some MoMe swag for you, I'll probably mail it on Friday.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 23, 2025 01:00 AM (0nHVk)

271 The Trump administration has extended its controversial military campaign against suspected drug-trafficking vessels into the Eastern Pacific, marking a significant expansion beyond operations previously concentrated near Venezuelan waters.
_gcaptain.com

Boom, boom, boom
https://tinyurl.com/5euajvf7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 01:02 AM (XwyaG)

272 Demon-possessed, tripping balls, art teacher:
youtube.com/watch?v=ooLRsMGtX4Y

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:08 AM (7imtn)

273 ANOTHER MAJOR LEGAL VICTORY FOR TRUMP:

President Trump beats Gavin Newsom in 9th Circuit en banc case.

Trump can federalize California National Guard to support federal immigration efforts

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 01:09 AM (XwyaG)

274
Trump can federalize California National Guard to support federal immigration efforts
Posted by: Braenyard

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

Frickin' awesome. Now if only he can get some efforts going.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:14 AM (ldc7S)

275 I can't get over how this retired govt contractor physicist Robert Campbell looks exactly like me. It's unsettling. And I feel kinda sorry for the guy.
youtube.com/watch?v=U7niXhUEC-I

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:17 AM (7imtn)

276 Found Reba hidden. Anyone else notice?

Posted by: KT at October 23, 2025 01:18 AM (7vIsy)

277 Thomas, not Robert.

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:19 AM (7imtn)

278
Demon-possessed, tripping balls, art teacher:
youtube.com/watch?v=ooLRsMGtX4Y
Posted by: gp

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

And one big eff-up by Officer Hammond.
(got in a high-speed chase, didn't buckle his seatbelt, crashed and got injured for those who don't want to watch the whole thing)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:20 AM (ldc7S)

279
Hey, Debby, doing good. You?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:21 AM (ldc7S)

280
Trump is going to these secondary cities, fighting in the courts and eventually winning lasting judgements. He loves NY and by the time Mandami wins Trump shall have won all the judgements necessary to send Troops and the DoJ, hand in hand, into NYC, take it over and clean it up.

Posted by: Braenyard

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

This would also be acceptable. Mamdani vs Trump in one bruising, humiliating loss after another. In the end, Trump is effectively the mayor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:22 AM (ldc7S)

281 Smarty pants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2025 12:49 AM (XwyaG)

Well, yeah.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 01:22 AM (urtE/)

282 278 I knew she was trouble as soon as I saw the pinkish ... sundress(?)

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:25 AM (7imtn)

283 Blondie, I am very good, thanks, how about yourself?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 23, 2025 01:32 AM (0nHVk)

284 For those of you paying attention, Trump signed an emergency declaration for Western AK today to the tune of $25M. All the villages wiped out in the typhoon will receive aid. The issue is that winter is closing in, and not much can be done to rebuild the villages before it is impossible. Whole houses floated away, everything is covered in mud, there's not infrastructure or heavy equipment out there to fix thing.... etc.

Meanwhile, AK folks have rallied to provide shelter, clothing and food. The NG has airlifted everyone they could find down to Anchorage, and emergency shelter is giving way to individual housing solutions. Kids have been enrolled in Anchorage schools, families are being fed, people have donated Native food items (muktuk, seal oil, caribou meat, etc.) and everyone has winter gear in hand.

Waiting for the feds was always dicey up here. Very few lost lives in this one, which is an absolute miracle.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 01:33 AM (urtE/)

285 "pinkish ... sundress(?)"

Snippet from "1984:"
'the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew'

Posted by: gp at October 23, 2025 01:34 AM (7imtn)

286
Blondie, I am very good, thanks, how about yourself?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

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

Good here. Doing a little entrepreneur thing while I'm furloughed -- probably forever, the way things are going with my erstwhile company.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2025 01:34 AM (ldc7S)

287 13 Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

It's gotta be "smoking," doesn't it?

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 01:35 AM (RuTUS)

288 https://tinyurl.com/2rrx8xtk
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 01:56 AM (+qU29)

289 Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

It's gotta be "smoking," doesn't it?
Posted by: m
-------

Would have more impact were that a tobacco barn...which it isn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 01:58 AM (XeU6L)

290 289 Quit what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

It's gotta be "smoking," doesn't it?
Posted by: m
-------

Would have more impact were that a tobacco barn...which it isn't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 23, 2025 01:58 AM (XeU6L)

Would have more irony!

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 02:01 AM (RuTUS)

291 I have a copy of *Off to Mt. Hood: An auto biography of the old road*.

Posted by: pjungwir at October 23, 2025 02:03 AM (noE7F)

292 "pinkish ... sundress(?)"

Snippet from "1984:"
'the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew'
Posted by: gp


Album from 1971:
Caravan -- In the Land of Grey and Pink

https://youtu.be/JKrdz3Tf9dA

Posted by: mikeski at October 23, 2025 02:19 AM (nhCoE)

293 I am off to sleep, Horde, sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 23, 2025 02:21 AM (0nHVk)

294 288 https://tinyurl.com/2rrx8xtk
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 01:56 AM (+qU29)

Thanks, Skip.

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 02:21 AM (RuTUS)

295 Waiting for the feds was always dicey up here. Very few lost lives in this one, which is an absolute miracle.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 23, 2025 01:33

Wow, hadn't heard about this. Prayers up from here.

Posted by: Farmer at October 23, 2025 03:35 AM (55Qr6)

296 Friday can't come soon enough

Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2025 03:41 AM (+qU29)

297 262 Were they planning on doing the implant on the day of extraction? I went through hell with mine. They extracted the tooth, cut my frigging gums, did the bone implant, was in pain for a week, then I had to wait 6 months. 6 months later, the bastard cuts my gum open and says yeah, the graft didn't take, sometimes I don't have luck with front teeth, you'll probably need a bridge. WHAT?? I go see my dentist who sent me to this bastard, and he says If I was you I would go for the implant. I said he can't do it. Oh I got another guy who is cutting edge. The new guy tells me yeah no problem, it should have been done when it was extracted, I'll get a nurse from Saint peters to extract a few vials of blood, I'll use your DNA to make the bone graft, no pain, no swelling, and the implant will be done. Sure as shit, by 5pm, there was no pain, no pain killers needed, no swelling, and the implant was done.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 23, 2025 12:46 AM (snZF9)

yikes

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 03:49 AM (RuTUS)

298 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

299 299

Posted by: m at October 23, 2025 04:03 AM (RuTUS)

Stop Touching Me Cafe

wyndingbamburgh.jpg
The Wynding, Bamburgh, Northumbria
Jim Scott Photography


Stray dog enjoys a pet from a stranger.

Dog will not be denied his assigned place in the bed.

Me every Humpday Night.

A duet in NYC, before it sinks finally into Hell.

Before our ancestors got a hold of them, they used to be wolves.

Sickly stray dog is the prettiest girl now.

Dog likes kisses so much that it gets weird, not gonna lie.

From a while ago: Dog gets caught outside, rings the Ring doorbell to awaken his masters.

Just a cat feeling up a dog. Second base.

Canine commando crawl.

Dog wants to play ball-ball.

Poor dog is never gonna get him to throw that ball.

Senior dog still loves at a second-grade level.

Owl photobomb.

Cats sleep like wacked-out mobsters in old-timey crime scene photos.

I have experienced this particular hell.

Dog is A+++ at hunting and catching raindrops.

He pushed this cat too far.

The only AI assistant I would trust with this blog.

Pig knows his destiny.

Knocking off time.

Posted by: Ace at 07:25 PM




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1 Cafe

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 07:26 PM (kanec)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (+qU29)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Who touched ace!?

Posted by: Chump Change at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (4n+OC)

5 Not sure I can stay awake much longer

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (+qU29)

6 Y'all should be thanking me for channeling willow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:28 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Thank you, Ace!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 07:29 PM (kHop/)

8 Sponge, I thank you for so much more than that.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:29 PM (QGLzn)

9 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 07:31 PM (Wnv9h)

10 I have experienced this particular hell.

Penguins. It has to be penguins.

It's not. There are other, lesser hells, apparently.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

11 Pretty good videos tonight

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 07:32 PM (+qU29)

12
I think there's some kind of muffin or something from Bamburgh. I saw it on The Great British Baking Show.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:32 PM (ldc7S)

13 Some dogs just do not understand fetch and can’t be taught. Others just know. Hunting breeds, retrievers do pretty well generally.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 07:32 PM (3uBP9)

14 Some days the vids play, some days I have to post first.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:33 PM (Bbhox)

15 > Stray dog enjoys a pet from a stranger.
Now that we're into heavy petting, how about a blowjob?

Posted by: Waiting for Martel at October 22, 2025 07:33 PM (Fp2Vj)

16 I think there's some kind of muffin or something from Bamburgh. I saw it on The Great British Baking Show.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:32 PM

The Dindu Muffin?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 07:33 PM (Wnv9h)

17 RMBS, did you get a piece of the venison carpaccio?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:34 PM (QGLzn)

18 Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:29 PM (QGLzn)


**********


*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Thanks for everything, Ace!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 07:34 PM (dpAEq)

20 Ah, makeup for dogs. That's where the money is!

Posted by: Professor Farnsworth at October 22, 2025 07:35 PM (IBQGV)

21 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 07:31 PM (Wnv9h)


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


*fistbump*


I just realized I didn't spend near enough time BSing with you last weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:36 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Taxpayer-Funded Schools Can’t Prohibit Prayer And Promote Witchcraft
The Federalist

When a public high school in Orange County, Florida, aired a weekly “Witchy Wednesday” religious video series on the schoolwide TV system, led by students and featuring detailed instructions on casting spells and performing rituals, including soul cleansing and moon worship, many parents were stunned.

The school canceled the series after public outcry and intervention from Liberty Counsel, in which the legal group asked for equal time for Christian instruction...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 07:36 PM (TGPs7)

23 The only AI assistant I would trust with this blog.
---
This explains a lot, actually.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:36 PM (IBQGV)

24 RMBS, did you get a piece of the venison carpaccio?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:34 PM

Oh, yes, I did. That was delish. Nom, nom, nom.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

25 > Before our ancestors got a hold of them, they used to be wolves.
Before I got married, I was a wolf

Posted by: Waiting for Martel at October 22, 2025 07:37 PM (XziC1)

26 I just realized I didn't spend near enough time BSing with you last weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:36 PM

No worries, brother. We'll catch up soon. You know, there's a big MoMe near DC in June. Pretty sure you and the First Lady will enjoy. Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 07:39 PM (Wnv9h)

27 I have experienced this particular hell.
----
I've experienced it maybe once or twice in all the years I've owned cats.

Mine generally know their place at night, which is nice. They settle down and keep to themselves for the most part.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:39 PM (IBQGV)

28 I have to get to bed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 07:40 PM (+qU29)

29 Just a cat feeling up a dog. Second base.
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My cat Allie likes to do that in my lap. (Third base?)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:42 PM (IBQGV)

30 First Lady and I got married on Kawaii. We went on a snorkeling trip that week. She'd never snorkled and learned she had a stronger leg than the other by swimming in circles. When advised we needed to return to the boat, I had to go get her again as she paddled away. Once getting her, I looked at the boat and they were waving frantically.

I figured we were about to be shark food. I looked left and saw a school of dolphin heading right for us. Not knowing what to do, we just froze. The got within 40 ft or so, went dow 40, went past 40 and came right back up, hoping along the way.

I took a picture with the disposable underwater camera, but you can't really see anything but dark blue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Zz0t1)

31 So it's Trump's fault Biden pardoned Hunter? Huh?

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 07:42 PM (E0p3T)

32 Stop Touching Me Cafe
—Ace

Sounds like a great place to eat.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 22, 2025 07:43 PM (IifOV)

33 I've been in pods of dolphins many times. Never gets boring watch them play. Exceptional swimmers.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)

34 No worries, brother. We'll catch up soon. You know, there's a big MoMe near DC in June. Pretty sure you and the First Lady will enjoy. Just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 07:39 PM (Wnv9h)


**********

Its on the list of 'someday' for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:44 PM (Zz0t1)

35 Pennywise and Mary Poppins are the same species of monster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTLLngtJJrc

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 07:46 PM (q177U)

36
The cat kneading with its paws. Oye. My cat gets carried away and can scratch me sometimes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 07:47 PM (IifOV)

37 Kneading behavior in penguins invariably leads to polymorphic perversity.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 22, 2025 07:50 PM (PIKRf)

38 I do not want another dog. There is a yellow lab that showed up here. Looks to be about a year old. I have to take the collar he has on off of him.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:52 PM (QGLzn)

39 I have the feeling when we move to the country, we will have more dogs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:53 PM (Zz0t1)

40 Pennywise and Mary Poppins are the same species of monster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTLLngtJJrc
Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 07:46 PM (q177U)
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Psychic vampires?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:54 PM (IBQGV)

41 Pig knows his destiny. Oh, that's so 😢.

A duet in NYC, before it sinks finally into Hell. I'm good with saving the musician and the dog.

Busy day. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 07:55 PM (NFX2v)

42 Well it's too late now,as many of our franchisees have locked up, but remember next and every Wednesday is special as Wednesday is Sundae at your participating Carvel Dealer. All Sundaes half-price.

Posted by: Tom Carvel, Creator of Cookie-Puss at October 22, 2025 07:56 PM (oftw2)

43 Bamburgh castle is the centerpiece of the "Saxon Chronicles" series of books by Bernard Cornwell. Very entertaining historical fiction books that got made into a decent Netflix series. It ended and they decided to follow up with a standalone movie which of course was woke af... making Aethelstan teh ghey.

Which he wasn't.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 22, 2025 07:57 PM (WYStd)

44 I'm NOT touching you. (Holds finger half an inch from your nose.)

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 07:57 PM (FVLcK)

45 Senior dog still loves at a second-grade level

That one made it dusty in here. Still miss my old doggeh.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 07:58 PM (F2xQR)

46 A few days ago, trays of bacon and pork roll came to me unbidden. There was bourbon too. Maybe it was all a dream...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 22, 2025 07:58 PM (nbLIj)

47 There is a yellow lab that showed up here. Looks to be about a year old. I have to take the collar he has on off of him.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:52 PM (QGLzn)

Labs are pretty nuts their first couple years. Wonder if someone wasn't prepared?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s)

48 Make-up woman with the dog was funny.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 07:59 PM (FVLcK)

49 I have the feeling when we move to the country, we will have more dogs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Get you a couple of outdoor only "barn" cats. They will keep the mice, rats & snakes down.

Useless trivia: copperheads strike at 40 ms. Cat's reaction time is 70 - 80 milliseconds. Twice as fast.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 07:59 PM (4MksP)

50 A few days ago, trays of bacon and pork roll came to me unbidden. There was bourbon too. Maybe it was all a dream...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 22, 2025 07:58 PM (nbLIj)


**********


Just a little glimpse into heaven.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)

51 The siblings cracked me up.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 08:00 PM (mADJX)

52 Get you a couple of outdoor only "barn" cats. They will keep the mice, rats & snakes

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 07:59 PM (4MksP)


**********


I've already been told that's happening. As long as i don't have more than one in the house, I'll tolerate it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 08:01 PM (Zz0t1)

53 Salvatore “Waddles” Ghiaccio reaches angrily into his humidor for another Pilchard Perfecto, and then dials the phone.
“Is dis da pool hall? Is Tony da Beak dere? Put 'im on.”
“Yeh.”
“Tony? Dis is Waddles. Listen, I tot I tol' yez to take dat Dimplecracks guy for a ride.”
“I did boss”.
“Well, den, wha hoppen? I'm readin' dis Ace a' Spades character's blog, and imagine how, whaddaya call, non-pussed I was to find out that Dinklewhatsis is writin' slenderous labels against us all over de place.”
“Well, see, I took 'im for a ride, like yez tol' me to do, but he said he wanted a lift to da police station. So, I dropped 'im off dere”.
Expletives normally associated with frustration and high dudgeon heard on the other end of the line
“Tony, youse are a definite boid brain.”
“We all are, ain't we, boss?”
“Youse know wat I mean! Next time I'll send Fat Marco along. Maybe between da two a' yez, da job'll get done

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 08:02 PM (mADJX)

54 'I have experienced this particular hell.'

Our cats know this will get them shut into a dark place without food or people.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 08:02 PM (fd80v)

55 Its on the list of 'someday' for sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:44 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)

56 A few days ago, trays of bacon and pork roll came to me unbidden. There was bourbon too. Maybe it was all a dream...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 22, 2025 07:58 PM

I, too, had this vision of paradise.

*sigh*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 08:06 PM (Wnv9h)

57 Jihadi Mamdani

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 08:07 PM (E0p3T)

58 I was once swimming at Kitty Hawk and usually swim out parallel to the fishing pier about 200 feet away from it to see if anybody is catching anything. (I always have a rod in the car). I then saw about 50 dolphin coming at me at very high speed. Couldn't go left or right, they were spread too wide. Decided to kinda ball up and hope for the best.
The lead dolphin was huge and I looked him right in the eye. His eye was more than 6"diameter. He must have given a signal, as all the dolphins dove under me, and resurfaced maybe 200' past me. A relief.
I've also been in the center of a bluefish feeding frenzy, that was fun.

Posted by: Bow-legged Women, Too at October 22, 2025 08:08 PM (oftw2)

59 Does this bug you? I’m not touching you…

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:10 PM (77rzZ)

60 As is well known, during the period covered by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, communist organizations declared a truce against their Fascist opponents. It has recently been discovered that the Popular Front organization, known as Penguin Facts, established an unofficial relationship with the nazi-controlled German-American Bund at this time.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 08:11 PM (mADJX)

61 Mommy! He's looking at me!

Posted by: Back Seat Life at October 22, 2025 08:12 PM (oftw2)

62 38 I do not want another dog. There is a yellow lab that showed up here. Looks to be about a year old. I have to take the collar he has on off of him.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:52 PM (QGLzn)

Even the dogs know you put on a good party.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 08:12 PM (urtE/)

63 >>The lead dolphin was huge and I looked him right in the eye. His eye was more than 6"diameter. He must have given a signal, as all the dolphins dove under me, and resurfaced maybe 200' past me. A relief.

They'll never hit you unless they wanted to for some reason. We see them a lot when we are fishing here. At first it kind of freaks you out how close they swim to the boat even when you're moving at a pretty good clip. But they never get hit. Good sonar.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 08:13 PM (viF8m)

64 I, too, had this vision of paradise.

*sigh*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 08:06 PM (Wnv9h)

Wait, are you making a diorama of a pistol range with your mashed potatoes too?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 22, 2025 08:14 PM (nbLIj)

65 Get you a couple of outdoor only "barn" cats. They will keep the mice, rats & snakes down.

Useless trivia: copperheads strike at 40 ms. Cat's reaction time is 70 - 80 milliseconds. Twice as fast.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 07:59 PM (4MksP)

Cat's reaction time is twice as slow, you mean. The copperhead strike at 40 milliseconds is well over before the cat reacts at 70 - 80 milliseconds elapsed time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 08:16 PM (wVcYX)

66 Does this bug you? I’m not touching you…
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:10 PM (77rzZ)
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STOP NOT TOUCHING ME!!!

Posted by: Your sister at October 22, 2025 08:17 PM (ZOv7s)

67 >53
Take the cannolis

Posted by: Waiting for Martel at October 22, 2025 08:18 PM (ji8TS)

68 Holy cow. For a change Mister Ghost isn't making up bullshit stories! "Witchy Wednesday" is - or was - real and being reported by The Federalist -
tinyurl.com/bd536f2b
Thank you Mr Ghost for not embarrassing yourself and pissing us off.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 08:18 PM (gKWVE)

69 I'm NOT touching you. (Holds finger half an inch from your nose.)
Posted by: tankdemon

Those aren't our fingers...

Posted by: Luigi's Ladyboys at October 22, 2025 08:18 PM (wAfpo)

70 recently been discovered that the Popular Front organization, known as Penguin Facts, established an unofficial relationship with the nazi-controlled German-American Bund at this time.
Posted by: Paco

Recent evidence proves Penguin Facts was responsible for the Black Tom Island Ammunition explosion in NY Harbor, at the behest of the Kaiser in 1916, before our entry into WWI. Broke windows in all five boroughs and sent shrapnel into the Statue of Liberty. Killed 7 people and destroyed 20 million dollars worh of ammo (540 Million in 2025 dollars.
Penguin Facts has been a subversive organization for more than a century.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at October 22, 2025 08:20 PM (oftw2)

71 Bamburgh castle is the centerpiece of the "Saxon Chronicles" series of books by Bernard Cornwell. Very entertaining historical fiction books that got made into a decent Netflix series. It ended and they decided to follow up with a standalone movie which of course was woke af... making Aethelstan teh ghey.

Which he wasn't.
Posted by: Defenestratus at October 22, 2025 07:57 PM (WYStd)
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The demand for gay historical figures has far outstripped the actual supply.

Conversely, the actions of actual gay historical figures is constantly downplayed or obfuscated because non-consensual sodomy is the norm, not the exception.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

72 Penguin Facts has many times reported on the Nazi-penguin connection. Any suggestion of our alliance with socialists and communists is pure fiction.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

73 Cats never lose a fight with a snake. Does not happen.

Posted by: Felix the Cat at October 22, 2025 08:24 PM (oftw2)

74 Penguin Facts has many times reported on the Nazi-penguin connection. Any suggestion of our alliance with socialists and communists is pure fiction.
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

It's the secret Antarctic Nazi base, isn't it?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 08:24 PM (wVcYX)

75 Speaking strictly as a supporter of PF, of course.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

76 Did that Columbian President really try to claim a submarine was for fishing? The logistics involved in that must be fascinating. Some kind of deep sea trawling operation?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:26 PM (BI5O2)

77 Bamburgh castle is the centerpiece of the "Saxon Chronicles" series of books by Bernard Cornwell. Very entertaining historical fiction books that got made into a decent Netflix series. It ended and they decided to follow up with a standalone movie which of course was woke af... making Aethelstan teh ghey.

At least it wasn't Minoan. Then the women would have all been milking Minotaurs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 08:26 PM (mC4Jq)

78 Penguin Facts has many times reported on the Nazi-penguin connection. Any suggestion of our alliance with socialists and communists is pure fiction.
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

It's the secret Antarctic Nazi base, isn't it?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 08:24 PM (wVcYX)
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Gateway to the hollow earth.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)

79 75 Speaking strictly as a supporter of PF, of course.
Posted by: fd

We have Kash Patel on speed dial and he has been alerted.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at October 22, 2025 08:28 PM (oftw2)

80 Evening, Ace and cafe patrons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:28 PM (8zz6B)

81 Did that Columbian President really try to claim a submarine was for fishing? The logistics involved in that must be fascinating. Some kind of deep sea trawling operation?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

... and if you don't believe it you should be killed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 08:28 PM (/lPRQ)

82 Speaking strictly as a supporter of PF, of course.
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
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Why do Penguin Facts and Patriot Front use the same initials?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)

83 Look, I got this beak and crossbones tattoo when I was totally wasted, guys. There is no Nazi/Penguin nexus.

Posted by: Fuehrer Emperor Penguin at October 22, 2025 08:29 PM (BI5O2)

84 Patriot Front is another one that disappeared. Guess they got fired from the FBI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 08:30 PM (zZu0s)

85 Recent evidence proves Penguin Facts was responsible for the Black Tom Island Ammunition explosion in NY Harbor, at the behest of the Kaiser in 1916, before our entry into WWI. Broke windows in all five boroughs and sent shrapnel into the Statue of Liberty. Killed 7 people and destroyed 20 million dollars worh of ammo (540 Million in 2025 dollars. - Penguin Defense Fund

Oh, absolutely. And you think Spain sunk the USS Maine? Think again.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 08:30 PM (mADJX)

86 Speaking strictly as a supporter of PF, of course.
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
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Why do Penguin Facts and Patriot Front use the same initials?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)

Point of Order! These groups are not affiliated in any way with the Peoples Front of Judea.

Posted by: Reggie at October 22, 2025 08:30 PM (wVcYX)

87 Rather have that than the Halifax Explosion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 08:31 PM (zZu0s)

88 Patriot Front is another one that disappeared. Guess they got fired from the FBI.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 08:30 PM (zZu0s)


I feel bad for all the agents who bought tiki torches and never got a chance to use them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 08:31 PM (mC4Jq)

89 Stop Touching Me Cafe

Yeah, try telling that to the Lincoln Man-Boy Association Brigade.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 08:32 PM (mlg/3)

90 Ya know who actually did help the Germans blow up Black Tom Island? The IRA.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:33 PM (BI5O2)

91 @trump_repost . 3h

"Treasury Sanctions Major Russian Oil Companies,
Calls on Moscow to Immediately Agree to Ceasefire"

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 08:36 PM (XwyaG)

92 Jihadi Mamdani
Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 08:07 PM (E0p3T)


Osama bin Lenin.

Posted by: RickZ at October 22, 2025 08:36 PM (gKDq2)

93 So, what's going on with Hamas and Israel? I saw something yesterday(?) That seemed to imply that while Hamas had released all the living hostages, they had not withdrawn from Gaza?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

94 Point of Order! These groups are not affiliated in any way with the Peoples Front of Judea.
Posted by: Reggie at October 22, 2025 08:30 PM


Splitters!

Posted by: Judean People's Front at October 22, 2025 08:37 PM (Wnv9h)

95 "Treasury Sanctions Major Russian Oil Companies,
Calls on Moscow to Immediately Agree to Ceasefire"
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 08:36 PM (XwyaG)
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I'm getting a sense that Biden's brain trust figured that Strong Words would convince Putin to give up, and their sanctions were half-assed because they were dreamed up by idiots.

Trump - who actually understands economics and supply chains - has people that actually understand how to turn the proverbial screws.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:38 PM (ZOv7s)

96 That new Honda SxS is going to make me lazier than I already am. So nice to put the trash bag in the back and drive it out to the road.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:39 PM (4MksP)

97
Don't stand so
Don't stand so
Don't stand so
Close to me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 22, 2025 08:39 PM (xG4kz)

98 Patriot Front is another one that disappeared. Guess they got fired from the FBI.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 08:30 PM (zZu0s)


The NGO False Flag Operation got shut down. Money's tight. No Kings Hate-America Fests are the way to go. Right out in the open.

Posted by: RickZ at October 22, 2025 08:39 PM (gKDq2)

99 "Why do Penguin Facts and Patriot Front use the same initials?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd "

Purely coincidental. Shall we discuss your initials?

Posted by: PF Chang's at October 22, 2025 08:39 PM (vFG9F)

100 Wait, are you making a diorama of a pistol range with your mashed potatoes too?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 22, 2025 08:14 PM


Rifle range, but....maybe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 08:40 PM (Wnv9h)

101
NYC Mayoral debate just ended. Anyone watch? (I didn't.) I hope Cuomo makes a deal to give Sliwa some office in his administration in exchange for Sliwa dropping out and the two of them take down Mamdani. That's what I really want right now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 08:40 PM (ldc7S)

102 Purely coincidental. Shall we discuss your initials?
Posted by: PF Chang's at October 22, 2025 08:39 PM (vFG9F)
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Austria Hungary.

What were you thinking of?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)

103 NYC Mayoral debate just ended. Anyone watch? (I didn't.) I hope Cuomo makes a deal to give Sliwa some office in his administration in exchange for Sliwa dropping out and the two of them take down Mamdani. That's what I really want right now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 08:40 PM (ldc7S)

At the very least, make Sliwa chief of the NYPD.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:44 PM (8zz6B)

104 PF are still around I think. Probably being propped up by NGOs.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 08:45 PM (gKWVE)

105 I'm taking the opportunity to tribute Jim SND.

Good dude, he was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 08:45 PM (Zz0t1)

106 Cuomo is angling for a deal with Mamdani and has no interest in actually being mayor. Because he's not going to be mayor.
If Sliwa dips, Cuomo still will lose.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 08:46 PM (gKWVE)

107 Just saw some good news on X. As you all know Jodi Ernst is leaving the Senate in 2026, meaning Iowa will have an open seat. Jackie Norris, Moochelle’s former chief of staff, was considered a front runner because she had a lot of money behind her.
Jackie Norris just dropped out of the race, because she was the one responsible for hiring the illegal alien School Superintendent from Guatemala in Des Moines. No way to get over that one.
Representative Ashley Hinson is running as a republican to succeed Ernst, and I admit I don’t know much about her yet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:48 PM (WtEb/)

108 NYC Mayoral debate just ended. Anyone watch? (I didn't.) I hope Cuomo makes a deal to give Sliwa some office in his administration in exchange for Sliwa dropping out and the two of them take down Mamdani. That's what I really want right now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 08:40 PM (ldc7S)


**********


I'm on the karma is a bitch side of this one. Cuomo murdered hundreds of grandparents. He needs to die in a nursing home of some China virus. Not in charge of the biggest city in the country.

NY can't Vote R? Reap Jihadi Mamdani. You earned it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 08:48 PM (Zz0t1)

109
"Why do Penguin Facts and Patriot Front use the same initials?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd "

Purely coincidental. Shall we discuss your initials?
Posted by: PF Chang's


Did you ever wear PF Flyer shoes?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (63Dwl)

110 "Jackie Norris just dropped out of the race, because she was the one responsible for hiring the illegal alien School Superintendent from Guatemala in Des Moines"

Was that another one of those sweetdick deals?

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (vFG9F)

111 Jackie Norris just dropped out of the race, because she was the one responsible for hiring the illegal alien School Superintendent from Guatemala in Des Moines. No way to get over that one.
Representative Ashley Hinson is running as a republican to succeed Ernst, and I admit I don’t know much about her yet.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:48 PM (WtEb/)

Guyana, not Guatemala.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (8zz6B)

112 Mamdani will win because New Yorkers are retarded. They think rent freezes will make apartments cheap. Even though this shit has never worked. But hey THIS time it will right?

Let the mother fucker burn. Why should I care? They want to commit suicide who am I to get in the way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (PGEno)

113 That pittie is very very pretty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:50 PM (A2ajU)

114 93 So, what's going on with Hamas and Israel? I saw something yesterday(?) That seemed to imply that while Hamas had released all the living hostages, they had not withdrawn from Gaza?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

The IDF controls 53% of Gaza, Hamas still controls 47%. All that happened today is that Hamas promised to stop executing Palestinians critical of them in the street because it was embarrassing their sponsors in Qatar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:51 PM (WtEb/)

115 Childrin of coller our going hungry because of Trump. We be calls on Presdent Obama dew something about this mean Predent we be has now

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 22, 2025 08:52 PM (sp2JE)

116 If Hamas wants to kill Gazans, fine. It's high time they did something positive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:53 PM (BI5O2)

117 Iowa voted for Trump bigly in 2016, 2020 and 2024.double digit wins in 16 and 24 and just under double digits in 2020.

If that senate seat is competitive things may not look so good for the mid terms.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:54 PM (PGEno)

118 Believable till the "we be has" moment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 08:54 PM (Zz0t1)

119 "All that happened today is that Hamas promised to stop executing Palestinians critical of them in the street because it was embarrassing their sponsors in Qatar."

So now they will take it indoors.

The Pali's are treated worse by Hamas than by anybody else. There's some kind of parallel with NYC but I have not fully discerned it yet.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:54 PM (vFG9F)

120 Jewish NYers are in for a rough time if hostilities resume with Mamdani in charge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:55 PM (BI5O2)

121 Guyana, not Guatemala.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (8zz6B)

220,221

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:55 PM (PGEno)

122 If Hamas wants to kill Gazans, fine. It's high time they did something positive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:53 PM (BI5O2)


Look on the bright side of life.
Doo doo, Doo doo.

Posted by: RickZ at October 22, 2025 08:55 PM (gKDq2)

123 Guyana, not Guatemala.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (8zz6B)

Potayto, potahto, tomayto, tomahto, let’s call the whole thing off! (Nod to George Gershwin)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:56 PM (WtEb/)

124 What's a 'palesinian?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 08:56 PM (Zz0t1)

125 111. Guyana, not Guatemala.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (8zz6B)

Tomato, To-mah-to....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 08:57 PM (QGaXH)

126 Least shocking news of the day.

>>@BillMelugin_
·
>>20m
BREAKING: Per multiple ICE sources, Jashanpreet Singh, the semi-truck driveer suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. DHS photo of him attached via federal sources.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)

127 Fox News poll from last week…

Jewish voters gave Cuomo 42%, Mamdani 38% and Republican Curtis Sliwa 13%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:58 PM (PGEno)

128 220,221
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:55 PM (PGEno)

Different flavors of savage tribalism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 08:58 PM (8zz6B)

129 "What's a 'palesinian?"

Twenty bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: Two for forty at October 22, 2025 08:58 PM (vFG9F)

130 120 If I was a MOT in NYC, I would be going to a lot of those notorious out of state gun shows. Car pool with friends.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 08:58 PM (gm9Sb)

131
I'm on the karma is a bitch side of this one. Cuomo murdered hundreds of grandparents. He needs to die in a nursing home of some China virus. Not in charge of the biggest city in the country.

NY can't Vote R? Reap Jihadi Mamdani. You earned it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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

There are so many bad choices and bad actors here, so many setups for karmatic reciprocity. I want Mamdani to be punished for his vanity. I want to see this vain, fake main character in search of a plot to get smacked into shame and idleness and forced to watch Cuomo and Sliwa wield the power he seeks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 08:59 PM (ldc7S)

132 Anyone but you (with Sydney Sweeney) is on FX.

She also has a movie coming out where she plays as chubby, Lesbian boxer.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 08:59 PM (NFX2v)

133 Mary from Vermont is just upset that Trump has slashed FART Tube funds, leaving Brattleborians in the lurch.

Posted by: Where They Belong at October 22, 2025 09:00 PM (oftw2)

134 "the semi-truck driveer suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. "

We should get out and protest for this guy. Look what Trump made him do!

Posted by: A Q-Tip at October 22, 2025 09:00 PM (vFG9F)

135 Mamdani will win because New Yorkers are retarded. They think rent freezes will make apartments cheap. Even though this shit has never worked. But hey THIS time it will right?

Let the mother fucker burn. Why should I care? They want to commit suicide who am I to get in the way.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (PGEno)
---
If New York City empties out, the state actually becomes a lot less blue - just in time for the next census. I'm not seeing a downside here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)

136 Mamdani will win because New Yorkers are retarded. They think rent freezes will make apartments cheap. Even though this shit has never worked. But hey THIS time it will right?

Let the mother fucker burn. Why should I care? They want to commit suicide who am I to get in the way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 08:49 PM (PGEno)

Yeah, blow the bridges and leave them in their squalor.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (snZF9)

137 129 "What's a 'palesinian?"

Twenty bucks, same as in town.
Posted by: Two for forty at October

Is that a bounty?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (BAI2h)

138
Fox News poll from last week…

Jewish voters gave Cuomo 42%, Mamdani 38% and Republican Curtis Sliwa 13%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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

Cuomo + Sliwa could take down that vain, fake main character in search of a plot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (ldc7S)

139 BREAKING: Per multiple ICE sources, Jashanpreet Singh, the semi-truck driveer suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. DHS photo of him attached via federal sources.
Posted by: JackStraw


Didn't they just let him free again?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 09:02 PM (/lPRQ)

140
If New York City empties out, the state actually becomes a lot less blue - just in time for the next census. I'm not seeing a downside here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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

Elric the Blade will tell us it won't empty out, and he might be right. Everyone might just go up to their roof gardens and have a cigar.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:02 PM (ldc7S)

141 Yeah, blow the bridges and leave them in their squalor.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (snZF9)

Who knew "Escape From New York" was a documentary?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:03 PM (8zz6B)

142 Jinx, anonymous rogue!! LOL!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:03 PM (WtEb/)

143 Yeah, blow the bridges and leave them in their squalor.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (snZF9)


***********


I find your terms largely acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 09:04 PM (Zz0t1)

144 134 "Well the I.C.E. is checking things down the line,
Don't have a green card don't want to pay a fine
Looks like I gotta run
This ain't gonna be no fun
Two weeks in the country but I now have a CDL"



Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 09:05 PM (gm9Sb)

145 Cuomo + Sliwa could take down that vain, fake main character in search of a plot.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:01 PM (ldc7S)

Five characters in search of an exit, nice reference!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:06 PM (WtEb/)

146 No such thing as a deep s...

@paulsperry_ 12m
DEVELOPING: New court filings reveal James Comey has added two experienced Supreme Court litigators to his legal team, signaling plans to try beat his perjury and obstruction rap by arguing "selective and vindictive prosecution" all the way up to the highest court..developing...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 09:07 PM (mlg/3)

147 ... arguing "selective and vindictive prosecution" all the way up to the highest court..developing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop


Why doesn't everyone try that?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 09:08 PM (/lPRQ)

148 Comey won't need an appeal. No chance of a conviction in the first place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 09:09 PM (BI5O2)

149 Comey won't need an appeal. No chance of a conviction in the first place.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 09:09 PM (BI5O2)
---
The process is the punishment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 09:09 PM (ZOv7s)

150 Why doesn't everyone try that?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


Right? I'm mean, stupid prosecutors doing stupid prosecutorial things~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 09:09 PM (mlg/3)

151 Seems there is a metric fuckton of Jashanpreet Singhs out there. Must be the Sikh counterpart to "John Smith".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:10 PM (8zz6B)

152
BREAKING: Per multiple ICE sources, Jashanpreet Singh, the semi-truck driveer suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. DHS photo of him attached via federal sources.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

How are lefties going to defend this gu -- as I was typing this, I realized: if we had only given him legal status for the asking, he wouldn't have lived "in the shadows" while doing his honest, hard work for his family and his future in pursuit of the American dream. He could have gone to CDL training without fear of that terrorizing knock on the door in the dead of night and facing a masked, anonymous thug... I should sell my skills to these people.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:10 PM (ldc7S)

153 All his attorneys have to do is walk out in front of a DC jury and say "Orangemanbad. The defense rests."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 09:11 PM (BI5O2)

154 Berserker. You might stay longer in Texas next year.

SickNewWorldFest.com/Texas

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 09:11 PM (Zz0t1)

155 "selective and vindictive prosecution"

You have a list?

WTF?! You want a freebie because you did not press charges on 57 democrats including Hillary?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 09:11 PM (/lPRQ)

156 @paulsperry_ 12m
DEVELOPING: New court filings reveal James Comey has added two experienced Supreme Court litigators to his legal team, signaling plans to try beat his perjury and obstruction rap by arguing "selective and vindictive prosecution" all the way up to the highest court..developing...
Posted by: weft cut-loop


*President Trump has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:13 PM (4MksP)

157 130 120 If I was a MOT in NYC, I would be going to a lot of those notorious out of state gun shows. Car pool with friends.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 08:58 PM (gm9Sb)

MOT??

Everybody's losing their lunch over this Mamdami guy.

You know who I don't think is losing their lunch? Your average New Yorker. They could give a crap.

I was born in 'the city' but we left before I was ten. I was raised by two Native New Yorkers. There's a NYC attitude or persona of 'so what...what else ya got..?' NYC will survive Mamdami, if they even notice him.

Think of the opening of Men in Black 2. The subway train - the people on the subway platform hardly noticing the half-eaten train car...New Yorkers...seen it all...



Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:14 PM (QGaXH)

158 How are lefties going to defend this gu -- as I was typing this, I realized: if we had only given him legal status for the asking, he wouldn't have lived "in the shadows" while doing his honest, hard work for his family and his future in pursuit of the American dream. He could have gone to CDL training without fear of that terrorizing knock on the door in the dead of night and facing a masked, anonymous thug... I should sell my skills to these people.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:10 PM (ldc7S)

Seriously, the Sikh community needs to start culling the bad apples in their midst, or risk losing all the good will they have earned by simply not being muslims.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:14 PM (8zz6B)

159 "He could have gone to CDL training without fear of that terrorizing knock on the door in the dead of night and facing a masked, anonymous thug."

Trump's policies drove him to drink. I think we all know who is at fault here.

Posted by: A Q-Tip at October 22, 2025 09:14 PM (vFG9F)

160 >>Didn't they just let him free again?

It's a longer tweet. It goes on to say he's still in custody, no formal charges yet and ICE has a detainer request on him.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:15 PM (viF8m)

161 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:10 PM (ldc7S)

Wasn't alcohol involved per the story?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

162 A conviction of Comey would be nice, but not really important in the grand scheme of things. He’s finished, he’ll never hold another job in government again and neither will his daughter or son in law.

What IS important, and which continues every day, is firing all the traitorous deadweight in the ED of Va (supposedly 2/3 of all Fed attorneys there fired by now) and getting rid of the even more traitorous and bloated 3 and 4 Star DEI pushers in the Pentagon. Those are the moves that will actually change things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:17 PM (WtEb/)

163 142 Jinx, anonymous rogue!! LOL!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:03 PM (WtEb/)


Horde 'Mind' - such as it is....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:17 PM (QGaXH)

164
The process is the punishment.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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

We keep saying that, but if he knows he won't be convicted, the process is a breeze. He can make hay out of attempts he'll call silly, vengeful, illegal, unfair, etc. In the end, he's "vindicated" and he gets another million-dollar book advance to write about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:18 PM (ldc7S)

165 People are kind of treating the Mamdani situation liked NYC is about to become Sodom and Gammorah 3.0.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:18 PM (zZu0s)

166 Jackie Norris just dropped out of the race, because she was the one responsible for hiring the illegal alien School Superintendent from Guatemala in Des Moines. No way to get over that one

Guyana.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

167 Guyana.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

Yeah yeah yeah we did that already.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:19 PM (WtEb/)

168 MOT?

Man of Tribe?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:20 PM (zZu0s)

169 Austria Hungary.

What were you thinking of?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 22, 2025 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)


I figured you for a K. u. K.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (rbvCR)

170 116 If Hamas wants to kill Gazans, fine. It's high time they did something positive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
--------------

Islamists killing each other is a win win.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (XwyaG)

171 Rather have that than the Halifax Explosion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
----------

The Port Chicago was no small thing either.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (XeU6L)

172 Method of Torture?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (Zz0t1)

173
Wasn't alcohol involved per the story?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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

He was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, there's that. He must have been near passed out to have crashed the way he did. Gimme a minute, I'll think up another lefty defense... something about the number of white truck drivers who get DUIs every year, or maybe dead silence. Of course it will be ancient history by 2028, but plenty of the Democrat hopefuls have blood on their hands for this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:22 PM (ldc7S)

174 Method of Torture?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Mick of Tenure?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

175 Wasn't alcohol involved per the story?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

He's been arrested for DUI. Drugs, apparently. Maybe amphetamines? Hell of it is, just a few seconds of inattention can cause a wreck like this. It does not require the driver to be impaired. Dialing a cellphone could do it. Or texting.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:25 PM (8zz6B)

176 ==============

He was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, there's that. He must have been near passed out to have crashed the way he did.
---------------

Singh, the murdering, Indian, truck driver survived the crash?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 09:27 PM (XwyaG)

177 173 ....or maybe dead silence. Of course it will be ancient history by 2028, but plenty of the Democrat hopefuls have blood on their hands for this.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:22 PM (ldc7S)

Dead silence....or maybe the 'Spanberger stare'...I almost expected her to tilt her head and say 'Norman coordinate....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:28 PM (QGaXH)

178 Looked like he had an open lane to the left.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 09:28 PM (XwyaG)

179 Singh, the murdering, Indian, truck driver survived the crash?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 09:27 PM (XwyaG)



Collide and go Sikh.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:28 PM (8zz6B)

180 175 The lady that ran into my car a couple weeks ago said she took her eyes off the road for a couple seconds. She was looking at an advertising sign. This brings me to those jumbotron billboards that change every few seconds. Those things could cause (maybe already have) a lot of accidents.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 09:29 PM (gm9Sb)

181
People are kind of treating the Mamdani situation liked NYC is about to become Sodom and Gammorah 3.0.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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

Or an echoing shell of itself after everyone flees. But it's HARD for people in the middle of their careers, or who own small businesses, or who live paycheck to paycheck, or who have families -- people who can't commute from Connecticut is the idea -- to relocate to a whole other part of the country and start all over in their 30s or 40s. If NYC has a middle class backbone, I don't see how it breaks; how would those people leave, where would they go?

The rich are always rich enough to pay more taxes and higher prices for 5-star dinners and to add another security guard. The poor will always be subsidized. Those big financial institutions that will supposedly decamp to Dallas? Will that happen?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:30 PM (ldc7S)

182 171 Rather have that than the Halifax Explosion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
----------

The Port Chicago was no small thing either.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Aye, and the Great Blantyre Explosion was no picnic either!

Posted by: Down In The Mine, Where The Sun Doesn't Shine at October 22, 2025 09:30 PM (oftw2)

183 174 Method of Torture?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Mick of Tenure?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

Man of Tribeca

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:31 PM (QGaXH)

184 Traffic was stopped on the freeway. He didn't even slow down. Ran right through three vehicles, hit asemi and went off the road to hit another truck. It's awful to watch.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 09:32 PM (kUxzU)

185 The lady that ran into my car a couple weeks ago said she took her eyes off the road for a couple seconds. She was looking at an advertising sign. This brings me to those jumbotron billboards that change every few seconds. Those things could cause (maybe already have) a lot of accidents.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 09:29 PM (gm9Sb)

They are very distracting. And some of them are insanely bright. Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:33 PM (8zz6B)

186 153 All his attorneys have to do is walk out in front of a DC jury and say "Orangemanbad. The defense rests."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 09:11 PM (BI5O2)

Yeah he’s wasting money hiring lawyers. He could represent himself and say that for free.

Probably Soros is covering the lawyers though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 09:33 PM (PGEno)

187
Singh, the murdering, Indian, truck driver survived the crash?

Posted by: Braenyard

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

Yes. In a way, I'm glad. This story won't end quickly on a tragic note; he'll be in the news for a while.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:34 PM (ldc7S)

188 Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.
___

I'd vote for you for just that reason alone.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 22, 2025 09:35 PM (22p5n)

189 Yes. In a way, I'm glad. This story won't end quickly on a tragic note; he'll be in the news for a while.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:34 PM (ldc7S)

The Florida Singh, who made an illegal U-turn, and killed a van full of people, survived the wreck, too.

In a just world, neither one would survive the judicial system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:37 PM (8zz6B)

190 Mandan is going to blow up the rental market. He appoints the rental board. And he will appoint people who will vote for rent freezes and no more evictions. Which will make anyone who is a landlord get the fuck out of the landlord business.

I actually look forward to seeing that happen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 09:37 PM (PGEno)

191 185 They are very distracting. And some of them are insanely bright. Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:33 PM (8zz6B)

For a while some genius had the bright idea to mount brightly lit 4' X 8' advertising signs on the backs of vans driving the freeways here. Truly blinding at night: I haven't seen any for a while so maybe someone did the right thing for once.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (QGaXH)

192 Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:33 PM (8zz6B)

Are you saying you would ban Vegas Vic?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

193 Vermont banned highway billboards. They do that and elect Bernie. Weird state. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (PGEno)

194 >>>It's awful to watch.
-----------

Special effects guys are watching this frame by frame.

The red car splinters, the plywood flies flat up against the doors of the cargo trailer, pieces flying everywhere. Miracle, the white pickup is squished out with cab intact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (XwyaG)

195 188 Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.
___

I'd vote for you for just that reason alone.
Posted by: SMH

Senor, if you ban my billboards, I will get you!

Posted by: Pedro @ SOTB at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (oftw2)

196
Set up to fail ... again!

Latrine John-Pissoir's book is titled, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House"


It ought to have been "Guys Are Trained to Aim For the Toilet Bowl -- Why Wasn't I Accorded the Same Privilege?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 09:39 PM (xG4kz)

197 193 Vermont banned highway billboards and moved them to I40 in New Mexico.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 09:40 PM (gm9Sb)

198 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (QGaXH)
Heh. So I was getting groceries a month or two ago late at night. Guy passes me in a brand new white Camaro. I notice he has a scrolling light message board in his back window. But it scrolls down instead of side to side.

Show

Me

Your

Tits

I got a chuckle out of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:41 PM (zZu0s)

199 126 Least shocking news of the day.
>>@BillMelugin_·>>20m
BREAKING: Per multiple ICE sources, Jashanpreet Singh, the semi-truck driveer suspected of killing three people in a DUI crash on the 10 freeway in Ontario, CA yesterday, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the CA border by the Biden admin in March 2022. DHS photo of him attached via federal sources.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 08:57 PM
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ABC7 Eyewitness News
@ABC7
Video: https://x.com/ABC7/status/1981042609561760130
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Shocking dashcam footage captured the moment when a semitruck plowed into multiple vehicles on the 10 Freeway in Ontario, causing a deadly chain-reaction crash. At least three people were killed in the fiery wreck, and a 21-year-old truck driver was reportedly arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. https://abc7.la/4o1v7dc
9:58 AM · Oct 22, 2025

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at October 22, 2025 09:41 PM (9aVck)

200 No billboards in Hawaii.

Posted by: davidt at October 22, 2025 09:41 PM (i0F8b)

201 183 174 Method of Torture?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 09:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Mick of Tenure?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

Man of Tribeca
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:31 PM (QGaXH)

Man of Constant Sorrow? I find that song to be torture.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 09:42 PM (mP0Kj)

202 Are you saying you would ban Vegas Vic?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

Naw, that's in a downtown area with slow-moving traffic. Not so great a hazard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:43 PM (8zz6B)

203 SMH

Senor, if you ban my billboards, I will get you!
Posted by: Pedro

Piker.

Posted by: The retards at Wall Drug at October 22, 2025 09:43 PM (LjSYW)

204
I would love to see this in real...


I have seen that, multiple times for each trek, on the three treks our scout troop made to Florida Sea Base over the years.

It is very cool!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 09:43 PM (xG4kz)

205 200 No billboards in Hawaii.
Posted by: davidt

No one can read. State in Dem hands since 1959.

Posted by: Huked on Foniks Werked Four Mi! at October 22, 2025 09:44 PM (oftw2)

206 Vermont banned highway billboards and moved them to I40 in New Mexico.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 09:40 PM (gm9Sb)

Plenty of them along I-10 too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:45 PM (8zz6B)

207 Throw out Joses and Pajeets with extreme prejudice, and charge the CA dmv assholes as accessories to murder

Posted by: Luigi's Ladyboys at October 22, 2025 09:45 PM (ruaxp)

208 206 Free ice water at Clines Corners! And genuine made in Indonesia Indian blankets.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 09:47 PM (gm9Sb)

209 Senor, if you ban my billboards, I will get you!
Posted by: Pedro

Piker.
Posted by: The retards at Wall Drug at October 22, 2025 09:43 PM (LjSYW)

Static billboards are not a problem. The video ones are diabolical. Say you get a glimpse of one, promoting a concert by one of your favorite musicians at a local Indian casino. Then it changes to an ad for an insurance agent, then a lawyer. You stare, and stare, waiting to get the date for so-and-so's concert, and your eyes are off the road all that time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:49 PM (8zz6B)

210 Whoa, looked at it again. The first hit was a white vehicle, that must have been the puddle between the two trucks at the end.
After Florida incident all of these guys should have been pulled off the road.
They know who they are.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 09:49 PM (XwyaG)

211 No billboards in Hawaii.
Posted by: davidt

No one can read. State in Dem hands since 1959.
Posted by: Huked on Foniks Werked Four Mi!


In Hawaii they use stacks of rocks.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)

212 206 Plenty of them along I-10 too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:45 PM (8zz6B)

Have you returned to your winter digs for the season?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:50 PM (QGaXH)

213
In a just world, neither one would survive the judicial system.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

I hope the judicial system leaves them wet from their crotches to their ankles. In their societies, you pay the bribe and walk away. I want them to experience American justice when it works -- the FAFO treatment. Jury of their peers (sorry, some of them will have to be white, black, or the wrong color of brown, you Desi bigots), judge in a black robe (might even be a Black woman!), evidence painstakingly presented by white attorneys in suits, the dashcam video played frame by frame over and over, the medical techs testifying, the whole bit. Things they never dreamed of when they casually climbed behind that wheel.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:51 PM (ldc7S)

214 Senor, if you ban my billboards, I will get you!
Posted by: Pedro

Piker.
Posted by: The retards at Wall Drug


Only 500 miles and 500 more billboards to Ron Jons !

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 09:52 PM (/lPRQ)

215 Have you returned to your winter digs for the season?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:50 PM (QGaXH)



Only for a very short stay; mostly to attend the Tx MoMee. Homeward bound on Friday, most likely. I have a roof to fix here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:52 PM (8zz6B)

216 >>> 188 Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.
___

I'd vote for you for just that reason alone.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 22, 2025 09:35 PM (22p5n)

Same here.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 09:52 PM (ULPxl)

217 >>Didn't they just let him free again?

It's a longer tweet. It goes on to say he's still in custody, no formal charges yet and ICE has a detainer request on him.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:15 PM (viF8m)

Cut him in half. Give ICE one half, send the other home.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 09:54 PM (snZF9)

218 Heh. So I was getting groceries a month or two ago late at night. Guy passes me in a brand new white Camaro. I notice he has a scrolling light message board in his back window. But it scrolls down instead of side to side.
Show
Me
Your
Tits
I got a chuckle out of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Well? Did you?

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 09:54 PM (nhCoE)

219 Cut him in half. Give ICE one half, send the other home.
Posted by: Berserker


The judges would also have accepted a King Solomon sock.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 09:55 PM (nhCoE)

220
Throw out Joses and Pajeets with extreme prejudice, and charge the CA dmv assholes as accessories to murder
Posted by: Luigi's Ladyboys

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

Nice DMV Director (folds hands, smiles) : Senator, we deplore accidents. They are the worst thing that can happen on the road. We take them very seriously. Our job is to make all drivers safe. We do not endorse or approve of accidents, which we consider to be the most dangerous form of incident on our highways. [drones on, wasting as much time as possible to avoid answering questions]

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:55 PM (ldc7S)

221 215 Only for a very short stay; mostly to attend the Tx MoMee. Homeward bound on Friday, most likely. I have a roof to fix here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 09:52 PM (8zz6B)

That must be quite a chore to winterize the house. Or is it occupied during the winter?

I've never had to worry about that here.




Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:56 PM (QGaXH)

222 I mostly ignore billboards, like I ignore overhead powerlines.

I really have no beef with either.

roundabouts, on the other hand...

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 22, 2025 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

223
Shocking dashcam footage captured the moment when a semitruck plowed into multiple vehicles on the 10 Freeway in Ontario, causing a deadly chain-reaction crash.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

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

Some of the damage was chain-reaction, but mostly it seems to be that driver plowing through one vehicle after another.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:58 PM (ldc7S)

224
https://x.com/ABC7/status/1981042609561760130


Deport him by sending his remains home in a pine box.

Not yet deceased? Let "incarceration justice" do its work.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 09:58 PM (xG4kz)

225 Just saw this on X:

BREAKING: Greta Thunberg reveals horrible torture at the hands of Israeli captors.

"They harvested every single one of my organs" she now says. "Then they forced me to work in a plutonium mine and we weren't give any kind of protective equipment."

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:58 PM (WtEb/)

226 Wynding, Bamburgh, Northumbria

I remember when Capt Kirk visited that planet

Posted by: mindful webworker - Beam me up, Scottish at October 22, 2025 09:59 PM (Qqyu2)

227
Srsly, I wonder if Newsom is sweating lightly because of these accidents.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 09:59 PM (ldc7S)

228 BREAKING: Greta Thunberg reveals horrible torture at the hands of Israeli captors.

"They harvested every single one of my organs" she now says. "Then they forced me to work in a plutonium mine and we weren't give any kind of protective equipment."
Posted by: Tom Servo


If they took all your organs, you don't have anything left to get cancer. Quit whining.

Posted by: mikeski at October 22, 2025 10:00 PM (nhCoE)

229
Dictator AOP would ban all illuminated or moving billboards.
___

I'd vote for you for just that reason alone.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 22, 2025 09:35 PM (22p5n)

Same here.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


Throw in abolish daylight savings time and I'll do my best to make you Dictator for Life.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:01 PM (xG4kz)

230 Noodies at ONT

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (Z8Qvl)

231
BREAKING: Greta Thunberg reveals horrible torture at the hands of Israeli captors.

"They harvested every single one of my organs" she now says. "Then they forced me to work in a plutonium mine and we weren't give any kind of protective equipment."


Alternate title: "Doom Goblin Faces Its Own Doom"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (xG4kz)

232 That must be quite a chore to winterize the house. Or is it occupied during the winter?

I've never had to worry about that here.




Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 22, 2025 09:56 PM (QGaXH)

Ah, it's the house here in Apache Junction that needs the roof repaired. Some shingle blew off, and roof leaks badly. The recent massive rainstorms last week did damage. Looks like I have about one square's woth of shingles to patch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (8zz6B)

233 Srsly, I wonder if Newsom is sweating lightly because of these accidents.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Sweating lightly?
He busted nut before the truck stopped rolling

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 10:02 PM (/lPRQ)

234 NOOD

ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 10:03 PM (ULPxl)

Latrine John-Pissoir's Book Tour Is a Disaster (Which Only Makes Sense Because Latrine John-Pissoir Is a Disaster)

"Her" "book," which is a disaster, is already in identity crisis.

To sell to the public, you need to promise that you're going to deliver "the real insider story" to the public. Kamala Harris pretended she was going to deliver the real insider story, and then delivered nothing but the usual spin she offers for free.

Latrine John-Pissoir's book is titled, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House. The problem is that this title is clearly fabricated by the publisher to sell books and does not reflect the actual content of the book.

Because Latrine John-Pissoir's " look inside" is the same look she offered us from the podium day after day after day: behind the scenes, Joe Biden was forming human pyramids with Bulgarian acrobats and solving three-dimensional matrices in his mind.

People -- even identity-politics-besotted woke leftists -- aren't going to pay for the same spin that they already had a bellyfull of for free, so the publisher subtitled the book "A Look Inside a Broken White House." Suggesting we're going to read about the Biden White House being broken, from an insider's perspective.

Fooled you! The only thing that's broken about the Biden White House is the public's mistaken impression of Joe Biden, and the Democrats' betrayal of Biden.


So how can she justify her book's subtitle being "A Look Inside a Broken White House?"

Insanely, she claims that the broken White House she's speaking of is the Trump White House. But obviously she cannot offer an "insider's look" at that.

She's offering an "Insider's Look" at the Biden White House, which was Perfect, and an outsider look at the "broken White House" of Donald John Trump. And so she just kind of smooshed those together to be an "Insider Look at a Broken White House."

This makes no sense. It's not really supposed to -- it's just yet another senseless lie from the serial liar and DEI dummy Latrine John-Pissoir.

I want someone to sue her for false advertising so we can read emails between her and the publisher scheming what is the maximally-deceptive title they can give the book without opening themselves up to lawsuit.

The public is not fooled by this abominable horsesh*t:


Latrine got ugly with Karoline Leavitt, calling her "deplorable." How original. Leavitt fired back:

"With all due respect to my predecessor, she's one of the main culprits of the greatest coverups and scandals in American history. She took the podium every day and lied to the press about the incompetence of her boss."

"The Trump White House is the most accessible and transparent White House ever."

And if you can't get enough of crackhead hooker-addict gun felon Hunter Biden whining about the betrayal of his corrupt grifter father, I've got you covered.

Hunter Biden claims he was so enraged watching Barack Obama lead his father, then-President Joe Biden, off the stage at a Hollywood fundraiser last year that he nearly cursed out the former president.

In an excerpt of journalist Jonathan Karl's forthcoming book, "Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America," obtained by Axios Tuesday, the former first son recalled the anger he felt toward Obama, who grabbed Joe by the wrist and tugged him in the direction of the curtains after he froze for a full 10 seconds at the star-studded campaign fundraiser.

"I almost jumped up on the stage and said, 'Don't ever f--king do that to the president of the United States again -- ever," Hunter told Karl, during an interview months after the awkward moment.


"I knew that that was going to be a meme," the former first son added. "That really, really, really, really pissed me off."

Joe's freeze-up at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles indeed went viral and took place as concerns over the octogenarian president's age and mental acuity mounted, following a spate of public moments where the then-president appeared dazed or confused about where he was.

The Hollywood event raked in more than $30 million in contributions for the Biden campaign, about a week-and-a-half before Joe's disastrous debate with President Trump, which forced the Democratic incumbent to end his re-election bid less than a month later.

Actor and Democratic mega-donor George Clooney was one of several Hollywood luminaries at the event, and later recounted in a New York Times op-ed that the president "was not the Joe 'big F-ing deal' Biden of 2010."

"He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020," Clooney said of what the president was like at the fundraiser. "He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate."

He's also grousing about Kamala Harris not showing loyalty to his corrupt father. First he admits that Kamala Harris was chosen by Biden because Biden believes that "African American women are the heart and soul of the Democrat Party, and the conscience of the Democrat Party." Then he realizes he just said she was picked entirely for racial/gender reasons, and adds that she was "perfectly qualified" to be president.

Then he again suggests that she wasn't qualified to be president by stressing that Biden picked her out of his assumption that she would be loyal, which he says she isn't, so what was her qualification, exactly, beyond being (half) black and female?

The crack-addict daughter-denying scumbag also whines that he was prosecuted for his gun and drug crimes, even as he admits his extreme privilege in being pardoned by his father the "president" of the United States.

Former first son Hunter Biden is claiming that his father only pardoned him because Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency in November 2024 -- and "would not have" done so under "normal circumstances" while the appeals process played out.

"Donald Trump went and changed everything," Hunter said in an interview released Monday on journalist Tommy Christopher's Substack platform.

"And I don't think that I need to make much of an argument about why it changed everything."

Can you make any argument?

The 55-year-old -- who pleaded guilty last year to evading $1.4 million in back taxes to the IRS and was convicted on felony gun charges -- declined to mention that he had apparently been present for discussions on pardons during Joe Biden's final months in the White House.

"I've said this before," Hunter went on.

"My dad would not have pardoned me if President Trump had not won, and the reason that he would not have pardoned me is because I was certain that in a normal circumstance of the appeals [I would have won]."


The Biden scion added that Trump was planning a "revenge tour" against his father, which would have made himself the "easiest target to just to intimidate and to not just impact me, but impact my entire family into, into silence in a way that at least he is not -- it's not as easy for him to do [with] me being pardoned."

"I realize how privileged I am," Hunter went on.


"I realize how lucky I am; I realize that I got something that almost no one would have gotten.

"But I'm incredibly grateful for it and I have to say that I don't think that it requires me to make much of a detailed argument for why it was the right thing to do, at least from my dad, from his perspective."

Again: Can you make any argument for why this was "the right thing to do?"

Posted by: Ace at 06:24 PM




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1 She is a vacuous little twat.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (vFG9F)

2 Oh yeah. First.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (vFG9F)

3 Who thinks these books are good idea?

Or is this just straight graft and money laundering?

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:26 PM (FCi/W)

4 Even Stephen Colbert has had enough of the spin. When the most loyal late-night ally starts fact-checking Karine Jean-Pierre on live TV, you know the narrative is collapsing.

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Long past WHEN IT COUNTS!!

Just like so many in media.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

5 192 Pages.

And, I'm betting there isn't even any Minotaur Milking.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:27 PM (FCi/W)

6 Joe Biden was forming human pyramids with Bulgarian acrobats

Only if they were underage little girls, and it took place in a shower...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 06:28 PM (ynpvh)

7 Yo Hunter:
if you loved your dad (and I can understand why you might not, he molested your sis) or even cared about your family's dignity (which you should do, anyway) then your job was to get him to step down before primary-season. That would have saved him the embarrassment.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 06:29 PM (p/J4D)

8 Should I go get some ice cream?

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 06:29 PM (JY+81)

9 "I realize how privileged I am,"

And then he smoked some crack.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

10 Looks like she's got a new hairdo.

Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM (lJ0H4)

11 I'm sure "her" "book" has already "sold" a bazilllion copies.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM (ULPxl)

12 Because Latrine John-Pissoir's " look inside" is the same look she offered us from the podium day after day after day: behind the scenes, Joe Biden was forming human pyramids with Bulgarian acrobats and solving three-dimensional matrices in his mind.

Joe Biden was also performing as "Catcher" for The Flying Wallendas in their death-defying trapeze act. Rock solid and steady.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM (wVcYX)

13 Former first son Hunter Biden is claiming that his father only pardoned him because Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency in November 2024 -- and "would not have" done so under "normal circumstances"
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A first for politics when the other side's candidate winning can't be considered a "normal" circumstance.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM (krQz2)

14 She should have called it the Cabbage Patch tour.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM (0N4FZ)

15 > " I realize that I got something that almost no one would have gotten."

Yeah - a $1.4M break on your taxes.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:31 PM (1Nv0l)

16 It's impossible to shame the shameless.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 06:31 PM (fGmWu)

17 Just read a hate feed whining about Trump giving our swag bags at his dinner.
Autographed hats and such.

So many lol at their petty sniping.

These idiots have no idea, do they?
How much rich and powerful love getting free shit, especially one-of-a-kind free shit.

While you dumbases are still whining about "affordable health care" (for illegals and lay-abouts), Trump just bought another must-pass bill.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 06:31 PM (HXT0k)

18
omg ace thanks for this. I've been watching her interviews with FRIENDLIES and they're disasters. Every question -- from "What color would you say your shoes are?" to "Why didn't you stand up to that harridan Jill?" -- gets the identical stock speech with the identical gestures. At some random point, she summons an imaginary White House Press Room podium and says "I can't speak to that."

It just makes me SO. DAMN. RELIEVED. that those liars and con artists did not win!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:32 PM (ldc7S)

19 As for KJP, she is stupid.
I never accused Psaki of being stupid - evil, but not stupid. She was able to evade questions like a pro. "Circle back" is a meme because although annoying, it worked.
KJP looked like a high school glee-club senior the whole time.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 06:32 PM (p/J4D)

20 I'm still fantazing about a 2 AM SWAT raid on the admissions office of Yale Law School, to seize Hunter Biden's admission records.

How many phone calls do you think that Joe had to make to get him in there?

(Hunter went to Georgetown Law for one year, obviously concluded that that wasn't prestigious enough, and then got admitted to Yale Law through pure merit.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (xTIDn)

21 I smoke two rocks in the morning . . .

Posted by: Hunter! at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (p/J4D)

22 Everything a Leftist says is a lie in some fashion. They lie even when it's not necessary to lie.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (EYmYM)

23 Nobody wants to hear your shite, Latrine. You don't even rate 15 minutes of fame.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (QGLzn)

24 Joe Biden was also performing as "Catcher" for The Flying Wallendas in their death-defying trapeze act. Rock solid and steady.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM


I saw joe biden and ruth ginsberg running the Appalachian trail together in 2018. They both had ruck sacks filled with gravel and each of them were carrying two .50 cal ammo cans filled with sand. They left me in the dust.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (0N4FZ)

25 She was cute as a pumpkin head, now, she looks like her fat felon sisters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (XwyaG)

26 192 Pages.

And, I'm betting there isn't even any Minotaur Milking.
------

I'm betting its one of those books where the Title, and only the title, appears on page 1, followed by a blank page. And then the chapter begins, but only half-way down the page, because the top half has the number 1 centered, and then underneath the one is the name of chapter 1. So 3 pages in, we have one-half of one page.

And after every chapter ends, we have another blank page. And this pattern repeats throughout.

192 pages is about...67 pages of actual writing, most of it likely just made up stories nobody can confirm or deny, and none of it interesting.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)

27 Raggity Karine was a habitual lier

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 06:34 PM (+qU29)

28 "Long past WHEN IT COUNTS!!"

so true, and of so many things, too

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:34 PM (kHop/)

29 The bidens nauseate me.



Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:34 PM (W2Pud)

30 She was cute as a pumpkin head, now, she looks like her fat felon sisters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (XwyaG)
---
She was quite cute.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)

31 She can do bird hands and crazy eyes at the same time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:35 PM (XwyaG)

32 Pretty telling about the state of our legal system when Hunter flat out admits that if Harris had won a pardon wouldn't have been necessary. There's no doubt of his guilt on any of the charges but he would never have paid a price with a Democrat president.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 06:35 PM (viF8m)

33 Puppet Show

And

Book Tour

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 22, 2025 06:35 PM (5yDGQ)

34 Remember when they tried to announce her replacement and she pulled the Black Lesbian Uno Reverse on them and basically said, 'I'm not leaving and I dare you to fire me'.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 22, 2025 06:35 PM (lCHt6)

35 Gaslighting. It's on the menu. The all-day menu. The only thing on the menu.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 06:36 PM (wVcYX)

36 I smoke two rocks in the morning . . .
Posted by: Hunter! at October 22, 2025 06:33 PM (p/J4D)
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I smoke more before breakfast than many men will in their entire lives!

Posted by: Hunty B at October 22, 2025 06:36 PM (krQz2)

37 I liked her more as a live-action red-headed golliwog.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:36 PM (1Nv0l)

38 The male attraction to KJP and AOC--one of the things I still don't get about AoS even after all of these years.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:37 PM (TN0g+)

39 She found a way to be even less appealing.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)

40 And, I'm betting there isn't even any Minotaur Milking.
---
New meaning to "8 maids a-milking."

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)

41 Kamala/Karine 2028 -- Two Winos and Whiners for One!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:37 PM (BO/19)

42 Curiously, there doesn't seem to be any record of the amount of KJP's book advance.

Remember the rules: real authors have to repay a portion of their advance if the book doesn't sell well, politicians never do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 06:38 PM (xTIDn)

43 Psaki knew which dicks to put out for to keep her career alive.

Carpet muncher Latrine didn't figure out that out. More guys in power than lesbos.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:38 PM (QGLzn)

44 I for one am surprised at the conviction and anger by coke-head Delanites. Harrump!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 06:38 PM (mlg/3)

45 Which white dude failed to position Karine for success this time?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (BO/19)

46 She's culturally appropriating white girl hair.

Posted by: jsg at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (VM+VC)

47 38 The male attraction to KJP and AOC--one of the things I still don't get about AoS even after all of these years.
Posted by: Crusader

======

Attraction only in a certain sense. I would put up with the inane dinner conversation for one reason, and one reason only.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (1Nv0l)

48 "Which white dude failed to position Karine for success this time?"

All of them.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (vFG9F)

49 willowing:

282 So, is Luigi a trOnz=adjacent "ally", like Charlie Kirk's assassin?

I guess that would depend on whether or not Luigi LIKED being beaten up by them.
Posted by: Pete in Texas
--------------------------------

Or is beaten up a euphemism for something else?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (XwyaG)

50 All Leftists think they are a victim of some sort . Never take responsibility and it's always someone else's fault

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (EYmYM)

51
is this just straight graft and money laundering?
Posted by: garrett

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

I'm guessing it gives her a line on her resume and maybe gets her another $50-100k on her next job. Consulting? Teaching? Journalizing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (ldc7S)

52 31 She can do bird hands and crazy eyes at the same time.

LOL! now that's a real qualification!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (kHop/)

53 What a Pissoir

Posted by: Ted Striker at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (9mQ3m)

54 29 The bidens nauseate me.



Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:34 PM (W2Pud)

I'm not sure that is a potent enough word to describe it.

The stench of evil that wafts off all of them is enough to produce projectile vomit.

Closer?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (urtE/)

55 37 I liked her more as a live-action red-headed golliwog.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:36 PM (1Nv0l)

I guess it hasn't exactly been a cakewalk for her...
https://youtu.be/vijqldMQkVs&t=18s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (ynpvh)

56 Who thinks these books are good idea?

Or is this just straight graft and money laundering?
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:26 PM (FCi/W)

Well, graft and money-laundering are good ideas, if you are the beneficiary.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (8zz6B)

57 And, I'm betting there isn't even any Minotaur Milking.
---
New meaning to "8 maids a-milking."
Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)

What was the verse for the maids churning butter?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (wVcYX)

58 48 "Which white dude failed to position Karine for success this time?"

All of them.
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:39 PM (vFG9F)

She probably couldn't be successful in a truck stop bathroom.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:41 PM (urtE/)

59 We get around.

Posted by: the ahl al-zutt at October 22, 2025 06:41 PM (p/J4D)

60 KJP was a one.
Psaki was a zero.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 06:41 PM (T1QkV)

61
How many phone calls do you think that Joe had to make to get him in there?
------

Only took one to get him on the Board of Amtrak. I mean, he had the background and experience, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 06:41 PM (XeU6L)

62 40 And, I'm betting there isn't even any Minotaur Milking.
---
New meaning to "8 maids a-milking."

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)

Wait until those 10 lords start leaping...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 06:41 PM (ynpvh)

63 I guess it hasn't exactly been a cakewalk for her...
https://youtu.be/vijqldMQkVs&t=18s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

====

TIL...

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:42 PM (1Nv0l)

64 53 What a Pissoir

Posted by: Ted Striker at October 22, 2025 06:40 PM (9mQ3m)

Her memoir?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 06:42 PM (ynpvh)

65 KJP looked like a high school glee-club senior the whole time.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 06:32 PM (p/J4D)

She always seemed to me to be trying to keep her cool while her eyes were panicked that nobody believed her bullshit.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:43 PM (urtE/)

66 Tim Miller: "Biden talked way less to the press than Donald Trump does."

Karine Jean-Pierre: "That's not true…

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

Trump literally gave more & longer (by orders of magnitude) press conferences and media interviews during his first month in Office 2.0 than F. Joe Mugabe get throughout his entire 4-year derelict disaster.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (BO/19)

67 60 KJP was a one.
Psaki was a zero.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 06:41 PM (T1QkV)

Hunter rated her a coke zero...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (ynpvh)

68
"Which white dude failed to position Karine for success this time?"

All of them.
Posted by: fd

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

Please guard your nose. She is literally trying to make that case. In 2025, having served in the White House as a foreign-born Black lesbian whose former partner is a prominent lesbian of color at a major news org.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (ldc7S)

69 "...forthcoming book."
_____________________

The self-importance is strong in these ones. All these "important" people writing books is insulting to all us "unimportant" people who just happen to be exceedingly more qualified for the positions they held. Harris, Jean-Pierre, Karl. These are unexceptional people who actually believe they qualify to lecture the rest of us by convincing themselves that there are actually people out there who are interested in what they say, beyond busting on them for outright stupidity.

It's like being tutored by the dumbest kid in the class.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (dIske)

70 I confess I had to scroll down to remind myself of her real name. She has been "Latrine John Pissoir" for as long as I can remember.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (1Nv0l)

71 no allegedly-female leftist can ever be anything but a yuge zero.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:45 PM (kHop/)

72 whose former partner is a prominent lesbian of color at a major news org.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (ldc7S)

Don Lemon ?

Posted by: jsg at October 22, 2025 06:45 PM (VM+VC)

73 Speaking of books, I was volunteering at a local library book sale recently and one of the books I was straightening was Bolton's book "I was in the Room". This was about 2 days after the indictment. I laughed but didn't even spend the $1 to buy it.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 06:45 PM (kanec)

74 Well, nice to have it on record, I suppose

@theblaze 11m
DHS probe confirms Biden's FEMA refused aid to Trump-supporting disaster survivors http://dlvr.it/TNqk00

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 06:45 PM (mlg/3)

75 KJP looked like a high school glee-club senior the whole time.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 06:32 PM (p/J4D)

She always seemed to me to be trying to keep her cool while her eyes were panicked that nobody believed her bullshit.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:43 PM (urtE/)


Narrator: Nobody did, in fact, believe her bullshit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 06:46 PM (wVcYX)

76 It's like being tutored by the dumbest kid in the class.
Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (dIske)

That's what all of Biden's press conferences were. They just kept repeating the lies over and over as if we were toddlers who weren't listening carefully or something. They really believed they were the smartest people in the world and still don't understand why we didn't buy their crap.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:46 PM (urtE/)

77 Insanely, she claims that the broken White House she's speaking of is the Trump White House. But obviously she cannot offer an "insider's look" at that.

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

# of cells in an amoeba > # of her neurons capable of firing

Single-Digit IQ

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (BO/19)

78 Is everyone as sick as I am of hearing her tell us she's a black lesbian? Who gives one fat rat's ass? Of course, those are her only qualifications, but still.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (urtE/)

79 I would not pay her to talk.
I have a thing for black girls.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (T1QkV)

80 Not a fairy tale. Psaki came home from the nuke talks in Paris pregnant. By whom? How do you think she is still getting sinecure jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (QGLzn)

81 38 The male attraction to KJP and AOC--one of the things I still don't get about AoS even after all of these years.
Posted by: Crusader


Something something
Putting your dick in crazy
Something

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:48 PM (W2Pud)

82 "76 It's like being tutored by the dumbest kid in the class.
Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 06:44 PM (dIske)

That's what all of Biden's press conferences were. They just kept repeating the lies over and over as if we were toddlers who weren't listening carefully or something. They really believed they were the smartest people in the world and still don't understand why we didn't buy their crap.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:46 PM (urtE/) "

really, isn't that every demonrat press conference?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:48 PM (kHop/)

83 How do you think she is still getting sinecure jobs?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (QGLzn)

Sold her soul to the devil?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (urtE/)

84 I was shocked Raggity Karine was in her 40s, thought for sure 25 tops

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (+qU29)

85 > KJP was a one.

Pardon?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (Yp6az)

86
It's funny, everyone says she sucked at that job, but in a crazy way, I thought she was perfect at it. Her job was to lie and deny while keeping her composure and speaking in complete sentences. To frustrate seekers of facts. Success. To put a DEI face on a disastrous administration. Success.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (ldc7S)

87 >>> 80 Not a fairy tale. Psaki came home from the nuke talks in Paris pregnant. By whom? How do you think she is still getting sinecure jobs?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (QGLzn)

How many of the "men" present would have had sufficient testosterone to get that job done?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (ULPxl)

88 Harris and KJP both write books dumping on Dems. The only political career they might have now would be with the Dem Socialists. Who in the Dem party would want to risk working with either one of them?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (8RjCi)

89 Tim Miller: "Biden talked way less to the press than Donald Trump does."

Karine Jean-Pierre: "That's not true…

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

Mr. Barnard: Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!

Karine Jean-Pierre: What?

Mr. Barnard: Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, malodorous, pervert!!!

Karine Jean-Pierre: Look, I CAME HERE FOR AN ARGUMENT, I'm not going to just stand...!!

Mr. Barnard: OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse.

Karine Jean-Pierre: Oh, I see, well, that explains it.

Mr. Barnard: Ah yes, you want room 12A, Just along the corridor. [stupid git!]

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 06:50 PM (wVcYX)

90 really, isn't that every demonrat press conference?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:48 PM (kHop/)

Well, if they aren't spouting shit, they are putting cheese on raw hamburgers.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:50 PM (urtE/)

91 84 I was shocked Raggity Karine was in her 40s, thought for sure 25 tops
Posted by: Skip

===========

Black don't crack.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:50 PM (1Nv0l)

92 Leftwing media is dedicated to maintaining the lie. Never give up the con as a way of life .

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 06:50 PM (T1QkV)

93 "Psaki came home from the nuke talks in Paris pregnant. By whom?"


/whistles while nonchalantly sidling away

Posted by: Hunter at October 22, 2025 06:50 PM (i0F8b)

94 I guess it hasn't exactly been a cakewalk for her...
https://youtu.be/vijqldMQkVs&t=18s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OrH_Kgtx_0

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:51 PM (krQz2)

95 87 >>> 80 Not a fairy tale. Psaki came home from the nuke talks in Paris pregnant. By whom? How do you think she is still getting sinecure jobs?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (QGLzn)

How many of the "men" present would have had sufficient testosterone to get that job done?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (ULPxl)

Check the AoSHQ Style Guide please. The correct response is "Not with Ace's dick!"

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:51 PM (urtE/)

96 KJP was a one.

Pardon?
------

Yeah, I don't know why we had to pretend we needed something other than a 1-10 scale. There are no zeroes, and in truth there are no 10s.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:51 PM (TN0g+)

97 How many of the "men" present would have had sufficient testosterone to get that job done?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

=========

It's catch-22. Anyone with sufficient testosterone wouldn't touch her with a barge pole. I'm betting on the turkey baster.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 06:52 PM (1Nv0l)

98 DHS probe confirms Biden's FEMA refused aid to Trump-supporting disaster survivors http://dlvr.it/TNqk00
Posted by: weft cut-loop
--------

For the Left, that was the morally correct thing to do. And more importantly, politically shrewd.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 06:52 PM (XeU6L)

99 >>>78 Is everyone as sick as I am of hearing her tell us she's a black lesbian? Who gives one fat rat's ass? Of course, those are her only qualifications, but still.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK
--------------

Not me.
I only see her when ace or a commenter posts a link, otherwise she doesn't exist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:52 PM (XwyaG)

100 Never found KJP attractive in the least.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 06:53 PM (abIsI)

101 Dash cam video from 18-wheeler that caused horrific fatal wrecks in CA. Driver was a 21-year-old, but authorities are not giving out any other info:

https://tinyurl.com/2vfdbkw5

Apologies if someone has already posted this.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 06:53 PM (3ImbR)

102 98 DHS probe confirms Biden's FEMA refused aid to Trump-supporting disaster survivors http://dlvr.it/TNqk00
Posted by: weft cut-loop
--------

For the Left, that was the morally correct thing to do. And more importantly, politically shrewd.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 06:52 PM (XeU6L)

How to win friends and influence people.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:53 PM (urtE/)

103 Pathetic: Indiana RINOS Refuse to Redistrict to Add a New Republican US Congressional Seat – Republicans Hold 39-10 Majority in Indiana Senate!


The GOP is not a serious party.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 06:54 PM (abIsI)

104 Psaki was fucking Kerry and she made sure she had a gig after her State Dept job was gone.

I followed her and Nuland for 8 years like a like friggin coon hound.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:54 PM (QGLzn)

105 Megyn jumped on KJP's case with "does she ever not mention she's a black lesbian"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 06:54 PM (8RjCi)

106 Latrine should go back to her Little Orphan Annie haircut. It was a much better look for her.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 06:55 PM (3ImbR)

107
It's going to be fun when Jill's and Joe's books come out. I think it could even have a teensy effect on Pete Buttigieg's 2028 bid.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:55 PM (ldc7S)

108 101 Dash cam video from 18-wheeler that caused horrific fatal wrecks in CA. Driver was a 21-year-old, but authorities are not giving out any other info:

https://tinyurl.com/2vfdbkw5

Apologies if someone has already posted this.
Posted by: IrishEi


BREAKING: Identity of 21-Year-Old Semi-Truck Driver Who Killed Three People in Fiery SoCal Crash Released: Jashanpreet Singh

Immigration status unknown.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 06:55 PM (abIsI)

109 GP:
After public pressure, the identity of the 21-year-old semi-truck driver who killed three people on a Southern California freeway on Tuesday was released: Jashanpreet Singh

Singh’s immigration status is not known at this time.

Three people were killed and several others were severely injured after the driver of a semi-truck plowed into vehicles on a freeway in Ontario, California, on Tuesday.

Eyewitnesses said the collision created a massive fireball after the driver failed to stop as traffic slowed down.
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Jashanpreet Singh, eh? I wonder if he's from the New Bedford Singhs?

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)

110 https://tinyurl.com/2vfdbkw5

Apologies if someone has already posted this.
Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 06:53 PM (3ImbR)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, preserve us. The nonchalant evil around us is astounding.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:56 PM (urtE/)

111 @105

>>Megyn jumped on KJP's case with "does she ever not mention she's a black lesbian"

Homosexuals are the Vegans of Crossfitters.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 06:56 PM (+t/xu)

112 BREAKING: Identity of 21-Year-Old Semi-Truck Driver Who Killed Three People in Fiery SoCal Crash Released: Jashanpreet Singh

Immigration status unknown.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 06:55 PM (abIsI)
---
I bet you it's Name Not Given!

Fuck that guy!

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:57 PM (krQz2)

113 She looks like a toilet brush. I suppose working in a toilet like the Biden Whitehouse does that to you.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 06:57 PM (IifOV)

114
https://tinyurl.com/2vfdbkw5

Posted by: IrishEi

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

And the "Sandhu Trucking" website is nothing more than a stock image and a Contact form. Any chance they're a CDL mill?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:57 PM (ldc7S)

115 Jashanpreet Singh, eh? I wonder if he's from the New Bedford Singhs?
Posted by: Crusader


Turban or dot?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 06:57 PM (abIsI)

116 Not a fairy tale. Psaki came home from the nuke talks in Paris pregnant. By whom? How do you think she is still getting sinecure jobs?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (QGLzn)

How many of the "men" present would have had sufficient testosterone to get that job done?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM


Pretty sure there was alcohol and coke involved. As hunter biden said after a day filled with snorting coke he would bang anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 06:57 PM (0N4FZ)

117 Is Senile Joe still making the odd public appearance or has he been institionalized?
Oh do we only have KJP's word that she's lesbian or is there film?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 06:58 PM (kTd/k)

118 I followed her and Nuland for 8 years like a like friggin coon hound.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:54 PM (QGLzn)

They all have the morals of an alley cat.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 06:58 PM (urtE/)

119 I think I'll just wait for the puppet show.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 06:59 PM (Q1uY4)

120 That dashcam video of the illegal trucker crashing into cars in front of him without slowing down is terrifying. Whatever state illegally issued that illegal son of a bitch a CDL should face criminal charges.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:59 PM (TN0g+)

121
Pathetic: Indiana RINOS Refuse to Redistrict to Add a New Republican US Congressional Seat – Republicans Hold 39-10 Majority in Indiana Senate!


The GOP is not a serious party.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

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

Do they provide anything approaching a rationale?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:59 PM (ldc7S)

122 I'm watching last night's Gutfeld. Talking about the Louvre heist:

Gutfeld: "You know who's behind this? Macron's wife!"

Tyrus: "Does she have the balls for something like that?"

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 22, 2025 07:00 PM (kpS4V)

123 Pathetic: Indiana RINOS Refuse to Redistrict to Add a New Republican US Congressional Seat – Republicans Hold 39-10 Majority in Indiana Senate!


The GOP is not a serious party.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

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

Do they provide anything approaching a rationale?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Not who we are?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:00 PM (abIsI)

124
Whatever state illegally issued that illegal son of a bitch a CDL should face criminal charges.
Posted by: Crusader

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

Supposedly, Sean Duffy has cut off a whopping $40mil (enough to fill in a few pot holes) because Cali doesn't have an English proficiency requirement for a CDL. He and Bondi need to sit down and figure out a way to do more.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:01 PM (ldc7S)

125 Latrine John-Pissoir's...

That reminds me, where did I put that short little toilet brush...

Posted by: t-bird at October 22, 2025 07:01 PM (upeQk)

126 Gutfeld: "You know who's behind this? Macron's wife!"

Tyrus: "Does she have the balls for something like that?"
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 22, 2025 07:00 PM (kpS4V)

Yeah, that one almost made me spit out my cocktail. But I'm not into alcohol abuse.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 07:01 PM (urtE/)

127 Her job was to play dumb, and she was a natural. She was preternatural. She was The Natural.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at October 22, 2025 07:02 PM (YwWCT)

128 So, how much money does KJP get from "writing" this book?

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 07:02 PM (Oy/m2)

129 Psaki was fucking Kerry and she made sure she had a gig after her State Dept job was gone.
I followed her and Nuland for 8 years like a like friggin coon hound.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:54 PM (QGLzn)
~~~~~

Wow! Gross.

I remember seeing a picture of Psaki in a pink Ushanka in Russia with Kerry. But never suspected...ugh, just the thought.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 07:02 PM (3ImbR)

130 Did the Louvre robbery involve a hot female cat burglar in something skin tight?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (kTd/k)

131 Not a fairy tale. Psaki came home from the nuke talks in Paris pregnant. By whom? How do you think she is still getting sinecure jobs?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 06:47 PM (QGLzn)
---
There is something insidiously incestuous about the DC crowd. Everyone is married to everyone else. Or boning them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (IBQGV)

132
By the way, is Hunter in the clear now? All pardoned and legal and on his merry way?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (ldc7S)

133 Do they provide anything approaching a rationale?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia



Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate say they don’t currently have the votes needed to pursue a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map — a setback for Gov. Mike Braun and national Republicans who have been pushing for new lines ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle.

“The votes aren’t there for redistricting,” said Molly Swigart, spokeswoman for the Indiana Senate Republican caucus, in a statement Wednesday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (abIsI)

134 I sent 30$ to Winsome. Now, that harridan traitor Susan Collins is looking for some cash. Nope.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (Bbhox)

135 Turban or dot?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 06:57 PM (abIsI)

Turban, for certain. And "Sandhu" is a Sikh name, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 07:04 PM (8zz6B)

136 60
'KJP was a one.
Psaki was a zero.'

I'd bang Peppermint Patties a lot more willingly than that little goblin.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 07:04 PM (fd80v)

137 tcn, it was all about securing a high paid position and the power that comes with it. These people wouldn't know about morals if it
bit them in the ass.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:06 PM (QGLzn)

138 Ginger is a no go.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:06 PM (Bbhox)

139
I thought we were all done looking at Kaream Liar Pissant!

Oh well. I know how to scroll past disturbing stuff.

I posted a prayer request this morning for Smash and MegaRoy. MegaRoy had an allergic reaction to the three year shot the vet gives every 12 months for all the so called vaccine shit the government pushes at our pets. Smash thought he was dying and I'm on the road for business and not there.

Good news, MegaRoy is drinking water and has had a little food. Walked around and used the litter box although he hasn't shat since Monday morning.

Smash is better now that MegaRoy is obviously feeling better.

Horde sourced prayers work. Thank you all.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 22, 2025 07:06 PM (Dy1+e)

140 John Graham has won the annual World's Biggest Liar title five times. Held annually in November at The Bridge Inn, Santon BridgeUK. Festival of Fibs.

KJP could give this guy a work over.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:06 PM (abIsI)

141 It's funny, everyone says she sucked at that job, but in a crazy way, I thought she was perfect at it. Her job was to lie and deny while keeping her composure and speaking in complete sentences. To frustrate seekers of facts. Success. To put a DEI face on a disastrous administration. Success.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:49 PM (ldc7S)

Only, none of it was a success. Everyone could see through her lies. Not just being a bad liar, but being utterly incompetent, deer in the headlights.

The fact she thinks anyone anywhere in the world thinks she did a good job...woof.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 07:06 PM (D1vbu)

142 GP:
Singh was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. Other charges are pending.

Tuesday’s horrific accident comes as California is under fire for giving Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL) to illegal aliens.

Investigators found that one in four commercial driver’s licenses issued in California were improperly issued to non US citizens, including illegal aliens.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 07:07 PM (TN0g+)

143 If Psaki gives birth to a pfoal we'll know Kerry is the father.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 07:07 PM (kTd/k)

144 Mrs. F. finished 107 Days yesterday.

Her one word summary: laughable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:07 PM (IC093)

145 Did the Louvre robbery involve a hot female cat burglar in something skin tight?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (kTd/k)

An Octopussy crew of female circus acrobats.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 07:07 PM (wVcYX)

146 There is something insidiously incestuous about the DC crowd. Everyone is married to everyone else. Or boning them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (IBQGV)
~~~~~

Mark Simone frequently talks about this and says it is absolutely true.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 07:07 PM (3ImbR)

147 What the hell is Major League Fishing?

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:07 PM (Bbhox)

148
Psaki was fucking Kerry and she made sure she had a gig after her State Dept job was gone.
I followed her and Nuland for 8 years like a like friggin coon hound.
Posted by: Ben Had
~~~~~
Wow! Gross.
I remember seeing a picture of Psaki in a pink Ushanka in Russia with Kerry. But never suspected...ugh, just the thought.
Posted by: IrishEi

Thank God Kerry didn't knock her up. I need to get blind drunk and kill those brain cells with malice that imagined the little horse faced gingers running around.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 22, 2025 07:08 PM (Dy1+e)

149
So, how much money does KJP get from "writing" this book?
Posted by: dantesed

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Good question. Even the trade rags aren't providing the size of the advance. It might be embarrassingly small. These books are getting tedious.

And she doesn't reveal anything. Megyn Kelly guessed the identity of Anita Dunn, but Karine's book has no payoffs for the provocative title and hints about insider info.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:08 PM (ldc7S)

150 Feds should set up road blocks at every border crossing out of California to check the DL’s.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (Bbhox)

151 Investigators found that one in four commercial driver’s licenses issued in California were improperly issued to non US citizens, including illegal aliens.
------

Betcha they are "Real" IDs as well, thus freeing this fine folks to fly wherever they wish.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (TN0g+)

152 What the hell is Major League Fishing?
Posted by: Accomack


It's like Major League Chessing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (abIsI)

153 “The votes aren’t there for redistricting,” said Molly Swigart, spokeswoman for the Indiana Senate Republican caucus, in a statement Wednesday.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:03 PM (abIsI)
~~~~~

Rumor on X is that Pence is sabotaging this.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (3ImbR)

154 192 Pages.

And, I'm betting there isn't even any Minotaur Milking.
Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:27 PM (FCi/W)


It's a book about the Biden White House. I wouldn't be so sure of that.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (AIhUY)

155 Jashanpreet Singh, eh? I wonder if he's from the New Bedford Singhs?
Posted by: Crusader
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My first thought was Cape Cod.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 07:10 PM (XeU6L)

156 Bif, he did knock her up. That is what she is trading on now.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:11 PM (QGLzn)

157 Feds should set up road blocks at every border crossing out of California to check the DL’s.
Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (Bbhox)
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When I was driving to Texas last week via Oklahoma, I couldn't help but wonder how many of the truckers driving around me had an illegal CDL...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:11 PM (IBQGV)

158 Double header of action: fishing and cornhole

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:11 PM (Bbhox)

159 I amazed Hunter can talk that long without mentioning the many Health Benefits of Crack Cocaine.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 07:12 PM (FCi/W)

160
Rumor on X is that Pence is sabotaging this.
Posted by: IrishEi


That figures.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:12 PM (abIsI)

161 No one can be surprised Leftifornia was giving out truck driver licenses to Illegals

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 07:12 PM (+qU29)

162 158 Double header of action: fishing and cornhole
Posted by: Accomack


I think you could do ice fishing and curling.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:13 PM (abIsI)

163 Psaki is married to some Dem apparatchik. The thought of her bumping uglies with Kerry puts me off food

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 07:13 PM (8RjCi)

164 “Identify Politics” is pure poison. Maybe it wasn’t intended to be. Maybe.

It forces everyone to come up with lame excuses to cover for incompetence or corruption. Word salads and thought ending cliches. While everyone can see an individual installed in a position they are not qualified for. It is really quite corrosive, and various flavors of it being fielded for 50 years running.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 07:13 PM (OZ5rj)

165 What the hell is Major League Fishing?
Posted by: Accomack

It's like Major League Chessing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 07:09 PM (abIsI)

But not as captivating as Major League Yabbos.

Posted by: Brother Otter, Rush Chairman, Delta House at October 22, 2025 07:13 PM (wVcYX)

166 Three people were killed and several others were severely injured after the driver of a semi-truck plowed into vehicles on a freeway in Ontario, California, on Tuesday.

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An everyday occurance in LA according to CHiPs

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 22, 2025 07:14 PM (+GW0+)

167 " ... three year shot the vet gives every 12 months ... "

that might be the most "here we are in the 21st century" thing I've heard today

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 07:14 PM (kHop/)

168 That toilet brush is full of poop.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at October 22, 2025 07:14 PM (WQDw6)

169 If I was Trump I would make a big deal about Hunter's pardon, rambling in his Trumpian way about how he would like to go after Hunter for all the crimes he did and the damage it caused the world, but Joe probably was cognizant of what he was doing when he signed this pardon, and that proof is there that it was physically signed by Joe...

...UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER PARDONS!

Posted by: Minuteman at October 22, 2025 07:15 PM (47/pr)

170 Harf got to be press secretary at State because Psaki was pregnant.

Wanna talk boobs. Look at the pictures of Psaki before she stepped down from State and after the 5 months of those treaty talks.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:16 PM (QGLzn)

171 semi-truck, semi-auto, bad bad bad.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 07:16 PM (UjBI4)

172 glad to hear MegaRoy is surviving it!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 07:17 PM (kHop/)

173 I take this as meaning Kamala didn’t blow hunter enough. He probably has low expectations and she failed at meeting even that.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 07:17 PM (3uBP9)

174 I would comment but I called a lid, Jack!

Posted by: Joe Biden. Miss me yet? at October 22, 2025 07:17 PM (47/pr)

175
Everyone could see through her lies. Not just being a bad liar, but being utterly incompetent, deer in the headlights.

Posted by: El Mariachi

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You and I could, but the left adored her. Did she ever get a tough question from anyone other than Peter Doocy?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:18 PM (ldc7S)

176
>>Insanely, she claims that the broken White House she's speaking of is the Trump White House. But obviously she cannot offer an "insider's look" at that.

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I'm going to force myself to watch the vids here. I missed that insane claim. I need more staring and head-shaking exercise today.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:20 PM (ldc7S)

177 Wait

Hunter knocked up Jen Psaki?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 07:20 PM (W2Pud)

178 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:20 PM (Zz0t1)

179 Technically speaking, she always reminded me of a Scrubby Bubble, the cartoon character on some brand of counter or toilet cleaner, something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 07:21 PM (TEI8e)

180 >>Insanely, she claims that the broken White House she's speaking of is the Trump White House. But obviously she cannot offer an "insider's look" at that.

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

I'm going to force myself to watch the vids here. I missed that insane claim. I need more staring and head-shaking exercise today.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Just heard it. Insane.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:21 PM (ldc7S)

181 Just had to slap down my lib idiot friends droning on about the "illegal" renovation at the WH

One is an architect so feels he has special license

When student loans were forgiven even though the Supreme Court said it was illegal they were silent so spare me lectures on illegal renovations

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:21 PM (CTokg)

182 You will never convince me Hunter didn't bang Jill.

He hates her now because she drug her teeth one too many times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)

183 Guy cracked Siri up...

https://tinyurl.com/yx4rvamz

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 07:22 PM (TGPs7)

184 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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You might want to rethink your claim.

We've been speculating about who knocked up Jen Psaki...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:22 PM (IBQGV)

185 Insanely, she claims that the broken White House she's speaking of is the Trump White House. But obviously she cannot offer an "insider's look" at that.


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


With that statement, the only insiders look she can give is the inside of her own colon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:23 PM (Zz0t1)

186
Why are we trash-talking Jen Psaki? She's married. Was she single when she came back from Paris pregnant?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:24 PM (ldc7S)

187 Maybe Kamala doesn’t even need to blow people any more and has people who do that for her, fluffers, if you will. But regardless, hunter was not impressed.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

188 We've been speculating about who knocked up Jen Psaki...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 07:22 PM (IBQGV)


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


As they say, timing is everything. Even BAD timing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 22, 2025 07:24 PM (Zz0t1)

189 Once watched an entire show of the National Rock Skipping Championship. A bunch of guys and I watched it after a round of golf. The ladies naturally thought we were idiots

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 07:25 PM (8RjCi)

190 nood



Cafe

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (3uBP9)

191 Once watched an entire show of the National Rock Skipping Championship. A bunch of guys and I watched it after a round of golf. The ladies naturally thought we were idiots
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There was a "tag" series that ran for awhile. One participant would be "it" and chase the other, and the other had a specific time goal he was trying to meet without being tagged. It was an indoor course and probably half the size of a basketball course with rails and other things to jump over or thru. It was more interesting than soccer...which is saying practically nothing.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (TN0g+)

192 Blonde Morticia, she was married at the time of the nuke talks in Paris. She left the State Dept spokesperson position after those talks. Why, go look at the pictures. I am not kidding, I followed her and Nuland every day for 8 years.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (QGLzn)

193 >>> Guy cracked Siri up...

https://tinyurl.com/yx4rvamz
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 07:22 PM (TGPs7)

That was legit amusing.

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 07:27 PM (q177U)

194 Marie Harf isn’t a real person, no way. It’s Dana Carvey in drag, pretty sure. I was gobsmacked the first time I heard her at the podium. It was like some 8th grade junior high chick, complete with “like, you know” and the rest of it. More disturbing is the mentality of people who hired her. Because they know what they are doing is dumb as hell, but it makes a mockery of the entire edifice. Audio or Radio announcers with goofy voices, when formerly they were hired based on a good voice. Or fat water buffalo adorning VS billboards. The idea is to cause offense, basically. I guess it’s working, so there’s that.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 07:28 PM (OrWo5)

195
Another particularly crazy central claim of her "book," aside from how badly Black lesbians born outside America are treated, is that the Dem party is too timid right now. Yes. They're not filing enough lawsuits (she literally says this), they're not standing up for LGBTQ people, they're not maximizing the astounding gains of the No Kings movement.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:28 PM (ldc7S)

196 You want to know why the major sports get paid billions for their games? Go look at what’s on the ESPN networks and CBS sports tonight.
Last night Kennesaw St played Florida International. Tonight, Middle Tennessee at Delaware.

Posted by: Accomack at October 22, 2025 07:28 PM (Bbhox)

197 Huh. Just saw a ewetub video of some twitch streamer dismissing her lawsuit alleging sexual assault against some other streamer- three years after he crashed and burned because of the allegations.

People are shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 07:29 PM (zZu0s)

198 120 That dashcam video of the illegal trucker crashing into cars in front of him without slowing down is terrifying. Whatever state illegally issued that illegal son of a bitch a CDL should face criminal charges.
Posted by: Crusader
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It appears that the lane to his left was open. _ No attempt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 07:30 PM (XwyaG)

199
Who thinks these books are good idea?

Or is this just straight graft and money laundering?
Posted by: garrett

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Megyn thinks she's angling for a spot on The View. There's an awful lot of crazy, jobless women looking for that slot. I bet Stacey Abrams is one of them. Wendy Davis. Some of those fired lawyers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 07:31 PM (ldc7S)

200 So Beau Biden's family (kids) likely gets VA disability award - even though cuvilian drs. had denied a relationship with his brain cancer - but does Hunter also get VA disability for being crazy as a sh*thouse rat exacerbated from his brief military service?

After all, Dad, the POTATO.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 07:31 PM (NFX2v)

201 Just for the record, the Indiana Senate has a GOP supermajority.

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202 Gavin Newsom Rocked by Poll Showing Him Losing Dem. Nomination Drive to Kamala Harris

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Left-Wing Tiger Beat Murderer Luigi Mangione Was Beaten Up by Seven "Lady Boys" on a Thailand Trip Months Before He Killed the UnitedHealthCare CEO
Plus: Susan Collins' Challenger Has a Nazi Tattoo

Did Luigi get a blow to the head after blowing a ladyboy?


Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.

The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

In one eyebrow-raising message, Mangione claimed he had been beaten up by seven "ladyboys" -- a colloquial term for transgender women -- in Bangkok and shared a photo of his battered and scratched arm, according to texts reviewed by the outlet.

The Ivy League-educated tech whiz set off on a solo trip abroad in early 2024, befriending soccer player Christian Sacchini and an unidentified companion along the way.

Sacchini, who met Mangione at a Bangkok pub in March, told the publication the accused killer initially talked about video games and Pokemon before veering into a rant about how "effed up" the US health care system is compared to Thailand.


"He couldn't believe it," Sacchini said of Mangione's shock at the low cost of an MRI in the Southeast Asian nation.


...

Fellow travelers, locals, and Mangione's own notes suggest he went from craving human connection at the start of his trip to isolating himself, while obsessing over how to make a dramatic statement about injustice over insurance coverage, the Times reported.

Unrelated, but, in a way, completely related:

The would-be challenger to Susan Collins, a Democrat who admitted that he's a "communist" and who hates the country and all "white people" in his many lunatic Reddit postings, turns out to have a Nazi SS "Totenkopf" skull tattoo on his left moob.

He says he was "very inebriated" when he got the Nazi tattoo.

Yeah, that should cover it.

Graham Platner, a Marine vet who's running for a US Senate seat in Maine, said he was "very inebriated" when he got a tattoo linked to Nazism while on leave in Croatia nearly 20 years ago and insists he's "not a secret Nazi."

The liberal candidate, 41, went out of his way to disclose the controversial skull tattoo on the right side of his chest as he shared an embarrassing video that shows him singing in only briefs at a wedding celebration for his brother.

The Democratic oyster farmer, in an apparent attempt to get ahead of bad press, said he was on leave with fellow Marines in Croatia in 2007 when he got the questionable ink, which appears to resemble the "Totenkopf" -- an image adopted as a symbol by Hitler's Schutzstaffel, or SS.

"We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo," he explained on the "Pod Save America" show.

"We chose a terrifying-looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and, you know, skulls and crossbones are a pretty standard military thing, and we got those tattoos, and we all moved on with our lives," Platner explained.

Is that story possible? Sure. But here's the thing: the left is still insisting that Musk gave a Nazi salute and that everyone who gives the okay sign is flashing a White Power symbol.

So go f*** yourself, Nazi scum.

By the way, the left tells me that it's just and righteous to punch a Nazi.

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM




Comments

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1 So, it was a gangbang?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (ExV1e)

3 He seems like a fine upstanding citizen.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (urtE/)

4 Susan Collins should clock him with her left hook, once they get on a debate stage, and then lean in and say to the crowd "punch a Nazi!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (YfqPj)

5 He's lucky he didn't get his face scratched off. Thai ladyboys have long nails.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

6 He says he was "very inebriated" when he got the Nazi tattoo.

Imagine that's true. You got a tattoo you didn't want and realize it the next day.

Why does he still have it years later?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (sKqQm)

7 "Tiger Beat." LOL

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:23 PM (77rzZ)

8 So do you have to pay ladyboys to beat you in Thailand or is it free?

Asking for ah, uh, friend.

Posted by: David French at October 22, 2025 05:23 PM (sKqQm)

9 Wait, if you're paying, wouldn't you be getting blown?

It's like going over to someone else's house to clean their bathroom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

10 >>>Why does he still have it years later?

The left's Fake Nazi Hunters claim Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi because the name her parents gave her have the initials "S.S."

And this guy wants to say "My Totenkopf means nothing, it's just a lark."

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:23 PM (1wjle)

11 So he's more Maine than Marine

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (HYKHz)

12 This guy is one of my best buddies! We like to get drunk and hunt Republicans! Usually children, but still...

Posted by: Jay Jones, killah Virginia Attorney General at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (YfqPj)

13 ace, do you realize how ancient the tiger beat ref is?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (zZu0s)

14 Did he get a blow to the head after giving a blow to the head?

You might ask.

Posted by: eleven at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (aTgV0)

15 Lefties like NAZI stuff for the same reason they like the Handmaid stuff. It gets them aroused.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (sKqQm)

16 Well, if he was drunk, then no big deal about the deathshead tattoo. Who hasn't gotten a distinctive SS tattoo after a few Zimas?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (9FEtL)

17 >>>Wait, if you're paying, wouldn't you be getting blown?
It's like going over to someone else's house to clean their bathroom.

Going over to a strange man's house to clean is toilet is TIGHT!

Posted by: Tim Walz at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (1wjle)

18 For Loogie Manbone, it's probably part of the kink.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (PSEDc)

19 For the record getting drunk IS a Maine thing.

Getting NAZI tattoos not so much

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (sKqQm)

20 All the gay sites say Magione is bi or gay and of course lot of guys are saying they hooked up with him.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (EYmYM)

21 So Luigi, the hero of the reddit crowd, is possibly trans, or likes trans fake women?

This should deliver a blow to the crazy women sending him love letters and money.

Wild!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (6PCLE)

22 >>>13 ace, do you realize how ancient the tiger beat ref is?

it's gotta be 1978 *somewhere*

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (1wjle)

23 Japanese Schoolgirls for the win

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (Sco7b)

24 Is it wrong that I don’t GAF about Luigi and Thai ladyboys?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (Hkcdp)

25

everyone who gives the okay sign is flashing a White Power symbol.

https://youtu.be/QY9oWfkKt6A

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

26 Remember guys, never make out with your new Thai girlfriend until you've seen her fully naked.

Posted by: Listen to Tone Loc at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (sKqQm)

27 It isn't gay if she has skirt over her ladypenis

Posted by: David French at October 22, 2025 05:26 PM (sKqQm)

28 Japanese Schoolgirls for the win

Aren't they on to catgirls now?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

29 29th!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (36PRH)

30 All the gay sites say Magione is bi or gay and of course lot of guys are saying they hooked up with him.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (EYmYM)

So lib women's lust is about as well directed as at Liberace and George Michael.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (zZu0s)

31 21 So Luigi, the hero of the reddit crowd, is possibly trans, or likes trans fake women?

--
Probably

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (WL2lA)

32 "He couldn't believe it," Sacchini said of Mangione's shock at the low cost of an MRI in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Let me make sure I understand the story progression. He went to Thailand to have sex with seven men dressed like girls, they beat him up, he got an MRI, and the low cost of the MRI convinced him to go kill a medical claims CEO?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (YfqPj)

33 Trying to point out the Left's cognitive dissonance to a Lefty is like explaining diagraming sentences to an illiterate.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (EYmYM)

34 So Luigi is upset that Obamacare doesn't have a diagnostic code for "Getting beat up by Trannies". Well boo hoo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (8RjCi)

35 So lib women's lust is about as well directed as at Liberace and George Michael.

They also want Barky and Timothy Chaletee (sp?)

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)

36 If it was such a mistake why didn't he get it covered up?

Posted by: buzzion at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (3tZV2)

37 The thing about the drunken tattoo is: you have to know this symbol exists to get it, right? I am not familiar with all these various Nazi symbols and terms - who is? Apart from the ADL, I mean..,

Just weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (Hkcdp)

38 Two strikes against Taylor Lorenz, 1) she's at least a thousand years old**, 2) she's not a thai ladyboy.


** Carbon dating places her origin at over 10 million years in the past but being "gross and all dried up" limits the amount of carbon-14 available for detection.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (3uBP9)

39 So, this Platner guy was one of our Marines?

Yeah, well, thanks for your service, buddy, but we need fewer, nor more, left-wingers in politics.

The Tiger Beat reference, btw, is hilarious.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (mADJX)

40 My skull and bones tat is not a Totenkopf, but I must be a National Socialist. I mean, I'm pale and male.

Fuck their quadruple standards. He's a marine. I'm not impressed with this particular one.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (bgJ0E)

41 I've got four kitties surrounding me.

I fear they will beat me up if I don't feed them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (IBQGV)

42 20 All the gay sites say Magione is bi or gay and of course lot of guys are saying they hooked up with him.
Posted by: the way I see it


How many of these gays aren't drama queen attention sluts? We know from the Kavanaugh hearings and from Ford that women are capable of making up some shit for attention. (1,400 women in Kavanaugh's case, that dawg.) Pretty sure some gays are likewise capable.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (p/J4D)

43 "Is it wrong that I don’t GAF about Luigi and Thai ladyboys?
Posted by: Lizzy"


In a thread that's ABOUT that?

Posted by: eleven at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (aTgV0)

44 So, he never had the offensive tattoo removed in 20 years?

Well, that's odd.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (Oy/m2)

45 John Thune killed one of Trump's nominees over a "nazzie" text or tweet or whatever, which seemed like a silly stupid comment.

Like if someone here said "I love Hitler," is that the kind of thing anyone would take seriously? Or be worth ruining one's life over?

But sure, let's elect Dewey Crowe to the Senate.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (dGCAG)

46 I've got four kitties surrounding me.

I fear they will beat me up if I don't feed them.


Based on the video someone shared earlier make sure none of them are carrying a shotgun

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (sKqQm)

47 Sometimes when we're making out it rubs against my belly....

Posted by: Mac at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (1wjle)

48 No other state in the country has a higher prevalence of mental illness. At the same time, access to care in Oregon is improving.As one of her key campaign promises, Gov. Tina Kotek committed herself to battling the state’s persistent mental health challenges. A recent report suggests she still has work to do. More Oregonians struggle with mental health issues than ever before, according to Mental Health America’s newly released 2025 annual report—30% of the adult population.

Posted by: SMOD at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (Lz3jA)

49 My job has me around lots of veterans/retirees. To me, there is nothing more insufferable than left wing veterans. It just rubs wrong, and more often than not, they open their mouth and most immediately dislike them. A lefty vet is antithetical to calling yourself a veteran patriot. Thankfully the vast majority are with us good guys.

Posted by: Goat at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (4QBVB)

50 "I fear they will beat me up if I don't feed them."


That's the kink.

Posted by: eleven at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (aTgV0)

51 I am already tired of "Maine Kampf" ( as Daniel Grrrenfield from "Frontpage" Magazine referred to him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (looXz)

52 They also want Barky and Timothy Chaletee (sp?)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)

Oh, the kid they want to play James Bond. Which is just fucking hilarious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

53 38 she's not a thai ladyboy. - banana Dream

We don't really know that, do we?

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 05:30 PM (mADJX)

54 Is it wrong that I don’t GAF about Luigi and Thai ladyboys?
Posted by: Lizzy


The Style Guide recommends use of the term "a peanut sauce mince of ladyboys."

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)

55 I am already tired of "Maine Kampf" ( as Daniel Grrrenfield from "Frontpage" Magazine referred to him.

I give this name two thumbs up.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:30 PM (sKqQm)

56 >>>I am already tired of "Maine Kampf" ( as Daniel Grrrenfield from "Frontpage" Magazine referred to him.

lol!

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:30 PM (1wjle)

57 Oh, the kid they want to play James Bond. Which is just fucking hilarious.

He's not a bad actor but...he's a twink that was passed around Hollywood...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (sKqQm)

58 So, he never had the offensive tattoo removed in 20 years?

Well, that's odd.
Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (Oy/m2)

I had the last chapter of an L. Ron Hubbard novel tattooed on my penis. Back before I decided L. Ron Hubbard was a douchebag.

I'd have it removed, but it would cost too much.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (dGCAG)

59 I've got four kitties surrounding me.

I fear they will beat me up if I don't feed them.


Based on the video someone shared earlier make sure none of them are carrying a shotgun
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (sKqQm)
----
Hmmm. I don't where where the fifth one is...

Did something just go *click*?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (IBQGV)

60 By their nails? Or did they beat him up with their stunt cocks.

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (zeLd4)

61 But sure, let's elect Dewey Crowe to the Senate.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (dGCAG)

*golfclap for the reference*

Although I think the comparison is a bit insulting to Dewey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

62 Maine Kampf, lol

you know I had to read it twice because I just read "Maine" as "Mein"

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (1wjle)

63 I had the last chapter of an L. Ron Hubbard novel tattooed on my penis. Back before I decided L. Ron Hubbard was a douchebag.


Aren't his novels like 1000 pages each?

Posted by: 18-1 playing the straightman at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (sKqQm)

64 Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (p/J4D

Sure I believe the insane will say insane things and liars will lie. I'm just posting what I've read when you google up the ladyboy story.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (EYmYM)

65 No surprise Graham Planter also teaches gun tactics to antifa terrorist. Once again reminding the world that for almost 100 years, the nazis and commies have been partners, it's just that the commies in power have red washed their atrocities and their part in building and training Hitler's army.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (R6jXA)

66 I am already tired of "Maine Kampf" ( as Daniel Grrrenfield from "Frontpage" Magazine referred to him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Why? They deserve it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (mlg/3)

67 Timothy Chaletee (sp?)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)

I think Timothee Chalamet is actually straight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (looXz)

68 "In one eyebrow-raising message, Mangione claimed he had been beaten up by seven "ladyboys" -- a colloquial term for transgender women -- in Bangkok and shared a photo of his battered and scratched arm, according to texts reviewed by the outlet."


He did not get beaten up by the lady bois, he paid for sex with them and it got rough. Those tranny boi toys are seriously tough. I saw them back in 87 at Pattya beach having a kick boxing contest where they invited people from the crowd to fight them to win $$$. They ran out of volunteers after about 5 big guys got the $hit kicked out of them by the girly bois.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (0N4FZ)

69 >>>No surprise Graham Planter also teaches gun tactics to antifa terrorist.

darn I meant to add that. I'll add it to the sidebar.

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (1wjle)

70 64 Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (p/J4D

Sure I believe the insane will say insane things and liars will lie. I'm just posting what I've read when you google up the ladyboy story.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (EYmYM
Possible Hollywood epic!

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 05:33 PM (jgmnb)

71 He's lucky he didn't get his face scratched off. Thai ladyboys have long nails.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS?!

Posted by: pookysgirl, somewhat horrified at October 22, 2025 05:33 PM (Wt5PA)

72 Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (mlg/3)

I didn't say he didn't deserve it. I think he's a horrible person. I am just tired of the story and I suppose he'll be around till the midterms.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 05:34 PM (looXz)

73 *golfclap for the reference*

Although I think the comparison is a bit insulting to Dewey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

I've been rewatching the show. The gal who played Raylen's ex was an absolute smoke show.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:34 PM (dGCAG)

74 They also want Barky and Timothy Chaletee (sp?)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)
*
Oh, the kid they want to play James Bond. Which is just fucking hilarious.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025


***
Timothy was in some homoerotic drama film with Armie Hammer, "Illya" in the 2015 The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. That did not make we want to see it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:34 PM (omVj0)

75 My dad was a very young sailor, stationed in Pearl Harbor near the end of WWII. When he and his fellow teenage sailors went out and got drunk, they got tattoos that were Navy related. What said "Marine" to this guy when looking at that SS skull?

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 22, 2025 05:34 PM (ky7/T)

76 I had the last chapter of an L. Ron Hubbard novel tattooed on my penis. Back before I decided L. Ron Hubbard was a douchebag.

-----
Aren't his novels like 1000 pages each?
Posted by: 18-1 playing the straightman at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (sKqQm)

Lots of big words too.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)

77 The Democratic oyster farmer

So that’s what we’re calling them now?

Posted by: Clay at October 22, 2025 05:35 PM (HMdle)

78
"He couldn't believe it," Sacchini said of Mangione's shock at the low cost of an MRI in the Southeast Asian nation.

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

It's true. Lower costs all around (doctor and nurse salaries, facilities), currency exchange rates, government subsidies, economy of scale because Thailand is a medical tourism destination, and I guess a few other things. I wish we could straighten out our effed up system and get reasonable prices for routine things like MRIs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:35 PM (ldc7S)

79 "The liberal candidate, 41, went out of his way to disclose the controversial skull tattoo on the right side of his chest as he shared an embarrassing video that shows him singing in only briefs at a wedding celebration for his brother."

Sounds like he's a heavy drinker with a poor sense of judgement. That should disqualify him anyway. It won't. But it should.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (lFFaq)

80 Well, like I said yesterday. I had a totenkopf pin on a guitar strap for years. I got it in a store that sold pins, patches, etc. I thought it was a pirate thing, and nobody said anything about it ever, and the metal heads were like *toke* duude cool skull. Nobody ever said dude whats with the nazi shit? But yeah, since the left is always seeing shit that isn't there fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (snZF9)

81 I wish the only Luigi I’d ever heard of was the character in Mario Brothers… those games were fun. No ladyboys in Nintendo world

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (WdMlw)

82 >>> All the gay sites say Magione is bi or gay and of course lot of guys are saying they hooked up with him.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (EYmYM)

So lib women's lust is about as well directed as at Liberace and George Michael.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (zZu0s)


Chicks go crazy about the most obviously gayest dudes and will not broke conversation regarding the error of their ways. I remember telling gals back in the 90s that, yes George Michael is obviously gay and would not be interested in you and they would come back with "you're just jealous". Um... no that's not it, you're kinda missing the point here. They could not be moved.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

83 But what about Pete Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross?

--
Leftists Everywhere

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 05:37 PM (+t/xu)

84 Still funny that Thai ladyboys do NOT like being called trans anything.

Posted by: transmania is a Western thing at October 22, 2025 05:37 PM (TbWk/)

85 #32,
By George, I think he's got it!

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 05:37 PM (tubbA)

86 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:35 PM (ldc7S)

An American can retire there and live like a king. And you can get permanent residency by just opening up a large enough bank account and keeping a minimum amount in it. Last I was told it was 20k.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:37 PM (EYmYM)

87 Last time I was in Thailand my customer assigned me a female guide. I'm assuming it was a woman but despite being very attractive there was no way I was even going to take a chance. I would have had to commit sepuku if I had discovered a surprise penis.

It didn't help that she had an anglo nickname because her Thai name was all but unpronounceable to anglo. The nickname was Tom.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)

88 All the cool kids have an Ace skull and crossed swords.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

89 Wouldn't the more accurate term be Boyladies? Ladyboy would be the opposite direction correct me if I'm wrong.

Posted by: Goat at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (4QBVB)

90 Most women don't have gaydar.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (EYmYM)

91 All this scrutiny of things Democrat candidates said or did in the past is deeply troubling. These things happened years ago! What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Abigail Rodham Spanberger at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (qUkBO)

92 Let me make sure I understand the story progression. He went to Thailand to have sex with seven men dressed like girls, they beat him up, he got an MRI, and the low cost of the MRI convinced him to go kill a medical claims CEO?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (YfqPj)

I have to admit that medical treatment in Thailand is very affordable.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (g8Ew8)

93 This should deliver a blow to the crazy women sending him love letters and money.

Wild!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (6PCLE)

They are all fag hags anyway. Crushes on those they can never have. Nauseating.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (urtE/)

94 OT: I found out why Soc. Security sent me a one-time payment last week. Today I got a letter explaining that they hadn't credited my 2024 earnings to my records. They've been *underpaying* me since January. This one-time payment brings me up to date, and my benefit will have another $29 each month from now on.

I gotta say, SS may be slow, but they work things out without me having to prompt them (or even knowing that I should prompt them). A good thing. I'd hate to spend an hour on hold on the phone waiting to talk to somebody there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:39 PM (omVj0)

95 88 All the cool kids have an Ace skull and crossed swords.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (3uBP9
A paradox, that.

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 05:39 PM (jgmnb)

96 De boxcars!! De boxcars, boss!!!

Posted by: Nazi Tattoo at October 22, 2025 05:39 PM (krQz2)

97 I wish we could straighten out our effed up system and get reasonable prices for routine things like MRIs."

That's funny right there....

/obumbles

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 05:39 PM (tubbA)

98 92 Let me make sure I understand the story progression. He went to Thailand to have sex with seven men dressed like girls, they beat him up, he got an MRI, and the low cost of the MRI convinced him to go kill a medical claims CEO?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (YfqPj)

I have to admit that medical treatment in Thailand is very affordable.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (g8Ew

Well, in that light, it all makes perfect sense. /s

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:39 PM (urtE/)

99 But here's the thing: the left is still insisting that Musk gave a Nazi salute and that everyone who gives the okay sign is flashing a White Power symbol.
________
Another flashback to the Kavanaugh hearings. Remember the extremely hot girl sitting behind Kav, who was outed by our Fearless Press Corps for being a Nazi, because of the OK sign?

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 05:39 PM (s0JqF)

100 I've been rewatching the show. The gal who played Raylen's ex was an absolute smoke show.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:34 PM (dGCAG)

Yeah, she was. Much hotter than... the blonde who hooks up with Boyd later.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

101 88 All the cool kids have an Ace skull and crossed swords.
Posted by: banana Dream


Jeezoos, you really nailed that comment number, didn't ja?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 05:40 PM (mlg/3)

102 I had the last chapter of an L. Ron Hubbard novel tattooed on my penis. Back before I decided L. Ron Hubbard was a douchebag.

-----
Aren't his novels like 1000 pages each?
Posted by: 18-1 playing the straightman at October 22, 2025 05:31 PM (sKqQm)

Lots of big words too.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)

Got a projection map of the globe and flags of the world. Not sure what to do with all the remaining space.

Posted by: Complete works of Tolstoy maybe at October 22, 2025 05:40 PM (TbWk/)

103 Platner has also been part of just an idea of combat training a chapter of just an idea.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:40 PM (krQz2)

104 Chicks go crazy about the most obviously gayest dudes and will not broke conversation regarding the error of their ways. I remember telling gals back in the 90s that, yes George Michael is obviously gay and would not be interested in you and they would come back with "you're just jealous". Um... no that's not it, you're kinda missing the point here. They could not be moved.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

Earth girls are easy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:40 PM (snZF9)

105 100?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (WdMlw)

106 >>> Let me make sure I understand the story progression. He went to Thailand to have sex with seven men dressed like girls, they beat him up, he got an MRI, and the low cost of the MRI convinced him to go kill a medical claims CEO?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (YfqPj)


Ya know, in a way, this is the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, just slightly tweaked.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

107 90 Most women don't have gaydar.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (EYmYM)

Oh contraire. We see it. We just don't much care, unless they get nasty about it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (urtE/)

108 Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

My brother when he was in 7th grade tried explaining to some classmates that Andy Bell from Erasure might not be totally into them, even if they were older. That didn't go over well.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (p/J4D)

109 that medical treatment in Thailand is very affordable"

And high quality.

/ texas medical center Houston

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (tubbA)

110 Winona

Posted by: eleven at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (aTgV0)

111 All the cool kids have an Ace skull and crossed swords.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

Didn't the Tampa Bay Buckaneers have a gay skull with a knife in its teeth? And a pirate hat. And an earring?! (Hence gay.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (zZu0s)

112 Ya know, in a way, this is the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, just slightly tweaked.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

Asshole and the seven freaks?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (urtE/)

113 80 Well, like I said yesterday. I had a totenkopf pin on a guitar strap for years. I got it in a store that sold pins, patches, etc. I thought it was a pirate thing, and nobody said anything about it ever, and the metal heads were like *toke* duude cool skull. Nobody ever said dude whats with the nazi shit? But yeah, since the left is always seeing shit that isn't there fuck that guy in particular.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:36 PM (snZF9)

I thought rockers could just claim they were Grateful Dead fans. But maybe that's worse.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (uWKK8)

114 It didn't help that she had an anglo nickname because her Thai name was all but unpronounceable to anglo. The nickname was Tom.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)

Well there's a clue.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:43 PM (snZF9)

115 Winona
Posted by: eleven at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (aTgV0)

Winona was the brunette smokeshow who cheated on everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

116 >>> Thai ladyboys have long nails.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

So you're saying they get nailed for a long time?

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 05:43 PM (q177U)

117 Most women don't have gaydar.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (EYmYM)

I don’t… I remember almost falling on the floor at work 30 years ago when a coworker told me that two of my colleagues were gay… I’d actually hired one of them and had no clue

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (WdMlw)

118 Don't drink the Nazi Punch, der Fuhrer peed in it. Pass it on.

Posted by: Hermann Fegelein at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (7Q0e+)

119 Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (urtE/)

Sorry you may be one of the exceptions but it's just the way it is.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (EYmYM)

120
I think Timothee Chalamet is actually straight.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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

I think he is, but his appearance is beyond non-masculine. It's non-human. Okay, he's down for haute couture and edgey looks, fine, but combined with his lithe frame and narrow jaw, his appeal is dimmed for me. Nevertheless, he has announced that he is dead serious about acting and he intends to make a career of playing deep, complicated characters. Maybe he'll succeed, maybe he'll even help Hollywood limp along for another ten years, maybe he'll go down as the last of the big-money studio film actors before it all gets pulverized and democratized and AI-ified, or maybe he's too late.

This would have been a good discussion for the previous thread!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (ldc7S)

121 "NOT GUILTY by Reason of Intransity!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (xEX9H)

122 WE CRAW YOU RONG TIME!

Posted by: chicks with dicks, foreign edition at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (fqXci)

123 107 90 Most women don't have gaydar.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (EYmYM)

Oh contraire. We see it. We just don't much care, unless they get nasty about it.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (urtE/)

I had a pretty good friend, a woman who was book smart but clueless in some things, who didn't find out until a year after marriage that her new husband liked wearing her underclothes more than she did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (uWKK8)

124 So, why didn't Mangione just extend an undocumented stay in Thailand and pick up some of that great healthcare?

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (krQz2)

125 I thought rockers could just claim they were Grateful Dead fans. But maybe that's worse.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:42 PM (uWKK

metalheads would never..ever..claim to be grateful dead fans. It would be the opposite, they were grateful when they were dead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (snZF9)

126 I wish we could straighten out our effed up system and get reasonable prices for routine things like MRIs.

Lawyers,
Illegal aliens,
Nation full of people diabetes, metabolic dysfunction,
Lawyers,
"Mental health" is "health care"
Lawyers,
Regulation paper work and filings,
Bloated administration,
Lawyers,
Middlemen,

We have the highest costs in the world because, like when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks....

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (9s47C)

127 I had a slight dust up with Scientologists once. They had me as a 7th degree scientologist or something. I finally got someone on the phone...it was amusing. No lawsuits.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (s9EN2)

128 There's no mistaking a totenkopf for a pirate flag.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (FhXTo)

129 Let me make sure I understand the story progression. He went to Thailand to have sex with seven men dressed like girls, they beat him up, he got an MRI, and the low cost of the MRI convinced him to go kill a medical claims CEO?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM


I think there is some confusion. Thai tranny bois are not men dressing up as women. They are chicks with actual functional dicks. They are men that have real female boobs and look like women. They are weird and unless you know what to look for you would be in for a big surprise. Back when I had port visits in Thailand they mostly stuck to the tranny boi bars and there was zero confusion on which ones those were. But my experiences with them are from nearly 40 years ago so I am sure stuff has changed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)

130 So, why didn't Mangione just extend an undocumented stay in Thailand and pick up some of that great healthcare?

Or put on a dress and join his ladyboy friends and at least get paid.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (9s47C)

131 My brother when he was in 7th grade tried explaining to some classmates that Andy Bell from Erasure might not be totally into them, even if they were older. That didn't go over well.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025


***
I'm glad we, or at least I, didn't have to concern ourselves with such things when I was twelve. We just thought Paul Lynde was *funny,* that was all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (omVj0)

132 It's funny how the MSM is framing this as... candidate has tattoo that resembles...

Get it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (+t/xu)

133 Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (9s47C)"

You said lawyers... more than twice...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (tubbA)

134 I should clarify that I'm referring to gay guys. Admittedly I couldn't tell if a girl was gay unless she was wearing flannel and driving a Subaru. And then she might also have to be holding another girl's hand before I'm sure.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (EYmYM)

135 that medical treatment in Thailand is very affordable"
---
Have you considered killing yourself?

Posted by: Canada at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (krQz2)

136 I had a pretty good friend, a woman who was book smart but clueless in some things, who didn't find out until a year after marriage that her new husband liked wearing her underclothes more than she did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (uWKK

I'd get the marriage annulled at that point. That's definitely marrying under false pretenses.

Posted by: pookysgirl, playing it straight at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (Wt5PA)

137 I think there is some confusion. Thai tranny bois are not men dressing up as women. They are chicks with actual functional dicks. They are men that have real female boobs and look like women. They are weird and unless you know what to look for you would be in for a big surprise. Back when I had port visits in Thailand they mostly stuck to the tranny boi bars and there was zero confusion on which ones those were. But my experiences with them are from nearly 40 years ago so I am sure stuff has changed.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (0N4FZ)

I’m glad I’ve lived a sheltered life

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (WdMlw)

138 >>> I had a pretty good friend, a woman who was book smart but clueless in some things, who didn't find out until a year after marriage that her new husband liked wearing her underclothes more than she did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (uWKK


It's almost that time of year:

Lacy things the wife is missin'
Didn't ask for her permission
I'm wearin' her clothes
Her silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (3uBP9)

139 How many 7 year old ladyboys can you take in a fistfight?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (BO2TG)

140 We just thought Paul Lynde was *funny,* that was all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:46 PM (omVj0)

Jim J Bullock was weird and annoying. Also Terry Thomas. Also the aforementioned Liberace.

Danny Kaye was all right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s)

141
Chicks go crazy about the most obviously gayest dudes and will not broke conversation regarding the error of their ways. I remember telling gals back in the 90s that, yes George Michael is obviously gay and would not be interested in you and they would come back with "you're just jealous". Um... no that's not it, you're kinda missing the point here. They could not be moved.

Posted by: banana Dream

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They may have been in denial, but "flipping" a foxy lesbian is definitely a male fantasy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (ldc7S)

142 Tottenkopf predates NSDAP SS association, it was in the 1800s a badge worn by hussars IIRC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (yGLqz)

143 This talk of L. Ron Hubbard reminds me of my favorite scenes in Battlefield Earth. It's when the caveman find some Harrier Jets sitting around in perfect shape even though they're a thousand years old or something, and then they just jump in them and fly them with no training because they're just smart that way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (uWKK8)

144 There's no mistaking a totenkopf for a pirate flag.
Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (FhXTo)
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Platner got a Totes-dummkopf tattoo.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

145 There's no mistaking a totenkopf for a pirate flag.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (FhXTo)

In pin form they are both skulls with cross bones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:49 PM (snZF9)

146 Jumping in not having read previous comments. Problem with the Nazi candidate is that there is a primary on the D side and the former Governor Janet Mills, is also running. She will be a much harder candidate to beat for Collins. This is not a win for us.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 05:49 PM (t/2Uw)

147 So, why didn't Mangione just extend an undocumented stay in Thailand and pick up some of that great healthcare?

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Because then he wouldn't have any reason to kill someone.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 05:49 PM (g8Ew8)

148 Most women don't have gaydar.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (EYmYM)

I don’t… I remember almost falling on the floor at work 30 years ago when a coworker told me that two of my colleagues were gay… I’d actually hired one of them and had no clue
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:44 PM (WdMlw)

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The Wifey had a nearly identical experience where we first met at a software startup 2.5 decades ago. It was obvious to me that both male co-workers were gay -- despite one actually being married with children (that completely three her for a loop when he later came out of the closet), and this was someone she worked closely and socialized with.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 05:50 PM (xEX9H)

149 Jim J Bullock was weird and annoying. Also Terry Thomas. Also the aforementioned Liberace.

Danny Kaye was all right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025


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Don't know Bullock. What was he famous for?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:50 PM (omVj0)

150 Platner got a Totes-dummkopf tattoo.
Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

Golf clap.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 05:51 PM (lFFaq)

151 "The Gay Divorcee" with Fred Astaire, required some conversation with dad.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 05:51 PM (s9EN2)

152 The NAZIs stole or appropriated all their symbols from some other cultures.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:51 PM (EYmYM)

153 *completely THREW her for a loop

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 05:51 PM (xEX9H)

154 Don't know Bullock. What was he famous for?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:50 PM (omVj0)
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He was Too Close For Comfort.

And from then on a constant on Hollywood Squares.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:51 PM (krQz2)

155 >>> This talk of L. Ron Hubbard reminds me of my favorite scenes in Battlefield Earth. It's when the caveman find some Harrier Jets sitting around in perfect shape even though they're a thousand years old or something, and then they just jump in them and fly them with no training because they're just smart that way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (uWKK


It's so bad it's not even worth riffing, not that big scientology would every allow anyone to do it. But it is pretentiously bad.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:51 PM (3uBP9)

156 My bad, I thought all totenkopf had no lower jaw.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 05:52 PM (FhXTo)

157 VF-103's idea of the Jolly Roger skull&crossbones on a solid black F-14 tail could also resemble a totenkopf.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:52 PM (yGLqz)

158 142 Tottenkopf predates NSDAP SS association, it was in the 1800s a badge worn by hussars IIRC.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (yGLqz)

That's true in the same way that that the swastika predates the third reich. But no one is getting a deathshead tattoo because of the hussars. (Or at least almost no one is doing so, and no one sane would.) People have to make their own judgments, I guess, but I'm striking anyone with deathshead tattoos right off the petsitter list.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:52 PM (fqXci)

159 My bad, I thought all totenkopf had no lower jaw.
Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 05:52 PM (FhXTo

The Phantom

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (EYmYM)

160 I always had gaydar. I remember being shocked when some friends told me that they didn't realize what Freddie Mercury was all about the first instant they saw the name "QUEEN". (hey I still liked his music)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (uWKK8)

161 He was Too Close For Comfort.

And from then on a constant on Hollywood Squares.

Posted by: Axeman

He also did a talk show with Tammy Faye Baaker.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (F2xQR)

162 So, why didn't Mangione just extend an undocumented stay in Thailand and pick up some of that great healthcare?

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Because then he wouldn't have any reason to kill someone.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 05:49 PM (g8Ew
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Probably also because that option was open in Thailand. To just stay and get treated by their healthcare system.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (krQz2)

163 But the Democrat dumpfkopf had 20 years to nuke it.

So yeah, he's a NSDAP member.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (yGLqz)

164 This should deliver a blow to the crazy women sending him love letters and money.

Wild!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 22, 2025 05:25 PM (6PCLE)

Hybristophilia is a powerful force. Plenty of women sent love letters and nekkid pics to Jeff Dahmer (gay cannibal) and to Richard Ramirez (serial rapist and murderer).

Posted by: Lots of womens get wet for felons at October 22, 2025 05:54 PM (TbWk/)

165 The lesbians here have resting smugface and don't take care of their hygiene. They are very easy to spot. I suspect every time they go out they drive up the rates of homophobia. And of interested mosque visitors

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 05:54 PM (p/J4D)

166 They may have been in denial, but "flipping" a foxy lesbian is definitely a male fantasy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (ldc7S)

To a point, not much to be gained in the end since you just end up with a single hot chick. The ultimate Sun Tzu is 2 foxy Bi chicks. Thats more fun than a human male should be allowed. When you can create that you are master of the universe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (snZF9)

167
Danny Kaye was all right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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Quite so.

Posted by: Laurence Olivier at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (ldc7S)

168 I always had gaydar. I remember being shocked when some friends told me that they didn't realize what Freddie Mercury was all about the first instant they saw the name "QUEEN". (hey I still liked his music)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (uWKK

I was clueless and when someone told me it was a gay anthem it almost ruined We Are the Champions for me… almost but not really; great song still like it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (WdMlw)

169 But the Democrat dumpfkopf had 20 years to nuke it.

So yeah, he's a NSDAP member.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:53 PM (yGLqz)
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I read that he got a Celtic tattoo to cover it up recently.

So.... not happening... I guess.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)

170 So Luigi went to Thailand and had The Hangover Part 2 experience.

Then off to Japan for a bit "to meditate".
Came home, vanished for months, and then shot a CEO on a sidewalk in NYC.

He killed a man because healthcare in America is expensive, yet he's from a family so rich he can fuck around for a year going across the world.

Now his many thirsty female fans have loaded up his jail commissary account with tens of thousands of dollars.

Luigi is just living the dream.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (6ydKt)

171 Look, they trained in the thousand year old fully functional simulators. Damn.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (s9EN2)

172 This talk of L. Ron Hubbard reminds me of my favorite scenes in Battlefield Earth. It's when the caveman find some Harrier Jets sitting around in perfect shape even though they're a thousand years old or something, and then they just jump in them and fly them with no training because they're just smart that way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM (uWKK


It's so bad it's not even worth riffing, not that big scientology would every allow anyone to do it. But it is pretentiously bad.
Posted by: banana Dream

There is a Rifftrax "just the jokes" riff available
https://www.rifftrax.com/battlefield-earth

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (G0Uu2)

173 But what about Pete Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross?

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Leftists Everywhere

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 05:37 PM (+t/xu)

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Beat me to it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (y/TuB)

174 Maine Senste race moved from lean Republican to tossup.
My prediction, Janet Mills beats Susan Collins. Republicans have never been enthusiastic about Collins and Mills has great name recognition having been Governor.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (t/2Uw)

175 >>Jumping in not having read previous comments. Problem with the Nazi candidate is that there is a primary on the D side and the former Governor Janet Mills, is also running. She will be a much harder candidate to beat for Collins. This is not a win for us.

The downside for Democrats is Mills is considered the establishment pick. The split in the Democrats between establishment and progressive is real and growing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (viF8m)

176 We have the highest costs in the world because, like when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks....
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 22, 2025 05:45 PM (9s47C)


He really didn't say "We got the government to chase all the competition out, and then restrict access to the market, and then controlled the payment methods so that there was no way to negotiate a better price. THEN we made all the providers accept government insurance for the indigent and only paid about 50% of the cost so the difference was put on the people who actually had private insurance, and THEIR providers cut costs for the benefit of the investors which no one can do anything about because what are you going to do, not go to the doctor or the hospital when you are sick, in pain, and maybe dying?"

Nah, he just said he stole money where it was cheapest and would have been horrified at American health care today

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (rbvCR)

177 I'm confused. How is this not-z running against Collins? The dems already had their primary?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 22, 2025 05:57 PM (b8J4P)

178 The Hollywood actor my gaydar totally failed to detect was Luke Evans. He was an A Lister for a minute or two .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:57 PM (EYmYM)

179 Danny Kaye was all right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s)
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Didn't know Kaye was gay. Or Terry Thomas, for that matter.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (krQz2)

180 Maine Senste race moved from lean Republican to tossup.
My prediction, Janet Mills beats Susan Collins. Republicans have never been enthusiastic about Collins and Mills has great name recognition having been Governor.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (t/2Uw)

Unfortunately you’re probably right. Now these two would probably vote the same 90% of the time but the other 10% could be important… IIRC Collins was the swing vote that confirmed Kavanaugh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (WdMlw)

181 According to the Bee, he also has a Nickleback tattoo.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (W2Pud)

182 Luigi's dream ended, except maybe getting beaten by Ladyboys again

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (+qU29)

183 145 In pin form they are both skulls with cross bones.

didn't know you could do that. my pin is 1 2 3 4 5.

Posted by: president skroob at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (sGtp+)

184 It's hard to be a secret Nazi when the whole world knows you are a Nazi--except the media of course.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (kTd/k)

185 Hybristophilia is a powerful force. Plenty of women sent love letters and nekkid pics to Jeff Dahmer (gay cannibal) and to Richard Ramirez (serial rapist and murderer).
Posted by: Lots of womens get wet for felons at October 22, 2025 05:54 PM (TbWk/)

I don't recall any men going bonkers for Aileen Wunros or Taylor Schabusiness

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 05:59 PM (G0Uu2)

186 So, why didn't Mangione just extend an undocumented stay in Thailand and pick up some of that great healthcare?

Effective Altruism. Seriously.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

187 So a Nickelkopf tat?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:59 PM (yGLqz)

188
So, why didn't Mangione just extend an undocumented stay in Thailand and pick up some of that great healthcare?
Posted by: Axeman

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Good question. He needed advanced pain management or some sort of spinal surgery for that injury he sustained in Thailand. Why didn't he get it there?

Posted by: Laurence Olivier at October 22, 2025 05:59 PM (ldc7S)

189 I was clueless and when someone told me it was a gay anthem it almost ruined We Are the Champions for me… almost but not really; great song still like it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 05:55 PM (WdMlw)

That's one of those fascinating songs that takes on a life of it's own, way beyond what the ones who wrote it ever imagined. They never dreamed it would become a Sports Anthem.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:59 PM (uWKK8)

190 The communist nazi with the tattoo would vote the same way Collins would on JD Vance's supreme court nominations.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

191 Covering the tattoo was a clue.

Dude has no business near the levers of power. Dangerous to have in government. No principles bare minimum. Bad type to have in control.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 06:00 PM (s9EN2)

192 It's hard to be a secret Nazi when the whole world knows you are a Nazi--except the media of course.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 05:58 PM (kTd/k)
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The first rule of Secret Nazi Club is don't talk about Secret Nazi Club

--- not that I would know about that!

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)

193 The Creedenkopf tat has an SS for Scott Stapp

Posted by: Zee fascists zey are everyvere, jah? at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (TbWk/)

194 VF-103's idea of the Jolly Roger skull&crossbones on a solid black F-14 tail could also resemble a totenkopf.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:52 PM (yGLqz)

Some poison labels on some chemicals have what looks like a totenkopf. They even have totenkopf emojis.☠️

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (g8Ew8)

195 According to the Bee, he also has a Nickleback tattoo.
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Look at this photograph...

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

196 VF-103's idea of the Jolly Roger skull&crossbones on a solid black F-14 tail could also resemble a totenkopf.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 05:52 PM (yGLqz)

But that is just cool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

197 I got US/MC in AC/DC letters on my right bicep on my 19th birthday in Jax NC. Made up the design myself, artist gave me tat for free in exchange for the design. Now you see it everywhere.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (hlNLQ)

198 According to the Bee, he also has a Nickleback tattoo.
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Look at this photograph...
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

He wants to be a Rockstar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

199 Here is a good explanation on the Maine Senate situation.
https://tinyurl.com/5n97zzck

I think Collins is in real trouble.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 06:02 PM (t/2Uw)

200 His tramp stamp says Arbeit Macht Frei.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 06:02 PM (kTd/k)

201 TRUE FACT:

Charles Manson, after having one glass of Pruno too many, just wanted to get a cute windmill tattoo on his forehead.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:02 PM (FCi/W)

202 I just did a quick glance of all the primary challengers on Collins. I'm not impressed. Dem governor...piece of excrement. Ex-Space X engineer running as an independent...his positions make him a fence sitting liberal. Two self-proclaimed republicans who have great Mob names...and absolutely no presence on the net suggesting they are plants to distribute out the votes and benefit Collins.

And this Nazi idiot who the press isn't even considering a viable candidate so don't even mention him unless to chastise the right for pointing out his tattoo.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 06:03 PM (dIske)

203 This talk of L. Ron Hubbard reminds me of my favorite scenes in Battlefield Earth. It's when the caveman find some Harrier Jets sitting around in perfect shape even though they're a thousand years old or something, and then they just jump in them and fly them with no training because they're just smart that way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 05:48 PM


And the jets are fueled with 1,000 year old JP5 that is still good and all of the batteries held a charge for 10 centuries.


They must have used a $hit load of stabil in those fuel tanks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 06:03 PM (0N4FZ)

204 Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 06:01 PM (hlNLQ)

That's pretty awesome.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 06:04 PM (EYmYM)

205 Have Republicans done their due pouncing and seizing?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 06:04 PM (kTd/k)

206 The downside for Democrats is Mills is considered the establishment pick. The split in the Democrats between establishment and progressive is real and growing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (viF8m)

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Our side needs an Operation Chaos to help The Nazi win the Dem primary.

Isnt Mills that idiot that tried to stand up for trannies against Trump in the White House and got bitch-slapped by him? He has an added incentive to assist ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (xEX9H)

207 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec

We now have reports of bank execs directly funding Antifa
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Just look at gofundme or kickstarter, people get funding for all sorts of things that are just ideas.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (krQz2)

208 204- they don’t call me “Legendary Bob” for nothing (and thanks!)

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (hlNLQ)

209 Charles Manson, after having one glass of Pruno too many, just wanted to get a cute windmill tattoo on his forehead.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:02 PM (FCi/W)

Well he did suck a few dicks like the brownshirts did.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (EYmYM)

210 69 >>>No surprise Graham Planter also teaches gun tactics to antifa terrorist.

darn I meant to add that. I'll add it to the sidebar.
Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:32 PM (1wjle)

As I understand it, antifa is a designated terrorist organization. And I think the ITAR governs the provision of defense services by US persons, such as by providing military training - and even though it's an export regulation, I think it also applies to non US-persons even if the transfer occurs in the US.

It's not entirely clear to me whether providing ITAR-regulated defense services to a designated terrorist organization ISN'T a felony, with or without foreign members. But with foreign members, it almost certainly is...

Posted by: MarkW at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (kKGG+)

211 I saw Beaten Up By Fags open for Foghat at the Coliseum.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (krQz2)

212 Maine Kampf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (W2Pud)

213 Just look at gofundme or kickstarter, people get funding for all sorts of things that are just ideas.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (krQz2)

Did you hear about the massive fraud GFM has been running? Apparently they've set up NGO pages without the NGOs' permission and just took the donations because they weren't "claimed."

Posted by: pookysgirl, making pasta at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (Wt5PA)

214 I just completed my background check form for my new fed prosecutor position and supporting terrorist orbs in any way is one of the fields of inquiry- prolly doesn’t apply to dem sen candidates though.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (hlNLQ)

215 lol Nurse

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:09 PM (FCi/W)

216 Danny Kaye was all right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025
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Didn't know Kaye was gay. Or Terry Thomas, for that matter.
Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025


***
Danny Kaye was married, had kids with her, and cheated on her with Eve Arden for a number of years. If he was gay, that would be going a little far in the beard department.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:09 PM (omVj0)

217 Hmm. Apparently Mills is 78 so if elected next year would have a term into her 80's. But Susan Collins is 72. Why do,they never retire? Don't they have families?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 06:10 PM (t/2Uw)

218 213 Maine Kampf.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (W2Pud)
______________________

Just did an eye roll...it got stuck and now I can't stop staring at the ceiling light. Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 06:10 PM (dIske)

219
Sock. Off!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:10 PM (ldc7S)

220 >>Danny Kaye was married, had kids with her, and cheated on her with Eve Arden for a number of years. If he was gay, that would be going a little far in the beard department.


Dude was just that good of an actor.

Posted by: garrett at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (FCi/W)

221 As I understand it, antifa is just an designated terrorist organizationidea.

Posted by: MarkW at October 22, 2025 06:05 PM (kKGG+)
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Fixed for "accuracy" of narrative.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (krQz2)

222 Maine Kampf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (W2Pud)

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Threadwinner!

Was so nice to meet and hang out with you, Nurse!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (xEX9H)

223 How many 7 year old ladyboys can you take in a fistfight?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

ALL of them!

Wait... how many you got?

Posted by: MkY at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (q6tQZ)

224 It's Rancher Bob.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (t/2Uw)

225 Why do,they never retire"

Heh

/Diane Feinstein

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (tubbA)

226 GP:
The Republicans in the Indiana Senate hold a 39 to 10 super majority!

But...

Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate say they don’t currently have the votes needed to pursue a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map — a setback for Gov. Mike Braun and national Republicans who have been pushing for new lines ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (TN0g+)

227 Maine Kampf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (W2Pud)
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Noice!

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:12 PM (krQz2)

228 Unlike that lying fuckhead "Mister Ghost", Axeman's hadith from Poso is legit
x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1981092438065426448
I'm sorry I even had to check up on this, but as you know we can't have nice things

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 06:12 PM (p/J4D)

229 Thai ladyboys were offended that Luigi couldn't get an erection.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 22, 2025 06:13 PM (DsA2n)

230 BUT it IS DIFFERENT when the fascist criminal democrats do it damn it!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 22, 2025 06:13 PM (xvV+O)

231 beaten up by seven "ladyboys" -- a colloquial term for transgender women

See? Even the press agrees they are women. Sad days indeed when a guy can't give a girl a really deep-throated blowjob.

Posted by: Luigi Mange le grand Pepe at October 22, 2025 06:13 PM (upeQk)

232 Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate say they don’t currently have the votes needed to pursue a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map — a setback for Gov. Mike Braun and national Republicans who have been pushing for new lines ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle.
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 06:11 PM (TN0g+)
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Translation: "Our donors, whom we actually represent, don't want us to do this because we and they benefit from the current arrangement."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 06:13 PM (IBQGV)

233 Danny Kaye was married, had kids with her, and cheated on her with Eve Arden for a number of years. If he was gay, that would be going a little far in the beard department.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:09 PM (omVj0)
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I didn't say he was gay, I was reacting to somebody putting Kaye in that context.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:13 PM (krQz2)

234 212 I saw Beaten Up By Fags open for Foghat at the Coliseum.
Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (krQz2)


I saw BUPF open for Rammstein in Dusseldorf 2013. Had to watch your six in that moshpit

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 06:13 PM (p/J4D)

235 I think the ladyboys story is a load of crap. His whole "journey" abroad to find himself is a load of crap. Supposedly he left Thailand to go meditate somewhere.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 06:14 PM (t/2Uw)

236 Time I went to feed the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space. They've been staring at me from the kitchen for fifteen minutes now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:14 PM (omVj0)

237 I guess the democrats figure they can’t lose by challenging Susan Collins. Otherwise, why would they change?

Posted by: Advo at October 22, 2025 06:15 PM (jO4mz)

238
Why do,they never retire? Don't they have families?
Posted by: Sharon

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Isn't there a charismatic young conservative in that state who wants her spot? I guess not.

Oh speaking of charismatic young challengers, how about Saikat Chakrabarti primarying Nancy Pelosi? lol what the heck for? Of course it's a stunt, but how can he even get any money for it? And "raising his profile for the future" is also a joke. She's going to hand-pick her successor when the time comes, and it ain't going to be him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:15 PM (ldc7S)

239 Bro it’s an ancient Hindu symbol. Stop H8ing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:16 PM (PGEno)

240
Danny Kaye was hilarious.

The Chalace from the Palace has the pill with the poison. The vessel with the pestle holds the brew that is true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9f2rnjB84

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 06:16 PM (IifOV)

241 >>> There is a Rifftrax "just the jokes" riff available
https://www.rifftrax.com/battlefield-earth
Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 05:56 PM (G0Uu2)


No way! That's surprising.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 06:16 PM (3uBP9)

242 I would be surprised to see Collins ask Trump for help. Of course that would guarantee that she loses.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 06:16 PM (8RjCi)

243
Danny Kaye was married, had kids with her, and cheated on her with Eve Arden for a number of years. If he was gay, that would be going a little far in the beard department.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

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I heard he was bi. Had a fling with Laurence Olivier, also bi.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:17 PM (ldc7S)

244 "We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo," he explained on the "Pod Save America" show.

He is an excellent example for my rant below:

One reason as a Vet I get irritated when people throw around the term "hero" to anyone who wore the uniform. The word hero should be used sparingly for only those who were actual heroes and not every Dick and Jane who wore the uniform including myself. Most who served did their service honorably and got out. There were some who were scum and were given general discharges and given the heave-ho, some dishonorably discharged and thrown out, then some criminally charged and served time. Then there were those who went above and beyond, some with their lives, who were actual heroes, duty, country, God and their fellow man above all else.

Posted by: Cheri at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (oiNtH)

245 Just to keep the record, er, straight, as it were, Terry Thomas wasn't gay either. He was married to a British woman and had a French girlfriend (while married).

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (mADJX)

246 Stop fascism by voting for the guy with a swastika tattoo is peak 2020s Democrats.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (PGEno)

247 Did you hear about the massive fraud GFM has been running? Apparently they've set up NGO pages without the NGOs' permission and just took the donations because they weren't "claimed."
Posted by: pookysgirl, making pasta at October 22, 2025 06:08 PM (Wt5PA)

aha! That's the last piece of the puzzle; I was thinking this was some deep state workaround. Nope, just good old-fashioned fraud and theft.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK8)

248 The media must think the picture of demolition at the Whitehouse is a winner for the Dems because it is their favorite thumbnail.

Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (YwEeS)

249 I think the ladyboys story is a load of crap. His whole "journey" abroad to find himself is a load of crap. Supposedly he left Thailand to go meditate somewhere.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 06:14 PM (t/2Uw)
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One man's erotic journey from Moscow to Thailand.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:19 PM (krQz2)

250 13
' ace, do you realize how ancient the tiger beat ref is?'

It's not like the mid 1970s were half a century ago.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 06:19 PM (fd80v)

251 Btw, if you go by some of the many - and I think largely dubious - YouTube videos out there, it would seem that practically all of the Hollywood actors were gay or bi.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 06:20 PM (mADJX)

252 Just to keep the record, er, straight, as it were, Terry Thomas wasn't gay either. He was married to a British woman and had a French girlfriend (while married).
Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (mADJX)
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So I guess there's a good reasons I didn't know Thomas or Kaye were gay.

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)

253
The media must think the picture of demolition at the Whitehouse is a winner for the Dems because it is their favorite thumbnail.
Posted by: steevy

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Because they dream of blowing up the White House with Trump in it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 06:20 PM (ldc7S)

254 One man's erotic journey from Moscow to Thailand.
Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:19 PM (krQz2)

Milan to Minsk?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:20 PM (PGEno)

255 Get a load of this French detective working the Louvre case:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3erhke

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (3ImbR)

256 Pictures or it didn't happen I think

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (+qU29)

257 I just found an old budget spreadsheet from 2018. My auto insurance was $73/month with comprehensive.

My driving record is clean.

Now my insurance is $149/month, with liability coverage only.

My state mandates that I must have auto insurance to drive.

THIS SUCKS BALLS! This shit has got to stop soon!

Posted by: gp at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (7imtn)

258 When Luigi gets his/her sex change they will have to spring him because the charge sheet didn't even get his new name and sex correct. Wasn't her, she didn't do it.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (tWxR8)

259 Stop fascism by voting for the guy with a swastika tattoo is peak 2020s Democrats.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (PGEno)
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But it's the only thing that can save Democracy™!!

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (krQz2)

260 Just to keep the record, er, straight, as it were, Terry Thomas wasn't gay either. He was married to a British woman and had a French girlfriend (while married).
Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025


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Just because an actor plays fussy or frivolous characters doesn't mean he is DC instead of AC. Tony Randall was married for decades until his death, for instance. I don't believe it of Danny Kaye or Cary Grant. They may have been "curious" at some point, may have had a fling on the other side, but they were straight men.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (omVj0)

261 Irish I saw that! what the heck!

cool dude tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (emBoF)

262 Almost nobody cares about the shutdown. And absolutely nobody cares about WH renovations.

And yet what are the top msm stories?

You can never hate them enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (PGEno)

263 247 - One reason as a Vet I get irritated when people throw around the term "hero" to anyone who wore the uniform. The word hero should be used sparingly for only those who were actual heroes and not every Dick and Jane who wore the uniform including myself. Most who served did their service honorably and got out. There were some who were scum and were given general discharges and given the heave-ho, some dishonorably discharged and thrown out, then some criminally charged and served time. Then there were those who went above and beyond, some with their lives, who were actual heroes, duty, country, God and their fellow man above all else. - Cheri

Well said.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 06:22 PM (mADJX)

264 Does Luigi Mangioni still make leftwing knickers moist?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 06:22 PM (kTd/k)

265 This is a really good article about the deal for Argentinian beef. There's a lot of wailing that it's unfair to American farmers, which this disproves

https://tinyurl.com/w4ryc9ps

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 06:22 PM (kUxzU)

266 ' ace, do you realize how ancient the tiger beat ref is?'

It's not like the mid 1970s were half a century ago.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025


***
I was going to ask if it was still around or on the Web.

In the mid-Sixties, hardly an issue went by without a pic of or story about Davy Jones of The Monkees, and David McCallum -- who was in his thirties then! -- was a staple of the magazine too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:23 PM (omVj0)

267 Wondering if this Senator for a Nazi Tat before he knew Anti Fascism was going to be the rage. Kinda guess Pro Nazis would come around.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 06:23 PM (+qU29)

268 Does Obamacare cover tattoo removal?

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 06:24 PM (tWxR8)

269 RancherBob and CowHorseQueen

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 06:24 PM (ULPxl)

270 cool dude tho
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (emBoF)
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Right?! Right out of a 1940s movie set.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 06:24 PM (3ImbR)

271 And absolutely nobody cares about WH renovations.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:21 PM (PGEno)
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Donald Trump is tearing down the White House because Putin told him to!

Posted by: Axeman at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (krQz2)

272 The DNC's opening up a nationwide ICE live tracker on their website. Can we declare the whole party a foreign enemy now?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (AIhUY)

273 IIRC the totenkopf comes from the crusades, the Teutonic order knights or the Templars used it as a symbol, (probably both) the understanding was the minimum requirement for burying was the skull and long bones to participate in the day of Resurrection so if at all possible the knights recovered those bits for burial - especially when being shipped back to Europe during the Crusades, and the symbol was taken on as proof of fealty unto death.
It got passed down for the elite sort of units to the SS.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (rbvCR)

274 The media must think the picture of demolition at the Whitehouse is a winner for the Dems because it is their favorite thumbnail.

Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 06:18 PM (YwEeS)

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The ignorance and a-historicity these idiots is unfathomable.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (BO/19)

275 I would give my left arm for $149/mo insurance. I have teen drivers in the house, wife with a speeding ticket and an accident.

$149 is the sales tax I think 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (PGEno)

276 nood

Posted by: gp at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (7imtn)

277 Thought that transgender women were men that have "v"transitioned"v", physically, into a woman and that ladyboys, as the word implies, are still male while purposely exhibiting female characteristics.

There are drag queens, queers, lesbians and physically altered (off the chart mentals); that is all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (XwyaG)

278 So he was inebriated? That's what he came up with? So was Ted Kennedy and we can't just tattoo over his legislation now can we.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (fGmWu)

279 So, is Luigi a trOnz=adjacent "ally", like Charlie Kirk's assassin?

I guess that would depend on whether or not Luigi LIKED being beaten up by them.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 22, 2025 06:26 PM (BHrzb)

280 Nood but you can't be first.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:26 PM (vFG9F)

281 278 Cripes. It's about to the point where I'd be dollars ahead by getting rid of my car and taking Ubers instead. I don't know about you guys, but this new inflated cost-of-living era is killing me.

Posted by: gp at October 22, 2025 06:27 PM (7imtn)

282 >>>25

everyone who gives the okay sign is flashing a White Power symbol.
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A black girl flashed me the OK sign last week. Was it ultimate submission?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:27 PM (XwyaG)

283 The DNC's opening up a nationwide ICE live tracker on their website. Can we declare the whole party a foreign enemy now?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 06:25 PM (AIhUY)

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Way. Past. Time.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 06:28 PM (BO/19)

284 Reporting in from Maine.

This guys is a real piece of work - and he is 100% going to win the primary. The brand of progressive in the Portland area - which dictates the rest of the state's direction - is rapidly violent progressive.

And this guy is peak violent progressive.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 22, 2025 06:28 PM (WYStd)

285 Tiger Beat existed from 1965-2021, from 2018 - 2021 online only.
Never read it , but I do remember it at the end of Stripes with the heroes on the cover

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 06:28 PM (8RjCi)

286 >>> 268 This is a really good article about the deal for Argentinian beef. There's a lot of wailing that it's unfair to American farmers, which this disproves

https://tinyurl.com/w4ryc9ps
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 06:22 PM (kUxzU)

I'd rather have Argentinian beef than Mexican beef. Maybe this deal ought to have included buying a shitload of heifers from Argentina.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 06:28 PM (ULPxl)

287 282 So, is Luigi a trOnz=adjacent "ally", like Charlie Kirk's assassin?

I guess that would depend on whether or not Luigi LIKED being beaten up by them.
Posted by: Pete in Texas
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Or is beaten up a euphemism for something else?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 06:29 PM (XwyaG)

288 68
'He did not get beaten up by the lady bois, he paid for sex with them and it got rough.'

I have it figured that he SAID he'd pay for sex for 1 or more ladyboys but stiffed them (not the good way) when it came time to pay. So they all ganged up to beat the fee out of him.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 06:30 PM (fd80v)

289 WoW! The Lefty Lechter loves the King's Healthcare Plan. This goes to show you how Leftists will always love Kings as long the King or Queen gives them free stuff.

Posted by: wferrin at October 22, 2025 08:17 PM (lCdHU)

290 Did Luigi get a blow to the head after blowing a ladyboy?

I believe that's called a "donkey punch"

Posted by: Dave's not here at October 23, 2025 06:57 AM (raPis)

Is This Something?

Almost 20 years ago, an animated video was released telling the world the real story of George Washington, who saved the children (but not the British children).

Angel Studios optioned that video and made a live-action movie about it.*

* Not really. It's just a movie about young George Washington being a bad ass.

That'll be released just in time for America's 250th anniversary, July 3, 2026.

A Hollywood movie actually attempts to grapple with the excesses and lunacies of the #MeToo witch-hunts.

Mark Judge, journalist and high school friend of Bret Kavanaugh, knows something about the power of evidence-free accusations during a witch-hunt.

After the Hunt is about how false #MeToo accusations can create a mob atmosphere and destroy lives, even driving people to suicide. It's particularly bad if the setting is academia, where hyper-sensitive prevails even as students and faculty tremor to ruin anyone who doesn't parrot leftist wokespeak.

After the Hunt stars Julia Roberts as Alma, a Yale philosophy professor who is about to get tenure. She is married to a psychotherapist, Frederik, and is close friends with Hank (Andrew Garfield). Alma's best student is Maggie (Ayo Edebiri). One night, Maggie and Hank leave a cocktail party together. The next day, Maggie tells Alma that Hank sexually assaulted her. Hank replies that Maggie fabricated the story after he confronted her about plagiarism. This conflict creates hysteria on campus, with all of the characters in danger of losing their careers and their sanity.

I know what you're thinking. A major Hollywood movie starring Julia Roberts and about #MeToo is not going to come down on the side of men, socially, when the character making the accusation is a minority and a lesbian. And yet - hang on - that's exactly what happens. Star student and protege Maggie is in fact a plagiarist. Her professors pretend to think she's brilliant because she's the daughter of big donors and, as Michelle Goldberg put it in the New York Times, "presumably, because she's Black and queer." "You are the worst kind of mediocre student," Alma tells Maggie. "With every availability to succeed but no talent or desire to do so, yet so many resources, so much of other people’s time is wasted on you." This dialogue actually made it into a Hollywood movie starring Julia Roberts.

If that's not enough, in the film's climax, Alma reveals that as a teenager she had an affair with her father's best friend. Then, in a jealous rage when he wanted to move on afterward, she falsely accused him of sexual assault. Eventually, the man commits suicide. "He was a good man, and I destroyed him with a lie," Alma tells her husband.

It's an understatement to say I was stunned by After the Hunt. My book The Devil's Triangle is about the nightmare I lived in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh nomination battle, when a woman named Christian Blasey Ford claimed that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982 and that I was in the room when it happened. As I have written on Hot Air, the last several years of my life have often been spent debunking attempts by Hollywood and the media to create a false narrative about what happened. Hollywood has been a central part of the attempt to declare me and Kavanaugh guilty.

I personally won't watch it because 1, too little too late as usual, and no one's actually admitting any wrongdoing, are they?

And 2, Hollywood is dead to me.

And 3, F*** Julia Roberts.

Ultra-gay TV producer Ryan Murphy still thinks it's 2018, because he's produced a girlboss/vengeance on toxic men TV show.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM




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1 hiiiiiiiiii

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (ldc7S)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 22, 2025 04:23 PM (eB6bb)

3 Top 10.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 04:25 PM (TN0g+)

4 If it's ( "Young Washington ") produced by Angel Studios chances are it will be quite good. Everything I've seen by them I've enjoyed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 04:25 PM (7RYym)

5 Julia Roberts is still a thing? Thought she'd be too long in the tooth by now.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 04:25 PM (F2xQR)

6 See now THAT is a movie I'd want to see.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:26 PM (sKqQm)

7 After The Hunt

Starring a C**t

Posted by: Rick O'Shea at October 22, 2025 04:26 PM (TezPK)

8 I watched After the Hunt.

It is very definitely not woke.

But, it is kinda dull.

Needed better editing.

And it is a looong movie.

The way it unfolds feels pretty realistic.

But sometimes realistic isn't very theatrical.

So...it is good for not being woke, but not such a great movie aside from that.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:27 PM (rHQZF)

9 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 22, 2025 04:27 PM (NcvvS)

10 I don't watch any movies that came out after 1950.

Posted by: Old Yeller at October 22, 2025 04:27 PM (oftw2)

11 Are they gonna start with young George chopping down the cherry tree?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

12 News to brighten Ace's day:

Stacey Abrams, girlboss of all Georgians, just closed up shop on her "New Georgia Project" federal dollars scam, because it turns out no one except the federales were giving it money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 04:28 PM (i3Vw8)

13 Might have been sooner but missed the Nood call

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:28 PM (+qU29)

14 Are they gonna start with young George chopping down the cherry tree?

Out: Washington using an ax on a tree

In: Washington using an ax on a frog.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

15 As someone who has been falsely accused (not of rape), let me tell you there are not many worse feelings. And until you've been through it, you have no idea what it's like. I will say however it made me appreciate Jesus even more.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 04:28 PM (E0p3T)

16 Eh.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:29 PM (Hkcdp)

17 My favorite Little Known True Fact(tm) about George Washington is that he was in charge of some red injuns on a patrol, and they came upon some other red injuns along with a couple French officers. Washington list control of his injuns, and they killed one of the Frogs and scooped his brains out of his head with their hands. This was one of the precipitating events of the French and Indian Wars of 1754 to 1763.

The Frog'n Injun Wars led to huge debt incurred by Great Britain on the colonists' behalf, as Britain sent armies and navies to the New World to defend the borders of the colonies.

That huge war debt led directly to the taxes that Britain's parliament imposed on the colonies, which, of course, led directly to the American Revolution. Which George Washington led.

I imagine when he was inaugurated in 1781 for his first term as president, he must have been in a little shock at how well his fuckup in the forest in 1754 ended up for him.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 04:29 PM (/RHNq)

18 I meant “eh” to the chick flicks.

I am interested in the George Washington movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:29 PM (Hkcdp)

19 Hello, hello, hello!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (ZVgZ4)

20 Is that Nicole in All's Fair?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

21 They're really going to have to bring their "A Game" if they want to surpass, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."

Classic cinema.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

22 Didn’t they do that anti #metoo movie years ago?

Disclosure with Demi Moore and Michael Douglas.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (EYmYM)

23 I won't bother to watch it either, basing my decision on Ace's three brilliant points.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (5yDGQ)

24 Julia Roberts is still a thing? Thought she'd be too long in the tooth by now.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 04:25 PM (F2xQR)

ISWYDT

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (E0p3T)

25 To the Media and 99% of Hollywood:

Death to Vermin.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (u82oZ)

26 ANyway, back on topic, I'm really excited for the George Washington movie because we spend a lot of time trying to convince my grandchildren (yes, I have a few!) it's cool to have American heroes, and Washington is a big focus. They're really too young for this movie, and for much else, but we talk anyway in hopes it sinks in before the teachers union gets ahold of them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (i3Vw8)

27 >> the power of evidence-free accusations during a witch-hunt.

Me-too was just another op in the effort to promote AWFL’s and women in the workplace in order to destroy the traditional family. They spent years brainwashing women in college that being the SVP of HR was so much more fulfilling than raising your family without nannies and every other third party doing your job. Super Mom? Remember that. A woman who dedicated her life to the job and then took the kids to soccer on a Saturday between office phone calls. But in order to achieve they needed to destroy men. So it was all about workplace discrimination, quotas and me-too to empty jobs of men and promote women.

The have done more damage to our society with this garbage. Especially when you consider most of these women have become woke warriors and reliable Democrat voters no matter how awful their agenda is. They are true believers whose contribution to our society isn’t even a third of what most stay at home moms contribute.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 22, 2025 04:30 PM (5E/Kd)

28 Report just came in that Hegseth ordered another hit on a drug boat today, this time on the *Pacific* side.

News Item - Columbia's idiot President has been running his mouth off about Trump and how much he hates him the last couple of days.

Think about where this boat was hit - all the other boats have been at least thought to have been running out of Venezuela. This one had to be Columbian. Hey Gustavo, think your friends are gonna be happy about how much money your mouth just cost them?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (uWKK8)

29 The George Washington movie better have plenty of musket balls tearing through Redcoat flesh in slow-motion...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (wtvvX)

30 Bonus points for casting the first POTUS as a white man, not going all BBC with DEI casting, historical accuracy be d#mned.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (Hkcdp)

31 Wasn't there a movie in which William Hurt was a professor falsely accused of attempting to rape a student?

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (s0JqF)

32 The Last Rodeo is on dvd now, for fans of Neal McDonough.
So is F1 and Nobody 2

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (7gFa4)

33 Young Washington looks great!

looking forward to that

and Train Dreams, which comes out soon, I think

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (emBoF)

34
Wait, Mark Judge knew Brett Kavanaugh? I had no idea!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (tgvbd)

35
Stacey Abrams, girlboss of all Georgians, just closed up shop on her "New Georgia Project" federal dollars scam, because it turns out no one except the federales were giving it money.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

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

This is HUUUUGGEEEEE. And I'm not just referring to the boss of the project.

Huck, thanks for bringing this. I'm going out on a limb assuming that this is because those sweet sweet taxpayer funds have dried up, but I'm feelin' cocky. I think this is the first real-world consequence I know of, of choked-off NGO or USAID money killing an enemy organization. This is GREAT news!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (ldc7S)

36 I'm really curious to see how Young George Washington will handle his multiplicity of...errr...organs.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

37 News Item - Columbia's idiot President has been running his mouth off about Trump and how much he hates him the last couple of days.


COLOMBIA

not that the University doesn't suck but their President isn't murderous ... well not openly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (emBoF)

38 One thing I didn't get at all...

Julia Roberts was a professor on track for tenure. Didn't have it, but hoping to get it.

The scandal breaks, everyone freaks out, Julia Roberts steals a doctors prescription pad, and writes herself fake prescriptions of medicines cuz she is abusing pharmaceuticals to get high/not unhappy.

They (the faculty) find out about her stealing the pad and doing fake prescriptions and go "Hey, tenure is off the menu now."

So she is screwed...

But at the end (denoument?) Julia and the fake accuser talk to each other/confront each other and we learn that Julia is now the DEAN of that department.

Which seems like one hell of a promotion that was never explained.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)

39 PoundMeToo was just another vector to attack Trump.

Until Rose McGowan pointed it at Fat Harv instead.

Hollywood runs on the casting couch with various level of consent...and it is almost comical they weren't prepared for a Hollywood starlet to turn their weapon back on them.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

40 The G. Washington fact that always amused me is that he was about a half a foot taller than anyone he was standing next to.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (dIske)

41 If every word by Blasey was true I still don’t understand what the big deal was.

It is part of the plot in every teen comedy movie of the 80’s and 90’’s.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (EYmYM)

42 The more I hear about this George Washington guy, the more I like him.

Posted by: eleven at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (aTgV0)

43 Stacey Abrams, girlboss of all Georgians, just closed up shop on her "New Georgia Project" federal dollars scam, because it turns out no one except the federales were giving it money.


I have a feeling she's not alone in that. a lot of "charities" are flailing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (emBoF)

44 The George Washington movie better have plenty of musket balls tearing through Redcoat flesh in slow-motion...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (wtvvX)


Well, Washington was a Redcoat in his youth so that would seem to be bad for him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

45
Is that Nicole in All's Fair?
Posted by: Bulg

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Looks like her, but no.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (ldc7S)

46 And 3, F*** Julia Roberts.

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

How dare you criticize St. Erin Brockovich, sir!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (fZYJQ)

47

Finally watching Halo since they put it on Netflucks (long story, don't worry about it)

The first season? Pretty OK, one could see it as sort of a holdover of the 1990s goal of harmonious race/sex relations based on meritocracy. Some woke garbage, but young female minority Mary Sue played as annoying, oblivious, blindly idealistic twerp.

Season 2? THE UNIVERSE IS GIRLBOSS MATRIARCHY, you incel gamers!!! Take THAT!!!!

How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (g6TN6)

48 I found the silver dollar Washington threw across the Potomac.

Posted by: Minelab Detectors, Inc. at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (oftw2)

49 Out: Washington using an ax on a tree

In: Washington using an ax on a frog.
Posted by: 18-1


Tomahawk on a Redcoat.

Posted by: The Patriot at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (TezPK)

50
One of the delightful outcomes of #MeToo is women complaining that their male co-workers no longer mentor them, avoid talking to them and don't include them in after-work social functions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (tgvbd)

51 Huck Follywood, that Nicholas Cage movie where he steals the constitution movie might interest the grandkids, when it’s age appropriate? Silly, but it’s founding fathers treasure hunting…

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (Hkcdp)

52 The George Washington movie better have plenty of musket balls tearing through Redcoat flesh in slow-motion...

Young Washington is most likely focused on his service with the British against the French and their Indian allies.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

53 And by the way, the rise of women in the workplace tracks nicely to the rise and of self identified lesbians.

It’s not a coincidence. It’s a feature.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (5E/Kd)

54 Which seems like one hell of a promotion that was never explained.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)


I'm gonna hafta ask you to get all the way off my back.

Posted by: The Pitch Meeting Screenwriter at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (PiwSw)

55 Yeah, After the Hunt is too little too late. Where were these people speaking up for fairness and for men ten, twenty, thirty years ago?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (omVj0)

56 watching Alien: Earth rn

it's good? am I wrong? I think the main (Mary sue-ish) character is very adorable

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (emBoF)

57 * Not really. It's just a movie about young George Washington being a bad ass.

=======

Le sigh...

Thinks of my book about a young George Washington who fought a monster...

Called...

Colonial Nightmare...

That people could buy to help support conservative arts...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

58 Washington was unquestionably the most consequential person in American history. As noted above, he started the North-American portion of the Seven Years' War (which in turn set off the European and Asian portions of that war.
Then he led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolution, then served as President of the Continental Congress, and then as the first President under that Constitution, setting precedents for that office that are still observed almost 250 years later.

No other American even comes close to Washington's influence in US and World history.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

59 >>>And 3, F*** Julia Roberts.

She's getting a bit long in the tooth. I guess I'd still do her though.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (8mulE)

60 53 And by the way, the rise of women in the workplace tracks nicely to the rise and of self identified lesbians.

It’s not a coincidence. It’s a feature.


lol

it is, and has always been, A COPE

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (emBoF)

61 54 Which seems like one hell of a promotion that was never explained.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)

I'm gonna hafta ask you to get all the way off my back.
Posted by: The Pitch Meeting Screenwriter at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (PiwSw)

********

Heh.

Well played, sir. Well played.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (rHQZF)

62 Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)

Dude! How about a spoiler alert.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

63 44 The George Washington movie better have plenty of musket balls tearing through Redcoat flesh in slow-motion...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (wtvvX)

Well, Washington was a Redcoat in his youth so that would seem to be bad for him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

The Redemption Arc will be the focus of the sequel...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 04:36 PM (wtvvX)

64 Dude! How about a spoiler alert.


the entire movie was spoiled by Mark Judge in his usual self serving boring essay quoted above

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)

65 Is that Nicole in All's Fair?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
Looks to me like her compatriot, Naomi Watts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:36 PM (omVj0)

66 I think I'm going to watch "Black Phone 2" just to get out of the house.

I love Madeleine McGraw. Such a talented sweet kid. Her younger sister Violet is the star of the M3gan series.

I know how everyone here deservably hates Disney. But if you have Disney Plus, "The Secrets of Sulphor Springs" is an amazing show.

It's creepy. There's time portals. It was a great show.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 04:36 PM (Sco7b)

67 30 Bonus points for casting the first POTUS as a white man, not going all BBC with DEI casting, historical accuracy be d#mned.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:31 PM (Hkcdp)

George Washington, starring Idris Elba?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 04:36 PM (9Ovst)

68 I would pay real money for a live action version of the George Washington who invented cocaine and fucked the shit out of bears.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

69 Season 2? THE UNIVERSE IS GIRLBOSS MATRIARCHY, you incel gamers!!! Take THAT!!!!

How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???
Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (g6TN6)
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Hollywood does this ALL. THE. TIME.

They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

It's obnoxious.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (IBQGV)

70 I doubt After the Hunt will be a big success. Karens won't see it . Most guys won't . Minorities no. So who's the audience, the UVA people and the victim of mattress girl?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (8RjCi)

71 Black Phone was good, if really dark but...why a sequel?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

72 48 I found the silver dollar Washington threw across the Potomac.
Posted by: Minelab Detectors, Inc. at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (oftw2)

Is that like having his hatchet though the handle had been replaced and later the blade head. It still occupies the same space.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (EYmYM)

73 62 Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)

Dude! How about a spoiler alert.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

*****

Eh...I was drunk when I saw this movie.

Chalk it all up to a alcohol induced halucination and we'll call it even.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (rHQZF)

74 "F**k Julia Roberts."

Uh, I'll need the keys to the Wayback Machine. Set the dial to 1991, Sherman.

Posted by: PabloD at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (Fswms)

75 They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

It's obnoxious.


I have no idea what you mean.

Posted by: The Witcher at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

76 Looks to me like her compatriot, Naomi Watts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

They do resemble each other.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

77 Seriously, Judge needs to find a different hobby horse. Will not STFU about that Blasey-Fraud crap.

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (pgwxJ)

78 How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???

"Transformation into a soap opera with uncharismatic women" covers a *lot* of modern Hollywood output.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (2ocoG)

79 Wait, Mark Judge knew Brett Kavanaugh? I had no idea!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (tgvbd)

Yeah, high school buds and that Ford chick tried to claim they were in the room together when she was "attacked". What pissed me off the most about her story (what should have pissed off everyone who heard it) was that she didn't know exactly when it happened, she didn't know exactly where it happened, and she didn't know how she got there or how she left.
Guess what bitch, you're talking about some fantasy dream sequence that you are trying to pretend was real! That is so damned obvious.

I remember some journo who thought he was smart worked out some map from her dream fantasy and named the house he thought she was describing. In a few hours, his papers legal department got ahold of him and said "Wait, do you realize you just used our paper to publicly accuse a private person of being party to a rape, based on no evidence whatsoever?" His apologies and crawfishing were epic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (uWKK8)

80 PoundMeToo was just another vector to attack Trump.

Until Rose McGowan pointed it at Fat Harv instead.

Hollywood runs on the casting couch with various level of consent...and it is almost comical they weren't prepared for a Hollywood starlet to turn their weapon back on them.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)


As was pointed out at the time... they were all made the offer, they all accepted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (ExV1e)

81 >>>Young Washington is most likely focused on his service with the British against the French and their Indian allies.

With Mel Gibson being digitally de-aged and featuring as his character in The Patriot? As memory serves, that character's backstory is from that war.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (CwhoI)

82 the victim of mattress girl?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (8RjCi)

I think mattress girl repented and asked for forgiveness IIRC.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (EYmYM)

83 How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???

One of the biggest fights in a SF franchise that matters is whether Warhammer becomes girlboss friendly.

They have some female characters among the Xenos and the Sisters of Battle, but there is a movement to make it female, lame, and gay just like D&D has become

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

84 75 They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

It's obnoxious.

I have no idea what you mean.
Posted by: The Witcher at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

=======

Let's be honest....The Witcher was a disaster from episode 1.

It was just told SO BADLY that people thought that something clever had to be going on.

It wasn't. It was just told really badly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

85 >> lol

it is, and has always been, A COPE

I look at some stay at home moms I know and really wonder how they do it. But to a person their children are healthier and more mentally stable than almost all of these corporate types. By the way, nothing wrong with taking a job when your kids get older provided you still make them priority number one. But I also see a lot of people moving to places where it’s cheaper to live so the can be with their kids until they’re fully grown.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (5E/Kd)

86 They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

It's obnoxious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (IBQGV)

Reacher... nuff said.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)

87 Every day this week been up ridiculously early, should try and stay up and get to bed early

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (+qU29)

88 They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

These days, you're lucky if you make it to episode three before they start piling in fags and trannies like some kind homo clown car.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (9FEtL)

89 Seriously, Judge needs to find a different hobby horse. Will not STFU about that Blasey-Fraud crap.

I mean, it's personal for him. I get it. And it's not hard to avoid his writing.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (2ocoG)

90 But at the end (denoument?) Julia and the fake accuser talk to each other/confront each other and we learn that Julia is now the DEAN of that department.

Which seems like one hell of a promotion that was never explained.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)
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Sure it was. Didn't you catch the "yadda, yadda, yadda?"

"I stole a prescription pad to get some happy pills...yadda, yadda yadda...I'm now Dean of the college."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (IBQGV)

91


Hollywood does this ALL. THE. TIME.

They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

It's obnoxious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


See also: Witcher, The

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (g6TN6)

92 81 With Mel Gibson being digitally de-aged and featuring as his character in The Patriot? As memory serves, that character's backstory is from that war.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (CwhoI)

======

Tangentially, Gibson's Passion two-parter is going to cost...

$200 million.

Apparently, people were just throwing money at him. No wonder he flirted with the idea of deaging the original actors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

93 83 How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???

One of the biggest fights in a SF franchise that matters is whether Warhammer becomes girlboss friendly.

They have some female characters among the Xenos and the Sisters of Battle, but there is a movement to make it female, lame, and gay just like D&D has become
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

Space King knows best: No Girls Allowed!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (xcxpd)

94 Isn't Mark Judge the Beavis and Butthead guy?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

95
The Americans defeated the British, a treaty was signed giving the United States its independence and an enormous increase in its territory and in consequence thereof, Washington retired as commander in chief of the Continental Army and returned to Mount Vernon. That, ladies and morons, is among his greatest accomplishments.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (tgvbd)

96 Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (Hkcdp)
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Good idea!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (+5evm)

97 With Mel Gibson being digitally de-aged and featuring as his character in The Patriot? As memory serves, that character's backstory is from that war.

Francis Marion, the character Mel Gibson's was most based on, didn't serve with Washington IIRC, but it was the same war.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

98 Let's be honest....The Witcher was a disaster from episode 1.

It was just told SO BADLY that people thought that something clever had to be going on.

It wasn't. It was just told really badly.


Disagree. I liked the first season, particularly when Henry Cavill was killing creatures. It took a real nosedive after that.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (Riz8t)

99 It's not a proper French and Indian flick without a Magua getting stabby.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (CwhoI)

100 74 "F**k Julia Roberts."

Uh, I'll need the keys to the Wayback Machine. Set the dial to 1991, Sherman.
Posted by: PabloD at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (Fswms)

That was a year after "Pretty Woman", right? Where Julia Roberts entertained the fantasy that a harlot could meet a rich simp and thus have all her dreams come true?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (9Ovst)

101 They (the faculty) find out about her stealing the pad and doing fake prescriptions and go "Hey, tenure is off the menu now." . . .

But at the end (denoument?) Julia and the fake accuser talk to each other/confront each other and we learn that Julia is now the DEAN of that department.

Which seems like one hell of a promotion that was never explained.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025


***
In my experience in academia, yes, once tenure is off the table, the asst. prof usually goes somewhere else to try again. And the chair or dean of a department -- though he or she may not *want* the job -- is usually at least an associate professor, a promotion which comes with tenure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

102 Entertainment thread.

NOT a recommendation per se, but I've been watching the "Interview With the Vampire" series on Netflix. It's perhaps the gayest show I have ever seen. They did almost everything wrong. But the cast is great, particularly the actor who plays Lestat. It really lays into the problems of immortality, which evidently makes everyone miserable, ha ha!

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (q177U)

103 Space King knows best: No Girls Allowed!

Hatemonger is easily the best character in that show.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

104

Posted by: The Witcher at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

Lol, great minds think alike

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g6TN6)

105 Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (CwhoI)

Based on Francis Marion known as the swamp Fox. I have heard the writer also incudes some others to make a composite character.

Marion is I see the most similarities.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (EYmYM)

106 Which seems like one hell of a promotion that was never explained.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (rHQZF)
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Sure it was. Didn't you catch the "yadda, yadda, yadda?"

"I stole a prescription pad to get some happy pills...yadda, yadda yadda...I'm now Dean of the college."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (IBQGV)

/////////

Heh.

I guess it it kinda like the best body armor a protagonist can wear in an action shoot it up is "plot armor".

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (rHQZF)

107 Haven't heard much from Blasey-Ford recently. Wonder if she still exists. All the accusers in that case have fallen off the radar.
Wonder why? It's a mystery , that's what it is

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (8RjCi)

108 They create a moderately successful television show that's at least watchable for the first several episodes. Then, either after midseason or starting in the second season, they take a hard turn to the Left and go Full Woke.

It's obnoxious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (IBQGV)

Reacher... nuff said.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)
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I first noticed it in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (starring Frodo Baggins).

Season 1 was a cool time-travel mystery story.

Season 2 features a gay Romeo and Juliet subplot. WTF?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (IBQGV)

109 Willoooowed

>>> Illegal Alien Rams His Car Into a US Marshall Vehicle

I am beginning to understand why some other countries simply execute "illegal aliens" as spies, sabatuers, and terrorists.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 04:42 PM (/lPRQ)

110 98 Disagree. I liked the first season, particularly when Henry Cavill was killing creatures. It took a real nosedive after that.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (Riz8t)

========

The management of time was so confusing, it had to be intentional. Except it wasn't. They were just so bad at structure and visual cues for when things happen.

That doesn't get negated by a few individual action sequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

111 71 Black Phone was good, if really dark but...why a sequel?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM

Well money.

Madeleine was Gwen and won a "Chainsaw Horror Movie" award for her performance. Which she deserved. Stole the movie.

If you think "Black Phone" was dark, I'm going to rewatch "Terrifier."

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Sco7b)

112 Julia Roberts

A horse is a horse is a horse

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:42 PM (EYmYM)

113 Haven't heard much from Blasey-Ford recently. Wonder if she still exists. All the accusers in that case have fallen off the radar.
Wonder why? It's a mystery , that's what it is


They're probably meeting with E. Jean Carroll to learn how to beat Trump. Some people think that's sexy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:42 PM (2ocoG)

114 Hatemonger is easily the best character in that show.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

"Boobies...are evil! You shouldn't even look at boobies!".

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (9Ovst)

115 It's often forgotten that Washington, in between the F/I War and the Revolution, used his surveying skills to wander the frontier of North Carolina and Tennessee, buy massive land holdings, and make a shit ton of money. The guy was unbelievably talented and capable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (+5evm)

116 I think I'm going to watch "Black Phone 2" just to get out of the house.
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Not sarcasm, will I able to follow the plot of Black Phone 2 if I never watched Black Phone? (I meant to watch the original because it looked good, but just never got around to it).

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

117 One of the worst aspects of #MeToo was that normal workplace sexual harassment had been dealt with back when Anita Hill made it a national obsession. Every corporate job I’ve had has included standard sexual harassment awareness training, and each of my employers over the years had at least one case of legit harassment, with each instance handled quietly and effectively. In my experience, it was not a fresh, new challenge that demanded a solution.

However, #MeToo was centered on Lefty workplaces/environments, such as MSM and Hollywood. They clearly never cleaned up shop back when it was first addressed, yet pretended it was a HUGE problem everywhere. Totally myopic.
Gah!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (Hkcdp)

118 That was a year after "Pretty Woman", right? Where Julia Roberts entertained the fantasy that a harlot could meet a rich simp and thus have all her dreams come true?
Posted by: Thrawn

And some guy's gonna choose Julia Roberts over Laura San Giacomo and her righteous hooters. Yeah, right.

Go ahead, pull the other one. It plays Beethoven.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (77rzZ)

119 I want to see a credit scene that just shows soldier signing up for the Army of the Potomac and then a woman tries to sign up, but they pay her 40% less....just as a trigger.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (dIske)

120 Disagree. I liked the first season, particularly when Henry Cavill was killing creatures. It took a real nosedive after that.

OTOH, Rangz of Power and Wheel of Time started out crappy and kept digging.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

121 If you think "Black Phone" was dark, I'm going to rewatch "Terrifier."

Gore focused horror movies are not my cup of tea TBH.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

122 @94 Mike Judge did B+B

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (8RjCi)

123 Francis Marion, the character Mel Gibson's was most based on, didn't serve with Washington IIRC, but it was the same war.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025


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I have a dim memory of reading about Marion. He was in the Carolinas somewhere, what would become "the South"/the Confederacy about 100 years later.

Disney did a miniseries about him for TV in the Fifties or Sixties, with Leslie Nielsen (in his young dramatic actor days) as Marion.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)

124 Le sigh...

Thinks of my book about a young George Washington who fought a monster...

Called...

Colonial Nightmare...

That people could buy to help support conservative arts...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

Oddly, I was just remembering last weekend the scene where Washington was reminiscing about the tobacco grown on his plantation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

125 there is a movement to make it female, lame, and gay just like D&D has become
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

Yup... I'm an old school D&D player... actually played with Gygax at a con once way back. Played most Fantasy RPGs...

But when the stupid Minions in Baldurs Gate would NOT STOP THE GAY HITTING ON ME IN CAMP SHIT?

Deleted the game.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (mP0Kj)

126 @94

>>Isn't Mark Judge the Beavis and Butthead guy?

Mike Judge

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (+t/xu)

127

I wish I could post the Iowa Hawk tweet about leftists skinning institutions and walking around in the skin suit demanding respect. That is the entirety of hollywood.

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (g6TN6)

128 124 Oddly, I was just remembering last weekend the scene where Washington was reminiscing about the tobacco grown on his plantation.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (xcxpd)

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My mother convinced me to cut the original first chapter where I had George hosting his sister-in-law.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

129 The Patriot isn't a very good American Revolutionary War movie

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (+qU29)

130 They put a chick in it, and made her gay. And lame.



Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (6RyaQ)

131 Go ahead, pull the other one. It plays Beethoven.

I just saw a video of a bunch of cops pulling the other one. Or at least arresting a giant walking penis at one of the No Kings protests.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (2ocoG)

132 Thrawn - yep, thereabouts.
One could argue that OnlyFans has proven the hypothesis that a harlot could meet a rich simp (or multitude of simps) and thus have all her dreams come true.

Posted by: PabloD at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (Fswms)

133 Haven't heard much from Blasey-Ford recently. Wonder if she still exists. All the accusers in that case have fallen off the radar.
Wonder why? It's a mystery , that's what it is
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (8RjCi)
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Well, she did make enough money to add another front door or two to her collection.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (+5evm)

134 I think mattress girl repented and asked for forgiveness IIRC.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (EYmYM)


Did she offer to take on the punishment that the man received or would have received had she been believed? Or was it just - I lied, sorry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

135 It's often forgotten that Washington, in between the F/I War and the Revolution, used his surveying skills to wander the frontier of North Carolina and Tennessee, buy massive land holdings, and make a shit ton of money. The guy was unbelievably talented and capable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025


***
He was quite the mathematics shark, I believe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (omVj0)

136 64- you perceive him that way too? I thought it was just me.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (hlNLQ)

137 "Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat.
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at.
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hidin' in the glen,
He runs away to fight again."

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

138 Disney did a miniseries about him for TV in the Fifties or Sixties, with Leslie Nielsen (in his young dramatic actor days) as Marion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)

The Swamp Fox... back when they did Danielle Boone, and Davy Crocket...

Funny how they went from Manly Men and Pro US to Gay and Tranny.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:45 PM (mP0Kj)

139 One could argue that OnlyFans has proven the hypothesis that a harlot could meet a rich simp (or multitude of simps) and thus have all her dreams come true.

My understanding is that few of those women are making much money.

The ones that are are good at marketing and promotion.

And could probably have succeeded at any number of non-sexual businesses.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

140 Judge is like the living embodiment of the Toby Keith song “I wanna talk about me”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 04:46 PM (hlNLQ)

141
Seriously, Judge needs to find a different hobby horse. Will not STFU about that Blasey-Fraud crap.
Posted by: Grayman


Pencil neck geek.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (63Dwl)

142 My mother convinced me to cut the original first chapter where I had George hosting his sister-in-law.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

Might be wise. I typically have to 'write my way into' a novel and end up tossing the first 2-3 chapters to get to where stuff 'happens'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

143 OTOH, Rangz of Power and Wheel of Time started out crappy and kept digging.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (Riz8t)
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The worst part is that Wheel of Time could have been awesome if the writers had just followed the story as written! The Eye of the World is perfectly paced to fit within a 10-episode story arc (with maybe a slight tweak here or there). Later books would be much more complicated but the first book is a very linear adventure story from start to finish.

*sigh* what could have been...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (IBQGV)

144 141
Seriously, Judge needs to find a different hobby horse. Will not STFU about that Blasey-Fraud crap.
Posted by: Grayman

Pencil neck geek.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (63Dwl)

Grit eating freak?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

145 140 Judge is like the living embodiment of the Toby Keith song “I wanna talk about me”


lol. yes!

"I am endlessly fascinating! to me!"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (emBoF)

146 The Patriot isn't a very good American Revolutionary War movie
Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (+qU29)

Don’t disagree but it has one of my top five all time movie scenes.

I don’t think I have to explain which one.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (EYmYM)

147 @94 Mike Judge did B+B
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Thanks. The "M-" first name with the "-udge" last name always confuses me.

Matt Drudge, too, but I know that he didn't do B&B.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

148 After the Hunt: because we desperately need a movie to relive the social horrors of the last decade. It sounds like a long useless Facebook ad.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (XLfSN)

149 Judge's articles stink, but pretty much all of PJ Media is a clickbait mill to sell advertising. Almost none of those stories are worth reading.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (9FEtL)

150 142 My mother convinced me to cut the original first chapter where I had George hosting his sister-in-law.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

Might be wise. I typically have to 'write my way into' a novel and end up tossing the first 2-3 chapters to get to where stuff 'happens'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

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She's recommended I cut my first chapter in everything she's read of mine. It's a thing she learned. I think Colonial Nightmare was the first time I took the advice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

151 The worst part is that Wheel of Time could have been awesome if the writers had just followed the story as written! The Eye of the World is perfectly paced to fit within a 10-episode story arc (with maybe a slight tweak here or there). Later books would be much more complicated but the first book is a very linear adventure story from start to finish.

*sigh* what could have been...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (IBQGV)

Eye of the World, back when Jordan was edited instead of pampered, is just about a perfect fantasy novel. I really love how it is structured, paced and the worldbuilding.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

152 Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025

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In my experience in academia, yes, once tenure is off the table, the asst. prof usually goes somewhere else to try again. And the chair or dean of a department -- though he or she may not *want* the job -- is usually at least an associate professor, a promotion which comes with tenure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

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Thanks for the knowledge re: assistant vs associate professor.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (rHQZF)

153 The worst part is that Wheel of Time could have been awesome if the writers had just followed the story as written! The Eye of the World is perfectly paced to fit within a 10-episode story arc (with maybe a slight tweak here or there). Later books would be much more complicated but the first book is a very linear adventure story from start to finish.

*sigh* what could have been...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (IBQGV)

Now do Starship Trooper...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (mP0Kj)

154 OTOH, Rangz of Power and Wheel of Time started out crappy and kept digging.

There are at least two other series, whose names I can't remember, who followed the same woke trajectory. It's astonishing. It's like they're all made with the same cookie cutter mold.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

155
.. back when they did Danielle Boone

Girl boss Boone!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (63Dwl)

156 The Americans defeated the British, a treaty was signed giving the United States its independence and an enormous increase in its territory and in consequence thereof, Washington retired as commander in chief of the Continental Army and returned to Mount Vernon. That, ladies and morons, is among his greatest accomplishments.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 04:40 PM (tgvbd)

That was something. His impact on the first Amendment is also a lasting triumph.

https://tinyurl.com/bdezfzsv

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (fO9wu)

157 Oh my. I didn't watch the trailer for "All's Fair," but I *did* open the YouTube, expand the description and then read it.

A team of female divorce attorneys leave a male-dominated firm to open their own powerhouse practice. Fierce, brilliant, and emotionally complicated, they navigate high-stakes breakups, scandalous secrets, and shifting allegiances—both in the courtroom and within their own ranks. In a world where money talks and love is a battleground, these women don’t just play the game—they change it.

The series stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Matthew Noszka with Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close.


One amusing thing about the cultural inflection point through which we're living is how all of this slop that was in the pipeline for years became immediately and hopelessly dated even before release.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (CgKt6)

158 That was a year after "Pretty Woman", right? Where Julia Roberts entertained the fantasy that a harlot could meet a rich simp and thus have all her dreams come true?
Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (9Ovst)


It was her heart of gold and the fact that she'd been used by hundreds of men which so captivated the young-ish, handsome, billionaire. A tale as old as time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

159 149 Judge's articles stink, but pretty much all of PJ Media is a clickbait mill to sell advertising. Almost none of those stories are worth reading.


accurate

I always hover over the link text to see if it's pjmedia or twitchy to skip

except for Ed's posts which I just fully ignore. my poor scroll hand!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (emBoF)

160 After watching fantastic four and One Battle After I've come to the conclusion that Hollywood is incapable of making a big budget action adventure or a, well, not small budget, Black Comedy or any movie in any genre that's going to put butts in seats or go into the pantheon of great films.

We have reached the garbage twilight of popular culture.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (+t/xu)

161

Re: throwing in the trannies, that's an instant "off" That said, watching the MK Ultra miniseries I thought they were doing the same thing, but the tranny they throw in there is actually a naturally born human female who is just a little bit severe looking. I had to lmao

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (g6TN6)

162 One of the worst aspects of #MeToo was that normal workplace sexual harassment had been dealt with back when Anita Hill made it a national obsession. Every corporate job I’ve had has included standard sexual harassment awareness training, and each of my employers over the years had at least one case of legit harassment, with each instance handled quietly and effectively. In my experience, it was not a fresh, new challenge that demanded a solution.
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In my time with the Feds we had a sexual harrassment video we had to watch. The opening remarks were delivered by....President William J. Clinton.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at October 22, 2025 04:50 PM (TN0g+)

163 Looks to me like her compatriot, Naomi Watts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
They do resemble each other.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
Amazing how we've been so lucky as to have three of the most lovely and talented women in H'wood -- Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:50 PM (omVj0)

164 All the washed up 80s actors turning full Leftard in desperatation hoping to salvage an income. So pathetic.

Posted by: Level43 at October 22, 2025 04:50 PM (4QBVB)

165 40 Judge is like the living embodiment of the Toby Keith song “I wanna talk about me”

Highly recommend his greatest hits. Damn he had a lot. RIP Mr Keith.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:50 PM (EYmYM)

166 In my time with the Feds we had a sexual harrassment video we had to watch. The opening remarks were delivered by....President William J. Clinton.


IRONY INDEED

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (emBoF)

167 164 All the washed up 80s actors turning full Leftard in desperatation hoping to salvage an income. So pathetic.

not Justine Bateman!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (emBoF)

168 Finally watching Halo since they put it on Netflucks (long story, don't worry about it)

The first season? Pretty OK, one could see it as sort of a holdover of the 1990s goal of harmonious race/sex relations based on meritocracy. Some woke garbage, but young female minority Mary Sue played as annoying, oblivious, blindly idealistic twerp.

Season 2? THE UNIVERSE IS GIRLBOSS MATRIARCHY, you incel gamers!!! Take THAT!!!!

How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???
Posted by: imp



Should have ended the show after episode no. 1

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)

169 Eye of the World, back when Jordan was edited instead of pampered, is just about a perfect fantasy novel. I really love how it is structured, paced and the worldbuilding.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:48 PM (xcxpd)
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Tom Doherty basically looked at Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara (published by Del Rey) and said, "Let's do that." And it worked.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (IBQGV)

170 Not sarcasm, will I able to follow the plot of Black Phone 2 if I never watched Black Phone? (I meant to watch the original because it looked good, but just never got around to it).

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

I don't know.

But try to watch the first one.

Gwen rules.

https://tinyurl.com/nk4kmfws

2 minutes. Language.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Sco7b)

171 massive land holdings

Tits?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (lM2MM)

172 One was Shadow and Bone. The other was about gay wizards or something. The worst, though, was Decameron. I've read the book, and it didn't have girlbosses, masturbation, and ghey sex.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

173 How can you have a TV series based on a game of killing waves of infinite aliens as a jacked Ubermensch turn into a fucking soap opera revolving around 5 uncharismatic women's issues???
Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (g6TN6)
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Hollywood writers?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:52 PM (CgKt6)

174 Angel Studios optioned that video and made a live-action movie about it.*

Angel Studios? They will definitely leave out the fact that motherfucker had like 30 goddamn dicks.

Posted by: 12 stories high made of radiation at October 22, 2025 04:52 PM (TbWk/)

175 >>>A team of female . . . .

It was at that point that you lost me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 04:52 PM (fO9wu)

176 >>>31 Wasn't there a movie in which William Hurt was a professor falsely accused of attempting to rape a student?

William H. Macy I think you mean, in David Mamet's "Oleanna." What a movie.

Bizarrely, it's "fair" in the sense that women who watch it side with the woman, despite her being clearly insane.

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 04:52 PM (1wjle)

177 >>>Angel Studios? They will definitely leave out the fact that motherfucker had like 30 goddamn dicks.

we can hope.

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (1wjle)

178 Tom Doherty basically looked at Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara (published by Del Rey) and said, "Let's do that." And it worked.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (IBQGV)

I used to deliberately look for Del Rey books first when buying something new.

Of course, Brooks started out just filing the edged off of Tolkien but by Elfsong of Shanarra, he was doing something more original.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

179 Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreamin

She's got that wide apart eye thing going on too. Not as pronounced as Anya Taylor though.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (EYmYM)

180 171- I believe that’s “huge tracts of…land”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (hlNLQ)

181 172 One was Shadow and Bone. The other was about gay wizards or something. The worst, though, was Decameron. I've read the book, and it didn't have girlbosses, masturbation, and ghey sex.


omg Archimedes really - they did that to the Decameron?

hmm I feel better about the hot mess that was Good Omens (esp season 2)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (emBoF)

182 One amusing thing about the cultural inflection point through which we're living is how all of this slop that was in the pipeline for years became immediately and hopelessly dated even before release.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (CgKt6)
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*** Ironheart has entered the chat***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (IBQGV)

183 People try to romanticize war, especially the revolution. But it was brutal and unforgiving as war often is. I have a friend whose family passed down stories through generations about how at the end of the Revolutionary war they chase the Hessians up into the hills and killed them. They still knew the spots where they were killed. His grandfather told me his grandfather said they despised those bastards.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (kTYmu)

184 177 >>>Angel Studios? They will definitely leave out the fact that motherfucker had like 30 goddamn dicks.

we can hope.
Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (1wjle)

======

Puritans suck.

Reality or bust!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

185 179 Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreamin

She's got that wide apart eye thing going on too. Not as pronounced as Anya Taylor though.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (EYmYM)

She has a great body and that's all

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

186 They will definitely leave out the fact that motherfucker had like 30 goddamn dicks.

That's the Disney version with Pedro Pascal.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (2ocoG)

187 William H. Macy I think you mean, in David Mamet's "Oleanna." What a movie.

Bizarrely, it's "fair" in the sense that women who watch it side with the woman, despite her being clearly insane.


omg I did not side with her!

it's a fantastic film

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (emBoF)

188 Don't really care about upcoming movies. Criterion is having a half-off sale today, so I picked up some classics.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (CHHv1)

189 In my time with the Feds we had a sexual harrassment video we had to watch. The opening remarks were delivered by....President William J. Clinton.

IRONY INDEED

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:51 PM (emBoF)

We called those how to videos.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (fO9wu)

190 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (CgKt6)

191 174 Angel Studios optioned that video and made a live-action movie about it.*

Angel Studios? They will definitely leave out the fact that motherfucker had like 30 goddamn dicks.
Posted by: 12 stories high made of radiation at October 22, 2025 04:52 PM (TbWk/)

*******

Without a doubt, the most insane line from that video.

And yet, it made sense.

Why not...

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (rHQZF)

192 Where Julia Roberts entertained the fantasy that a harlot could meet a rich simp and thus have all her dreams come true?
Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 04:41 PM (9Ovst)

It was her heart of gold and the fact that she'd been used by hundreds of men which so captivated the young-ish, handsome, billionaire. A tale as old as time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

And still the fantasy of the 18-44 bracket of western women to this very day.

Posted by: I've had 600 cocks and am ready to settle down! at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

193 I like Anya

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (+qU29)

194 I'll do my David Spade impression here: "After the Hunt was great. But I liked it better the first time, when it was called Disclosure."

Crichton was ahead of his time.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (bNf8H)

195 *** Ironheart has entered the chat***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (IBQGV)
++++
Yup, that's another one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (CgKt6)

196 The worst part is that Wheel of Time could have been awesome if the writers had just followed the story as written! The Eye of the World is perfectly paced to fit within a 10-episode story arc (with maybe a slight tweak here or there). Later books would be much more complicated but the first book is a very linear adventure story from start to finish.

*sigh* what could have been...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:47 PM (IBQGV)


But then viewers wouldn't have been able to while away the odd hour thinking about how horrible men are and wondering if Egwene was the Dragon Reborn.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

197 >>>omg I did not side with her!

some women I know (or dated) sided with her and I"m like, are you nuts? Should I just end things now?

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (1wjle)

198 Oleanna made all the right people mad when it came out.

I suspect its part of Mamet's turn to the right

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

199 Nope, Dennis Wuaid did not become a lefty in old age. He became Christian and has been making movies true to his values, such as the Reagan movie where he.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (Hkcdp)

200 Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat.
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at.
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hidin' in the glen,
He runs away to fight again.

Got no blankets, got no beds,
Got no roof above our heads.
Got no shelter when it rains,
All we got is Yankee brains.

Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat.
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at.
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hidin' in the glen,
He runs away to fight again.

Got no cornpone, got no honey,
All we got is Continental money.
Got no bacon, hominy, or grits.
Rosted ear of possum is all we ever git.

Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat.
Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox at.
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hidin' in the glen,
He runs away to fight again.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

201 190 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (CgKt6)

Liked

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

202 not Justine Bateman!
Posted by: BlackOrchid


****

Nothing would please me more than witnessing Justine and the other Conservatives in Hollywood having the last laugh.

Posted by: Level43 at October 22, 2025 04:56 PM (4QBVB)

203 Of course, Brooks started out just filing the edged off of Tolkien but by Elfsong of Shanarra, he was doing something more original.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (xcxpd)
----
Supposedly that was Lester's influence more than Brooks. Lester wanted a Tolkienesque epic fantasy because he sensed (correctly) that he could sell a million of them. The Annotated Sword of Shannara has a lot of details about the relationship between Brooks and Lester Del Rey and how Del Rey steered Brooks in the direction he went.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:56 PM (IBQGV)

204 My favorite Macy film is The Cooler.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:56 PM (EYmYM)

205 186- that’s a different usage for the word “had” in Pedro’s case, I think.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 04:56 PM (hlNLQ)

206 Thanks for the knowledge re: assistant vs associate professor.
Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025


***
Yes, it's assistant professor with possibility of tenure (though my department hired one or two with the clear statement that tenure was not possible for them). If he is approved by the tenured members of the department, he becomes an associate with tenure. Some want to go for the last ring, full professor. But it's possible to have a long career, including serving as chair, without it.

The associate prof who hired me way back in '02 had begun at the dept. in the Eighties as an adjunct instructor, i.e., he had his Ph.D., but was not initially on the tenure ladder. Somehow he advanced to that, and retired last year as a full prof.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:56 PM (omVj0)

207 "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."

Classic cinema.

Posted by: Orson




I love that movie. So ridiculous, but they took it completely seriously and almost convinced you that it was the "Real Story."

Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (/RHNq)

208 'Oleanna' is a really good film. I always wondered where Mamet got his inspiration for writing that.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (Oy/m2)

209 Washington lost his shirt surveying and draining parts of the Great Dismal Swamp, thinking it would make fine croplands. Peaty soil was too acid. One of his only flops.

Posted by: Muckin' About at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (oftw2)

210 I did not read Wheel of Time books, but after watching the first season of the series I was convinced living in a matriarchy would be fake and gay.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (Hkcdp)

211

Julia Camel-face's character sucking a literal mile of cocks is what every young handsome billionaire is looking for in a mate!

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (g6TN6)

212 203 Of course, Brooks started out just filing the edged off of Tolkien but by Elfsong of Shanarra, he was doing something more original.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (xcxpd)
----
Supposedly that was Lester's influence more than Brooks. Lester wanted a Tolkienesque epic fantasy because he sensed (correctly) that he could sell a million of them. The Annotated Sword of Shannara has a lot of details about the relationship between Brooks and Lester Del Rey and how Del Rey steered Brooks in the direction he went.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 04:56 PM (IBQGV)

Interesting

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

213 190 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (CgKt6)

If she's not careful she's going to have enough saddlebags to outfit a whole wagon train.

Posted by: Right at the tipping point at October 22, 2025 04:58 PM (TbWk/)

214 183 People try to romanticize war, especially the revolution. But it was brutal and unforgiving as war often is.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 22, 2025 04:53 PM (kTYmu)

Yup, one ancestor on Dad's Mom's side, was a Virginian who moved North so he would not be drafted into the Civil War. Worked as a School Teacher in Ohio, who would also not draft him because he was a southerner.

After the War, family story is he tried to move back to Viriginia with his bride... and was forcibly told he was not welcome.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)

215 Amazing how we've been so lucky as to have three of the most lovely and talented women in H'wood -- Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Nicole was actually born in Hawaii.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

216 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025


***
She looks a lot like a young Marisa Tomei.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)

217 This is the video that ace refers to in passing in his intro paragraph. It's hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA

Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (/RHNq)

218 omg Archimedes really - they did that to the Decameron?

They did. I don't usually get angry at TV shows, but that one really infuriated me.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (Riz8t)

219 216 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025

***
She looks a lot like a young Marisa Tomei.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)

Liked again

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

220 Amazing how we've been so lucky as to have three of the most lovely and talented women in H'wood -- Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Nicole was actually born in Hawaii.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
True, but she grew up in AU.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (omVj0)

221 I think mattress girl repented and asked for forgiveness IIRC.

Posted by: the way I see it

She needs to apologize to the National Lampoon for ripping off her costume from their "If Straight Men Designed Women's Clothing" article.

Posted by: Auspex at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (Y8DZL)

222 Amazing how we've been so lucky as to have three of the most lovely and talented women in H'wood -- Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 04:50 PM (omVj0)


So... not the Naomi Watts from Shoreham, Kent, England?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (ExV1e)

223 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 22, 2025 04:54 PM (CgKt6)

If she's not careful she's going to have enough saddlebags to outfit a whole wagon train.

Posted by: Right at the tipping point at October 22, 2025 04:58 PM (TbWk/)

I'd circle the wagons on that, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (fO9wu)

224 This leggy brunette in a skirt is definitely going to give "All's Fair" a miss:
http://tiny.cc/ay4u001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Very nice. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:00 PM (77rzZ)

225 217 This is the video that ace refers to in passing in his intro paragraph. It's hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 04:59 PM (/RHNq)

He'll save of children...but not the British children...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 05:00 PM (xcxpd)

226 Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.

I'd argue acting wise its Watts>Kidman>>>>Robbie

But they are all easy on the eyes certainly.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:01 PM (sKqQm)

227 Doesn't "After the Hunt" kind of ring true, though?

Posted by: former CIA director John Brennan at October 22, 2025 05:01 PM (IifOV)

228 He once put an opponent's wife's hand into a jar of acid. At a party.

Posted by: More Washington facts at October 22, 2025 05:01 PM (TbWk/)

229
Speaking of acting, have we all seen this video of Zohran "code-switching"?

This guy is the fvckin' Mel Blanc of lefty culture.

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/
status/1980764471632248845

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:02 PM (ldc7S)

230 Well, Washington was a Redcoat in his youth so that would seem to be bad for him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic




Where will be plenty of shots of bullets ripping through young GW's red coat during Braddock's ill-fated expedition to Ft. Duquesne. How he survived that rout is legend all its own.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 05:02 PM (/RHNq)

231 I'd argue acting wise its Watts>Kidman>>>>Robbie

But they are all easy on the eyes certainly.
Posted by: 18-1

Slightly disagree. Nicole before Naomi. And maybe only two ">"s before Margot instead of four.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

232 Amazing how we've been so lucky as to have three of the most lovely and talented women in H'wood -- Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Nicole was actually born in Hawaii.
-------

If a woman ever tries to get you to watch Kidman's "Australia", DO NOT FALL FOR IT. It felt like it was 6 hours long, and probably approached 3 hours in real life. And the worst part about it was that IF the movie had rolled the end-credits at about the 90-minute mark, it would have been AWESOME...but it didn't...and it just murked around again for another hour or so before AGAIN ramping up some action (but less than before the 90-minute mark) and FINALLY ending. By the time the REAL ending came to be, I was really pissed at whoever signed off on that mess.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 05:03 PM (TN0g+)

233 Fun George Washington fact: He died of the same weird infection that Jim Henson did.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

234

After being required to sit through the Cabin 10 movie, you all will be pleased to note that intelligent white men remain the only acceptable villains

Posted by: imp at October 22, 2025 05:05 PM (g6TN6)

235 Fun George Washington fact: He died of the same weird infection that Jim Henson did.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

His redcoat muppet "Lord Kermitage" did not achieve widespread popularity however.

Posted by: Shame, really at October 22, 2025 05:06 PM (TbWk/)

236 Best Australian movie is Man From Snowy River

Best Australian series is Mr In Between.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:06 PM (EYmYM)

237 I'm just re-watching Madeleine in "The Black Phone" scene.

Girl was amazing. Love that movie.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 05:06 PM (Sco7b)

238 Re: After the Hunt

That truly subverted my expectations, Disney.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

239 If a woman ever tries to get you to watch Kidman's "Australia"

Witness the firepower or the fully armed and operation Baz Luhrmann.

How this gormless austist gets work is beyond me. Everything he does is gayer than a Liberace Christmas special.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:07 PM (9FEtL)

240 So... not the Naomi Watts from Shoreham, Kent, England?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025


***
She is, but her family settled in AU when she was fourteen. So she came to us from Roo-Land.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:07 PM (omVj0)

241 What's the last good American action film that anyone has seen?

I was gonna say Top Gun 2, but that's not really a straight up action film. I don't recall seeing any good action films in the recent past.

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 05:08 PM (q177U)

242 Washington also said the words "Die hard" on his death bed indicating what his favorite movie was, and as this was in mid december, confirming it is a Christmas movie

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

243 >>>She looks a lot like a young Marisa Tomei.

"Engaged." Who even knows what that means.

Posted by: George Costanza at October 22, 2025 05:08 PM (1wjle)

244 Amazing how we've been so lucky as to have three of the most lovely and talented women in H'wood -- Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, and Margot Robbie -- all coming to us from Australia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Angela White. Better acting than the other three.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

245 That people could buy to help support conservative arts...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava




I bought it, as well as all the rest of your writings. They are all competing with the other 400 unread books on my Kindle. Alas.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 05:09 PM (/RHNq)

246 >>>I don't recall seeing any good action films in the recent past.

the clive owen movie "Plane" was a partial action movie (mostly suspense) and was decent.

A real action movie needs about one big action set piece every 20 minutes. Plane didn't have that, I think only two action scenes. But it was decent.

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:09 PM (1wjle)

247 I'd argue acting wise its Watts>Kidman>>>>Robbie

But they are all easy on the eyes certainly.
Posted by: 18-1
*
Slightly disagree. Nicole before Naomi. And maybe only two ">"s before Margot instead of four.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
If they were all Margot's age . . . could Naomi or Nicole have pulled off playing Harley Quin in Suicide Squad?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:10 PM (omVj0)

248 I love that movie. So ridiculous, but they took it completely seriously and almost convinced you that it was the "Real Story."
Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 04:57 PM (/RHNq)

Mary E. Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln.

No. Just no.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:10 PM (dGCAG)

249 George Washington...fucked the shit out of bears.

(Insane...)

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:10 PM (rHQZF)

250 Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 05:08 PM (q177U)

The latest I saw was an action comedy and it was old 2012 but it was new for me.

Mr Right with Sam Rockwell.

Mad at the horde for never recommended it along with another old, new for me, Get the Gringo.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:10 PM (EYmYM)

251 Best Australian movie is Man From Snowy River
Posted by: the way I see it

Breaker Morant or Gallipoli.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

252
What's the last good American action film that anyone has seen?

Posted by: Max Power

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

The Revenant. Went off on some weird hallucination-type scenes, but seeing the nature scenes in the theater was another level.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:11 PM (ldc7S)

253 Ha ha! I just read Ace's earlier NC poast talking about CNN.

The only thing I could think of was Ren & Stimpy and Gritty Kitty. I will never not hear gritty kitty and think of what ace said about CNN.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:11 PM (3uBP9)

254 Mission Impossible 5 and 6 were good. 7 and 8, not so much, sadly. (Seven was pretty good but 8 being a letdown kind of reduces seven to "eh" status)

Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:12 PM (1wjle)

255 Khandahar was a hood action movie?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 05:12 PM (Hkcdp)

256 Where will be plenty of shots of bullets ripping through young GW's red coat during Braddock's ill-fated expedition to Ft. Duquesne. How he survived that rout is legend all its own.
Posted by: Sharkman at October 22, 2025 05:02 PM (/RHNq)


Not widely known but Washington was born with Wolverine's mutant regeneration ability. Sadly, it was lost while fucking bears.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 05:12 PM (ExV1e)

257 If they were all Margot's age . . . could Naomi or Nicole have pulled off playing Harley Quin in Suicide Squad?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Don't know, I've never seen it. But Nicole's performance in To Die For was, well, to die for.

Plus, she was hawt AF.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

258 I also saw "Good Fortune" will Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, and that douche bag Seth Rogan.

It was good.

Enjoyed it.

Not perfect, but good.

Would recomend.

Especially the part where...

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:13 PM (rHQZF)

259 The Revenant. Went off on some weird hallucination-type scenes, but seeing the nature scenes in the theater was another level.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:11 PM (ldc7S)

Man in the Wilderness >>> The Revenant

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:13 PM (EYmYM)

260 how ironic -- and laughable-- Julia Roberts the prostitute making this movie about a false accusation. I wont see it either. for reason #3

Posted by: susan harms at October 22, 2025 05:13 PM (Kkd7F)

261 If they were all Margot's age . . . could Naomi or Nicole have pulled off playing Harley Quin in Suicide Squad?

Around the same age Kidman did Eyes Wide Shut and Moulin Rouge

Watts was still doing less serious work, she didn't really start going interesting stuff until a few years older with Mulholland Drive and The Ring

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

262 21 They're really going to have to bring their "A Game" if they want to surpass, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."

Classic cinema.
Posted by: Orson
............................
I enjoyed that movie more than I thought I would.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (sAmhv)

263 Not widely known but Washington was born with Wolverine's mutant regeneration ability. Sadly, it was lost while fucking bears.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 05:12 PM (ExV1e)

So ...

To clarify, he:
1. temporarily lost the ability during ursine lovemaking bouts; or
2. permanently lost the ability as a result of a romantic engagement with bears?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (9FEtL)

264 If they were all Margot's age . . . could Naomi or Nicole have pulled off playing Harley Quin in Suicide Squad?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Don't know, I've never seen it. But Nicole's performance in To Die For was, well, to die for.

Plus, she was hawt AF.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
Indeed she was -- the role that convinced H'wood, and audiences, that she was more than eye candy.

Suicide Squad overall is not that special. But Margot's Harley *makes* the film, any time she's on screen -- and not only because she is hot and wears short-shorts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0)

265 watching Alien: Earth rn

it's good? am I wrong? I think the main (Mary sue-ish) character is very adorable
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (emBoF)


I enjoyed "Alien: Earth" a lot.

Lots of competing agendas among people, corporations, androids, humans, cyborgs, monsters make for a fun watch.

Great monsters and the Xenomorph isn't even the worst. The Eyeball is one to watch out for.
The girl boss may in fact turn out to be the villain. We'll see next season if there is one.

Lots of pot stirring that is only partially paid off by the end of the season.

They tried to do something new in that the Xenomorph is more a MacGuffin than the main antagonist.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (iJfKG)

266 29
‘ The George Washington movie better have plenty of musket balls tearing through Redcoat flesh in slow-motion...’

Also a good cannonball shot that knocks down a rank like bowling pins.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 05:15 PM (WM/VE)

267 Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:13 PM (rHQZF)

So Keanu makes another good movie. I still contend he has the best Hollywood batting average .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:15 PM (EYmYM)

268 Beekeeper was a good action movie, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (Hkcdp)

269 F Hollywood is right! As well as big mouth Julia Roberts is reported to be a beetch on wheels. She pulled the, "Do you KNOW who I am at a store in NM." The cashier is reported to have said yes and that no one liked her. I like this cashier!

I blame a lot of starlets on Weinstein, especially those like Jen Lawrence, Gwen Paltrow and Meryl Streep who never said squat about him and won Oscars. Jen Lawrence is homely. Gwen is nepo. Meryl can act and fake accents, so I'll give her a break.

I look at movies on Amazon and pick and choose what I want to watch. If any of the above are in the movie I am a big fat no.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (6PCLE)

270 >>>Great monsters and the Xenomorph isn't even the worst. The Eyeball is one to watch out for.

I did it better.

Posted by: Garth Merenghi. Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus actor. at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)

271 To clarify, he:
1. temporarily lost the ability during ursine lovemaking bouts; or
2. permanently lost the ability as a result of a romantic engagement with bears?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (9FEtL)


2, hence his death years later. It may not have failed immediately. I've tried to get a government grant to theorize on the matter but haven't gotten accepted. Maybe if I were an overweight black woman from Georgia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (ExV1e)

272 I think the main (Mary sue-ish) character is very adorable

She really is.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (9FEtL)

273 Speaking of acting, have we all seen this video of Zohran "code-switching"?

This guy is the fvckin' Mel Blanc of lefty culture.

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/
status/1980764471632248845

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 05:02 PM (ldc7S)

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

He’s an actor.

He's the Robert Redford character in The Candidate of Donkey-Chompers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (LmlMe)

274 I miss hearing my grandmother say George Washington. She would say George-a wash. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:17 PM (snZF9)

275 So ...

To clarify, he:
1. temporarily lost the ability during ursine lovemaking bouts; or
2. permanently lost the ability as a result of a romantic engagement with bears?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (9FEtL)

******

Yes.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (rHQZF)

276 Suicide Squad overall is not that special. But Margot's Harley *makes* the film, any time she's on screen -- and not only because she is hot and wears short-shorts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0)

The Suicide Squad is a substantially better film than Suicide Squad, and she has more to do in that one too.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (dGCAG)

277 My wife took our kid to Truth & Treason and said it was a good movie. Kid was a little worked over by the execution and beheading, which they didn't show but that's what the nazis did to the protagonist at the end. Also by Angel studios.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (3uBP9)

278 I miss hearing my grandmother say George Washington. She would say George-a wash. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Not "Warshington?"

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

279 Suicide Squad overall is not that special. But Margot's Harley *makes* the film, any time she's on screen -- and not only because she is hot and wears short-shorts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0

Agreed.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Sco7b)

280 This is HUUUUGGEEEEE. And I'm not just referring to the boss of the project.

Huck, thanks for bringing this.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:32 PM (ldc7S)
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Glad to have brightened your day!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 05:19 PM (YfqPj)

281
So Keanu makes another good movie. I still contend he has the best Hollywood batting average .


He doesn't have great range but he is good in the stuff he does.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:19 PM (sKqQm)

282 A real action movie needs about one big action set piece every 20 minutes. Plane didn't have that, I think only two action scenes. But it was decent.
Posted by: ace at October 22, 2025 05:09 PM (1wjle)

Except the last scene in Con Air. Anything else would have been better in an otherwise very entertaining movie.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:19 PM (EYmYM)

283 I have never seen an entire movie with Meryl Streep in it.

I can't explain it but there's nothing appealing about her acting.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 05:20 PM (Oy/m2)

284 Women for some reason really hate Julia Robertson for some reason. Cate Blanchette is another one that seems to draw ire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:20 PM (zZu0s)

285 I have never seen an entire movie with Meryl Streep in it.

I can't explain it but there's nothing appealing about her acting.


She plays Hillary Clinton *perfectly* in The Giver

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (sKqQm)

286 The Suicide Squad is a substantially better film than Suicide Squad, and she has more to do in that one too.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025


***
Never seen any part of that one. She's in that too, huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (omVj0)

287 Nood. Luigi Mangione.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (ExV1e)

288 Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:13 PM (rHQZF)

So Keanu makes another good movie. I still contend he has the best Hollywood batting average .
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 05:15 PM (EYmYM)

******

Yeah, we picked it because it had Keanu, enjoyed it because it had Keanu and Aziz, and put up with Seth Rogan.

F*ck that guy in the goat-ass.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (rHQZF)

289 Watts was still doing less serious work, she didn't really start going interesting stuff until a few years older with Mulholland Drive
Posted by: 18-1

The 90s Mulholand Drive? The one with Kim Basinger and Jennifer Connelly in it?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (77rzZ)

290 I have never seen an entire movie with Meryl Streep in it.

I can't explain it but there's nothing appealing about her acting.
Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 05:20 PM (Oy/m2)

Defend your Life with that one guy. And Rip Torn as a heavenly lawyer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

291 269 F Hollywood is right! As well as big mouth Julia Roberts is reported to be a beetch on wheels. She pulled the, "Do you KNOW who I am at a store in NM." The cashier is reported to have said yes and that no one liked her. I like this cashier!

I blame a lot of starlets on Weinstein, especially those like Jen Lawrence, Gwen Paltrow and Meryl Streep who never said squat about him and won Oscars. Jen Lawrence is homely. Gwen is nepo. Meryl can act and fake accents, so I'll give her a break.

I look at movies on Amazon and pick and choose what I want to watch. If any of the above are in the movie I am a big fat no.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 22, 2025 05:16 PM (6PCLE)

I unironically like Julia Roberts' brother, Eric Roberts, better than her. He has almost 800 film credits to his name, even though a lot of that is "Stalked by my doctor" tier stuff, heh. But who am I to critique how someone earns a living if it's based on other people watching him (and those "Stalked" films have some charm to them).

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (9Ovst)

292 I miss hearing my grandmother say George Washington. She would say George-a wash. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Not "Warshington?"

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

No, she was italian. Well to be accurate, she was American, born here to italian parents, but went back to italy when she was 1 year old, and came back at 28. Her accent was heavy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (snZF9)

293 Anyone excited about the construction of Trump's big, beautiful ballroom. Watching people whinge about it is entertaining, but I do hope it looks in keeping with the architectural design of the White House.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (36PRH)

294 I have never seen an entire movie with Meryl Streep in it.

I can't explain it but there's nothing appealing about her acting.
Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 05:20 PM (Oy/m2)

*****

Me too.

I have nothing really against her, but *every* time I see her in a movie, I keep just thinking "OK, here is Meryl, acting a role in a movie."

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 05:23 PM (rHQZF)

295 The Suicide Squad is a substantially better film than Suicide Squad, and she has more to do in that one too.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025

***
Never seen any part of that one. She's in that too, huh?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 05:21 PM (omVj0)

Yes, that's the one with John Cena and Idris Alba, not the one with Will the Cuck.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 22, 2025 05:23 PM (dGCAG)

296 292 I miss hearing my grandmother say George Washington. She would say George-a wash. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Not "Warshington?"

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

No, she was italian. Well to be accurate, she was American, born here to italian parents, but went back to italy when she was 1 year old, and came back at 28. Her accent was heavy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 05:22 PM (snZF9)
----
You know the My Pillow guy pronounces it "Warshington."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 05:24 PM (36PRH)

297 @295 Not the one with It's Morbin Time Joker.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 05:26 PM (36PRH)

298 NOOD

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 05:27 PM (36PRH)

299 After causing a man's destruction and suicide, a decent person would suffer remorse and vow to never do such a thing again.

No. Let's make a habit of it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 05:29 PM (W7XSX)

300 I found the silver dollar Washington threw across the Potomac.
Posted by: Minelab Detectors, Inc. at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (oftw2)

I just ate a meal using George's wooden teeth.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 05:30 PM (g8Ew8)

301 LOL. I read the other day that Trump is irked that he will always come in as the third-best POTUS behind Washington and Lincoln.

Posted by: jmel at October 22, 2025 07:02 PM (bVhJi)

Illegal Alien Rams His Car Into a US Marshall Vehicle and Is Shot In Return

Unfortunately, a ricochet hit a Marshall in the hand. He's expected to recover.

The illegal alien turns out to be a TikToker with a long history of following around and stalking ICE agents.

The Cultural Enricher was shot in the elbow which is too bad, really, because that was his cancer-curing elbow and who knows when he'll recover.



The illegal immigrant who was shot after allegedly ramming his car into federal agents in Los Angeles is a TikTok star famous for recording ICE arrests.

Carlitos Ricardo Parias -- who was hit in the elbow Tuesday in a tense standoff where a US marshal was also shot -- is known as Richard LA on TikTok, where he has more than 130,000 followers, ABC 7 reported.

He mostly follows ICE agents around Los Angeles, recording them detaining suspected illegal immigrants, getting him hundreds of thousands of views and likes.

The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion, allegedly rammed his Toyota Camry into law enforcement vehicles after agents boxed him in following a traffic stop on Tuesday, officials said.

...

Parias was arrested and charged with assaulting a federal officer. He is scheduled to make his initial court appearance at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Wednesday and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.

Despite Parias being in the country illegally and accused of dangerously ramming agents, he was celebrated by Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price.

"Richard is a pillar of our community, a fearless citizen journalist whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of South Central Los Angeles," Price wrote in a statement.


Related: A man rammed his truck into the security barrier outside the White House.

"At approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove a vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate located at 17th & E St, NW, in Washington, DC," the protective agency said in a statement.

Our investigation into the cause of this collision is ongoing."

...

The unidentified suspect was taken to a local hospital for a mental health screening.

It was not immediately clear whether the collision was intentional or accidental.

Vehicles have crashed into White House gates several times in the past, including in January and May of last year. In May 2023, a driver rammed a U-Haul into a gate and fessed up to plotting to kill former President Joe Biden.

The incident comes amid rising concerns about political violence in the US.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM




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1 1st

Posted by: GF at October 22, 2025 03:21 PM (iVUs+)

2 Huh

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (eB6bb)

4 Arrested? ICE needs more rangetime.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

5 I'm convinced certain areas in LA -- entire neighborhoods -- are probably 90% illegals.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

6 Shot in the elbow must be fun.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 03:24 PM (s9EN2)

7 On a previous similar incident, the MSM referred to the illegal alien as "unarmed" since he was only using a car to try to kill the ICE agents.

I am a scientist. Do you think any "journalists" would volunteer to test the theory that a moving car constitutes a deadly weapon?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM (HlyYF)

8 whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of South Central Los Angeles

East L.A. is where it's at, esse.

Posted by: Cheech Marin at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM (bqcFN)

9
Shot in the elbow must be fun.
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team

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>>that was his cancer-curing elbow

lol ace yer killin' me

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM (ldc7S)

10 My future Canadian neighbour...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM (Sco7b)

11 There was a time when sharp elbows were more respected around here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM (bqcFN)

12 We're told the gentleman who crashed into the White House gate is an enthusiastic MAGA supporter who simply wanted Trump's autograph.

Posted by: This is CNN at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (m0WlR)

13 Have we heard any more about the sniper perch at PBI? Or should Trump's family start running zig zag any time they are headed from the car to the plane?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (GcJvH)

14 The 44-year-old TikTokker
......

needs to grow the fuck up

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (v0R5T)

15 >> I'm convinced certain areas in LA -- entire neighborhoods -- are probably 90% illegals.

And they all vote. Same with NY. In fact it’s so bad in NY they are now moving into the suburbs.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (Oy+3b)

16 4 Arrested? ICE needs more rangetime.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM


I have observed the shooting skills of several of the 'ettes.

Putting a few of them on overwatch duty would keep the ICE agents very safe.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (HlyYF)

17 Richard? Nice try.. How about Carlitos Ricardo Parias.. His real name

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:27 PM (VE6XX)

18 6 Shot in the elbow must be fun.
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 03:24 PM (s9EN2)

I hyperextended my elbow during a high school football game forever ago. I still remember the pain I felt when I got back to the trainer's office and he turned my elbow in just the right way...almost blacked out. That was just separation, couldn't imagine shattered bone from a bullet.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 03:27 PM (9Ovst)

19 Well, at least it wasn't a KIA.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 03:27 PM (mlg/3)

20 Despite Parias being in the country illegally and accused of dangerously ramming agents, he was celebrated by Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price.

"Richard is a pillar of our community, a fearless citizen journalist whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of South Central Los Angeles," Price wrote in a statement.

Charge him under 18 USC 1324 Aiding and Abetting Illegal Aliens. This type of statement when knowing he is here illegally, is specifically addressed in that law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (mP0Kj)

21 9 Shot in the elbow must be fun.
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team

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>>that was his cancer-curing elbow

lol ace yer killin' me
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM


Of course that was his cancer-curing elbow ... it is the holy one!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (HlyYF)

22 A tale of a celebrated storyteller from a distant land, and his encounter with the US Marshal Service.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (rj6Yv)

23 Once again a Latinx falls victim to the Trump Terror. We should all be ashamed.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (s0JqF)

24
>>The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion, allegedly rammed his Toyota Camry into law enforcement vehicles after agents boxed him in following a traffic stop on Tuesday, officials said.

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We're gonna run out of hedge-words. There's a "reportedly," an "allegedly," and an "officials said." Does this guy even exist?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (ldc7S)

25 Shot in the elbow must be fun.
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A shot in the arm is considered a pick-me up.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (TN0g+)

26
"Richard is a pillar of our community, a fearless citizen journalist whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of South Central Los Angeles," Price wrote in a statement.


Citizen Journalist ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (VE6XX)

27 >>that was his cancer-curing elbow

lol ace yer killin' me
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM (ldc7S)

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Ditto.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (PMtkd)

28 >> And they all vote.

Yup. Why else would Democrat states fight so hard to keep their voter rolls secret?

Now, how many legal immigrants who aren’t citizens (eg H1b) do you think are registered to vote in Dem-run cities and states?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (l3YAf)

29 Head on a swivel, folks, especially at ATMs and grocery stores next month.

These people are not playing when it comes to their EBT getting cut off, and they are not shy about what they're willing to do.

https://tinyurl.com/y65rv5tw

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (o18eU)

30 Marshall = surname
Marshal = position

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (pNkJD)

31 Who do I have to beat up to become a "pillar of the community"?

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (dIske)

32 TGTC! The Blade rates this as "Very Highly True" given that this guy is clearly a creepy faggot into perversion. Plus, he admitted he was beaten up by kathoeys. Who would make up a story like that?


Luigi Mangione got beaten up by seven "ladyboys" in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.

The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

https://tinyurl.com/5ea5cv36

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

33 It might be amusing to see just how big a truck going how fast it would take to get thru the WH gates but I ain't trying it.

Hydraulic bollards with reactive armor FTW.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (FhXTo)

34 14 The 44-year-old TikTokker
......

needs to grow the fuck up
Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (v0R5T)

Take a good look at his TAXES. Making money off Tik Tok? with a Fraudulent ID? or is he just not paying taxes?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (mP0Kj)

35
>>The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion

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

Who'd he escape from? A French security chief ffs?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (ldc7S)

36 Arrested? ICE needs more rangetime.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM


No wobbly shit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (ySpAZ)

37 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (bqcFN)

38 32 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by seven "ladyboys" in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.

The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

https://tinyurl.com/5ea5cv36
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

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All 7 penetrated him.

No doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

39 The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion, allegedly rammed his Toyota Camry into law enforcement vehicles after agents boxed him in following a traffic stop on Tuesday, officials said.

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

We're gonna run out of hedge-words. There's a "reportedly," an "allegedly," and an "officials said." Does this guy even exist?
-------
So many missed opportunities: Toyota Camry was "allegedly his", the "alledged" law enforcement vehicles, an "alleged" traffic stop, and alleged "officials" said.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)

40
"Richard is a pillar of our community,

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Yes, I'm sure he's instilling the best American values for his community.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (PMtkd)

41 News says Dems plan to create a website to track ICE actions. Recommend all conservatives bombard with false reports to overwhelm with garbage data and render useless.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (cHNrw)

42 At approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove a vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate
.....

He was late for work on the new moat around Trump Castle.

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

43 37 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (bqcFN)

======

Because the White House configuration from the 1940s is sacred and holy.

According to secularists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

44 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by seven "ladyboys" in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.

The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

https://tinyurl.com/5ea5cv36
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

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All 7 penetrated him.

No doubt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
______

He was "beaten up" by their penises. Like Mohammad was that night.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

45

Despite Parias being in the country illegally and accused of dangerously ramming agents, he was celebrated by Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price.

-----

Web search:

Curren Price, a Los Angeles City Council member for District 9, is currently facing new felony charges related to corruption, including embezzlement and conflict of interest. He has been accused of steering millions of dollars in city contracts to agencies that paid his wife's consulting firm, which has raised significant concerns about systemic corruption in Los Angeles government. Price has pleaded not guilty to these charges and is set to appear in court soon.

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Huh.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (GVQFY)

46 Marshall = surname
Marshal = position
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM


Martial = adjective

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (ySpAZ)

47 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.
------

Sorry guys, Martin Sheen is retired--the show isn't coming back.


/

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0g+)

48 Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.


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You get roughed up when you don't pay. What ladyboy doesn't want a repeat, femmy customer?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:32 PM (PMtkd)

49 Tik-tokker=flee bitten, horse's ass of humanity surviving on stale cheetos and hot pockets in his midget granny's basement and whacking off to tele-tubbies with an orange- stained tube sock.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at October 22, 2025 03:32 PM (WQDw6)

50 West Wing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (zZu0s)

51 21 9 Shot in the elbow must be fun.
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team

===========

>>that was his cancer-curing elbow

lol ace yer killin' me
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM

Of course that was his cancer-curing elbow ... it is the holy one!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (HlyYF)

Elbows? /cries

Posted by: Michelle Fields... at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (mP0Kj)

52 Marsh, y'all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (wVcYX)

53 "The incident comes amid rising concerns about political violence in the US."

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Wrong, NY Post. The incident comes amid rising ACTS of political violence BY DEMOCRATS AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES in the US.

Posted by: bearski at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (Bhsk7)

54 43 37 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (bqcFN)

======

Because the White House configuration from the 1940s is sacred and holy.

According to secularists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

The White House needs a gun range.
Make leftist heads explode.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (Sco7b)

55 46 Marshall = surname
Marshal = position
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM

Martial = adjective
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (ySpAZ)

______________________

Maher Shaw....the gay looking drape Bill Maher wears when he goes clubbing.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (dIske)

56
7

I am a scientist. Do you think any "journalists" would volunteer to test the theory that a moving car constitutes a deadly weapon?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:25 PM

--------

I'm sure they would. You don't even have to ask them first.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (GVQFY)

57 48 Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.


-----

You get roughed up when you don't pay. What ladyboy doesn't want a repeat, femmy customer?
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:32 PM (PMtkd)

Tranny Slap Fight Video, or it didn't happen....

Internet rulez!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (mP0Kj)

58 Because the White House configuration from the 1940s is sacred and holy.

According to secularists.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

Obama added a basketball court. Big Mike added a jelqing station.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (l3YAf)

59 I feel comfortable rooting for Toronto over the Dodgers. L.A. doesn't really count as an American city anymore.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (D4VWn)

60 and alleged "officials" said.

Self described "officials".

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

61 “Curren Price, a Los Angeles City Council member for District 9, is currently facing new felony charges related to corruption, including embezzlement and conflict of interest. He has been accused of steering millions of dollars in city contracts to agencies that paid his wife's consulting firm, which has raised significant concerns about systemic corruption in Los Angeles government. Price has pleaded not guilty to these charges and is set to appear in court soon.”

He networked, made lots of strategic friends, and is now funneling city contracts to his wife? I don’t see the problem. We should all be doing that.

Posted by: Americans at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (pNkJD)

62 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
......

Every King needs a new castle.

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (v0R5T)

63 You get roughed up when you don't pay. What ladyboy doesn't want a repeat, femmy customer?
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:32 PM (PMtkd)

Well, he IS a commie wannabe. Maybe he told them it was their duty to surrender their manginas, comrades. For the Greater Good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

64 Big Mike added a jelqing station.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM


There's no way I'm looking that up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (ySpAZ)

65 Richard. So..... "Dick"

Posted by: CCW at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (4QBVB)

66 The White House needs a gun range.
Make leftist heads explode.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (Sco7b)

repurpose the bowling alley in the basement to a Pistol Range?

Works.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (mP0Kj)

67 OT: OMG!

https://tinyurl.com/y66u6jbs

This is not right.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (abIsI)

68
Charge him under 18 USC 1324 Aiding and Abetting Illegal Aliens. This type of statement when knowing he is here illegally, is specifically addressed in that law.
Posted by: Romeo13

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

N****** W**** H*****

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (ldc7S)

69 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by seven "ladyboys" in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.

The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

https://tinyurl.com/5ea5cv36
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

=====

All 7 penetrated him.

No doubt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)


And now we know the reason for Luigi's rage.

United Healthcare doesn't cover "tightening surgery" for a lax and stretched out anal sphincter.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (iJfKG)

70 The Cultural Enricher was shot in the elbow

agent needs more practice with the hand targets as shown in the well-known documentary "rustler's rhapsody".

Posted by: rex o'herlihan at October 22, 2025 03:36 PM (sGtp+)

71 Obama added a basketball court. Big Mike added a jelqing station.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (l3YAf)

I'm sad to say I know what that is.
Penis health is very important.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Sco7b)

72 repurpose the bowling alley in the basement to a Pistol Range?

Works.


Have the WH press corps run back and forth at the end of it, like the ducks you see at fairs.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Riz8t)

73 You guys are judgy, today. It's like the goodest book sayeth: let he has not tussled with a cackle of ladyboys after nonpayment for services rendered throw the first green dildo.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 03:36 PM (9FEtL)

74 He networked, made lots of strategic friends, and is now funneling city contracts to his wife? I don’t see the problem. We should all be doing that.

Posted by: Americans at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (pNkJD)

Really though, the nerve... who does he think he is?

A Congressman?

Posted by: Nazi Pelousy at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (mP0Kj)

75 13 Have we heard any more about the sniper perch at PBI? Or should Trump's family start running zig zag any time they are headed from the car to the plane?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (GcJvH)


SERPENTINE SERPENTINE!

Posted by: Chlamydia Thundershart at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (leZwX)

76 Obama added a basketball court. Big Mike added a jelqing station.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director


Clinton established the first WH gloryhole.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (abIsI)

77 Parias has to be 4 feet tall

Posted by: mishdog at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (7A7N9)

78 Speaking of violence the horde will be interested in this character:

https://tinyurl.com/23t56k8b

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (n5tGW)

79 >> United Healthcare doesn't cover "tightening surgery" for a lax and stretched out anal sphincter.

It’s probably mandatory under Obamacare.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (l3YAf)

80 We needs better Toyota Camry control!

Posted by: Dept. of Redundancy at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (oftw2)

81 I'm pretty sure the WH once had a gun range in the basement, and I think it's 50% likely it still does.

100% likely that Super Luigi had a gun range in his asshole.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

82 "Richard is a pillar of our community,



He's repping the criminal pillar.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Qd7dZ)

83 Marshall = surname
Marshal = position
----
Martial = adjective


I hate you all.

Posted by: Jan at October 22, 2025 03:38 PM (3nLb4)

84 All 7 penetrated him.

No doubt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

"Stabbed" multiple times?

Posted by: mishdog at October 22, 2025 03:38 PM (7A7N9)

85 Didn't "Michelle" take some roses out to plant some bullshit garden?

I may have that story ass-backward.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (PMtkd)

86 Now y’all know why I said “No yellow”..

White ladyboys only.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (l3YAf)

87 Marshall Amps FTW!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (wVcYX)

88 Those are RUMORS. I did not kill the CEO because of my prolapsed anus.

Wait...

Forget I said anything.

Posted by: Luigi Mangione at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (m0WlR)

89 The 27-year-old accused assassin allegedly bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the US in July 2024 and allegedly shot Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

https://tinyurl.com/5ea5cv36
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

=====

All 7 penetrated him.

No doubt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

And now we know the reason for Luigi's rage.

United Healthcare doesn't cover "tightening surgery" for a lax and stretched out anal sphincter.

Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 03:35 PM (iJfKG)
___

I'm willing to bet a few of the 7 had their dicks cut off

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

90 Off to the DMV to renew tags.

If I shoot myself in the foot first (like an ATF safety trainer), will that make the experience more painful, or less painful?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (HlyYF)

91 With the abomination in Chicago, I don't want to hear Dems complaining ever again about new construction.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 03:40 PM (Riz8t)

92 Clinton established the first WH gloryhole.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM (abIsI)

----

hhhahahahhhaaaha

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:40 PM (PMtkd)

93 Speaking of violence the horde will be interested in this character:

https://tinyurl.com/23t56k8b
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM

Otter 841, Jr.?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:40 PM (6lr4+)

94 How does LA subreddit discuss it?

ICE agents shoot and injure man, deputy US Marshal while serving warrant in South LA.

Considering they’re brandishing weapons and pointing them at bystanders, this tracks. I’m surprised more people haven’t been killed already.

They shot a Marshall? They are going to jail now. That’s gonna be one messy jurisdiction fight.

The Marshals were working WITH ICE on this kidnapping. The Marshall got shot on accident because ICE agents are fucking morons.

Their victim, a grass roots journalist, went to the hospital for surgery. Much of the hospital had to be locked down and he wasn't allowed access to a lawyer for hours.

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents opened fire...when the suspect allegedly rammed a law enforcement vehicle with his car as he tried to run away."

They fired "defensive" shots while the suspect was attempting to run away? I guess noncompliance is generally viewed by American law enforcement as a mortal threat

ICE are liars. Investigators believe gunfire erupted after an ICE officer confronted the suspect’s vehicle and smashed a window with their service weapon.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 03:40 PM (JCZqz)

95
Marshall = surname
Marshal = position
----
Martial = adjective

_________

Marichal = pitcher

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 03:40 PM (tgvbd)

96 Yeah her totes real 'vegetable' garden that made them 'down to earth'. Right.

Did any of the mansions they bought posted presidency have a vegetable garden? Hell, they could have bought a whole farm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)

97 94 Their victim, a grass roots journalist, went to the hospital for surgery. Much of the hospital had to be locked down and he wasn't allowed access to a lawyer for hours.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 03:40 PM (JCZqz)

=====

"Bruh! I have a new moniker to use!"
-Hamas

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

98 Did the bullet include instructions in Spanish?

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at October 22, 2025 03:41 PM (tMaaq)

99 Tracking ICE agents was trending on X I believe

Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 03:41 PM (YwEeS)

100 I'm willing to bet a few of the 7 had their dicks cut off
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

They didn’t cut off my fists, farang.

Posted by: Thai Ladyboy at October 22, 2025 03:41 PM (l3YAf)

101
Their victim, a grass roots journalist, went to the hospital for surgery. Much of the hospital had to be locked down and he wasn't allowed access to a lawyer for hours.



Forgot the illegal part

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:41 PM (VE6XX)

102 ICE needs to change its motto to

"F**k Around and Find Out."

Or the Latin equivalent thereof.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

103 What's the word for a large group of ladyboys? Gaggle, school, pod, pride, or what?

Posted by: Backpacking Through Phuket at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (oftw2)

104 85 Didn't "Michelle" take some roses out to plant some bullshit garden?

I may have that story ass-backward.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM (PMtkd)

I LOVED how the press tried to make that frumpy sack of potatoes into the next Jackie O.

I think that lasted about 3 months before they gave up and focussed on her very toned arms.

Jelqing has side benefits...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Sco7b)

105 Of course that was his cancer-curing elbow ... it is the holy one!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (HlyYF)

Elbows? /cries
Posted by: Michelle Fields... at October 22, 2025 03:33 PM (mP0Kj)


Oh, shut up!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (PiwSw)

106 93 Speaking of violence the horde will be interested in this character:

https://tinyurl.com/23t56k8b
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 22, 2025 03:37 PM

Otter 841, Jr.?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025

I'd rather have an otter ripping my stick than a great white shark.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (hs4ik)

107 This could be Ace!

"A fearless citizen journalist whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of the Ewok world."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (n9ltV)

108 103 What's the word for a large group of ladyboys? Gaggle, school, pod, pride, or what?
Posted by: Backpacking Through Phuket at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (oftw2)

A group of Ladybugs is called a Lovely

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (VE6XX)

109
Kind of on topic because it's more Californication. DUI dash cam footage of a 21-year-old trucker who somehow got a CDL (21 is the minimum age). The Sandhu Trucking website is little more than a stock image and a contact form.

https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/
status/1981049502531539271

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (ldc7S)

110 Have you seen the fingernails "Michelle" has been sporting?

She's not working in a fricken vegetable garden. Ever.

She looks absolutely, how do the kids say it, "ratchet."

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (PMtkd)

111 On I was wrong the DEMOCRAT party is going to have an ICE tracker

https://instapundit.com/752323/

Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (YwEeS)

112 Then: Pushing a federal agent is an insurrection that should be punished by years in a black site

Now:Richard is a pillar of our community, a fearless citizen journalist whose authentic storytelling has consistently uplifted the unheard voices of South Central Los Angeles

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

113 What's the word for a large group of ladyboys? Gaggle, school, pod, pride, or what?
Posted by: Backpacking Through Phuket at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (oftw2)
__________

Grindr

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

114 Off to the DMV to renew tags.

If I shoot myself in the foot first (like an ATF safety trainer), will that make the experience more painful, or less painful?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot


Less painful. You'll be too busy worrying about your foot to worry about how they are screwing you.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (Qd7dZ)

115
I LOVED how the press tried to make that frumpy sack of potatoes into the next Jackie O.

_________

She has all the beauty, elegance and charm of a Raiders linebacker with a bad hangover.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (tgvbd)

116
Jelqing has side benefits...
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Sco7b)

I'm sorry I looked this word up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (hs4ik)

117 Jelqing has side benefits...
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM



It's a hair straightener and a floor wax.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)

118
Marichal = pitcher
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Don't mention that name! Gives me a headache just to think about him.

Posted by: John Roseboro at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (oftw2)

119 On I was wrong the DEMOCRAT party is going to have an ICE tracker

Arrest them all.

This is no different then being a getaway driver for a bankrobber

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

120 A 'Miss Lindsey.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

121 The lesson that the Portland political leadership took away from the 2020 riots was that it would be better to ally with Antifa if riots recurred.

The local paper is now completely anti-ICE and pro-Antifa, using rhetoric that you only saw in the hard-Left "alt-weeklies" in 2020.

The Portland police are selectively enforcing the law around the ICE buildings against conservatives, and not against Antifa. The police say that blocking public roadways is an exercise of "First Amendment rights", and the police is apparently actively working with Antifa to build criminal cases against the Federal agents protecting the ICE building.

In a court filing trying to block the deployment of the National Guard, a Portland police sergeant basically said that the solution for conservative journalists being assaulted in front of the ICE building was for conservative journalists to not be near the ICE building.

The sergeant characterized the assaults as "fights" - the two people most assaulted are small women, but yeah, they are voluntarily engaging in fisticuffs with large Antifa males.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (xTIDn)

122
A group of Ladybugs is called a Lovely
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (VE6XX)

Loveliness...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (VE6XX)

123 Gaggle, school, pod, pride, or what?
Posted by: Backpacking

I vote for a "mince" or a "sashay."

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

124 Kind of on topic because it's more Californication. DUI dash cam footage of a 21-year-old trucker who somehow got a CDL (21 is the minimum age). The Sandhu Trucking website is little more than a stock image and a contact form.

https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/
status/1981049502531539271
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:43 PM (ldc7S)

Some of these Cali CDLs have Real IDs. How does an alien get a Real ID?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (l3YAf)

125 113 What's the word for a large group of ladyboys? Gaggle, school, pod, pride, or what?
Posted by: Backpacking Through Phuket at October 22, 2025 03:42 PM (oftw2)

I'm happy to never ever need to know this.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Sco7b)

126 Joder y descubrirlo. (Spanish equivalent)

Vaga et inveni. (Latin)

skjdflkdj;sjdfkj;kj (Cracked out guy in front of Sunoco station)

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (dIske)

127 Yes it seems the Democrats have decided on full scale insurrection.

Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (YwEeS)

128 Oh, shut up!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie



You take Rachel Corrie out on a date. After the date, you take her home and slip her under the front door.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Qd7dZ)

129 OT: OMG!

https://tinyurl.com/y66u6jbs

This is not right.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
......

After the gas, she will check the air pressure in her butt.

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

130 A "mince" of ladyboys.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (lWPQK)

131 Yes it seems the Democrats have decided on full scale insurrection.
Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM



again.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

132 News says Dems plan to create a website to track ICE actions.
-----

If anyone on "our" side were actually one to take action, the actual creation and implementation of this (particularly by a government official or officials) would seem to violate a number of laws.

But hey guys, totes keep following that "blue slip" tradition of working with those honorable folks across the aisle.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (TN0g+)

133
Some of these Cali CDLs have Real IDs. How does an alien get a Real ID?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (l3YAf)

I don't have one and it's fraud, they're cheating. I guarantee you some idiot DMV worker has been helping them cheat.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (hs4ik)

134 The sergeant characterized the assaults as "fights" - the two people most assaulted are small women, but yeah, they are voluntarily engaging in fisticuffs with large Antifa males.

Oh, and the head of the Oregon National Guard announced that if the Guard was deployed, that the Guard would "protect the people of Portland".

He's not actually in command once the Guard has been Federalized, but we are heading into South Carolina territory here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (xTIDn)

135 Kind of on topic because it's more Californication. DUI dash cam footage of a 21-year-old trucker who somehow got a CDL (21 is the minimum age). The Sandhu Trucking website is little more than a stock image and a contact form.

On a tangent if you had told people 60 years ago we'd routinely have stopped traffic on our highways I don't think they'd believe you.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

136 131 Yes it seems the Democrats have decided on full scale insurrection.
Posted by: steevy at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM


again.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

=====

BLM and Antifa 2020 was largely random and directed to spaces federal buildings generally were in save blue zones.

Now...they're targeting specific government officials.

It's an escalation for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

137 32 Who would make up a story like that?

Who would ADMIT to a story like that? Like, even under duress?

Posted by: Soylent Red at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (wh7vU)

138 The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion, allegedly rammed his Toyota Camry into law enforcement vehicles after agents boxed him in following a traffic stop on Tuesday, officials said.

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

Wait, illegal aliens are driving on our roads?

Next you'll be telling me that they're driving tractor-trailers ad well -- and don't carry any automobile insurance, and blue city & state cops usually just let them go after accidents and traffic stops ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 03:48 PM (8WAox)

139 I'm sorry I looked this word up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 03:44 PM (hs4ik)

My apologies.

Sadly, I can't bring you back 15 minutes in time to your innocence.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:48 PM (Sco7b)

140 I'm sorry I looked this word up.
Posted by: CaliGirl

That makes two of us.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

141 We need common sense car control!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 03:48 PM (8RjCi)

142 The Democrats are going to lose their slaves again.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

143 >> Who would ADMIT to a story like that? Like, even under duress?

Leftists routinely brag about degenerate stuff you wouldn’t be able to get me to confess to with sodium pentathol and a blowtorch.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:49 PM (l3YAf)

144 It's like the goodest book sayeth: let he has not tussled with a cackle of ladyboys after nonpayment for services rendered throw the first green dildo.
-------

Your knowledge of the Koran far surpasses mine.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)

145 This time we need to hang the Democrats after the war.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 03:49 PM (jc0TO)

146 Democrats have endorsed the Dox-and-Harass (and hopefully kill) strategy. They've become an official insurrectionist movement (as if they weren't already).

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 22, 2025 03:50 PM (UseAb)

147 I hope they send Carlitos Ricardo Parias to CECOT. What a pity that americans get to pay for expensive surgery to fix his elbow.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 22, 2025 03:50 PM (41Sxf)

148 The 44-year-old TikTokker, who had reportedly escaped from custody on a previous occasion, allegedly rammed his Toyota Camry into law enforcement vehicles after agents boxed him in following a traffic stop on Tuesday, officials said.

If I understand the leftwing take on this, the police are obligated to let him escape. If they box him in then he is allowed to drive through them and if they get killed it is on them

Which is...a hell of a take.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:50 PM (sKqQm)

149 Some of these Cali CDLs have Real IDs. How does an alien get a Real ID?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (l3YAf)

You don't need to have a real ID for a Drivers License in Calif. Not even for a CDL.

In fact, they will give known illegals drivers licenses by law... and then ask if you want to register to vote, even with no proof of citizenship (motor voter law)

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:50 PM (mP0Kj)

150 The sergeant characterized the assaults as "fights" - the two people most assaulted are small women, but yeah, they are voluntarily engaging in fisticuffs with large Antifa males.

Oh, and the head of the Oregon National Guard announced that if the Guard was deployed, that the Guard would "protect the people of Portland".

He's not actually in command once the Guard has been Federalized, but we are heading into South Carolina territory here.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (xTIDn)

We're on Ready 5 Standby, willing to help if needed.

Posted by: Oregon Highway Department at October 22, 2025 03:51 PM (wVcYX)

151 Eight years. Instigator murder for anybody should be twenty years. Double for cops.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 03:51 PM (EyfuW)

152 I'm pretty proud of myself, under incredible internal duress, I'm not going to look up that word.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:51 PM (PMtkd)

153 I would suggest the estates of the victim of the illegal alien driver should sue the governor, SoS, and whatever bureaucrat heads the license issuing department in CA, personally.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

154
So this Parias pillar is an illegal aliens who is eligible for 8 years in prison for tangential offenses. What theoretically happens next? He gets kicked out and serves his sentence in his country of origin? He becomes a guest of the American taxpayer and then gets kicked out? He gets kicked back to his home country and trafficked back in at the earliest opportunity?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:52 PM (ldc7S)

155 Like many First Families, the Clintons updated and refurbished parts of the White House, with funding from private donations.
Renovations included the family quarters and the president's Oval Office and Treaty Room.
Hillary Clinton oversaw the project, researching the mansion's history extensively.
In a rare step for a first lady, she had an office in the West Wing to manage her initiatives.

After leaving office in January 2001, the Clintons took with them an estimated $190,000 worth of furniture, gifts, and mementos.
The move drew criticism when it came to light that some donors believed the furniture was intended for the permanent White House collection, not for the Clintons' personal use.
After a public outcry, the Clintons returned some items and reimbursed donors for others.
Ultimately, the Clintons returned $28,000 in furniture and paid for another $89,000 in items that may have been for the government.

😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 03:52 PM (NFX2v)

156 I'd like to see an automatic federal death penalty for anyone that commits a violent felony in US territory. It would resolve some problems pretty quickly...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

157 Trump/DHS needs to set up some kind of incentive pay for ICE and other Feds involved in violent use of force incidents. A threat/risk/mental health incentive bonus of $1000 an incident or something. Make it widely known, maybe even have the arresting ICE agents mention it on camera.

"Ma'am, step out of the vehicle please. If you refuse, I will smash your window and use force to remove you, and get an extra $1000 bonus today. (Smash) thank you for the bonus, ma'am. If you continue to kick and strike me, I'll be eligible for an additional $1000 payment. Thank you."

They Left would howl with rage, and say it encourages ICE to be violent and bait people in attacking them. Then Trump has another AI video of him shitting on them, and the dumping buckets of money on ICE.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (JCZqz)

158 >>>The Cultural Enricher was shot in the elbow which is too bad, really, because that was his cancer-curing elbow and who knows when he'll recover.

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (i24o9)

159
85 Didn't "Michelle" take some roses out to plant some bullshit garden?

I may have that story ass-backward.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:39 PM

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She did. Vegetable garden. Or rather, abused underlings did. The vegetables had so much lead in them that they couldn't be eaten.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (ES1Rb)

160 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)

161 14 The 44-year-old TikTokker
......

needs to grow the fuck up
Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (v0R5T)

What did this shitbird do for a living? Mooch?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (urtE/)

162 59 I feel comfortable rooting for Toronto over the Dodgers. L.A. doesn't really count as an American city anymore.
Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (D4VWn)
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Yeah, but Toronto's not even a Western Hemisphere city anymore.

Posted by: Ian Faith at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (0bjKf)

163 "Richard is a pillar of our community ..."

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Given that your turd-world shithole "community" is crumbling into microscopic fecal matter along with the rest of your state, I'd rate this as "mostly true."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 03:54 PM (8WAox)

164 160 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)

Putin dissed Trump one time too many...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:54 PM (VE6XX)

165 I jelq it to the east
And I jelq it to the west
And I jelq it to the woman that I love the best
I be jelqin'

Posted by: Clarence Carter at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wVcYX)

166 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.

Maria Shriver was angry about it, and got replies from a lot of people on X reminding her that JFK did the last major renovation there.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (2ocoG)

167 What did this shitbird do for a living? Mooch?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK

To be fair, I hear she pays pretty well.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

168 Now, how many legal immigrants who aren’t citizens (eg H1b) do you think are registered to vote in Dem-run cities and states?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (l3YAf)

Many. Before getting her citizenship, Gingy had to fight with the Baltimore DMV to not be automatically registered. Don't know if Texas was any better.
It's one of the ways the left creates fake ballots, that they then fill out themselves.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (lFFaq)

169 Antifa maybe?

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (+qU29)

170 Yeah, but Toronto's not even a Western Hemisphere city anymore.

I saw a photo of the graduating class from one Toronto HS this past year. Its all people of South Asian descent and one pale blonde. And...when you zoom in the pale blonde is actually east Asian with dyed hair.

But the great replacement theory is just a myth.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

171 Posted by: Clarence Carter at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (ySpAZ)

172 Ultimately, the Clintons returned $28,000 in furniture and paid for another $89,000 in items that may have been for the government.

😉
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 03:52 PM (NFX2v)

I couldn't spend that much for furniture if I tried. Thieving shitheads, the both of them.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (urtE/)

173 160 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)

Totally not a fan of this

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (/6GbT)

174 166 Meanwhile, DU commenters remain *Big Mad* about the East Wing.

Maria Shriver was angry about it, and got replies from a lot of people on X reminding her that JFK did the last major renovation there.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 03:55 PM (2ocoG)

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None of it really matters, but getting the left riled up over freaking renovations...twice in a year (Rose Garden changes from a few months ago) has got to be just...exhausting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

175
I would suggest the estates of the victim of the illegal alien driver should sue the governor, SoS, and whatever bureaucrat heads the license issuing department in CA, personally.
Posted by: 18-1

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I absolutely would do it. It wouldn't go anywhere because of noblesse privilege, but I'd do my best to get Newsom's name in headlines for it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:56 PM (ldc7S)

176 Some of these Cali CDLs have Real IDs. How does an alien get a Real ID?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 03:45 PM (l3YAf)

I don't have one and it's fraud, they're cheating. I guarantee you some idiot DMV worker has been helping them cheat.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 03:47 PM (hs4ik)
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I agree a big portion are inside jobs for bribes. But the documents required for Real ID (if you already have a license) are easy to forge. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

177 160 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)

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To ME this is utterly depressing. We should stay out of that mess, no money, no weapons, no flags in idiot's yards.

YMMV

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:56 PM (PMtkd)

178 Putin dissed Trump one time too many...
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Yep.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:57 PM (paSBy)

179 164 160 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)

Putin dissed Trump one time too many...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:54 PM (VE6XX)

Didn't Putty and Trump just have a couple hour phone call, and agree to meet?

This seems... weirdly timed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:58 PM (mP0Kj)

180 Trump needed to step on Zelensky , not reward him .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 03:58 PM (EYmYM)

181 "pillar of our community"

Fuck you. There is no coexisting with cocksuckers that think this way.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 22, 2025 03:58 PM (iehdI)

182 164 160 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)
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That's 200 precise hits up to 1500 miles away

Posted by: WIsRich at October 22, 2025 03:58 PM (+xcAz)

183 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (paSBy)

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To ME this is utterly depressing. We should stay out of that mess, no money, no weapons, no flags in idiot's yards.
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There's no reason to be doing this. None. Let them fight each other perpetually.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 03:58 PM (TN0g+)

184 I'm not rootin' for Putin anymore. Guy's a first-class shithead. But so is Zelensky. A plague on both their houses.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

185 One headline says Trump was demanding Lil Z agree to giving the independent minded provinces independence but...giving him Tomahawks isn't going to make him more malleable on that

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

186 184 I'm not rootin' for Putin anymore. Guy's a first-class shithead. But so is Zelensky. A plague on both their houses.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

I'm with you

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 03:59 PM (VE6XX)

187 I agree a big portion are inside jobs for bribes. But the documents required for Real ID (if you already have a license) are easy to forge. Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

You don't need a Real ID for a Calif Drivers license... mine is NOT a Real ID... if I need to fly I use my Military Retired ID card.

And Illegals are given drivers licenses in Calif by law... with no markings as to Immigration status, EXCEPT it not a Real ID.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (mP0Kj)

188 On I was wrong the DEMOCRAT party is going to have an ICE tracker

Yeah, it'd sure be a shame if it got overwhelmed with bogus reports to the point of uselessness. A darn, darn shame.

Posted by: Jan at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (3nLb4)

189 This is getting better and better.

>>@BigSteve207

>>NEW: Ex-Marine Graham Platner Taught Military Tactics, Recruited for Socialist Paramilitary Group in Maine

>>Reddit posts reveal embattled progressive star recruited and provided firearms training for the Maine Socialist Rifle Association...

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

190 Ya know what else is a shame? Lame sock fails.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (3nLb4)

191 162 59 I feel comfortable rooting for Toronto over the Dodgers. L.A. doesn't really count as an American city anymore.
Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (D4VWn)

As one of the Canadians here....go LA.

Unjabbed were banned fron the stadium. We don't deserve nice things.

And Ohtani is AMAZING! I'll happily root for him.

Out of the stadium....incredible.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (Sco7b)

192 Didn't Putty and Trump just have a couple hour phone call, and agree to meet?

This seems... weirdly timed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:58
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He canceled it. Instead, 200 missiles.

Posted by: WIsRich at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (+xcAz)

193 Didn't Putty and Trump just have a couple hour phone call, and agree to meet?
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The scheduled meeting in Budapest is off. I thought Trump's proposal to freeze everything is place was very reasonable for Russia, but they refused to negotiate and insisted that Zelensky's government had to go.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (paSBy)

194 189 This is getting better and better.

>>@BigSteve207

>>NEW: Ex-Marine Graham Platner Taught Military Tactics, Recruited for Socialist Paramilitary Group in Maine

>>Reddit posts reveal embattled progressive star recruited and provided firearms training for the Maine Socialist Rifle Association...
Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

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Thought exercise:

Does this make Platner more or less popular with...Democrat primary voters?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

195 Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

Another rich kid pretending to be working class.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (EYmYM)

196 On the Goolag home page, the White House gatecrasher is shown with a photo of a troglodyte-looking individual, and the headline blares that he "threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries."

Messaging. It's what They do.

Posted by: Beverly at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (Epeb0)

197 One headline says Trump was demanding Lil Z agree to giving the independent minded provinces independence but...giving him Tomahawks isn't going to make him more malleable on that

Trump should give Z a gold plated piano for his dick.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (2ocoG)

198 A third refinery processing Russian oil (this one in Slovakia) has caught fire, two days after refineries processing Russian oil caught fire in Hungary and Romania.

Probably a complete coincidence.

I recall a saying that "the third time is something or other".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 04:02 PM (xTIDn)

199 Does this guy even exist?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Apparently.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:02 PM (WDjG6)

200 Sending armaments to Ukraine is asking for war

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:02 PM (+qU29)

201 GP:
A criminal illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro plowed a semi-truck into oncoming traffic and killed an Indiana man last week.
Borko Stankovic, who has been living illegally in the U.S. since his visa expired in 2011, was driving without a valid commercial driver’s license (CDL) when he caused the fatal head-on collision.

Stankovic swerved his big rig into the path of a Subaru Crosstrek, instantly killing the driver, Jeffrey Eberly, at the scene.

Stankovic has a history of violating U.S. laws, including a previous arrest in Long Island, New York, for resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. He now faces charges of reckless homicide and criminal recklessness.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged an immigration detainer against him at the Porter County Jail to make sure that he will not slip through the cracks again.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 04:02 PM (TN0g+)

202 This happened with just 4 years of Biden.

Imagine if it was followed up with 4 years of Kami.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:02 PM (J9q9v)

203 This seems... weirdly timed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:58
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He canceled it. Instead, 200 missiles.
Posted by: WIsRich at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (+xcAz)


Yes and Little Z had agreed to a meeting... Supposedly Rubio talked to his Russian Counterpart and the Ruskie said they intend to continue to fight until they win or something like that

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 04:03 PM (VE6XX)

204 Why does Pete Buttigieg escape ALL of the problems in transportation that were under his purview as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation?

He intends to run for President.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) is composed of several agencies. The Secretary of Transportation provides high-level policy guidance and oversees the entire department, which includes:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): Manages the nation's air traffic control and airport systems, and oversees airline safety.
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): Administers federal aid to states for highway construction and improvement.
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA): Oversees railroad safety and administers federal rail programs.
Federal Transit Administration (FTA): Provides federal financial and technical assistance to local public transit systems.
Maritime Administration (MARAD): Promotes the U.S. maritime transport system and its workforce.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): Carries out programs to reduce highway fatalities and injuries, including vehicle safety standards.

Like Mayorkas, Marty Walsh, etc., it's just water over the dam.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 04:03 PM (NFX2v)

205 Also, Sweden just signed a deal with Zelensky for up to 150 Gripen fighters.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:03 PM (paSBy)

206 44 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by seven "ladyboys" in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Luigi Mangione was roughed up by a group of transgender women during a wild night out in Thailand in the months before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new report claims.

Funny thing is Thai ladyboys get offended if you say they're transgender. They may look like girls but they aren't delusional.

Posted by: Life is strange at October 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)

207 157 Trump/DHS needs to set up some kind of incentive pay for ICE and other Feds involved in violent use of force incidents. A threat/risk/mental health incentive bonus of $1000 an incident or something. Make it widely known, maybe even have the arresting ICE agents mention it on camera.

"Ma'am, step out of the vehicle please. If you refuse, I will smash your window and use force to remove you, and get an extra $1000 bonus today. (Smash) thank you for the bonus, ma'am. If you continue to kick and strike me, I'll be eligible for an additional $1000 payment. Thank you."

They Left would howl with rage, and say it encourages ICE to be violent and bait people in attacking them. Then Trump has another AI video of him shitting on them, and the dumping buckets of money on ICE.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 03:53 PM (JCZqz)

150k for every confirmed kill.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 04:04 PM (UnA8+)

208 196 On the Goolag home page, the White House gatecrasher is shown with a photo of a troglodyte-looking individual, and the headline blares that he "threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries."


Hakeem Jefferies ? At the White House ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 04:04 PM (VE6XX)

209 Trump should give Z a gold plated piano for his dick.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 04:01 PM (2ocoG)

Trump should take him out back and bitch-slap him until he gets a little sense.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 04:05 PM (urtE/)

210 A criminal illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro have been separate countries since 2006.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

211 Word is that Harper is paying Jeff Gilooly and Tonya big bucks to do a Kerrigan on Ohtani.

Posted by: Spreading Rumours at October 22, 2025 04:05 PM (oftw2)

212 >>Does this make Platner more or less popular with...Democrat primary voters?

I have little doubt the Maine Socialist Rifle Association is antifa so that work with "progressives".

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 04:05 PM (viF8m)

213 > The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
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Presumably with the same restrictions the other, medium range ballistic missiles we sent over when *biden's administration was fueling that war. IOW, someone here has to authorize their use and the target selection.

Putin's said that the types of weapons used against Russia would dictate how Russia responds.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 04:06 PM (Q4IgG)

214 Open calls for violence by the left are fueling the flames.

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Fortunately and thankfully for the nation:

There are at least most 10,000 1,000 100 10 2 prominent voices on the left condemning these open calls to violence as well as the resultant violent acts stemming from those calls.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 04:06 PM (8WAox)

215 I’m in a very red county where my only problem are meth heads setting their trailers on fire. They have no idea what’s going on politically.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:06 PM (EYmYM)

216 204 Is NASA part of the DoT, too? There was an item in MR this morning that said Sean Duffy is head of NASA.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

217 If they used an EV to ram the gate, then they should be punished for accelerating global warming because that is one less anti-gas guzzling polluter on the road.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:07 PM (J9q9v)

218 Also GP:
A Secret Service agent on Kamala Harris’ detail never passed a fitness test and was also a ‘plus-size model’ on the side.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 04:07 PM (TN0g+)

219 Gate crasher has to be Antifa or Anarchist

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:07 PM (+qU29)

220 200 Sending armaments to Ukraine is asking for war
Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:02 PM (+qU29)

Key is there is no way Ukes have the training to run the systems needed to target or launch them.

There will be US Personnel on the ground, with maybe one Uke pushing the big red button to launch... but everything else run by Americans.

Its the same with the Brit missiles that are being fired into Russia.

But then, its the same story as with other US Weapon systems there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:07 PM (mP0Kj)

221 130k?

There are slowly molding baloney sandwiches on tok with more subs than that, bro.

Rookie numbers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 22, 2025 04:08 PM (06Hmj)

222 And Ohtani is AMAZING!

Does he prefer dive bomber or torpedo bomber?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 04:08 PM (135ws)

223 210 A criminal illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro have been separate countries since 2006.
Posted by: Bulg

I've been there several times. Beautiful coutry with lots of mountains and lakes. Of note:

Montenegro hosts an annual "Lying Down Championship" or "World Championship of Laziness" in the village of Brezna, an event initiated 12 years ago as a humorous response to the stereotype that Montenegrins are lazy.

Posted by: Military Moron at October 22, 2025 04:08 PM (JCZqz)

224 216 204 Is NASA part of the DoT, too? There was an item in MR this morning that said Sean Duffy is head of NASA.
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No, that's a second job for Duffy.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:08 PM (paSBy)

225 205 Also, Swed^en just signed a deal with Zelensky for up to 150 Gripen fighters.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:03 PM


Liberal actors and Drama teachers leading countries suck.

There have been a few good Conservative actors who worked out well.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 04:09 PM (Sco7b)

226
Ex-Marine Graham Platner Taught Military Tactics, Recruited for Socialist Paramilitary Group in Maine

Posted by: JackStraw

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Sounds insurrectiony to me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:09 PM (ldc7S)

227 Didn't Putty and Trump just have a couple hour phone call, and agree to meet?

This seems... weirdly timed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:58
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Like Rubio, he wears many hats.

Posted by: WIsRich at October 22, 2025 04:09 PM (+xcAz)

228 Maybe wide enough to block throw objects

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:09 PM (+qU29)

229 200 Sending armaments to Ukraine is asking for war
Posted by: Skip
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Not seeing that report anywhere but here so far. Fox, CBS, etc. nada. There was discussions floated about giving 200 Tomahawks to Ukraine but apparently nothing concrete that I have dug up.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:09 PM (WDjG6)

230 If the EU would stop buying Russian Natural Gas and Oil the Ruskies would run out of money for this war.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (J9q9v)

231 There was a high-profile trial in MA over the summer (Karen Read re-trial) that a buddy of mine covered. A juror just went public, saying that one third of the jury he was on did not speak English.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (vV6n9)

232 222 And Ohtani is AMAZING!

Does he prefer dive bomber or torpedo bomber?
Posted by: Commissar

TORA TORA TORA!

Posted by: Shohei Ohtani, calling out a homerun at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (JCZqz)

233 I thought drones were the unstoppable weapons that were defeating the Russians. Why the need for tomahawk missiles?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (EYmYM)

234 Gentlemans and Ladies,

We are still accepting applications for boat captains. Start immediately! On the job training! Very competitive salary and benefits!

Posted by: Venezuelan Freelance Pharmaceutical Distributors at October 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PiwSw)

235 BTW, Fox is running a story right now about Rutte (Nato Sec. Gen) meeting with Trump.

"Additionally, Rutte’s meeting comes as Trump appeared to throw cold water on any hopes that the U.S. would arm Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, like Trump had said he was considering doing days ahead of Zelenskyy’s visit.

"I would much rather have them not need Tomahawks," Trump told reporters Friday. "I would much rather have the war be over to be honest, because we're in it to get the war over."

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:11 PM (WDjG6)

236 I thought drones were the unstoppable weapons that were defeating the Russians. Why the need for tomahawk missiles?
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That "chop" thing the soldiers do after each firing really seems to help morale.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 04:11 PM (TN0g+)

237 Forget the Tomahawks-send Camrys.

Posted by: Toyota Jan at October 22, 2025 04:12 PM (oftw2)

238 205 Also, Sweden just signed a deal with Zelensky for up to 150 Gripen fighters.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:03 PM (paSBy)

Paid for by? whom?

$10 Billion deal? Z can't pay his own government right now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:12 PM (mP0Kj)

239 234 Gentlemans and Ladies,

We are still accepting applications for boat captains. Start immediately! On the job training! Very competitive salary and benefits!
Posted by: Venezuelan Freelance Pharmaceutical Distributors

Ahoy! 🚢 ⚓️ I have plenty of cruise ship experience, and I also hate Trump! Let's talk!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at October 22, 2025 04:12 PM (JCZqz)

240 Question for the legal minded:

If criminals do a crime together, and one of them kills somebody, the others face face murder as well. Even if they didn't mean to kill anyone, only the actuall killer meant to.

So, it appears this anti-ICE guy crashed his car into the ICE guys.

OK, assault on a fed. A felony.

But...in defending themselves, a bullet also hit one of the ICE agents.

So...does the anti-ICE guy also face legal responsibility for the ICE agent getting shot? And if so, is that a separate charge, or does it just get lumped in with the vehicular assualt on a fed?

I have no idea how it works.

Just curious.

Thanks in advance if anyone throws me some knowledge.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:12 PM (rHQZF)

241 Posted by: Lincolntf at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (vV6n9)

I find it hard to believe the prosecutors would allow that to happen.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:13 PM (EYmYM)

242 The administration is sending 200 land-based Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist
......

What a total mistake.

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

243 Why Tomahawks? My guess would be range and warhead size.

Posted by: WIsRich at October 22, 2025 04:13 PM (+xcAz)

244 0730-0735
‘Your day in court, Juan.’

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 04:13 PM (jgmnb)

245 Why the need for tomahawk missiles?
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (EYmYM)
====
It sends a message.

American arms will be used to attack Russia.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 04:14 PM (vL0rw)

246 How many car rammings have there been. Are we like on number 3 now?

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 04:14 PM (q177U)

247 So far Antifa has tried only one planned ambush that I know about, the one where the officer (a sheriff's deputy I think) was shot in the neck. I'm not counting the now-happily dead lone gunman who shot at ICE and inadvertently hit illegals, killing one of them.

Those orchestrating this violence must've have realized any organized guerilla-style attacks aimed at killing/intimidating ICE agents would be nearly instantly crushed. The way to go would be to keep doing what they've been doing, inciting the most mentally unstable among them into action using carefully crafted 'fight' language.

I'm also guessing this kind of low-intensity street theater won't satisfy their base, not for long. Look at these people. Listen to them. They want blood.

Posted by: troyriser at October 22, 2025 04:14 PM (DPeYO)

248 233 I thought drones were the unstoppable weapons that were defeating the Russians. Why the need for tomahawk missiles?
Posted by: the way I see it
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I think that was fake news probably from X as I can find nothing other than old stories contemplating Tomahawks but nothing current.

If anything, stories including from ABC indicate that Tomahawks are off the table for now.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:14 PM (WDjG6)

249 Question for the legal minded:

If criminals do a crime together, and one of them kills somebody, the others face face murder as well. Even if they didn't mean to kill anyone, only the actuall killer meant to.

So, it appears this anti-ICE guy crashed his car into the ICE guys.

OK, assault on a fed. A felony.

But...in defending themselves, a bullet also hit one of the ICE agents.

So...does the anti-ICE guy also face legal responsibility for the ICE agent getting shot? And if so, is that a separate charge, or does it just get lumped in with the vehicular assualt on a fed?


I have no idea how it works.

Just curious.

Thanks in advance if anyone throws me some knowledge.
Posted by: EFG


Imho, he should. It shouldn't matter. If you weren't there committing the crime, no one would have been injured.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 04:15 PM (Qd7dZ)

250 If the EU would stop buying Russian Natural Gas and Oil the Ruskies would run out of money for this war.

Good point - instead, the Russians can just sell oil to India, and then India can sell the oil to the EU.

Much better.

Restrictions on Russian energy imports have done far more damage to the Western European economies than to the Russian economy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 04:15 PM (xTIDn)

251
Posted by: Lincolntf at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (vV6n9)

I find it hard to believe the prosecutors would allow that to happen.
Posted by: the way I see it

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

Or the judge. How did this get through voir-dire?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:15 PM (ldc7S)

252 American arms will be used to attack Russia.
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*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 22, 2025 04:15 PM (TN0g+)

253 I agree, @I find it hard to believe the prosecutors would allow that to happen. But I don't think i's impossible.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 22, 2025 04:16 PM (vV6n9)

254 I thought drones were the unstoppable weapons that were defeating the Russians. Why the need for tomahawk missiles?
Posted by: the way

Tomahawks have much greater range and explosive payload than most of the drones being used.

Posted by: Military Moron at October 22, 2025 04:16 PM (JCZqz)

255 6 Shot in the elbow must be fun.
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 03:24 PM (s9EN2
Could have been his paw.

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 04:16 PM (jgmnb)

256 I'm also guessing this kind of low-intensity street theater won't satisfy their base, not for long. Look at these people. Listen to them.

They want blood.
Posted by: troyriser


I'm willing to give them theirs. They can use buckets to catch it.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 04:16 PM (Qd7dZ)

257 So...does the anti-ICE guy also face legal responsibility for the ICE agent getting shot? And if so, is that a separate charge, or does it just get lumped in with the vehicular assualt on a fed?

I have no idea how it works.

Just curious.

Thanks in advance if anyone throws me some knowledge.
Posted by: EFG
=======
The term is felony murder rule and some states have it and some don't. US does have it but I don't think it applies to the facts here as Marshal was injured, not dead.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (WDjG6)

258 Tomahawks are sea launched missiles. Does the Ukraine have Naval vessels capable of firing the missiles?

If they are fired from a US or NATO vessel that is a preemptive attack on Russian soil !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (J9q9v)

259 Haven't seen any reports of tomahawks being sent to Ukraine. That would be a huge escalation. Trump may be pissed at Putin, but I don't think Trump would go that far. Im sure a lot of the military- industrial complex would like it however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (8RjCi)

260 Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:12 PM (rHQZF)

Alabama is about to execute one of the four people involved in kidnapping and lighting a guy on fire for a $200 drug debt. The guy who is about to be executed convicted of tying the guys legs up. It was another of the four who poured the gas on him and lit the match.

Crazy that the leg tying guy is going to be executed before the guy who actually lit the victim on fire.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (EYmYM)

261 Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 04:15 PM (Qd7dZ)

******

Yeah, I would think so too, but that's just my two cents.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (rHQZF)

262 You morons never miss an opportunity

Posted by: Michelle Fields and Rachel Corrie too at October 22, 2025 04:18 PM (vL0rw)

263 There was a high-profile trial in MA over the summer (Karen Read re-trial) that a buddy of mine covered. A juror just went public, saying that one third of the jury he was on did not speak English.

That has been a crazy case. The local cops tried to frame a cop's fiance for murdering him. Then the state doubled down backing up the local cops.

MA really is the most corrupt state in America.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

264 Posted by: Military Moron at October 22, 2025 04:16 PM (JCZqz

I was being sarcastic but it’s hard to tell these days.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:18 PM (EYmYM)

265 Crazy that the leg tying guy is going to be executed before the guy who actually lit the victim on fire.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (EYmYM)
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Alphabetical order?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 04:18 PM (yy9ow)

266 I thought drones were the unstoppable weapons that were defeating the Russians. Why the need for tomahawk missiles?
Posted by: the way

Tomahawks have much greater range and explosive payload than most of the drones being used.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 22, 2025 04:16 PM (JCZqz)

Tomahawks should be renamed The Paolos.

Posted by: The Paolo at October 22, 2025 04:18 PM (wVcYX)

267 Pretty funny video over at Breitbart of cops arresting a woman in a penis costume.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (n5tGW)

268
Crazy that the leg tying guy is going to be executed before the guy who actually lit the victim on fire.


I would like to see a law that if you commit murder you get executed the way you killed your victim.

Might make people think twice in a case like this.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

269 216 204 Is NASA part of the DoT, too? There was an item in MR this morning that said Sean Duffy is head of NASA.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

They've always been an "Independent Agency" outside of a Cabinet Department.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (wtvvX)

270
155

After leaving office in January 2001, the Clintons took with them an estimated $190,000 worth of furniture, gifts, and mementos.
The move drew criticism when it came to light that some donors believed the furniture was intended for the permanent White House collection, not for the Clintons' personal use.
After a public outcry, the Clintons returned some items and reimbursed donors for others.
Ultimately, the Clintons returned $28,000 in furniture and paid for another $89,000 in items that may have been for the government.

😉
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 03:52 PM

----

Makes perfect sense if you're a hillbilly criminal. Like donating old underwear to charity and taking a tax deduction, or chiseling naive poor people out of thousands in real estate swindles.

And nobody's said a word about Bill's black lung benefits.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (ufCEJ)

271 MA really is the most corrupt state in America.
Posted by: 18-1

*kick dirt*
-- Illinois and Louisiana

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

272 The term is felony murder rule and some states have it and some don't. US does have it but I don't think it applies to the facts here as Marshal was injured, not dead.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (WDjG6)

*******

Got it, so it sounds like the felony murder concept only extends to murder, and not other crimes, like robbery or what not.

Thanks.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (rHQZF)

273 Did you know Hitler had a Ballroom too ?I see the Libs are screeching this now...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 04:20 PM (VE6XX)

274 Restrictions on Russian energy imports have done far more damage to the Western European economies than to the Russian economy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 04:15 PM (xTIDn)

Russia is also selling oil and building new pipelines to China.

And it's that area of the world that I'm worried about.

China, India, Pakistan, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Japan (South China Sea), Tawain... have all had military incidents in the last 6 months.

It's like early 1900s Europe... where there are currently no defined sides... and everyone hates everyone else.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 04:20 PM (mP0Kj)

275 I believe I read India has agreed to stop buying Russian Oil and buy US Oil...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:20 PM (J9q9v)

276 @263 everyone involved in the Karen Reid case seemed drunk and retarded. Cops, lawyers , witnesses , reporters , hangers on. I guess that's Massachusetts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:20 PM (8RjCi)

277 I’m really glad it appears the tomahawk story is fake news.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:20 PM (EYmYM)

278
Crazy that the leg tying guy is going to be executed before the guy who actually lit the victim on fire.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (EYmYM)
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Alphabetical order?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

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

Looks to me like consecutive order.

Leg-tying guy.
Gasoline-spilling guys.
Match-lighting guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (ldc7S)

279 Crazy that the leg tying guy is going to be executed before the guy who actually lit the victim on fire.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (EYmYM)

******

Yeah, probably some weird legal maneuvering or what not.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (rHQZF)

280 267 Pretty funny video over at Breitbart of cops arresting a woman in a penis costume.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (n5tGW)

OUT: Sticking your dick in crazy.
IN: Sticking your crazy in a dick.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (wtvvX)

281 Tomahawks are sea launched missiles. Does the Ukraine have Naval vessels capable of firing the missiles?
.....

Ukraine doesn't have shit except beets and rubble.

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

282 Could have been the head executioner

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (+qU29)

283 271 MA really is the most corrupt state in America.
Posted by: 18-1

*kick dirt*
-- Illinois and Louisiana
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

/Raises a glass of Chardonay.... sneers...

Posted by: Cali four Nie A at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (mP0Kj)

284 Did you know Hitler had a Ballroom too ?I see the Libs are screeching this now...
Posted by: It's me donna

Well, he WAS a better dancer than Churchill.
-- Franz Liebkind

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

285 Ukraine doesn't have shit except beets and rubble.

I've seen some videos from the children of their elites. If you've got money they've got some nice places to party in...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

286 This whole Ukraine crap is beginning to smell like another Vietnam for the US ???

Started with Ike and advisors and some arms exploding to LBJ and finally passed to Nixon..

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (J9q9v)

287 >>Good point - instead, the Russians can just sell oil to India, and then India can sell the oil to the EU.

Trump recently announced increased sanctions on India to get them to stop buying Russian oil.

It's a giant game of whack a mole.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)

288 Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

He’s going to get the nitrogen gas.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (EYmYM)

289 "The Cultural Enricher was shot in the elbow which is too bad, really, because that was his cancer-curing elbow and who knows when he'll recover."


"My enchanted shin! How did you know that was the source of my power?!"

-Montemort

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (bOODJ)

290 Corruption?

Jerry Brown's daddy was governor. Then he was governor. Then he was Oakland mayor. Then governor again.

Squeaky clean.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (vL0rw)

291 I shot the Marshal, but I did not shoot the detainee.

Marshal hit perps elbow, but was aimin' for his knee.

Posted by: Rick O'Shea at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (TezPK)

292 Pictures of the architect's rendering of the new East Wing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/visit/

They are matching the style of the White House exactly. It really does look handsome, and in period style.

Posted by: Beverly at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (Epeb0)

293 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 22, 2025 04:22 PM (NcvvS)

294 277 I’m really glad it appears the tomahawk story is fake news.
Posted by: the way I see it

Me heap big mad no supply'em tomahawk to Ukraine. News speak with forked tongue. No steel in Trump's words.

Posted by: Senator Elizabeth Warren at October 22, 2025 04:23 PM (JCZqz)

295 A juror just went public, saying that one third of the jury he was on did not speak English.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 22, 2025 04:10 PM (vV6n9)

******

That is insane. It doesn't seem possible...

But who knows?

Good Lord.

Posted by: EFG at October 22, 2025 04:23 PM (rHQZF)

296 I could use a bigger ballroom myself.

Posted by: Seasoned Citizen With Old Man Balls at October 22, 2025 04:23 PM (oftw2)

297 /Raises a glass of Chardonay.... sneers...

Going to disagree.

CA has some kind of economy

MA's economy is just grifting off of higher ed/"military industrial complex"/medical spending from Uncle Sugar

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

298 Two days in a row hearing about someone getting flamebe

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:24 PM (+qU29)

299 Hillary is pissed about the bigger ball room in the WH because Bill likes the idea...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 22, 2025 04:25 PM (J9q9v)

300 259 Haven't seen any reports of tomahawks being sent to Ukraine.....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 04:17 PM (8RjCi)

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

Maybe shiny beads and blankets are hard to come by in the Ukraine.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 22, 2025 04:25 PM (bOODJ)

301 296 I could use a bigger ballroom myself.
Posted by: Seasoned Citizen With Old Man Balls at October 22, 2025 04:23 PM (oftw2)


We're here to help!

Posted by: Duluth Trading Company at October 22, 2025 04:27 PM (PiwSw)

302 Think of all the voices this illegal criminal invader can lift up while he pens his next story from federal PMITA prison.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 22, 2025 04:33 PM (xvV+O)

303 Started with Ike and advisors and some arms exploding to LBJ and finally passed to Nixon..
Posted by: Jackson K.
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Not Ike, JFK. Ike wanted nothing to do with Vietnam, not even supporting the French because he judged it a bad risk to fight.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:34 PM (WDjG6)

304 Karoline Leavitt just posted on X that the report of Tomahawks to Ukraine is not true. It originally came from a report by WSJ.

https://tinyurl.com/nhd7xdxz

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:35 PM (paSBy)

305 Got it, so it sounds like the felony murder concept only extends to murder, and not other crimes, like robbery or what not.

Thanks.
Posted by: EFG
======
There are other federal laws that have stiff penalties depending on just what the facts were. Injury of a federal leo also comes into play regarding fines and sentencing enhancements aka upward departures from the sentencing guidelines.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6)

306 Planning murder in public is legal.

Print that and see if you are right.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (EyfuW)

307 281 Tomahawks are sea launched missiles.
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There's a land-based variant. Truck mounted, four missiles each.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 04:37 PM (paSBy)

308 304 Karoline Leavitt just posted on X that the report of Tomahawks to Ukraine is not true. It originally came from a report by WSJ.

https://tinyurl.com/nhd7xdxz
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
=====
Murdoch's crew at the WSJ are about the same veracity as you find at CBS, etc. Remember the whole stupid story about Trump birthday card and Epstein. That too came from the WSJ. It is entirely possible that someone fed the story to someone in the Nat Sec community to leak. In that case, they just outed themselves.

Put not your truth in anything that Murdoch owned outlets say.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 04:38 PM (WDjG6)

309 I've seen a lot of people passing that ICE did a raid in Chinatown NYC, probably to try and turn the again community off Trump.

Left out is how the raid was on the African migrants who now inhabit canal and Broadway, blocking all sidewalk traffic with their shitty knockoffs and making the place smell like the headquarters of the Jamaican National Dope Smoking Team. Most are also selling either stolen, counterfeit, or empty boxes of Apple products to unsuspecting tourist (usually they target groups of females) no one in their right mind it's crying for these assume being arrested, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the long time Chinatown sellers/residents calling them in, as the area is going from a touristy, yet authentic, spot, to the aforementioned inhabitants of shit hole countries, along with Indians selling I love NY shirts.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 22, 2025 04:39 PM (R6jXA)

310 Ukraine doesn't have shit except beets and rubble.
Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

There’s nothing to do in Ukraine but eat, sleep and shit.

Posted by: Mao at October 22, 2025 05:30 PM (vAU4X)

311 Time for the Police to start shooting back at these Criminals and Screw the UN/Globalists Scum Suckers

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 22, 2025 05:38 PM (wGqjj)

312 I'm.glad if it's not trur

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 06:16 PM (+qU29)

Japan Makes It Official and Confirms Trumpian Female Prime Minister

She had been elected head of the party in power a couple of weeks ago, but it was only yesterday that the Diet voted to make it official.

Japan has elected its first female prime minister -- and she's a staunch conservative. Sanae Takaichi, 64, a former TV broadcaster and longtime lawmaker known for her admiration of Margaret Thatcher, won a historic vote Tuesday to lead both the nation and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shattering a political ceiling that stood for more than seven decades. Takaichi captured 237 votes in Japan's 465-member lower house after her party secured a coalition agreement just one day earlier, cementing her position as leader of the country that has been governed by the LDP for nearly all of its postwar history.

Takaichi's victory marks a decisive turn for Japan's right, as her government prepares to push for higher defense spending, potential tax reductions, and a return to nuclear energy amid growing regional threats and economic stagnation. She has been unapologetic in her traditional views, supporting male-only imperial succession, opposing same-sex marriage, and rejecting proposals for married couples to use separate surnames -- positions that have made her a hero among Japan's nationalist base. "I have always believed in the strength of Japan's traditions and the need to defend them," she said during her campaign.

Her leadership is also expected to strengthen Tokyo's alliance with Washington. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump congratulated Takaichi for her victory in the LDP leadership race, calling it "tremendous news" and describing her as "a highly respected person of great wisdom and strength." Takaichi responded that she was "very pleased" by Trump's message and "hoping to work together to make our alliance even stronger and more prosperous." She has publicly pledged to honor an investment agreement made with the Trump administration, signaling stability in U.S.--Japan relations.


There's some good news in Bolivia too.


Bolivia's first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, injected a sharp note of realism into his plans to tackle an economic crisis Monday, a day after his surprise electoral victory signaled the end of decades of leftist rule in the South American nation.

After years of government antipathy toward the U.S. under the Movement Toward Socialism party, Paz pledged to rebuild relations with Washington -- and attract foreign investment to a country long locked out of international markets.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that Paz's victory Sunday "marks a transformative opportunity for both nations" to work on investment, immigration, security and other matters.

...

In another sign of the dramatic regional shift, Paz held a video call with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize this month. After years of Bolivia aligning itself with Venezuela's increasingly repressive President Nicolás Maduro, Paz told Machado that his country was "here to join in the fight for Venezuela and for Latin American democracies.""

On the other hand, the coked-up communist president of Colombia is very, very mad that Trump is blowing up the narcoterrorists' drug boats and ">

He also spoke of the need for "cutting the head" off the "kings:" "Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. "


President Trump has been highly critical of Petro, calling him "an illegal drug leader" in a post on Truth Social on Sunday. Trump went on to say in the post that the production of illegal drugs "has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it." He called Petro "a low rated and very unpopular leader" and said that if Petro does not stop the drug routes to the U.S., "the United States will close them up for him, and it won't be done nicely."

On September 16, the U.S. military carried out a drone strike that destroyed a submarine reportedly carrying drugs in international waters off the coast of Colombia.

Last week, Petro stated on X that "U.S. government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters." He went on to say that the submarine was a fishing vessel in distress and demanded an explanation from the United States about the strike.

In response, Trump announced that he would end all U.S. funding to Colombia, cutting off hundreds of millions in economic, military, and humanitarian aid. Speaking to reporters, Trump went after Petro, calling him "a lunatic who's got a lot of problems. Mental problems."

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM




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1 I guess I'm first

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 02:20 PM (hs4ik)

2 Top 3?!?

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (pgwxJ)

3 Heh.

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (pgwxJ)

4 Aaaah oooooooooo!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (yy9ow)

5
I guess you are.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (ldc7S)

6 Japan's Maggie Thatcher?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (ynpvh)

7 It looks like poor King Harv's head got cut off in the latest ad on the main page.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

8 Submarines are highly underrated as fishing wessels.

Posted by: Pavel Checkov at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

9 Remember Sound of Freedom? Petro is one of the villains from the final act.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (sKqQm)

10 Maggie Thatcher was born 100 years ago Oct. 13th...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (ynpvh)

11 is that bimbo sharkira, colombian ?

Posted by: angsterdam at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (van9r)

12 8 Submarines are highly underrated as fishing wessels.

Posted by: Pavel Checkov at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

Their screen doors pose some problems...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (ynpvh)

13 Please tell me that everyone is as excited about the return of
Takaichi's Castle as I am! Contestants compete on the front lawn for cabinet positions!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (uWKK8)

14
>>shattering a political ceiling that stood for more than seven decades

What ceiling? Did Japan ever have a female PM before?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (ldc7S)

15 Thrust me, women are nothing but trouble.

Posted by: Pilot-Major John Blackthorne at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (7Q0e+)

16 10 Maggie Thatcher was born 100 years ago Oct. 13th...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM

A Dead Margret Thatcher would still govern better than a living Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (IifOV)

17 Last week, Petro stated on X that "U.S. government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters." He went on to say that the submarine was a fishing vessel in distress and demanded an explanation from the United States about the strike.



The baby milk factory excuse was already taken.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (OcqEe)

18 He also spoke of the need for "cutting the head" off the "kings:" "Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. "

Says the President of Columbia, controlled by Narco Kings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (ynpvh)

19 16 10 Maggie Thatcher was born 100 years ago Oct. 13th...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM

A Dead Margret Thatcher would still govern better than a living Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (IifOV)

Truth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (ynpvh)

20 Japan has a few very.onvious aliens to send off.

Posted by: Operator Error at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (gzC/P)

21 Colombian women are beautiful. Time for an invasion...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (TGPs7)

22 nd

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (Bo9Yf)

23
Japan could use some ruthlessness. What's it been, 80 years?

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (IifOV)

24 What a surprise the South American commie is using the same language as our commies. Time to make sure there's no one connected to him in the US that could be a threat.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (9IZTb)

25 Nailed it!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Bo9Yf)

26 I hope she has excellent security.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (2NHgQ)

27 I'm tired of these "First woman to do XYZ!!!"

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (q177U)

28 Japan Makes It Official and Confirms Trumpian Female Prime Minister

Interesting. The Japanese have a PM who is more manly than anyone left in the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

29 Remember No Kings is a grass roots, peaceful, domestic political movement.

Also here's the despot of Columbia, who is leader because he assassinated his opponent in the last election, calling for "King" Trump to be murdered.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

30 I think I'll celebrate by watching some Japanese Schoolgirl documentaries.

Or maybe "Signal 100" again on Tubi. That was a great horror movie.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Sco7b)

31 The NYT seems to believe what's most important about Takaichi is that she is a heavy metal drummer.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (GPa4z)

32 Takaichi's victory marks a decisive turn for Japan's right, as her government prepares to push for higher defense spending, potential tax reductions, and a return to nuclear energy amid growing regional threats and economic stagnation. She has been unapologetic in her traditional views, supporting male-only imperial succession, opposing same-sex marriage, and rejecting proposals for married couples to use separate surnames -- positions that have made her a hero among Japan's nationalist base. "I have always believed in the strength of Japan's traditions and the need to defend them," she said during her campaign.

I hear she is also a big supporter of anime tiddies!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (wtvvX)

33 Japan could use some ruthlessness. What's it been, 80 years?

Hopefully they've retained the lessons learned 80 years ago. I'm glad to have them on our side now.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

34 "In response, Trump announced that he would end all U.S. funding to Colombia, cutting off hundreds of millions in economic, military, and humanitarian aid."

It's insane that this wasn't done decades ago. Colombia hasn't been a functioning country in decades, if it ever was. There were half-jokes about Colombia being nothing more than drug fields and drug cartels in the 1980s.

Probably 99% of any aid to Colombia gets stolen by the cartels, by the government, and by leftwing NGOs and other remoras. Probably 30% of the money never even leaves the USA.

I do know some Colombian smokeshows, though, so there's that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

35 I hear she is also a big supporter of anime tiddies!

Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing

Posted by: Some Mammologist at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

36
What is her position on Tentacles in anime? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Tetsuo Sekiguchi at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (IifOV)

37 Japan's Maggie Thatcher?
Posted by: jim


Supposedly she wears a blue suit in honor of Maggie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (mlg/3)

38 13 Please tell me that everyone is as excited about the return of
Takaichi's Castle as I am! Contestants compete on the front lawn for cabinet positions!
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (uWKK

Only if Vic Romano and Kenny Blankenship are the announcers.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (k1E2D)

39

>>"Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. "

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

This is some of the lamest commentary I've heard since Dianne Feinstein said immigration enforcement was taking us back to "a dark age." Lefties are not sending their best.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (ldc7S)

40 I do know some Colombian smokeshows, though, so there's that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Sofia Vergara?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

41 You know, most countries in the world stood up and took notice when our guys bombed the crap out of Iran in one of the most audacious and brilliant military operations in the last 30 years.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (tT6L1)

42 >>>Submarines are highly underrated as fishing wessels.
Posted by: Pavel Checkov at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

OK, I laughed.

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (q177U)

43
Still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Auspex at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (Y8DZL)

44 What is her position on Tentacles in anime? Asking for a friend.

Following this thread

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

45 I can still be the first female U.S. President!

Posted by: Hillary! 2028! 2032! at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (0sNs1)

46 In a bizarre interview, the Colombian president says Trump needs to be removed. There are several ways to do this. The first�Trump himself�is the easiest way. If not, he needs to be kicked out. Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do.

===

Never get high on your own supply .

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (g47mK)

47 Yeah, but is the Japanese PM a real head of state or a fake one?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

48 35 I hear she is also a big supporter of anime tiddies!

Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing

Posted by: Some Mammologist at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

Kinda makes being a "big supporter" for Japanese tiddies somewhat oxymoronic, no?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (ynpvh)

49 I hear she is also a big supporter of anime tiddies!

Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing
Posted by: Some Mammologist


I am firmly in the No Judgement zone.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (Qd7dZ)

50
We'll find out how good she is if she orders the weak in her party to resign by seppuku.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (IifOV)

51 Yeah, but is the Japanese PM a real head of state or a fake one?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

She's not a head of state at all. That's the Emperor. She's merely the head of government.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

52 Does she prefer dive bomber or torpedo bomber?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (rnpfc)

53 Only a Shogun can bring Japan to heel and crush communistic student groups.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

54 Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing
Posted by: Some Mammologist


OBJECTION~!

Posted by: Phoenix Wright at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (mlg/3)

55 45 I can still be the first female U.S. President!

Posted by: Hillary! 2028! 2032! at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (0sNs1)

President of the US Branch of the Depends™ factory...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (ynpvh)

56 A fishing submarine? How does that work?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

57 Trump should do the meme and bomb the Colombian Presidential Palace with a load of literal shit.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 02:30 PM (wtvvX)

58 56 A fishing submarine? How does that work?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

It's the bait?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (ynpvh)

59 Colombia's President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if @realDonaldTrump won't change, the solution is to "get rid of Trump"

-
But who will bell the cat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (L/fGl)

60 President Petro say hello to this cruise missile. It has your name on it. Don't cry President Maduro we have one for you too

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (8RjCi)

61 That Colombian guy is insane. I hope his final moments will be public and entertaining.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (Sco7b)

62 ... a former TV broadcaster and longtime lawmaker known for her admiration of Margaret Thatcher ...

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

Be still, my heart.

One of my favorite quotes is from Mrs. Thatcher:

Consensus is the Absence of Leadership."

She defined consensus as "the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead."

She questioned the effectiveness of consensus by asking, "What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?".

Very Randian ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (y+qYt)

63 Japan's Maggie Thatcher?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (ynpvh)


Shinzo Abe with boobs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (ExV1e)

64 🚨WATCH: In a bizarre interview, the Colombian president says Trump needs to be removed. There are several ways to do this. The first�Trump himself�is the easiest way. If not, he needs to be kicked out. Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. pic.twitter.com/d663geaAtP

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) October 21, 2025

========

"How, El Presidente? Tell us specifically how you plan on cutting off Trump's head."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

65 There were half-jokes about Colombia being nothing more than drug fields and drug cartels in the 1980s."

Pablo weeps...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (tubbA)

66 54 Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing
Posted by: Some Mammologist

OBJECTION~!

Posted by: Phoenix Wright at October 22, 2025 02:29 PM (mlg/3)

I'd expect that from our resident anime expert, Anna Puma

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

67 Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing
Posted by: Some Mammologist

There is a ... prominent Japanese adult actress... something nagai. Or nagai something. I always have trouble with the first name, last name thing. Quite pretty. And gifted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

68 Colombia's President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if @realDonaldTrump won't change, the solution is to "get rid of Trump"



Almost sounds like a declaration of war.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (Qd7dZ)

69 Sununu Jr. running for Jeanne Shaheen's NH Senate seat. Classic RINO, but polling close to Dem DEI guy Chris Pappas, so probably a good thing.

Howie Carr Show

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (TGPs7)

70 Japan v Columbia is an interesting case study because when the former's "conservative" candidate was assassinated they elected someone more right wing and Columbia instead went with the Communist Guerilla that had the guy killed.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (sKqQm)

71 Maduro and this Petro character probably think regime change is in the air. Drug trafficking is every bit as horrible as human trafficking.

They're probably not wrong about "change."

Mexico might be next if they don't get their collective shit together.

Then, there's China... and the fentanyl they're trafficking. Big, lucrative drug and sex trade here. Sort of shows where we've gone off the rails and who wants to fix that and who doesn't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (Q4IgG)

72 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

Machado means axe.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 02:33 PM (ULPxl)

73 63 Japan's Maggie Thatcher?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (ynpvh)

Shinzo Abe with boobs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 02:31 PM (ExV1e)

That's an image I'd rather not imagine...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

74 Japan could use some ruthlessness. What's it been, 80 years?
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (IifOV)


Someone said earlier that her first act as PM was to start deportations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 02:33 PM (ExV1e)

75 Quite pretty. And gifted"

Hmm. *so, how does the interwebs work again *

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (tubbA)

76 OT- Daniel Greenfield of Frontpage his a darkly amusing name regarding the super left wing guy- Graham Platner -who has with the Nazi tattoo:

Maine Kampf: Bernie Sanders Stands Behind Senate Candidate With SS Tattoo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (Nx5jP)

77 WATCH: In a bizarre interview, the Colombian president says Trump needs to be removed. There are several ways to do this. The first�Trump himself�is the easiest way. If not, he needs to be kicked out. Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. pic.twitter.com/d663geaAtP
---
He forgot to say, "It's good to be the drug lord" as he snorts a line of coke off a Colombian prostitute's breasts.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (IBQGV)

78 "Japan has elected its first female prime minister -- and she's a staunch conservative. "

I'm shocked she isn't being called a far right extremist. Why is that?

Posted by: Ripley at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (PTDkx)

79 Considering the number of Latin and South American leaders taken out by the CIA, probably not a good idea to threaten the the American President...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (TGPs7)

80 >> 35 I hear she is also a big supporter of anime tiddies!
>> Unfortunately Japan is a bit deficient in the real thing

I'll take the smaller ones over the bloated land whales here in the US any day.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (ERYKL)

81 I do know some Colombian smokeshows, though, so there's that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Sofia Vergara?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
_________

Well yea, but the girl I was thinking about is named Laura. Sadly, she only occasionally comes to NYC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

82 The NYT seems to believe what's most important about Takaichi is that she is a heavy metal drummer.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (GPa4z)


And was the first Japanese politician to appear on Babymetal's radio show.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 02:35 PM (ExV1e)

83 Supposedly the claim that the new Japan PM was going to make a ministry of deportations was false. *kicks rocks*

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (Eng1Z)

84 Went to Cartagena, Colombia in 2019. Loved it. The new parts looked like South Beach. Old Town was charming. Never felt unsafe.

Went again in 2023. Yikes, what a difference.

We asked our guide what happened, he responded, “2 million illegal Venezuelans.”

It was scary. Old Town was no longer charming, the ID for vendors no longer enforced, we were constantly approached by beggars, the markets were now sketchy (I would not let my husband go!), etc.

Posted by: Ann at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (DukxQ)

85 Hmm. *so, how does the interwebs work again *
Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (tubbA)

Strictly speaking, I am still at work: hence the lack of link to Japanese counter boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

86 77 WATCH: In a bizarre interview, the Colombian president says Trump needs to be removed. There are several ways to do this. The first�Trump himself�is the easiest way. If not, he needs to be kicked out. Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do. pic.twitter.com/d663geaAtP
---
He forgot to say, "It's good to be the drug lord" as he snorts a line of coke off a Colombian prostitute's breasts.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (IBQGV)

Well, off the breasts because crack kills...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (ynpvh)

87 Does she despise each and every one of us?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

88 California teacher warns ICE agents they "are not the only ones with guns," says people have "every right to defend themselves" against officers

https://is.gd/SbQjSp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

89 45 I can still be the first female U.S. President!
Posted by: Hillary! 2028! 2032! at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (0sNs1)

Honey, you weren't even the first failure running for President. Now sit down, shut up, and defer to your betters already.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (urtE/)

90 Afternoon Ace and friends
Was going to go to the pool for the first time in months but it's cold and I don't feel like it so here I am.
We have a good start here with Italy and Japan and next up LePen in France. It is good to see real conservative women showing the world thst not all women are DEI and that there are smart capable ones who earn the right to Lead.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (t/2Uw)

91 but it was only yesterday that the Diet voted to make it official.
----------

Noooooooooooooo

Posted by: Meggy Mac at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (lonsH)

92 When countries get their first female political leaders, it is interesting which of them come from the Left (Australia, Israel, Mexico) and which have come from the Right (UK, Italy, New Zealand, now Japan).

The first female US president will cone from the gop. Yhe democrats won't try another female candidate for a loooong time.

Hillary literally won the popular vote, and it's not like it was a blowout with kamala

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (JCZqz)

93 83 Supposedly the claim that the new Japan PM was going to make a ministry of deportations was false. *kicks rocks*
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (Eng1Z)

=======

Their need to actively deport is much less than most of the rest of the developed world.

They had only put a toe in it recently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

94 Yeah, but is the Japanese PM a real head of state or a fake one?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)


The Emperor is the Head of State. She will the Head of Government. Just like the UK.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (ExV1e)

95 >>> "Japan has elected its first female prime minister -- and she's a staunch conservative. "

I'm shocked she isn't being called a far right extremist. Why is that? Posted by: Ripley at October 22, 2025 02:34 PM (PTDkx)

She is the yellow face of white supremacy.

Posted by: LA Times, updating their racist anti-conservative schtick at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (Eng1Z)

96 BDP FTW

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (jc0TO)

97 She is the yellow face of white supremacy.


and misogyny

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (sKqQm)

98 Hey, Sharon. Good to see you!

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

99 88 California teacher warns ICE agents they "are not the only ones with guns," says people have "every right to defend themselves" against officers

https://is.gd/SbQjSp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

Criminals in the commission of a crime, however, do not have such a right. Or criminals who are approached by officers with arrest warrants...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (ynpvh)

100 The Emperor is the Head of State. She will the Head of Government. Just like the UK.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Are we still doing 'phrasing?'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (mlg/3)

101 Maduro and this Petro character probably think regime change is in the air. Drug trafficking is every bit as horrible as human trafficking.

They're probably not wrong about "change."

Mexico might be next if they don't get their collective shit together.

Then, there's China... and the fentanyl they're trafficking. Big, lucrative drug and sex trade here. Sort of shows where we've gone off the rails and who wants to fix that and who doesn't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 02:32 PM (Q4IgG)
___

Both Maduro and Petro will find their filthy heads in boxes if they can't keep the drugs flowing freely. That's probably what they are most worried about. If you displease the cartels, they don't vote you out of office. They vote you out of life.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

102 This just in the Japanese Self Defense force has ordered 6 new fleet carriers.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (kanec)

103 99 88 California teacher warns ICE agents they "are not the only ones with guns," says people have "every right to defend themselves" against officers

https://is.gd/SbQjSp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

======

This feels like...insurrection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:39 PM (GBKbO)

104 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM (L/fGl)

Huh. It's amazing that we all think they are good with political violence when they keep saying they are for political violence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

105 "Here, we cut off the heads of kings. A king cannot tell us what to do."


Yeah, and you cut the heads off little kids, and informants, and journalists and...

yeah, yeah, it's all very stabby. we get it.

Posted by: Atahualpa, Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca at October 22, 2025 02:39 PM (pIfcn)

106 I'm looking forward to when Metallica tours Japan and PM
Takaichi replaces Lars on drums...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

107 The Emperor is the Head of State. She will the Head of Government. Just like the UK.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Which "-hito" are they on now?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

108 Petro claims that one of the members declared killed on the smuggling boat -- and since this is in response to the USN providing the names of the two crew out of four that were killed on that submarine I guess that is what it is about -- was just a fisherman who was fishing alone in territorial waters, it came out in the Colombian papers that Mr Innocent Fisherman had been implicated and done time for stealing over 200 firearms from his local police department for a small regional gang/cartel.

Oh and he was the only one who did time, the cops who were implicated did not get jail time for some reason, so there is that too.

Petro is being accused of getting a lot of reelection money from Venezuela, and I suspect he is getting heat because those narco-subs are pretty expensive for a single-use vessel

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

109 But what does Godzilla think?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

110 Hillary literally won the popular vote, and it's not like it was a blowout with kamala

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM


Hillary won the popular vote by less than her margin in California. Lop off that den of fake votes and she lost in the remaining 49.

Kamala just lost.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (jc0TO)

111 Supposedly the claim that the new Japan PM was going to make a ministry of deportations was false. *kicks rocks*
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM

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

Japan already has rigorous border controls and zero tolerance for illegal aliens. They don't need any new bureaucracies.

Posted by: Bigsmith at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (1Au9i)

112 California teacher warns ICE agents they "are not the only ones with guns," says people have "every right to defend themselves" against officers

https://is.gd/SbQjSp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Something tells me they don't know the law as good as they think they do.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (Qd7dZ)

113 Sununu Jr. running for Jeanne Shaheen's NH Senate seat. Classic RINO, but polling close to Dem DEI guy Chris Pappas, so probably a good thing.

Howie Carr Show

Sununu probably the only Republican that could win in NH. This is very good.Early on he said he would not.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (t/2Uw)

114 Was in Japan for three weeks earlier this year. Loved it. I know the Japanese are polite to your face, not necessarily behind your back, but since I am just a tourist in an area, that was fine by me.

We enjoyed it so much, and apparently talked it up so much, my son and DIL decided to go for a few weeks. They got home Sunday and could not say enough good things about there time in Japan.

Long flight, but Hubby and I have already discussed a return within the next few years.

Posted by: Ann at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (DukxQ)

115 109 But what does Godzilla think?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

Japanese are tasty...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (ynpvh)

116 This just in the Japanese Self Defense force has ordered 6 new fleet carriers.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (kanec)
______

[Hysterical laughter]

-- Godzilla

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

117 Japanese Self Defense force has ordered 6 new fleet carriers."

Starting with Akagi?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (tubbA)

118 Quick Quiz hotshots!

Who was Canada's first female Prime Minister for about 69 seconds?








Kim Campbell.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (Sco7b)

119 [WILLOWED:]

Texas Pussy

https://tinyurl.com/35vu5v4m
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (jc0TO)

Hilarious.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (i24o9)

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

Damn, can that be real or is it AI-generated?

It's getting nearly impossible to tell ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (y+qYt)

120 Long flight, but Hubby and I have already discussed a return within the next few years.
Posted by: Ann

I would love to go to Japan. It's probably the one foreign country where I would feel safe.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

121 112 California teacher warns ICE agents they "are not the only ones with guns," says people have "every right to defend themselves" against officers

https://is.gd/SbQjSp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Something tells me they don't know the law as good as they think they do.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:40 PM (Qd7dZ)

=======

If she's talking moral right against an oppressor, the lady has a point.

But the complicated nature of non-citizens resisting a government they feel no allegiance to is...interesting. It's more like...an invasion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

122 Trump should do the meme and bomb the Colombian Presidential Palace with a load of literal shit.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 02:30 PM (wtvvX)


It is actually called The Nariño House.

The previous president Alvaro Uribe just had his sentence for corruption and bribes set aside by the appeals court. he may run again, and if he doesn't one of his associates might. Uribe settled things down when Petro rage-tweeted that Colombia would not allow deportees to be brought to Colombia in shackles and the embargo was threatened last time.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 02:42 PM (rbvCR)

123 Relax, everybody.

Maine Democrat who says he's not a secret Nazi covers up his Nazi tattoo

https://is.gd/syA6zq

-
Just like it never happened.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)

124 Japan's new PM while in college played drums for a metal band.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (yGLqz)

125 Sofia Vergara?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)


Sigh.

:::zip:::

Posted by: Skeletor at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (k1E2D)

126 California teacher warns ICE agents they "are not the only ones with guns," says people have "every right to defend themselves" against officers

I guess Eric Shartwell's view on citizen's rights to self defense against the government are no longer shared by the rest of the left?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (sKqQm)

127 123 Relax, everybody.

Maine Democrat who says he's not a secret Nazi covers up his Nazi tattoo

https://is.gd/syA6zq

-
Just like it never happened.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)

=======

But Hegseth's cross tattoo, which was never a Nazi symbol, is prima facie evidence that the DoW is headed by a Nazi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

128 What a FFFFFFFF

@MENewsPhotog 2h
We just sat down with Graham Platner to talk about his previous online comments, and the now-infamous tattoo. He gave us a first look at the cover-up tattoo he had done just last night, and spoke candidly about the controversies surrounding him now. That's tonight at 5.
@WGME

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

129 The Columbian president, Gustavo Petro, has dual Colombian and Italian citizenship.

He and his wife, the 1st lady, are oddly Catholic - like a Biden, Pelosi, etc.

Bring lawyers, guns & money... and the Mafia.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (NFX2v)

130 The Emperor is the Head of State. She will the Head of Government. Just like the UK.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Which "-hito" are they on now?

Posted by: Bulg


Naruhito, son of Akihito, and the greatest ninja of all--

/gets whispered to

--look, I'm not detracting anything, Hokage was an honor but--

/more whispers

...oh. Nevermind the ninja thing. Carry on.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (OUMaO)

131 Shaheen was on Squawk Box this morning. She portrays herself as non-partisan and says both sides should end this shutdown silliness by acceding to the Dem demands.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (GPa4z)

132 Hi Bulg

Life almost back to normal.💃

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (t/2Uw)

133 128 What a FFFFFFFF

@MENewsPhotog 2h
We just sat down with Graham Platner to talk about his previous online comments, and the now-infamous tattoo. He gave us a first look at the cover-up tattoo he had done just last night, and spoke candidly about the controversies surrounding him now. That's tonight at 5.
@WGME
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (mlg/3)

=======

If Susan Collins orchestrated this whole thing, I wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

134 Criminals in the commission of a crime, however, do not have such a right. Or criminals who are approached by officers with arrest warrants...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (ynpvh)

The left continues to lie about the criminality of crossing the border illegally. I don't care if Pedro and his lovely wife Maria have been model "citizens" since they arrived. They are ILLEGALS and are therefore CRIMINALS. They steal SSNs, fake documents, and make so many welfare claims they have cost us all billions. End of discussion.

And Jesus and his abuelita who are here legally find the illegals reprehensible, too.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (urtE/)

135 >>> Both Maduro and Petro will find their filthy heads in boxes if they can't keep the drugs flowing freely. That's probably what they are most worried about. If you displease the cartels, they don't vote you out of office. They vote you out of life. Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

They ran out of other people's money (thanks socialism/ communism!), so the cartel money is the only thing keeping them afloat. Trump disrupting the drug trade and the flow of drugs is making the cartels mad. So they have to saber rattle, but they have no cards to play and no leverage.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (Eng1Z)

136 A lot of the drugs from Venezuela are bound for Europe and Africa via the small Caribbean countries. Those drugs fund a lot of stuff in Europe the way USAID did above board. By stomping the trade, he is starving a lot of the shady political activity and making the countries involved spend actual tax revenue which they don't actually have.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

137 Japanese Self Defense force has ordered 6 new fleet carriers."

Starting with Akagi?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (tubbA)

That works but JDSF already has a light carrier named Kaga and a Soryu submarine class.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (kanec)

138 Hi Bulg

Life almost back to normal.💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Great! Hang in there.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (77rzZ)

139 Japanese Self Defense force has ordered 6 new fleet carriers."

Starting with Akagi?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (tubbA)

Macross.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (zZu0s)

140 DC during this shitdown needs to suspend all aid to Bogota.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (yGLqz)

141 119 [WILLOWED:]

Texas Pussy

https://tinyurl.com/35vu5v4m
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (jc0TO)

Hilarious.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (i24o9)

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

Damn, can that be real or is it AI-generated?

It's getting nearly impossible to tell ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (y+qYt)

Sora AI. EweToob's got a bunch of them. Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

142
Q: What do you call a Democrat who supports Nazism?

A: A Democrat

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (lonsH)

143 Six carriers of the Unryo class?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (yGLqz)

144 If she's talking moral right against an oppressor, the lady has a point.

But the complicated nature of non-citizens resisting a government they feel no allegiance to is...interesting. It's more like...an invasion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



Well, she's a teacher. I assume that makes her a citizen.

Armed interference with federal law enforcement is generally considered bad juju.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (Qd7dZ)

145
"We just sat down with Graham Platner to talk about his previous online comments, and the now-infamous tattoo. He gave us a first look at the cover-up tattoo he had done just last night, and spoke candidly about the controversies surrounding him now. That's tonight at 5. "

Well, that sounds like it's a nice little sitdown, not like had a Nazi tat or anything. We sit down and have a chat.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (et1vG)

146 Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

If you get the opportunity, go!

We saw one homeless person the entire time there. No beggars. No pickpockets. The trains (commuter and distance) were clean and quiet! Felt very safe.

Everyone spoke English (or so it seemed). We were extremely surprised.

We sat in one small restaurant next to a young Chinese couple, who sat next to a middle aged Japanese couple, and the six of us all conversed in English!

Posted by: Ann at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (DukxQ)

147 Oh the talk on Leverage reminded me...I have Apple TV free for a month. What shows/movies should I check out? What should I avoid?

People in my circles praise Ted Lasso ad nauseum, so I'll probably give it a look.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (Eng1Z)

148 I would love to go to Japan. It's probably the one foreign country where I would feel safe.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

South Korea too.

My first night there, I went out about 2 am to explore the neighbourhood. A huge group of tipsy people came out of the bar.

Left me alone. I felt safe after that.

I still scoped out the school and mentally planned how to defend the kids if things went crazy, but that's just me...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:47 PM (Sco7b)

149 I think Rand Paul is complaining that we don't the names of any of these drug dealer goons on the boats we're blowing up. Is he suggesting that we issue arrest warrants, or does he just want some South American pen pals or what, exactly?

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 02:47 PM (mADJX)

150 144 Well, she's a teacher. I assume that makes her a citizen.

Armed interference with federal law enforcement is generally considered bad juju.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (Qd7dZ)

======

I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought she was talking about people ICE were actually targeting.

But you are correct in implication that she could be dumb enough to think that ICE is out to get American citizens.

Also, the superintendent of schools in Iowa wasn't a citizen. What makes you think CA is more rigorous about ensuring citizenship of teachers than Iowa is of superintendents?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

151 134 Criminals in the commission of a crime, however, do not have such a right. Or criminals who are approached by officers with arrest warrants...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:38 PM (ynpvh)

The left continues to lie about the criminality of crossing the border illegally. I don't care if Pedro and his lovely wife Maria have been model "citizens" since they arrived. They are ILLEGALS and are therefore CRIMINALS. They steal SSNs, fake documents, and make so many welfare claims they have cost us all billions. End of discussion.

And Jesus and his abuelita who are here legally find the illegals reprehensible, too.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (urtE/)

My mother came legally. Her mom came legally. Her brothers and sister came in legally, along with their families, legally.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (ynpvh)

152 Hear me out...

MECHA YAMATO 2.0

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (mlg/3)

153 Maine Democrat who says he's not a secret Nazi covers up his Nazi tattoo

https://is.gd/syA6zq

-
Just like it never happened.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

That... that's not what we do.

Posted by: Servpro at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (4DY5T)

154 Japan's new PM while in college played drums for a metal band banzai!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (L/fGl)

155 Good for them. All nations should have their own Trump.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (i24o9)

156 South America elects socialists, which leads to economic ruin and then to the eventual election of conservative who immediately gets hammered by press and international orgs for not fixing everything all at once and eventually starts to show modest to significant improvement in the daily lives of the peasants. Which in turn leads to election of socialists. It's the cycle of life.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (Dv3i1)

157 But Hegseth's cross tattoo, which was never a Nazi symbol, is prima facie evidence that the DoW is headed by a Nazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

The left couldn't stand the Jerusalem Cross for the same reason they can't stand anything Christian that smacks of Christian defense, particularly associated with the Crusades, which was a (poorly run, mostly) defensive war against the Muzzies.

But mostly because they needed another excuse to howl mindlessly at the sky.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:48 PM (urtE/)

158 Also, the superintendent of schools in Iowa wasn't a citizen. What makes you think CA is more rigorous about ensuring citizenship of teachers than Iowa is of superintendents?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Very true.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (Qd7dZ)

159 Sora AI. EweToob's got a bunch of them. Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

They have a ton of AI generated dirty songs, movie trailers, game reimaginings, and also non dirty car commercials- that sound awesome but are fake as shit. Like a F-100 remake that i thought/wanted to be real for a minute.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

160 Sheisse

@disclosetv 36s
JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

161 149 I think Rand Paul is complaining that we don't the names of any of these drug dealer goons on the boats we're blowing up. Is he suggesting that we issue arrest warrants, or does he just want some South American pen pals or what, exactly?
Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 02:47 PM (mADJX)

======

Stop them when they show up on our shores. Arrest them. Confiscate the goods, and then treat the illegal smugglers bringing illegal goods into our country illegally as civilians in a court system.

Because we can't be at war with a drug cartel. It doesn't matter what AUMF is still on the books and Trump has legally referenced in his authority to deal with things within his sphere of commander in chief. Rand Paul says we can't be at war.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

162 Shaheen should be way too leftwing for NH but...always seems to find enough votes to win.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

163 Shokaku, Zuikaku, Hiryu, Shoho, Unryo, and Shinano.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (yGLqz)

164 But Hegseth's cross tattoo, which was never a Nazi symbol, is prima facie evidence that the DoW is headed by a Nazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

The left couldn't stand the Jerusalem Cross for the same reason they can't stand anything Christian that smacks of Christian defense, particularly associated with the Crusades, which was a (poorly run, mostly) defensive war against the Muzzies.

But mostly because they needed another excuse to howl mindlessly at the sky.
Posted by: tcn


Except the Jerusalem Cross was ok on Jimmy Carter's funeral announcements.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:50 PM (Qd7dZ)

165 Starting with Akagi?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM


That would be a pretty epic FU to its potential enemies (*looks at China*).

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 02:50 PM (ySpAZ)

166 140 DC during this shitdown needs to suspend all aid to Bogota.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (yGLqz)

IF'n Congress is not funding the government, why is there ANY Foreign Aid?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 02:50 PM (mP0Kj)

167 Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM (et1vG)

I think PAC committees should give money against Platner by referring to him as Daniel Greefield did as:

Maine Kampf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 02:50 PM (Nx5jP)

168 I have a hat with a Jerusalem Cross (silver on black- when the real flag of Jerusalem was gold on white.) No one even seems to notice it.

I need to get a gold on white one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

169 Shaheen should be way too leftwing for NH but...always seems to find enough votes to win.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (sKqQm)
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NH is small enough he only needs to find one Buick full of ballots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 22, 2025 02:51 PM (IBQGV)

170 165 Starting with Akagi?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 02:41 PM

That would be a pretty epic FU to its potential enemies (*looks at China*).

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 02:50 PM (ySpAZ)

No, naming one of the ships Manchukuo would...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:51 PM (ynpvh)

171 Relax, everybody.

Maine Democrat who says he's not a secret Nazi covers up his Nazi tattoo

https://is.gd/syA6zq

-
Just like it never happened.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)
______

Omg, he woulda been better off with the original. The cover-up looks terrible and cheapy done. He went from Nazi to Cthulhu tentacle porn.

I'm not sure which is worse:

1. He knowingly gets a tattoo with Nazi symbols, thinking it looks cool and that the symbol predates the Nazis so it's not really a "Nazi tattoo." He young and reckless at the time. Probably had no plans to run for political office.

2. He's so fucking stupid he gets a tattoo without making any effort to determine what it means if anything. Like getting Chinese symbols that secretly say "I suck donkey dick." Then, he's so fucking stupid he spends the next 20 years not knowing what tattoo means, to the point where he openly displays it on camera at a fucking wedding.

3. He's an actual Nazi.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)

172 162 Shaheen should be way too leftwing for NH but...always seems to find enough votes to win.
____

The extra votes are always found in Dixville's Notch.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (Dv3i1)

173 171 3. He's an actual Nazi.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)

=====

In his defense, he does seem to be something like a national socialist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

174 IF'n Congress is not funding the government, why is there ANY Foreign Aid?
Posted by: Romeo13



Possibly already allocated just not disbursed yet.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (Qd7dZ)

175 Well, off the breasts because crack kills...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:36 PM


This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Motorboat at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (0sNs1)

176 JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

Anyone else find this hilarious?

Just me?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

177 For a time my X feed was filled with Japanese porn.

Japanese porn is weird.

Too squeaky.

Posted by: An observation at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (HcoTw)

178 176 JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

Anyone else find this hilarious?

Just me?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

My question: was anybody actually hit?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

179 Maine Kampf
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 02:50 PM (Nx5jP)

Yer naughty.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (urtE/)

180 2. He's so fucking stupid he gets a tattoo without making any effort to determine what it means if anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


There's a reason why 99.9% of the populace shouldn't spend money on 'tats. Jeezus, just buy a Dodge Charge like the rest of them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (mlg/3)

181
Well, she's a teacher. I assume that makes her a citizen.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:46 PM


can't make those assumptions anymore

ICE just arrested a police officer in chicago who was an illegal

and there was that school district superintendent what turned out to be an illegal

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (tljrc)

182 177 For a time my X feed was filled with Japanese porn.

Japanese porn is weird.

Too squeaky.

Posted by: An observation at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (HcoTw)

I would expect, from what I've heard here, it would be quite tentacular...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

183 JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

Anyone else find this hilarious?

Just me?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

There's a Hogan's Heros episode in this story just waiting to come out.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 02:54 PM (kanec)

184 JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.
____

If the German police can outgun the German Army, I imagine a typical mid-sized US city's swat team can take the whole country.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 02:54 PM (Dv3i1)

185 [i>>shattering a political ceiling that stood for more than seven decades

What ceiling? Did Japan ever have a female PM before?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

No but I think that's when they first started having prime Ministers, when we gave them their new constitution.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 02:54 PM (a+4eV)

186 No, naming one of the ships Manchukuo would...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:51 PM


*chef's kiss*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 02:54 PM (ySpAZ)

187 Lomez@LOm3z

This morning NPR had on the chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee to explain why Trump's White House renovations are an affront to the history of the building and so on and so forth.

This chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee is named Priya Jain. She was born and raised in India. Did her undegrad studies in India. Speaks in a thick Indian accent. And seems to write on exclusively India related topics, with recent academic publications such as “Clean, Cool Air: Health and Air Conditioning in India,” and "Planning of the Indian Institute of Technology (1951) in Kharagpur."

This is all fine on its own, but that she is the chair of the American Heritage Conservation Committee and is lecturing Trump form the perch of our National Public Radio on the appropriate architectural design of the White House, seems indicative of... something.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (TGPs7)

188 178 176 JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

Anyone else find this hilarious?

Just me?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

My question: was anybody actually hit?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

Stormtroopers Vs Redshirts...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (mP0Kj)

189 160 Sheisse

@disclosetv 36s
JUST IN - Soldiers of the German Armed Forces accidentally shot at police officers with training ammunition, who returned fire with live ammunition, injuring at least one soldier.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:49

So I see Europe is partaking in the everything is corrupt and incompetent strategy of government too. How embarrassing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (hs4ik)

190 My question: was anybody actually hit?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

They just said a soldier was injured during the return fire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

191 "FIRE THE WAVE MOTION GUN!!!!"

Posted by: Max Power at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (q177U)

192 Mein Gott

Schadenfrued uber alles.

Polezei 1
Bundeswher 0

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (yGLqz)

193 Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM


Boxcars deserve happy little bushes as much, and perhaps more, than anyone.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (0sNs1)

194 DC during this shitdown needs to suspend all aid to Bogota.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (yGLqz)


And that is what Trump is threatening to do.

And it is making Colombia worried. On the other hand THOSE BASTARDS look to be having the best coffee crop in a couple of decades and an embargo will keep $11/lb coffee normal, so they all need to be boiled in oil.

FRY THEM LIKE AN AREPA

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

195 Stop them when they show up on our shores. Arrest them. Confiscate the goods, and then treat the illegal smugglers bringing illegal goods into our country illegally as civilians in a court system.

Because we can't be at war with a drug cartel. It doesn't matter what AUMF is still on the books and Trump has legally referenced in his authority to deal with things within his sphere of commander in chief. Rand Paul says we can't be at war. - The James Madison


Meh. I'd rather not clutter up our prisons with taxpayer-supported South American convicts.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 02:56 PM (mADJX)

196 This is all fine on its own, but that she is the chair of the American Heritage Conservation Committee and is lecturing Trump form the perch of our National Public Radio on the appropriate architectural design of the White House, seems indicative of... something.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (TGPs7)


Indicative of being an ignorant lefty twat?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:56 PM (urtE/)

197 RE: Graham Platner

Pffttt!

Get smart politically! How many of the Somalis in Maine have become naturalized citizens? How are they in tipping? 😂

AI Overview: The Somali population in Maine has had a measurable effect on the voting population, particularly in local elections. The community's growing size and increasing civic engagement have led to the election of several Somali American officials in recent years, especially in cities with significant Somali populations, such as Lewiston and South Portland.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 02:57 PM (NFX2v)

198 To fire the wave motion gun, Kodai uses a Revi 16B gunsight to aim.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 02:57 PM (yGLqz)

199 can't make those assumptions anymore

ICE just arrested a police officer in chicago who was an illegal

and there was that school district superintendent what turned out to be an illegal
Posted by: AltonJackson


Yeah. 😔

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 02:57 PM (Qd7dZ)

200 Submarines are highly underrated as fishing wessels.
Posted by: Pavel Checkov
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Submarines are highly rated sandwiches.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 02:57 PM (BxFEL)

201
This is all fine on its own, but that she is the chair of the American Heritage Conservation Committee and is lecturing Trump form the perch of our National Public Radio on the appropriate architectural design of the White House, seems indicative of... something.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 22, 2025 02:55

I don't care what some foreigner thinks and why is she on this committee? Are there Americans on committees in India telling them what a shithole their country is and to stop polluting? I don't think so.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 02:57 PM (hs4ik)

202 Anyone else here sick of Rand Paul?

Rand, stick to your penny plan. Something we can all get behind. (Although now it’s a nickel plan…😬

Posted by: The MewTwix at October 22, 2025 02:58 PM (WBJz+)

203 He's so fucking stupid he gets a tattoo without making any effort to determine what it means if anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

There's a reason why 99.9% of the populace shouldn't spend money on 'tats. Jeezus, just buy a Dodge Charge like the rest of them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (mlg/3)
_______

My nephew got a bunch of Chinese characters on his back. He thought they meant "strength and honor above all" or something like that. I was kinda dating a Chinese girl at the time. We played a joke by having the girl tell him the tattoo said something like "I'm super gay and like cocks in my ass."

He fell for it! He was horrified that he was walking around with this on his back for years. He was making appointments for cover-ups right then and there. We had confess to the joke before he tore up his back.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

204 AI Overview: The Somali population in Maine has had a measurable effect on the voting population, particularly in local elections. The community's growing size and increasing civic engagement have led to the election of several Somali American officials in recent years, especially in cities with significant Somali populations, such as Lewiston and South Portland.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 02:57 PM (NFX2v)

Uh. I thought the Somalis were let in on special Visas as refugees... are they suddenly citizens and voting?

or... not citizens and voting?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 02:58 PM (mP0Kj)

205 This is all fine on its own, but that she is the chair of the American Heritage Conservation Committee and is lecturing Trump form the perch of our National Public Radio on the appropriate architectural design of the White House, seems indicative of... something.
Posted by: Mister Ghost


Another federal agency Trump needs to gut?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 02:58 PM (a+4eV)

206 If the German police can outgun the German Army, I imagine a typical mid-sized US city's swat team can take the whole country.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 02:54 PM (Dv3i1)

Poland could march on Berlin today. Call it reparations.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 02:59 PM (9Ovst)

207 193 Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM

Boxcars deserve happy little bushes as much, and perhaps more, than anyone.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (0sNs1)

https://youtube.com/shorts/wRjOeWEieXA

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

208 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

209 Look, Columbia, you're right, we don't get to TELL you what to do. We actually don't fucking care what you do. So, we'll withhold all the money we have been giving you and you can do whatever you want. Dumbass.

Also, we are going to blow up every fucking drug boat that leaves your territorial waters.

Actually, best plan, take ever speck of aid we were giving to Columbia and give it to Bolivia. Every fucking dime.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (D1vbu)

210 193 Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM


Here's a funny one featuring Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers getting into it.

https://tinyurl.com/57my6jeh

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (mADJX)

211 Why would Poland want Berlin?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (yGLqz)

212 208 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

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I'd get the One Ring's elven script around my bicep if I ever felt like getting a tattoo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

213 My question: was anybody actually hit?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

They just said a soldier was injured during the return fire.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

Tweaked his back diving for cover.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (P7vXf)

214 I have no doubt that the left in the US wasted no time in supporting Petro's statements about King Trump.

Posted by: Cheri at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (oiNtH)

215 I've never understood beggars with demands. They want our money, and they also want to do whatever they want with it.

Get stuffed.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (D1vbu)

216 215 I've never understood beggars with demands. They want our money, and they also want to do whatever they want with it.

Get stuffed.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (D1vbu)

======

Get paid for doing nothing for years.

It creates entitlement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

217 Uh. I thought the Somalis were let in on special Visas as refugees... are they suddenly citizens and voting?

or... not citizens and voting?
Posted by: Romeo13


Hah. Apparently anyone born on US soil is a citizen these days, so all the children of the special refugee visa possessors have US citizenship. I guess.

I wouldn't put it past all of the somalis to be voting illegally, of course, because they have no respect for the country that was foolish enough to shelter them and who's going to stop them, anyway?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (a+4eV)

218 Why would Poland want Berlin?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (yGLqz)

In Hearts of Iron, German territory was high in manpower, coal and steel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

219 I would expect, from what I've heard here, it would be quite tentacular...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They're real and they're tentacular!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)

220 Why would Poland want Berlin"

Schnitz n giggles?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 03:02 PM (tubbA)

221 >>> There's a reason why 99.9% of the populace shouldn't spend money on 'tats. Jeezus, just buy a Dodge Charge like the rest of them.

I love the story I saw of a white woke kid on X ragging on a guy for having a tribal tattoo. That he needed to check his privilege, basically. And the guy shot back, I'm Filipino and this is a Filipino tribal tat. Check YOUR privilege!

Yes, the white d-bag getting a tribal tat is a cliche. But I was happy to see that.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 03:02 PM (Eng1Z)

222 I was stationed in Japan for three years and I have to say them electing a female prime minister goes against everything I remember from my time there. Women were literally second class citizens back in the early 90s and relegated to house work, raising children or menial retail sales positions. I would never have bet that in a short 35 years they would have elected a female prime minister.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 03:03 PM (0N4FZ)

223 Speaking of tattoos, I remember an episode of Tales from the Crypt ("On a Deadman's Chest") where the main character is an arrogant, impulsive vocalist for an up-and-coming rockband. Part of the plot involves him going to a Haitian tattoo artist for a unique tattoo - this tattoo artist takes one look at the rocker's tattoos and mutters something about "the garbage people put on their bodies...people with $50 burning a hole in their pockets".

Decent episode. Probably the one with the most amount of nudity too, courtsey of the rocker's groupie. Tia Carrere is also in this episode, but no nudity from her, if you care about that kinda stuff, .

Posted by: Thrawn at October 22, 2025 03:03 PM (9Ovst)

224 Would not want to be sharing space with the Colombian President any time soon.... Trump may be tempted to re- purpose some of our see eye ay who have been busy trying to F Trump to F Colombia. Who knows? It could happen.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at October 22, 2025 03:03 PM (5tR6V)

225 the One Ring's elven script around my bicep"

Ok, slow pitch over the plate, y'all...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (tubbA)

226 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

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I'd get the One Ring's elven script around my bicep if I ever felt like getting a tattoo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
________

See my comment above. Getting Chinese characters was all the rage maybe 10 years ago. In the story above, we goofed on my nephew, but the true translation wasn't what he thought, either. It didn't make much sense in Chinese.

Now, with google translate, you can "read" the characters before they get inked on you.

The Blade has no ink and no piercings. His skin is too soft and pretty for that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

227 Petro talks big for a little man.

Small fish in a small pond.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (TezPK)

228 187 This chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee is named Priya Jain. She was born and raised in India. - Mister Ghost

What is it with all these left-wing Indians?

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (mADJX)

229 "I have always believed in the strength of Japan's traditions and the need to defend them," she said during her campaign.


Hopefully that won't mean torturing and murdering Christian missionaries and performing barbaric pseudomedical experiments...

Posted by: But seriously, she may have potential at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (TbWk/)

230 Actually, best plan, take ever speck of aid we were giving to Columbia and give it to Bolivia. Every fucking dime.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (D1vbu)


The new President of Bolivia is allowing blockchain to guarantee state contracts to try to get ahead of the endemic corruption. They are also recognizing stablecoin and bitcoin as allowable currencies and are entering in an agreement with El Salvador for pooling banking and allowing crypto as a method for foreign settlement of debts.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 03:05 PM (rbvCR)

231 226 The Blade has no ink and no piercings. His skin is too soft and pretty for that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

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My brother was big into tattoos for years but couldn't get over his fear of needles.

Then, I saw him for the first time in a couple of years at Christmas and he had a full sleeve.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

232 See my comment above. Getting Chinese characters was all the rage maybe 10 years ago. In the story above, we goofed on my nephew, but the true translation wasn't what he thought, either. It didn't make much sense in Chinese.

Now, with google translate, you can "read" the characters before they get inked on you.

Or it was stuff like "I gloriously fellate the penis of many yaks"

Posted by: Oh yes, this super badass tattoo! at October 22, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)

233 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

It seemed pretty cool in 1983.

Posted by: Def Leppard Fan at October 22, 2025 03:07 PM (4DY5T)

234 Wasn't Petro the name of the Exxon Tiger In The Tank as campaign?

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 03:08 PM (TezPK)

235 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

A Navy presented his bride with jewelry consisting of intertwined Naval signal flags telling her they meant "I love you." Turns out, the Navy doesn't recognize love (not heterosexual love anyway) and the flags actually signaled "permission to lay along side."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 03:08 PM (L/fGl)

236 because they have no respect for the country"

This. Like most humans thru history, they're extremely tribal. Our nation state is just a big joke, and we're suckers to be fleeced...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 03:09 PM (tubbA)

237 219 I would expect, from what I've heard here, it would be quite tentacular...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They're real and they're tentacular!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)

Hah! ::: golf clap :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

238 A Navy presented his bride with jewelry consisting of intertwined Naval signal flags telling her they meant "I love you." Turns out, the Navy doesn't recognize love (not heterosexual love anyway)

It isn't gay if you're underway.

Posted by: In The Navy at October 22, 2025 03:09 PM (TezPK)

239 Hah. Apparently anyone born on US soil is a citizen these days, so all the children of the special refugee visa possessors have US citizenship. I guess.

I wouldn't put it past all of the somalis to be voting illegally, of course, because they have no respect for the country that was foolish enough to shelter them and who's going to stop them, anyway?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (a+4eV)

Looks like they have been here in significant numbers for just over 20 years? so yeah some kids born here?... some could vote... but enough to really swing elections?

I'd take a looonnnggg look at the voter rolls.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:09 PM (mP0Kj)

240 226 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)


My elder son is a tattooist, and the biggest error he ever made was spelling the "Virginia" in "West Virginia" without the first "i", when he was tattooing a guy's arm. Weird thing is, the guy didn't notice it. The customer's girlfriend pointed it out ("Hey, don't you guys use spellcheck?", she wisecracked), and my son was able to fix it somehow.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 03:10 PM (mADJX)

241 225 the One Ring's elven script around my bicep"

Ok, slow pitch over the plate, y'all...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (tubbA)

I like the one where they guy got a tat, the same one his dog has...turns out the tat was to signify the dog was neutered...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

242 My brother was big into tattoos for years but couldn't get over his fear of needles.

Then, I saw him for the first time in a couple of years at Christmas and he had a full sleeve.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO


I don't have tattoos but I LOVED "Ink Master" back in the day. Some of those people did amazingly beautiful work.

Season 4 was the best. Melissa was hot. Scott died shortly after.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:11 PM (Sco7b)

243
I was stationed in Japan for three years and I have to say them electing a female prime minister goes against everything I remember from my time there. Women were literally second class citizens back in the early 90s and relegated to house work, raising children or menial retail sales positions. I would never have bet that in a short 35 years they would have elected a female prime minister.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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

I know you didn't intend to do this, but you just solved the deeply baffling mystery, "Why are birthrates falling"?

You solved it for any number of Asian countries anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 03:11 PM (ldc7S)

244 See my comment above. Getting Chinese characters was all the rage maybe 10 years ago. In the story above, we goofed on my nephew, but the true translation wasn't what he thought, either. It didn't make much sense in Chinese.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

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My sister has one. I happened to work with a few Chinese people at the time, and I drew it for them and asked them what it meant. Hers was actually accurate.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 22, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL)

245 226
...
The Blade has no ink and no piercings. His skin is too soft and pretty for that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

Neither do I, but I do have lots of scars and stitches...body art, of a sort...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 03:11 PM (ynpvh)

246 204. or... not citizens and voting?
Posted by: Romeo13

Refugees become citizens, i.e., Ilhan Omar, born in Somalia, became a U.S. citizen in 2000 after her family was granted refugee status and immigrated to the United States in the 1990s.

AI Overview: Most Somalis in the USA are refugees, who arrived through the formal U.S. refugee resettlement program after fleeing the civil war and political instability in Somalia. While some have also been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the largest portion of the Somali population in the U.S. came through the refugee program.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 03:12 PM (NFX2v)

247 I have never head a problem eith tattoos if we'll done. Just never come across a design I could live with forever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 22, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

248 They ran out of other people's money (thanks socialism/ communism!), so the cartel money is the only thing keeping them afloat. Trump disrupting the drug trade and the flow of drugs is making the cartels mad. So they have to saber rattle, but they have no cards to play and no leverage.
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:44 PM (Eng1Z)

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Socialism only sounds good...to dumbasses. What was that about running out of other people's money?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:13 PM (PMtkd)

249 Stealing art from the French is like taking candy from zee baby.

Posted by: HERMANN GORING at October 22, 2025 03:13 PM (njGzd)

250 Why would Poland want Berlin?
Posted by: Anna Puma



Payback?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (Qd7dZ)

251 That Columbia dude is whacked out of his hours if he thinks a comment like that won't yield hellfire hemorrhoids. What a fuckin tard

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (XLfSN)

252 JPOP Interlude:

https://youtu.be/YJRFD1AdaUE

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (/5WHP)

253 I don't have tattoos but I LOVED "Ink Master" back in the day. Some of those people did amazingly beautiful work.

Season 4 was the best. Melissa was hot. Scott died shortly after.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:11 PM (Sco7b)

I have no ink but can appreciate the talent and skill it takes to create good tattoos.

Posted by: Some are impressive artworks at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

254 Neither do I, but I do have lots of scars and stitches...body art, of a sort...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 03:11 PM


Scars are like tattoos with better back stories.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (ySpAZ)

255 Can I just offer an off topic lament?

Within the past two days the daughter of our retired organist had died and now I just learned our Korean War vet has cancer . I will just say ithis and no, I'm not a doctor. I hope Fauci is held accountable. Yes; I know people die of cancer without Covid Shots, but my congregation has had seven people who were members or connected with the shot die with cancer in the past four years and all whom got the shot. This is heartbreaking !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 03:15 PM (rZCVI)

256 That rumbling we hear is the world's biggest "FAFO" sign ever built. It's rolling straight towards the Resolute Desk.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

257 Meant "Or connected with the congregation"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 03:16 PM (rZCVI)

258 256 That rumbling we hear is the world's biggest "FAFO" sign ever built. It's rolling straight towards the Resolute Desk.
Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

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First thing is to send SoS and the ambassador to the Colombian president's office to demand what he meant, specifically.

A ritual in embarrassment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

259 I find multiple Tats on a Woman an absolute turn off...

It's like painting graffiti on the Venus de Milo.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (mP0Kj)

260 Sora AI. EweToob's got a bunch of them. Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

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

Hilarious.

Thanks, jim -- I hope you're doing well and you've been in my prayers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (8WAox)

261 Getting Chinese characters was all the rage maybe 10 years ago. In the story above, we goofed on my nephew, but the true translation wasn't what he thought, either. It didn't make much sense in Chinese.

There's a blog called "Hanzi Smatter" where the guy translates Japanese and Chinese tattoos people send in. The best case outcome was that it was gibberish or not real characters from those alphabets. (They pretty much never said what the people thought they did). Hasn't been updated in 3 years but the archives are very entertaining.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

262 I do not understand getting a tattoo on your own body in a language you do not speak. That seems retarded on the face of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Edited because I just don't get it. At all.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (9FEtL)

263 Some are pretty good, like Bob Ross getting arrested for painting the side of a rail car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:45 PM

Boxcars deserve happy little bushes as much, and perhaps more, than anyone.
Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at October 22, 2025 02:55 PM


ISWYDT.

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at October 22, 2025 03:18 PM (bqcFN)

264 First rule of drug smuggling...5 300 horse outboards is a tell.

Nine guys on boat also a tell.

Running at high speed...you get the idea.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 03:18 PM (s9EN2)

265 I have read that lots of large tattoos are a symbol of trauma, especially concerning women.

Without judgment, can those of you who have large tattoos (especially women) say if that is true, partially true, or false?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:18 PM (PMtkd)

266 That Columbia dude is whacked out of his hours if he thinks a comment like that won't yield hellfire hemorrhoids. What a fuckin tard
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (XLfSN)

Damn straight and that's just upper Manhattan. Bogota is in a world of trouble.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)

267 President Petro needs to tone down the rhetoric.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at October 22, 2025 03:19 PM (aTimx)

268
It annoys me that thanks to the American Donk commie cocksuckers and their pussy GOPe fellow travelers, these piss-ant little countries think they can push around a nuclear armed superpower just by uttering the word "racist".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2025 03:19 PM (y9nCu)

269 I have no ink but can appreciate the talent and skill it takes to create good tattoos.
Posted by: Some are impressive artworks at October 22, 2025 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

Some were amazing. There was a guy 'Sausage', if I ever got a tattoo it would be from him. Or the season 2 winner. I think they have a shop in Vegas.

There was one season where in the finale, some Dude, yes getting a free back tattoo, ended up with an ocean watercolour.

Pass...Dude should have passed.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:19 PM (Sco7b)

270 JUST IN: Colombia's President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if @realDonaldTrump won't change, the solution is to "get rid of Trump"

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If you did that, President Vance would likely turn your Palace into Green Glass.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 03:20 PM (8WAox)

271 268
It annoys me that thanks to the American Donk commie cocksuckers and their pussy GOPe fellow travelers, these piss-ant little countries think they can push around a nuclear armed superpower just by uttering the word "racist".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2025 03:19 PM (y9nCu)

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Worked for decades, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

272 I have read that lots of large tattoos are a symbol of trauma, especially concerning women.

Without judgment, can those of you who have large tattoos (especially women) say if that is true, partially true, or false?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:18 PM


Out of all of the women I have encountered that have a large number of tattoos on their bodies without exception they hate themselves and their bodies.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 03:20 PM (0N4FZ)

273 I love that the Colombian douche president said that the submarine was just a fishing boat.

Who does he think he's fooling?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:21 PM (PMtkd)

274 Or it was stuff like "I gloriously fellate the penis of many yaks"
Posted by: Oh yes, this super badass tattoo! at October 22, 2025 03:07 PM


We can use people like you. Call us.

Posted by: Big Penguin at October 22, 2025 03:21 PM (bqcFN)

275 I have wanted to slap that toothpick out of Holmes' mouth for years. He knows he on TV right? I prefer smoking to look cool.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 03:21 PM (s9EN2)

276 258 256 That rumbling we hear is the world's biggest "FAFO" sign ever built. It's rolling straight towards the Resolute Desk.
Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 03:15 PM (rj6Yv)

First thing is to send SoS and the ambassador to the Colombian president's office to demand what he meant, specifically.

A ritual in embarrassment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

Russia is at war in Ukraine... busy.

China has internal problems, probs in South China Sea, and has recently been shooting at India.

India has been shooting at both China, and Pakistan.

Pakistan has been shooting at both Afghanis, and Pakistanis.

England is a paper Tiger, already involved in Ukraine.

Germany is shooting at its own citizens, and does not have Combat Ready units.

France has no go zones inside its own country.

Just who is going to back up some shitpot Central American country if they pick a fight with Trump?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (mP0Kj)

277 President Petro needs to tone down the rhetoric.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at October 22, 2025 03:19 PM (aTimx)

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Might I suggest many Sombrero memes?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (8WAox)

278 A video came recommended to me by YouTube, an interview with Thomas Campbell, a govt-contracted physicist, on the Danny Jones channel.

This guy Campbell is a dead ringer for me! The resemblance is uncanny.

youtube.com/watch?v=U7niXhUEC-I

OTOH, he appears to be a crackpot, which of course I am not. But he sure does look just like me!

Posted by: gp at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (7imtn)

279 nood

Posted by: gp at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (7imtn)

280 Worst tattoo ever.

Alina Li.

Someone needed to be shot.
Don't search it. Nsfw.

But those who know, know....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:23 PM (Sco7b)

281 I have read that lots of large tattoos are a symbol of trauma, especially concerning women.

Without judgment, can those of you who have large tattoos (especially women) say if that is true, partially true, or false?
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 03:18 PM (PMtkd)

Last week I saw a woman with one side of her head shaved and that area tattooed. Given the high pain quotient of getting tattooed on a bony surface, There must have been a pretty significant reason for her to decide that was a good idea.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 03:24 PM (lFFaq)

282 The new President of Bolivia is allowing blockchain to guarantee state contracts to try to get ahead of the endemic corruption. They are also recognizing stablecoin and bitcoin as allowable currencies and are entering in an agreement with El Salvador for pooling banking and allowing crypto as a method for foreign settlement of debts.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 03:05 PM (rbvCR)
____________________________

There's something subtle and cool happening in South America. Instead of the usual "nation building" nonsense from our perspective, the US administration recognizes how persuasive success can be if a natural anti-corruption representative government takes root on its own. Argentina had Bolivians looking over the fence and realizing...."Hey, check them out. We can do that." Now Bolivia has taken their first steps away from socialism. They have a big long fence with Brazilians looking over. And, should Bolivia (and Argentina) start to dominate the region economically with all the bells and whistles enjoyed by their citizens, guess what happens in short order in Brazil.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 03:24 PM (dIske)

283 Hours = gourd

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (XLfSN)

284 I find multiple Tats on a Woman an absolute turn off...

It's like painting graffiti on the Venus de Milo.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 22, 2025 03:17 PM (mP0Kj)

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+1

Goes for piercings even moreso ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 03:26 PM (8WAox)

285 I love that the Colombian douche president said that the submarine was just a fishing boat.

Who does he think he's fooling?
Posted by: Seems Legit


Dear Presidente Petro Dollars,
Physics called. Said your fishing boat that was running six feet under water? If it wasn't a submarine, then it was sinking.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (Qd7dZ)

286 NPR is the Jamie Raskin of news networks.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (cHNrw)

287 If you venture into places like reddit, you will see the modern Democrat party completely apoplectic over the Japan news.

Japan may be a good country to live if the US ends up turning into Amerikastan.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 03:28 PM (XLfSN)

288 From the jewelry heist thread:

"Police are searching for the three thieves. One of them may be named Pierre Despereaux and another uses various aliases including Lavender Goombs, Sillypants Jackson, Ghee Buttersnaps, Ovaltine Jenkins, Longbranch Pennywhistle, and Scooney "U-Turn" Singleton."

I will be laughing about this for the rest of my day. Ace is hands down the funniest writer on the internet! Thanks for this, man. And now, off to work.

Posted by: Sam Adams at October 22, 2025 03:30 PM (X+xvk)

289 >>> Hopefully that won't mean torturing and murdering Christian missionaries and performing barbaric pseudomedical experiments...

Americans don't really have any room to point fingers on this one, just sayin'.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 22, 2025 03:34 PM (ERYKL)

290 The new conservative PM in Japan, the burka ban in Portugal, the whole move to the right in Europe--it's the Trump Effect. They know the biggest dog in the world will support them. And the people want no more Cultural Enrichers in their nation either, and now they are free to say it.

Posted by: Random PJ at October 22, 2025 03:46 PM (RRCAT)

291 Trump is a symptom, not a cause.

The cause is a multinational push toward societal homogeny.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 09:09 PM (D1vbu)

North Carolina Enacts New Congressional Districting Map Which Will Likely Add One More Republican to the House of Representatives

CNN's collective vagina is sandy.

Nay -- it's gritty.


The North Carolina Senate approved a new congressional map aimed at helping Republicans eke out an additional GOP seat to help shore up the party's majority in the US House after next year's midterm elections.

The vote came one day after Republican lawmakers who control North Carolina's legislature formally opened debate on the map. It targets a House district currently represented by Democratic Rep. Don Davis -- one of three Black members of Congress from the state. The new district lines aim to give Republicans the advantage for 11 out of 14 US House seats from North Carolina.

The GOP currently controls 10 seats under the map used in last year's elections.

Now for the schmoll news I know many of you are going to gripe at, forcing me to hide schmolling news in deceptively-headlined posts like a dirty secret Brian Stelter hides in his orthopedic sock drawer.

We can win the Virginia governor's race.


A new poll shows Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears trailing Democratic hopeful Abigail Spanberger by 5 points.

Polls are inaccurate, and favor Democrats by 3 points or more (often more), so this race is a jump-ball.


The 2025 Virginia governor's race is emerging as a key indicator of national political trends ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

...

In the co/efficient poll released on Friday, Earle-Sears is down 5 points, with 44 percent of the vote compared to Spanberger's 49 percent. Six percent remain undecided, the poll shows.

The survey polled 937 likely voters from October 15 to October 17 and has a 3.19 percent margin of error.

And of course last week's Trafalgar poll but the race within the margin of error:


In another poll taken last week, Earle-Sears was also behind Spanberger but within the margin of error. The poll by The Trafalgar Group showed Spanberger had 47.5 percent of the vote compared to Earle-Sears' 45.3 percent.

The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!

Now I don't want to say the AG's race -- between actual prosecutor Jason Miyares and lunatic partisan child-murder-fantasist Jay Jones -- is in the bag, so I'll post this without comment:

miyarespollhistory.jpg

In New Jersey, where Republicans have gained a lot of voters through registration drives, Jack Ciattarelli is also supposedly five points behind lifelong cheater/congressional grifter Mikie Sherril.

But this same schmollster missed Ciattarelli's support by 5.2 points in 2021.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 JUST IN: NEW JERSEY governor poll

🔵 Mikie Sherrill: 50% (+5)
🔴 Jack Ciattarelli: 45%

Same pollster in 2021:
🔵 Murphy+8
🟡 Result: Murphy+2.8
🟥 Error: Missed Ciattarelli by 5.2

GOP should be ready to STORM the polls on Saturday...

Rutgers Eagleton | 10/3-17 | N=795LV

Sometimes the question "who do you expect to win" can be a better measure of the final vote than schmolling questions about who the respondent intends to vote for. On that measure, the race is a toss-up. 43% expect the corrupt cheating grifter Democrat to win, 42% expect Ciattarelli.

Ciatterelli might be getting the endorsement of the Vaad, an organization which represents orthodox Jews in New Jersey (and also controls the Kessel Trade Routes). I've heard their numbers estimated around 100,000 voters.

Ciattarelli only lost by 92,000 in 2021. The Vaad didn't endorse him in 2021.

And he's got another big endorsement. Trump says: Back Jack!

trumpsaysbackjack.jpg

In the national race for the House of Representatives, Democrats hold a bare +1.8% advantage in RCP's schmolling average. This means, of course, that they have no advantage, as schmollsters always over-estimate Democrat support by around 3%.

genericcongressionalvotercp2026.jpg

The last time the Democrats shut down the government, during Trump's first term, Trump lost support with the public.

Now he's gaining support -- very slightly.

Posted by: Ace at 01:18 PM




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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (xcxpd)

2 And moar local lawfare!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (xcxpd)

3 "Why can't Republicans be all non-partisan in their drawing of maps like New England?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

4 And our NC gov is super sad

Posted by: NCKate at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (4bYb7)

5 We can win the Virginia governor's race.

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I doubt it.

But it would entertain me.

Let it be so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

6 Oh, and part of the NC story.

The governor cannot veto legislative originating congressional maps. It's in the NC constitution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

7 Why am I not up by 50 points!!????!!!

Posted by: Abigail Rodham Spanberger at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (qUkBO)

8 Until the SouthEast and MidWest are as heavily gerrymandered as New England we aren't done.

Presuming the VRA goes I want to see a slew of 60-40 red states with *0* Donks, just like New England in reverse.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

9 Trump has gotten the GOP faggots off their asses

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (XLfSN)

10 It may come down to who hustles and gets out there in front of the real voters.

Or it will be more fake ballots and corruption that win. The Washington way!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd)

11 Meanwhile, the Indiana GOP is dithering.

Posted by: Ann at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (DukxQ)

12 9 Trump has gotten the GOP faggots off their asses
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (XLfSN)

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Replacing men of steel (who hated us and wanted us to lose) with spineless losers in Congressional leadership is a huge improvement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

13 Obama has a billion bucks and he is spending it Soros style training foreign yutes in the art of color revolutions. He's actually over there preaching to his choirs.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (KtOUo)

14 Has the hawaiin judge ruled this unconstitutional yet?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (0N4FZ)

15 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (sKqQm)

16 "The last time the Democrats shut down the government, during Trump's first term, Trump lost support with the public. Now he's gaining support -- very slightly."

Polls are for strippers and for perverted faggots to ram up their bungus

I think Trump gained more support from the shutdown -- and the Dums lost more -- than these assfag polls are showing. If ever there was a poll to rig against Trump, it would be a poll on his support for a shutdown.

The fact that even rigged polls show a slight increase in support is very revealing. Trump is winning this showdown. Bigly.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

17 Yeah, the media says these 2 races, in blue States by the way, will reveal the "mood" of the Country....I guess if the Republicans manage to pull off a win it would be something but it should be noted as I said these are blue States...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (VE6XX)

18 "CNN's collective vagina is sandy."

Has AO-Sandy-Clam Cortez weighed in yet?

And I mean WEIGHED in.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (oSeBJ)

19 The current shutdown is over free healthcare for illegals.

Trump couldn't have picked a better issue to fight on

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (sKqQm)

20 Schmolls are for renobs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (9FEtL)

21 16 I think Trump gained more support from the shutdown -- and the Dums lost more -- than these assfag polls are showing. If ever there was a poll to rig against Trump, it would be a poll on his support for a shutdown.

The fact that even rigged polls show a slight increase in support is very revealing. Trump is winning this showdown. Bigly.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

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I think this shutdown is being viewed as inside the beltway drama, and you might as well poll on hearings from the House Transportation Committee.

Which is...interesting because the media is really trying to make it more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

22 "Why can't Republicans be all non-partisan in their drawing of maps like New England?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

The very first gerrymander was in New England, courtesy of your namesake's VP.

(By the way, he pronounced his surname with a hard "g," not the soft one we use in pronouncing "gerrymander."

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (77rzZ)

23 Never underestimate the Republican ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (KtOUo)

24 The AARP line in that chart of polls is hilarious.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (3nLb4)

25 > And he's got another big endorsement. Trump says: Back Jack!

It's a double-edged sword here in The People's Republic of New Jersey. Will be a real test of how much has (or has not) changed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (1Nv0l)

26 >>>CNN's collective vagina is sandy.

>>>Nay -- it's gritty.

And musty.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (i24o9)

27 I don't think Winsome is going to pull it off, but God Almighty I still pray she does.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (wtvvX)

28 Spanberger already has the white Karen vote. Mayo Pete does not expand her tent. Could reduce her chances with certain ethnic groups...

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (pgwxJ)

29 Yeah, the media says these 2 races, in blue States by the way, will reveal the "mood" of the Country....I guess if the Republicans manage to pull off a win it would be something but it should be noted as I said these are blue States...

Odd year elections in light blue states should not be taken as the mood of the country, but I would take "narrow dem win in both" as status quo. If the R's win either one it makes '26 look pretty damn good.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

30 >>>Now for the schmoll news I know many of you are going to gripe at, forcing me to hide schmolling news in deceptively-headlined posts like a dirty secret Brian Stelter hides in his orthopedic sock drawer.

A potato ricer?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:26 PM (i24o9)

31 26 >>>CNN's collective vagina is sandy.

>>>Nay -- it's gritty.

And musty.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (i24o9)

Vagina???

More like cloaca...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 01:26 PM (wtvvX)

32 "Polls are inaccurate, and favor Democrats by 3 points or more (often more), so this race [VA Gov] is a jump-ball."

Maybe on the merits; however, I EXPECT Spanberger to win. DC's bubble is too big. I'm going to vote my ass off and am scheduled to volunteer as a poll watcher at my polling place, but if Spanberger is anywhere up to and including four points behind in the polls, I expect her to win with NoVA turnout.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at October 22, 2025 01:26 PM (oSeBJ)

33 sending their highest-ranking homosexuals.

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The No Kings/ICE protests are really putting a strain on Rainbow/LGBTQ supplies.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:26 PM (IifOV)

34 If the donks are crowing about abortion in Virginia in October in their television ads, then their internal polling is looking like shit for them.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at October 22, 2025 01:27 PM (k1E2D)

35 One of the most common memes I've seeing right now is "So the government that takes 40% of my income has been shut down for 3 weeks and I'm seeing absolutely no difference in my life" accompanied with a picture of a grumpy cat looking in the mirror

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

36 Trump has gotten the GOP faggots off their asses
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (XLfSN)
****
Has he managed to get the tops off the bottoms?
I know i know...it's just a rumor...

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 01:27 PM (KtOUo)

37 And I mean WEIGHED in.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM


Torta Mode...activated!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (ySpAZ)

38 Let’s go ahead and hold all the elections anyway, just because.

In TX news, the two week early voting period began Monday on its 17 Constitutional amendments. Among them is a Constitutional amendment restricting voting to U.S. citizens.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (pNkJD)

39 I think this shutdown is being viewed as inside the beltway drama, and you might as well poll on hearings from the House Transportation Committee.

Which is...interesting because the media is really trying to make it more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

out here in flyover country, I don't know of anyone who even knows or cares that it's happening - except for one relative who had a civilian job at an airbase, and is currently on furlow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (uWKK8)

40 Presuming the VRA goes I want to see a slew of 60-40 red states with *0* Donks, just like New England in reverse.
Posted by: 18-1

Little ol' Oklahoma has already done this. All our seats are red. In fact, no pedocrat has won even one county since I think 2004.

We did however send Washington one stinker of a weak senator who has dreams of leadership. He should go back to leading the Baptist summer camp.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (yjljJ)

41 Gerrymandering is wrong no matter whom it benefits.

Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (9ipOP)

42 HUGE shoutout to @PeteButtigieg, who joined volunteers and many of our incredible House of Delegates candidates for a canvass launch in Fredericksburg this afternoon! pic.twitter.com/svbanUKjVV

— Team Spanberger (@TeamSpanberger) October 21, 2025

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It's hard to not note that the pictures of this huge turnout include...about 10 people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

43 So, what does it look like if Spanberger wins the governorship, but Miyares holds on the AG spot?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

44 and also controls the Kessel Trade Routes)

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12 Parsecs, chief !

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)

45 Well; I'll be storming the polls.

Not that it means a lot, but I see more Jack C. signs in my area than those of Mickie S. Having run before , Jack C. does have name recognition.

And on another note, Democrats in our area or their kids keep stealing school boards signs for the Republicans! So sophomoric

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (Nx5jP)

46 I would love to see a Republican sweep in VA and NJ. Combine that with the Shutdown crap and the old time Dems would be toast. Please let it happen

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (8RjCi)

47 >>>The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!

Admiral Fudgepacker and his butt-boy, Ensign Jism.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (i24o9)

48 41 Gerrymandering is wrong no matter whom it benefits.

Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (9ipOP)

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Republicans not doing it while Democrats do it ceaselessly hasn't convinced Democrats to appeal to their better angels, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

49 Although I know that Trump has three more years left in office, I am already starting to mourn him one day no longer being POTUS.
He is funny and can bully the Democrats like nobody else. It's been amazing to watch and makes me hate myself for my votes for W, McCain, and Romney.

Posted by: jmel at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (RWHIh)

50 I think Trump gained more support from the shutdown -- and the Dums lost more -- than these assfag polls are showing. If ever there was a poll to rig against Trump, it would be a poll on his support for a shutdown.

The fact that even rigged polls show a slight increase in support is very revealing. Trump is winning this showdown. Bigly.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

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I think this shutdown is being viewed as inside the beltway drama, and you might as well poll on hearings from the House Transportation Committee.

Which is...interesting because the media is really trying to make it more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
______

Most "normal" shutdown drama I would agree. But I think this one is different. The Democrap push to make this about healthcare for slimy illegals -- omg, they really thought that was a winning issue -- raised this shutdown drama in the eyes of the public, because it involves an issue (illegals) that the public cares deeply about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

51 43 So, what does it look like if Spanberger wins the governorship, but Miyares holds on the AG spot?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

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I think VA is one of those states with a weak governor, so it'd probably be more of the same.

Bigger question is the legislature makeup after the election, I believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

52 No flavored vapes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (sGHnN)

53 I don't think Winsome is going to pull it off, but God Almighty I still pray she does.

Agreed, but what we don't know is the impact that Jones' implosion will have on Dem voting rates overall. Perhaps the Dems will simply sit this one out. Perhaps.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (Riz8t)

54 Spanberger already has the white Karen vote.
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We all need to quit kidding ourselves about this. Spanberger could unmask on public television and reveal herself to be a demonic spirit, and the only question then asked would be "You still support abortion, right?". And then the Dems and white women pretending to be Republicans would put her over the top.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)

55 Well; I'll be storming the polls.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM


Have fun stormin' the polls!

Posted by: Miracle max at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (ySpAZ)

56 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM


The third highest property taxes in the country is one answer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (0N4FZ)

57 19 The current shutdown is over free healthcare for illegals.

Trump couldn't have picked a better issue to fight on
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (sKqQm)

Most don’t have health for which to care anyway.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (pNkJD)

58 Just a reminder we can't have nice things, I do think Utah is being forced, in their own map gerrymandering redrawing, to make a permanent Democrat house seat in the SLC area. And because of demographics it will always be blue.

Sucks but it is what it is. I'm just glad the other states are making more red seats.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM (gWBY1)

59 50 Most "normal" shutdown drama I would agree. But I think this one is different. The Democrap push to make this about healthcare for slimy illegals -- omg, they really thought that was a winning issue -- raised this shutdown drama in the eyes of the public, because it involves an issue (illegals) that the public cares deeply about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

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That's why they've pivoted to the ACA COVID subsidies. But they've been beating that drum for like 2 weeks now.

And still...partisan blame like no one actually knows what's going on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

60 Gerrymandering is wrong no matter whom it benefits.

Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.


Not that you are wrong, but I reviewed some lefty threads taking up why heavily gerrymandered New England is that way. They all agreed it wasn't gerrymandering. So why is a 60-40% voting region 100-0 for them? Well their answers were mostly:

Because we are smart!
Its just random
Everyone hates Trump

Which should be read as...they don't care if it is or is not gerrymandering as long as they win.

Now, in light of this the only reasonable response is to use your enemy's strategy against them. Gerrymander red areas hard for a decade or so and then see if the left is willing to stop.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

61 I can't believe that Virginians would be so racist as to refuse to elect a black woman who would be the first female, black governor of their former slave-state.

They're like the Klan reborn.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 22, 2025 01:31 PM (0MjtC)

62 Gerrymandering is wrong no matter whom it benefits.

Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.


I'm open to suggestions of how to avoid it. Every districting decision is made by somebody. If it's made algorithmically, then somebody devised the algorithm. See the problem?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:31 PM (3nLb4)

63 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM


The third highest property taxes in the country is one answer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM


My mistake, they have the highest property taxes in the country. I was going on info based when we lived up there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:32 PM (0N4FZ)

64 PeteButtigieg is the most feminine looking thing in those photos.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 01:32 PM (Q4IgG)

65 I'm not black so I don't know how they'd react..i thought Spanberger was very disrespectful in not even looking at Winsome. Sort of treated her like a non-person.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 01:32 PM (kUxzU)

66 CNN and their pack of Fake News Media were jerking each other off over the Gallup poll showing the Dems have increased their party affiliation recently.

LOL, tards.

1) Gallup has completely shit the bed as far as accuracy, IIRC. Like, I think they've quit doing any specific race polling, they're so bad.
2) "Imma R vs. Imma D" is barely predictive this far out.
3) What's voter registration changes look like?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (BxFEL)

67 So, what does it look like if Spanberger wins the governorship, but Miyares holds on the AG spot?

I understand not voting for candidate A if candidate B is wildly different politically even if they are the same party, but I would love to hear from VA voters then would vote for Miyares and not Sears because politically they are very close as far as I can tell.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

68 Gerrymandering is wrong no matter whom it benefits.

Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.
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Now do the 2020 Presidential election.

And the impeachments of Trump, and the criminal and civil charges brought against him.

And the attempt by the Biden cabal to literally destroy this nation in 4 short years, from the border to the economy to the government agencies.

I no longer care about playing "fair". We can't allow the Democrats to ever again hold power.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (TN0g+)

69 Slow getting to the blog today, I had to be out and about. Passage was hindered by the shut-down caused bodies littering the streets.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (XeU6L)

70 Odd year elections in light blue states should not be taken as the mood of the country, but I would take "narrow dem win in both" as status quo. If the R's win either one it makes '26 look pretty damn good.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

Virginia has a long history of electing a Governor from the party not in the White House. Even when Reagan/Bush were in office and won Virginia easily, the Dems won 3 straight statewide sweeps in the off year elections.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (k1E2D)

71 Mistakes in the 2020 Census cost the GOP several House seats.
This still needs to be resolved.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (NpAcC)

72 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?
Posted by: 18-1

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NJ is schizophrenic. Down south they're pretty Republican. Up here in North NJ it's very very blue, but it's the corrupt Democrat machine-type, "sinecures for the idiot sons and daughters of the middle-class"-type blue.

So, not so much ideologically blue.

There are a lot of wealthy Dems up here who hate the DEI shite almost as much as we do (well -- at least they don't love it), and who live in daily fear of the Newark hordes invading their bucolic suburban neighborhoods, so they're really not on board with the whole Saint Floyd of Fentanyl, defund the police crap.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)

73 If true, is there any way this could sink his chances to run for president? Like if he's indicted? And at what points do democrats finally say, I'm wealthy beyond my wildest dreams. Maybe I don't need to steal a billion extra in taxpayer money. When?

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

7h
Gavin Newsom caught in a massive federal money laundering scam

Newsom increased ambulance costs 300%, then requested reimbursements from the federal government, but it was fake

He’d then pay a different company a fraction of the cost and pocket the rest. Stealing billions

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (gWBY1)

74 Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 01:32 PM (kUxzU)

I agree. It was both disrespectful and also dumb. I think she was coached to do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (Nx5jP)

75 Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.
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Morality in politics?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (tdL6y)

76 66 3) What's voter registration changes look like?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:33 PM (BxFEL)

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Actual voter registration changes from September 2025:

GOP +50,000
DNC -30,000

Lib Boomers who have nothing better to do are running to their phones to answer pollsters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

77 The current shutdown is over free healthcare for illegals.

Moar Sombreros and mariachis!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (7HnhV)

78 The fact that Spanberger is ex-CIA disturbs me more than anything else. How many other ex-spooks is she going to have running things in the Commonwealth?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

79 One of the most common memes I've seeing right now is "So the government that takes 40% of my income has been shut down for 3 weeks and I'm seeing absolutely no difference in my life" accompanied with a picture of a grumpy cat looking in the mirror
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

Is the government still taking money from your paycheck? Yes? Then the government is not shut down.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (2J/Lj)

80 The current shutdown is over free healthcare for illegals. Trump couldn't have picked a better issue to fight on.

Also, although it requires a working memory, this shutdown also shows just how hard Democrat presidents worked to make shutdowns hurt people who it doesn’t need to hurt. Trump is showing that, hey, shutdowns don’t need to be as punitive as Obama and others made them.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (EXyHK)

81 Ciatterelli's already a 2-time loser. He's the Kari Lake of NJ.

Up, my hopes are not.

Posted by: Delurker at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (NhiOW)

82 I understand not voting for candidate A if candidate B is wildly different politically even if they are the same party, but I would love to hear from VA voters then would vote for Miyares and not Sears because politically they are very close as far as I can tell.


As I mentioned above, I think the likelier effect would be that some Dems and Independents (snort) stay home out of disgust with a party that backs Jones.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (Riz8t)

83 Now, in light of this the only reasonable response is to use your enemy's strategy against them. Gerrymander red areas hard for a decade or so and then see if the left is willing to stop.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

Doesn't game theory say that tit for tat is the only winning strategy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (8zz6B)

84 and now, Frasier !

"Actor and producer Kelsey Grammer, a New Jersey native, is lending his voice to Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli in a new campaign video released Monday, calling for “honest leadership” and a return to “pride in our state” as the race against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) narrows in its final stretch."

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (g47mK)

85
Most "normal" shutdown drama I would agree. But I think this one is different. The Democrap push to make this about healthcare for slimy illegals -- omg, they really thought that was a winning issue -- raised this shutdown drama in the eyes of the public, because it involves an issue (illegals) that the public cares deeply about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025

That and their very recent rhetoric against shutdowns is hard to ignore. But, because Dems are just not bright, this is truly shining a huge light on the fact the ACA is anything by affordable and it’s a cluster. You would think they would want to avoid this peep under the door. The tweets about early retirees having to pay out the nose is not resonating well, either. Why should we subsidize someone who retired at 50?

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (OoFl2)

86 Mamdani’s margin for error is YUGE! I'm not worried, though. This time he'll try real communism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)

87 Imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have to count non-citizens (illegal and legal aliens) in the census, giving several more seats and electoral votes to the Democrats.

Imagine if the GOP had the balls to repeal the parts of the Voting Rights Act which establish permanent Democrat seats.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (l3YAf)

88 Why is it "gubernatorial candidate" vs "Democratic hopeful"?

I swear" only liars and fiction writers obsess over word choice like these charlatants.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (lonsH)

89 *though he is not a NJ native, he is from St.Thomas VI...

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (g47mK)

90 PeteButtigieg is the most feminine looking thing in those photos.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Really...let's play 'Pick The Ghey'. Gee, I don't know...it's a real poser.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

91 “ Highest ranking Homosexuals”…. comedy gold Ace… please never change.

Posted by: tubal at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (PCK5/)

92 "Actor and producer Kelsey Grammer, a New Jersey native, is lending his voice to Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli in a new campaign video released Monday, calling for “honest leadership” and a return to “pride in our state” as the race against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) narrows in its final stretch."
Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (g47mK)

Good for him...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (VE6XX)

93 He’d then pay a different company a fraction of the cost and pocket the rest. Stealing billions
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (gWBY1)
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If provable, I believe that is a felony, of the criminal variety.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (tdL6y)

94 Doesn't game theory say that tit for tat is the only winning strategy?

Yep.

Start off cooperating then for every betrayal, betray back for twice as long.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)

95 Don't forget that the shutdown is also about big bucks to NPR/PBS

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (kUxzU)

96 46 I would love to see a Republican sweep in VA and NJ. Combine that with the Shutdown crap and the old time Dems would be toast. Please let it happen
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Dem base will be out for blood. Maybe even literally.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)

97 Speaking of theft, their losing the EBT cards and they're not happy.

https://is.gd/Fzp8BRF

Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

98 And hopefully if it's close in favor of Dems, Jack C will be up on the cheating that will have been attempted.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (Nx5jP)

99 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (yy9ow)

100 "Mistakes" in the 2020 Census cost the GOP several House seats.
This still needs to be resolved.


FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (Riz8t)

101 calling for “honest leadership” and a return to “pride in our state” as the race against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) narrows in its final stretch."
Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (g47mK)
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I'd settle for lower taxes and utility costs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (tdL6y)

102 Until CNN can explain how Massachusetts has 9/9 districts Democrat? They can FOAD on the topic.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (PGEno)

103 "Actor and producer Kelsey Grammer, a New Jersey native, is lending his voice to Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli...
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Good for him...


Presumably, he doesn't need to work in Hollywood again for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (3nLb4)

104 87 Imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have to count non-citizens (illegal and legal aliens) in the census, giving several more seats and electoral votes to the Democrats.

Imagine if the GOP had the balls to repeal the parts of the Voting Rights Act which establish permanent Democrat seats.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (l3YAf)

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Repealing Section 2 would require 60 votes to get past cloture while burning a lot of political capital. Better to just let SCOTUS do it, which they're about to.

The mid-decade census is going to accomplish that count. Plus, after more than a year of federal agents very publicly throwing people out of the country and census counters, like all federal employees, being deputized to enforce immigration law (change at the start of Trump 2.0) is going to actively encourage illegals back into the shadows and outright out of the country.

Fed employees going door to door across the entire US asking if people are illegal immigrants?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

105 "Actor and producer Kelsey Grammer, a New Jersey native, is lending his voice to Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli in a new campaign video
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Dems will get Lilith to campaign for Sherrill.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (Dv3i1)

106 We can win, but can we beat the cheat?

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (jgmnb)

107 > The fact that Spanberger is ex-CIA disturbs me more than anything else. How many other ex-spooks is she going to have running things in the Commonwealth?
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More to the point; why does the CIA want Spudbanger to govern VA?

Regime change starts at home....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (Q4IgG)

108 Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (VE6XX)

I didn't know that he was a NJ native or favored Republicans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (Nx5jP)

109 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM
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1. NJ wasn't that deep a shade of blue. It had GOP governors not long ago.

The cities are festoons of gimmedats and layabouts who slavishly vote Dum (or allow their votes to be harvested by Dums), but there are a lot of suburban and rural areas that trend red-ish. My NJ house is in one.

2. Better voting integrity. NJ is behind the curve in this regard compared to OH, FL, and even PA, but it's moving in the right direction.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

110 I'm open to suggestions of how to avoid it. Every districting decision is made by somebody. If it's made algorithmically, then somebody devised the algorithm. See the problem?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:31 PM (3nLb4)

I would favor a system where a computer model - same for all 50 states - used an algorithm designed only to put equivalent amounts of voters in as concisely drawn borders as possible - only 4 straight lines allowed for any district.

Of course this would wipe out every district with a black representative in the country, which is why no one will dare to do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (uWKK8)

111 Gerrymandering is wrong no matter whom it benefits.

Not to be cliche, but it is literally an offense against electoral democracy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (9ipOP)

This is war and the Democrats have used gerrymandering against us for decades. In ideal world, it wouldn’t exist, but in the real world we have to use every tool at our disposal to win. They want us dead.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (l3YAf)

112 The tweets about early retirees having to pay out the nose is not resonating well, either. Why should we subsidize someone who retired at 50?

I'm really surprised Klobuchar did something so stupid. She isn't a complete idiot.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

113 >>> Mamdani’s margin for error is YUGE! I'm not worried, though. This time he'll try real communism!

His mom is director Mira Nair, so he understands using the camera and media. And his dad was a commie professor, so he gets how to finesse words.

When will democrats stop choosing the slick huckster with the best package, and not open the package up to see the turd inside?

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (gWBY1)

114 Mamdani’s margin for error is YUGE! I'm not worried, though. This time he'll try real communism!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)
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Staten Island will secede

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 01:39 PM (tdL6y)

115 When I saw the post about the VA GOV race, I was going to comment on the NJ race with almost exactly what you put. During the weekend I went to look up these polls and compared them to 2022, and Jack's deficit is exactly what the margin of error was in the final results of 2022. I think he'll get a late push like he did in 2022, hopefully keeping another awfl from getting in to office.

She's a great way to gauge liberals though, she's an awful candidate who has 0 accomplishments, is a carpetbagger, and used her office to enrich herself, but these idiots will still vote for her over a guy who probably won't be able to enact anything but truly centrist policies, since he'll be against a hard left legislator.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 22, 2025 01:39 PM (9IZTb)

116 DOJ Blondie has put out yet another sternly worded letter about the DC democrats new ICE doxing app. I'm sure they're shaking in their jackboots. Feh.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 22, 2025 01:39 PM (abIsI)

117 Madmani is jihadist first, everything else second including "communism". NYC ignores it at their and everyone else's peril. 24 years is all it took for the idiots to conquer themselves.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:39 PM (lonsH)

118 Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (3nLb4

Probably, but I don't think it would effect him so much unless he were loudly advocating for Trump in an election year.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:39 PM (Nx5jP)

119 When will democrats stop choosing the slick huckster with the best package, and not open the package up to see the turd inside?
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (gWBY1)

And the Dems have Cuomo... Another turd

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (VE6XX)

120 108 Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (VE6XX)

I didn't know that he was a NJ native or favored Republicans.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (Nx5jP)

Very much so, and it has come with a professional
cost, doubtlessly.

Posted by: tubal at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (PCK5/)

121 Doesn't game theory say that tit for tat is the only winning strategy?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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Tit-for-two-tats dominates tit-for-tat. But they clearly didn't ask me. Two-tits dominates everything as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (1Nv0l)

122 Oh, and part of the NC story.

The governor cannot veto legislative originating congressional maps. It's in the NC constitution.
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Thanks for that.
I'd seen it passed the NC senate 26-20 and mathed to less than 60%; short of veto override.

And now I know.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (BxFEL)

123 In TX news, the two week early voting period began Monday on its 17 Constitutional amendments. Among them is a Constitutional amendment restricting voting to U.S. citizens.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (pNkJD)


Fun fact: In the 149 years of the Texas Constitution, it has been amended 530 times by voters. Why, you might ask... cuz we don't trust our legislature.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (ExV1e)

124 Turnout for the NKs marches looked pretty ho-hum, especially when including the local hires. So bad that the MSM had to misapply images from eight years ago to pump 'em up.

Not helpful for Dem candidates and elected officials held hostage by Marxist influencers and nitwit congresscritters.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (rj6Yv)

125 ...incredible House of Delegates candidates for a canvass lunch...

canvas leads to denim leads to jeans leads to sydney sweeney!

Posted by: the wisdom of yoda at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (sGtp+)

126 Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

That HAS to be parody. It HAS to.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (i24o9)

127 We Will Never Forget, my lily white ass.

Madmani's campaign slogan should be "We Forgot".

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (lonsH)

128 >> 115 I think he'll get a late push like he did in 2022, hopefully keeping another awfl from getting in to office.


LOL

Posted by: The Cheat at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (abIsI)

129 When will democrats stop choosing the slick huckster with the best package, and not open the package up to see the turd inside?

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM

Because it works.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (IifOV)

130 From the CNN article:

"A Democratic-controlled House could thwart Trump’s agenda and launch investigations during the final two years of his presidency into his actions and those of his administration."

Well, we wouldn't want that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (0sNs1)

131 Most "normal" shutdown drama I would agree. But I think this one is different. The Democrap push to make this about healthcare for slimy illegals -- omg, they really thought that was a winning issue -- raised this shutdown drama in the eyes of the public, because it involves an issue (illegals) that the public cares deeply about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025

That and their very recent rhetoric against shutdowns is hard to ignore. But, because Dems are just not bright, this is truly shining a huge light on the fact the ACA is anything by affordable and it’s a cluster. You would think they would want to avoid this peep under the door. The tweets about early retirees having to pay out the nose is not resonating well, either. Why should we subsidize someone who retired at 50?
Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (OoFl2)
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I agree. I would add that Trump is much better at messaging than all the soyboy tools before him. And Trump 2.0 is even better at this than 1.0. I think the Dums expected TACO in the shutdown, but they got the fist.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

132
CNN's collective vagina is sandy.

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Wait, that's the Gwenyth Paltrow's schtick ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (qwZT2)

133 131 I agree. I would add that Trump is much better at messaging than all the soyboy tools before him. And Trump 2.0 is even better at this than 1.0. I think the Dums expected TACO in the shutdown, but they got the fist.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

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Trump is just running out the clock as outlined in the Antideficiency Act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

134 That HAS to be parody. It HAS to.

My own forays into leftwing forums say that it is almost impossible to distinguish genuine leftwingers from rightwing parodies of leftwingers anymore.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

135 Although I know that Trump has three more years left in office, I am already starting to mourn him one day no longer being POTUS.
He is funny and can bully the Democrats like nobody else. It's been amazing to watch and makes me hate myself for my votes for W, McCain, and Romney.
Posted by: jmel at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (RWHIh)


JD has been known to dig in the spurs a time or two.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (ExV1e)

136 >> Repealing Section 2 would require 60 votes to get past cloture while burning a lot of political capital.

They can just get rid of the filibuster. The Dems are going to do it the next time they control the Senate anyway. Might as well maintain escalation dominance.

The truth is, there aren’t enough votes in the GOP to get it done. Same as everything else in Trump 2.0 so far. The GOP is full of squishes who can’t pass a budget or codify Trump’s reforms into law.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (l3YAf)

137 84 and now, Frasier !

"Actor and producer Kelsey Grammer, a New Jersey native, is lending his voice to Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli in a new campaign video released Monday, calling for “honest leadership” and a return to “pride in our state” as the race against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) narrows in its final stretch."
Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 01:35 PM (g47mK)

Does anyone remember the speech he gave for a candidate who supported "The Little People" ???

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (uWKK8)

138 Pete? Pete Sodomite? That Pete?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (YlWIZ)

139 The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!

>>

Delightfully cruel.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (wVcYX)

140 Tit-for-two-tats dominates tit-for-tat. But they clearly didn't ask me. Two-tits dominates everything as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM


You know what really sucks? Being the third triplet and being named Tat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (0sNs1)

141 136 They can just get rid of the filibuster. The Dems are going to do it the next time they control the Senate anyway. Might as well maintain escalation dominance.

The truth is, there aren’t enough votes in the GOP to get it done. Same as everything else in Trump 2.0 so far. The GOP is full of squishes who can’t pass a budget or codify Trump’s reforms into law.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:42 PM (l3YAf)

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Why didn't Democrats do it under Biden when they had the majority (50+VP)?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

142 CNN's collective vagina is sandy.

Expect pearls from it's clam.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (IifOV)

143 Willowed

Bulg, really interesting info on Charles Joseph Bonaparte in your comment from the last post.

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (mADJX)

144 From the CNN article:

"A Democratic-controlled House could thwart Trump’s agenda and launch investigations during the final two years of his presidency into his actions and those of his administration."

Well, we wouldn't want that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM


Gee wouldn't that be like weaponizing congress to attack their political enemy?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (0N4FZ)

145
Madmani's campaign slogan should be "We Forgot".


He will likely win based on the foreign born vote.

It isn't "we forgot" its Veni, vidi, vici

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

146 The way I look at is, if Youngkin can win than so can Sear.

As for NJ, if the 3am ballot dumps from Jersey City and Newark can be controlled, Jack got a shot.

A small shot but a shot none the less.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 01:44 PM (+t/xu)

147 Right, send a homosexual man to campaign in a state with a large Black population.

They are really counting on the Karen vote to carry Spanburglar to the Governor's mansion, aren't they?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 22, 2025 01:44 PM (tT6L1)

148 New Dem motto - Yes We Can’t

Posted by: tubal at October 22, 2025 01:44 PM (PCK5/)

149 Willowed

Bulg, really interesting info on Charles Joseph Bonaparte in your comment from the last post.
Posted by: Paco

Thanks. I think it's kind of appropriate that a Bonaparte founded the FBI.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:44 PM (77rzZ)

150 Has the hawaiin judge ruled this unconstitutional yet?
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I can't wait for the clown judge to rule that AZ can force the House to seat Tarantula Face's Daughter.

The Dems are all giddy over that.

"First we're gonna force the House to swear her in!
Then she's gonna vote to force the release of the Epstein Files!
Then Trump is gonna resign in disgrace!!
And then Kamala will be President!!!!
YEARRRRGGG!!!"

Real world?
Appeal Courts: "yeah, we ain't fucking touching that; have less than zero grounds to tell the House what to do."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:44 PM (BxFEL)

151 Redistricting is fascist!

Posted by: But only if Republicans do it at October 22, 2025 01:45 PM (TbWk/)

152 This is war . . . .

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:38 PM (l3YAf)

It is good to see more people wake up to this fact (no aspersions on you).

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:45 PM (i24o9)

153
https://is.gd/aJGQ1t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

That HAS to be parody. It HAS to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

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It might be, but it's almost word-for-word the rant of other Dindoos on social media.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 01:45 PM (ldc7S)

154 63 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM


The third highest property taxes in the country is one answer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:30 PM


My mistake, they have the highest property taxes in the country. I was going on info based when we lived up there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 01:32 PM (0N4FZ)

And highest car insurance.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 01:45 PM (tOcjL)

155 1. NJ wasn't that deep a shade of blue. It had GOP governors not long ago.
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Christie? The same Christie endorsed by nearly every Democrat in the state? The same guy who hugged Obama and voted for Biden? That "Republican"?

Or maybe you are thinking of Christine Todd Whitman, who went in to run the EPA and endorsed Hillary Clinton for President?

Some Republicans. NJ is deep blue in the more populous north and red in the south, excepting urban areas. But it is also middle class enough in parts of the north to respond to PDJT, and the state 100% hates Phil Murphy. Sherrill is Phil Murphy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 01:45 PM (NIXNg)

156 Mayo Pete does not expand her tent.

Phrasing

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (IvmRU)

157 150 Real world?
Appeal Courts: "yeah, we ain't fucking touching that; have less than zero grounds to tell the House what to do."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:44 PM (BxFEL)
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I only vaguely know of this case as a thing, but I get the impression it's because the House is in recess.

Right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

158 Good to see Stinky Pete is getting OUT the black vote.

Pro Tip: don't shake his hand, you don't know where it has been.

Posted by: Dawn LeMawn at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (TezPK)

159 which represents orthodox Jews in New Jersey (and also controls the Kessel Trade Routes)

So Jews In Space is for real~! Alert the Tucker-mobile!!!! Ack-Thipt~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (mlg/3)

160 Spanberger and Sherrill are really bad candidates. There simply relying on the sheep to show up and vote, which I'm sure many will do. Would like to see an African American male category, because those two cannot be doing well with that group

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (8RjCi)

161 Although I know that Trump has three more years left in office, I am already starting to mourn him one day no longer being POTUS.
He is funny and can bully the Democrats like nobody else. It's been amazing to watch and makes me hate myself for my votes for W, McCain, and Romney.
Posted by: jmel at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (RWHIh)

JD has been known to dig in the spurs a time or two.


He's even Hitlerier than Orange Hitler!

Posted by: Jen Psaki, who is rapidly aging at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (Riz8t)

162 Although I know that Trump has three more years left in office, I am already starting to mourn him one day no longer being POTUS.
He is funny and can bully the Democrats like nobody else. It's been amazing to watch and makes me hate myself for my votes for W, McCain, and Romney.
Posted by: jmel at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (RWHIh)


Alas, I can relate to that. He is sui generis, and we'll never see his like again

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (mADJX)

163 Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I'm not sure which is worse, the attitude, or the posting of the vid. All part of the package, I suppose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

164 Alberta Oil Peon

Tit for tat is not the best strategy, but very close to the top. Not always tit for tat and luck is the best.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (u82oZ)

165 Yes, NJs problem is that it's under taxed and under feed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (+t/xu)

166 Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t
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There is no way this isn't parody. It's too perfect.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

167 Why didn't Democrats do it under Biden when they had the majority (50+VP)?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

Because 2021 may as well have been a century ago. Our country has changed a lot since then and the Democrats are going full-bore in their war against us. Democrat Congressmen are openly threatening to imprison ICE officers when they regain power. You need to take note of what time it is.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (l3YAf)

168 One of the most common memes I've seeing right now is "So the government that takes 40% of my income has been shut down for 3 weeks and I'm seeing absolutely no difference in my life" accompanied with a picture of a grumpy cat looking in the mirror
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I'd correct it to "that is still taking 40% of my income"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (BxFEL)

169 Re: NC Redistricting

Where is the response from blue states? California, Michigan, and NY talk about new maps, but they're barely moving. Meanwhile, Rs just steamroll redistricting in lockstep.

Blue states have laws against gerrymandering so they have to vote on it. They did the right and moral thing and it's coming back to bite us in the ass. Meanwhile, Red states are free to gerrymander unfettered.

Politics is a dirty game and the GOP is better at it. You can’t really fight fire with fire when your state constitution is designed around playing fair(er).

Shocker, folks who know they can't win on the strength of their ideas rig the system. Republicans can’t win without cheating.

Do people in the solid blue areas still have to pay state taxes since they are not represented? I'd love a case about disenfranchisement of the vote due to gerrymandering, rather than saying straight up lack of representation. about it being made mathematically impossible for a left leaning voter to have their voice heard. That’s specific disenfranchisement of people, imo. (any California or NY Morons have feelings about this going the other way?)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 01:48 PM (JCZqz)

170 "a key indicator of national political trends ahead of the 2026 midterm elections."

Huh? State/local/special elections are often nothing of the sort. Far from a reliable "key indicator". After the catastrophic elevation of the affirmative action non-entity in the degrading 2008 election, VA elected GOP gov/AGs by actually historic (yuuuge) margins. Off-cycle election. All kinds of factors at play in different places/times/with different candidates.

I know just the usual vapid garbage/drama-food the "press" lives on, but still.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 01:48 PM (U/Byj)

171 Spanberger and Sherrill are really bad candidates.

The Dems haven't been focused on candidates with charisma that can reach centerist voters in a long, long time.

As Biden said, he doesn't need moderate voters.

But with Trump's DOJ we will see how well a strategy based on voter fraud and payoffs works for the Dems moving forward...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)

172 and also controls the Kessel Trade Routes

*snort*

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (jc0TO)

173 I'm loving the NC redistricting news. I live in the affected district, so I'll actually get an R congresscritter. (Which may or may not mean a decent one. But can't be much worse.)

Add in the fact that we're getting rid of Tillis, and that makes it good times.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (s0JqF)

174 168 One of the most common memes I've seeing right now is "So the government that takes 40% of my income has been shut down for 3 weeks and I'm seeing absolutely no difference in my life" accompanied with a picture of a grumpy cat looking in the mirror
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I'd correct it to "that is still taking 40% of my income"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (BxFEL)

Well, it's also still paying out all the "gimme dats", so that's about right...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (tOcjL)

175
Shocker, folks who know they can't win on the strength of their ideas rig the system. Republicans can’t win without cheating.


LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (VE6XX)

176 a late push

Birthing hips.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (0fIkm)

177 167 Why didn't Democrats do it under Biden when they had the majority (50+VP)?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

Because 2021 may as well have been a century ago. Our country has changed a lot since then and the Democrats are going full-bore in their war against us. Democrat Congressmen are openly threatening to imprison ICE officers when they regain power. You need to take note of what time it is.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (l3YAf)

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Yeah, no.

This was the year that they were getting the DOJ to frame GOP senators and out in the open working with local DAs to come up with any reason to get Trump.

Acting like Democrats weren't rabid with a need to exercise power at all levels under Biden is silly.

Simply, too many on the cusp Senators like the filibuster. It gives them power in a close Senate that they otherwise wouldn't have.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

178 Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

That HAS to be parody. It HAS to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:40 PM (i24o9)
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There are a lot of people just like that guy. They feel they are entitled to live off the government teet.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

179 There is no way this isn't parody. It's too perfect.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

Dude even had the just woke up at noon, Ace look going on.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (i24o9)

180 Pansies for Spanberger!

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (s0JqF)

181 NJ is also corrupt AF. When trucker Ed Durr beat long-time Democrat President of the Senate -- Sweeney -- by a wide margin, Sweeney literally refused to concede saying "votes may still be found".

There was too much national attention on that race though, and the margin was too wide, so his corrupt friends in Trenton had to let him swing.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (1Nv0l)

182 169 Blue states have laws against gerrymandering so they have to vote on it. They did the right and moral thing and it's coming back to bite us in the ass. Meanwhile, Red states are free to gerrymander unfettered.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 01:48 PM (JCZqz)

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They are surely talking about "independent commissions" that are always populated by out in the open Democrat partisans who draw deeply partisan Democrat maps.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

183 The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!

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Heard somewhere this morning that the Democrap Party or the DNC are parachuting in several million dollars to try and pull out the Virginia Governor's race -- but forget the actual amount.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (qwZT2)

184 170 "a key indicator of national political trends ahead of the 2026 midterm elections."

Huh? State/local/special elections are often nothing of the sort. Far from a reliable "key indicator". After the catastrophic elevation of the affirmative action non-entity in the degrading 2008 election, VA elected GOP gov/AGs by actually historic (yuuuge) margins. Off-cycle election. All kinds of factors at play in different places/times/with different candidates.

I know just the usual vapid garbage/drama-food the "press" lives on, but still.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 22, 2025 01:48 PM (U/Byj)

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2010 predicted Obama winning in 2012.

Somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

185 Biden didn't need to worry about filibusters. There were more then enough R senators willing to give him anything he wanted from them

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

186 I still can't understand how the Day of Rage of the Aged, with extra showings of turkey necks and bat wing arms flapping to the beat of the music, didn't galvanize the country against Trump?

It was a perfect plan!
Couldn't fail!

Did they not read the signs? "NO KINGS!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (BxFEL)

187 Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t
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There is no way this isn't parody. It's too perfect.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Needs Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" playing as a soundtrack.

"I want my EBT"

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (TezPK)

188 Odd year elections in light blue states should not be taken as the mood of the country, but I would take "narrow dem win in both" as status quo. If the R's win either one it makes '26 look pretty damn good.
Posted by: 18-1

I'd hold off on that prediction.

These two candidates are shitty candidates with a lot of national media on them. The fact they still poll ahead says a lot about the two states

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (b8J4P)

189 Can you imagine having ANY business and having that guy in the video slouching in to “ work” his 20 hours to get his welfare continued??? The stuff that nightmares are made of.

Posted by: tubal at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (PCK5/)

190 Texas Pussy

https://tinyurl.com/35vu5v4m

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (jc0TO)

191 Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I'm not sure which is worse, the attitude, or the posting of the vid. All part of the package, I suppose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 01:46 PM (XeU6L)
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I see, so, my white privilege, which includes going to work every day also included supporting this layabout?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (tT6L1)

192 sound on

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (jc0TO)

193 She's winsome!!

Posted by: Virginia voters at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (yePES)

194 188 Odd year elections in light blue states should not be taken as the mood of the country, but I would take "narrow dem win in both" as status quo. If the R's win either one it makes '26 look pretty damn good.
Posted by: 18-1

I'd hold off on that prediction.

These two candidates are shitty candidates with a lot of national media on them. The fact they still poll ahead says a lot about the two states
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (b8J4P)

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Bob McDonnell won the 2011 VA governor's election by a 28 point swing from Obama's win in VA in 2008.

Surely, there's no way Obama can win VA in 2012 after that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

195 Add in the fact that we're getting rid of Tillis, and that makes it good times.
Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 01:49 PM (s0JqF)

McConnell's out as well, and with any luck John Cornyn will be gone. I would love it if Cassidy of La. gets primaried out, he's another snake in the grass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:52 PM (uWKK8)

196 183 The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!

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Heard somewhere this morning that the Democrap Party or the DNC are parachuting in several million dollars to try and pull out the Virginia Governor's race -- but forget the actual amount.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:50 PM (qwZT2)

The Ds were already outspending the Rs by a wide margin here. Interestingly, I saw a few commercials against Spanberger run by national PACs and not the Sears campaign, so it seems some folks are getting interested, even if not giving directly...

The one I saw involved the boys in girls locker rooms and gender mutilation of kids...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (tOcjL)

197 Bob McDonnell won the 2011 VA governor's election by a 28 point swing from Obama's win in VA in 2008.

I wonder what VA politics would look like today if Obama hadn't taken McDonnell out.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

198 Texas Pussy

https://tinyurl.com/35vu5v4m

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM (jc0TO)

Hilarious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (i24o9)

199 The excitable Harry Enten is growing on me.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (GPa4z)

200 190 Texas Pussy

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That was disappointing.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (1Nv0l)

201 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM

Trump probably speaks to a lot of them. Discounting faggy cheating 2020, they have hovered right around 2.1 million votes for the Democrat going all the way back to 2008. But whereas McCain and Romney got 1.6 million, Trump increased that by about 25% in 2024.

What's fascinating more than the R increase is the absolute flatline for the D over 15 to 20 years. Trump has definitely made the Democrats less palatable to those who will listen.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (lonsH)

202 Spanberger and Sherrill give off major Karen vibes.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 01:54 PM (NpAcC)

203 201 What's fascinating more than the R increase is the absolute flatline for the D over 15 to 20 years. Trump has definitely made the Democrats less palatable to those who will listen.
Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (lonsH)

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If you went back in time and convincingly told the DNC in 2013 that open borders would lead them to needing to cheat like mad to barely win in blue strongholds...

They'd keep on with the open borders because they hate America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

204 @182

>>They are surely talking about "independent commissions" that are always populated by out in the open Democrat partisans who draw deeply partisan Democrat maps.

Plus these commissions have been instituted long after they already gerrymandered away most GOP seats.

When Cali redistricts away the 9 remaining gop seats the map is going to look like a plate of spaghetti.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 01:54 PM (+t/xu)

205
If true, is there any way this could sink his chances to run for president? Like if he's indicted?

Posted by: LizLem

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It's up to the MSM, so...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 01:54 PM (ldc7S)

206 Daffy Duck >>>> Donald Duck.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (W2Pud)

207 Until 2020, we lived in Richmond, just a bit outside Spanberger's district. My wife still is in touch with some friends there. One is a pussy-hatted cat lady, with complete TDS. But to her credit, she hasn't cut ties with Mrs Eeyore.

She knows, and detests, Spanberger. Not clear what she'll do next month.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (s0JqF)

208 Texas Pussy

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That was disappointing.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (1Nv0l)
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If the cat was really firing a shotgun, he'd more than likely be knocked hallway to the street.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (yy9ow)

209 The shut down. .....

Here in South/Central Indiana there is a navy base. It's the biggest employer in the area. It has a Constitution Grove that provides white oak lumber for the USS Constitution.
Half of my family works on base, including my son. Most of the fam works for contractors. My son works for Dept of Defense. He's been putting in 12 hour days on salary to get contracts done. So far the base doesn't seem to be getting hit by the shutdown but who knows what will happen if it goes on long enough.

Although I don't want my kid to suffer, he has a baby and a new mortgage, this shutdown is just noise. It's a great light show at a mediocre concert.
The demoncrats have seriously misjudged this thing.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (2J/Lj)

210 207 Until 2020, we lived in Richmond, just a bit outside Spanberger's district. My wife still is in touch with some friends there. One is a pussy-hatted cat lady, with complete TDS. But to her credit, she hasn't cut ties with Mrs Eeyore.

She knows, and detests, Spanberger. Not clear what she'll do next month.
Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (s0JqF)

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"Better a white lady I hate than a black woman who wants my daughter to not see a man's penis in the public shower."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

211 "Their highest ranking homosexuals"? If I wasn't trying to rush through a sham marriage, I'd dispute your rankings.

Posted by: Senator Spartacus at October 22, 2025 01:56 PM (yBgPA)

212 I think the Dums expected TACO in the shutdown, but they got the fist.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:41 PM (iFTx/)


I guess they forgot that he ran a 30+ day shutdown against his own party the first time around. Keeping the government shutdown to harm the enemy? Yeah, he's never gonna fold.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 01:56 PM (ExV1e)

213 207 Until 2020, we lived in Richmond, just a bit outside Spanberger's district. My wife still is in touch with some friends there. One is a pussy-hatted cat lady, with complete TDS. But to her credit, she hasn't cut ties with Mrs Eeyore.

She knows, and detests, Spanberger. Not clear what she'll do next month.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (s0JqF)

Have your wife encourage her to stay home in protest.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 01:56 PM (tOcjL)

214 199 The excitable Harry Enten is growing on me.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 01:53 PM (GPa4z)

better get that removed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:56 PM (uWKK8)

215 The fact that it's even close in VA after all the federal cuts indicates how bad a candidate Spanberger is. Winsome ain't all that winsome either.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 01:56 PM (1Nv0l)

216 When Cali redistricts away the 9 remaining gop seats the map is going to look like a plate of spaghetti.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 01:54 PM (+t/xu)

all covered with cheese.
They lost the Gov. Meatball
when somebody sneezed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (wVcYX)

217 202 Spanberger and Sherrill give off major Karen vibes.
____

Would be nice if the Political Karen genus were to go extinct.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (Dv3i1)

218 206 Daffy Duck >>>> Donald Duck.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (W2Pud)

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Yes x 100.

I think the Donald Duck fans read lots of comic books. As someone who only know Daffy and Donald from TeeVee, it's not close.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (GPa4z)

219 207 I left in 2016.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (sGHnN)

220 >> Acting like Democrats weren't rabid with a need to exercise power at all levels under Biden is silly.

I never said that, but Biden was moderate compared to the Democrats today.

>> Simply, too many on the cusp Senators like the filibuster. It gives them power in a close Senate that they otherwise wouldn't have.

That has been the status quo, sure, but we are in different times now. The Dems already pulled the trigger first on nuking the filibuster for judicial nominees. They’ll likely be the first to bypass it for legislation and the GOPe will whine “Imagine if the roles were reversed!” as they always do.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (l3YAf)

221 CA gerrymandering more is risky for them. They could end up just allowing the GOP to pick up a bunch of seats in a small red wave.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

222 Just think of all that free stuff New Yorkers are going to get.
Free this, Free that. A real free for all. They will live like....Kings! Should have gone Commie years ago.

Posted by: Case at October 22, 2025 01:58 PM (9HFDU)

223 CA gerrymandering more is risky for them. They could end up just allowing the GOP to pick up a bunch of seats in a small red wave.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
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They needed weeks of counting to make some districts go blue. They're on the cusp.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 01:58 PM (yy9ow)

224 Texas Pussy

https://tinyurl.com/35vu5v4m

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:51 PM


Cows with guns > Cats with guns

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 01:58 PM (ySpAZ)

225 209 "So, sailor, what ship did you serve on?"

[sailor stationed at Indiana Navy base] "Um...the USS...Indiana. Yeah, the USS Indiana. That's it."

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)

226 >>Blue states have laws against gerrymandering so they have to vote on it. They did the right and moral thing and it's coming back to bite us in the ass. Meanwhile, Red states are free to gerrymander unfettered.

How is it even possible to spend so much time involved with politics and be so uniformed? I don't even think they are lying. I don't think they have a clue what's going on.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 01:59 PM (viF8m)

227 The Ds were already outspending the Rs by a wide margin here. Interestingly, I saw a few commercials against Spanberger run by national PACs and not the Sears campaign, so it seems some folks are getting interested, even if not giving directly...
Posted by: Nova Local

Thankfully, greatly outspending your opponent is a surefire way to overcome poor policy and candidate issues.

Posted by: President Kamala Harris at October 22, 2025 01:59 PM (JCZqz)

228 How is it even possible to spend so much time involved with politics and be so uniformed? I don't even think they are lying. I don't think they have a clue what's going on.

MA's governor threatened to gerrymander recently. Her state is already 9-0 donk.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:00 PM (sKqQm)

229 If the cat was really firing a shotgun, he'd more than likely be knocked hallway to the street.

Yeah. I wouldn't trust a cat with anything more than like a 9mm carbine.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 02:00 PM (3nLb4)

230 CA gerrymandering more is risky for them.
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Try too much of it and see the State of Jefferson movement pick up steam.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 02:00 PM (yy9ow)

231 Hairy Enten?
Come see us.

Posted by: Your local pharmacy at October 22, 2025 02:00 PM (yePES)

232 Squirrel with a gun > Cat with a shottie

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

233 I did a bit on Donald Duck. Perhaps you've heard it?

Posted by: Zombie Robin Williams at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (wVcYX)

234 Yeah. I wouldn't trust a cat with anything more than like a 9mm carbine.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 02:00 PM (3nLb4)
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Recoilless rifle might work.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (yy9ow)

235 Is King Donald still building his new castle?

Posted by: wth at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (v0R5T)

236 Laser weapons = no recoil

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

237 Which Will Likely Add One More Republican to the House of Representatives

Ok, whose turn is it to play a Republican?

Posted by: The DNC at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (upeQk)

238 >> If you went back in time and convincingly told the DNC in 2013 that open borders would lead them to needing to cheat like mad to barely win in blue strongholds...

Imagine going back to 2013 and telling conservatives that in 2025 we still have DACA and Obamacare, despite controlling all three branches for several years. And that we’d have GOP congresscritters trying to bailout Obamacare via subsidies.

The Democrats get their way, even when they lose elections.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM (l3YAf)

239 Dems behave like they've never done any gerrymandering, while at the same time doing more than gerrymandering to so-call counteract so-called Texas gerrymandering. Yeah, I'm talking about you, Newscum...
Obama's been doing commercials in support of Prop 50 here (the "lets take redistricting from the so-called independent commission and put it in the hands of the Dem supermajority Kali legislature act because...TEXAS! TRUMP!" prop).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:02 PM (ynpvh)

240 Laser weapons = no recoil
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:01 PM


But then the cat would be chasing the beam.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 02:02 PM (ySpAZ)

241 Oh, and tell those 2013 conservatives gay marriage is the law of the land and the GOP isn’t even seriously trying to reverse it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 02:03 PM (l3YAf)

242 Blue states have laws against gerrymandering so they have to vote on it. They did the right and moral thing and it's coming back to bite us in the ass. Meanwhile, Red states are free to gerrymander unfettered.

Yeah, right. Explain for me why blue states like Kali and Maryland have much fewer repub reps in Congress than the proportion of repub voters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (ynpvh)

243 You want example of Democrat Gerrymandering?? I suggest looking at an Illinois Congressional map. Shameless, it is.

Posted by: tubal at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (PCK5/)

244 Sand or grit would be an improvement over crushed flakes

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (FhXTo)

245 Oh, and tell those 2013 conservatives gay marriage is the law of the land and the GOP isn’t even seriously trying to reverse it.

Leftwingers are the real homophobes!

Posted by: GOPers at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

246 243 You want example of Democrat Gerrymandering?? I suggest looking at an Illinois Congressional map. Shameless, it is.
Posted by: tubal at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (PCK5/)

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The funniest thing about the NC map...the new districts look...normal.

Pretty much boxes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

247 But then the cat would be chasing the beam.

IR frequency > Visual Light frequency

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

248 But then the cat would be chasing the beam.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Pussies chase my, how you say, "beam" all the time.

Posted by: The Paolo at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

249 If gerrymandering didn't exist the fight would be to control the "independent commissions' tasked with drawing up the districts. Might as well stick with gerrymandering and forget the commission

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (8RjCi)

250 so the California dems are going to build a website that doxes ICE by calling out their locations

I see a plan coming together...

Posted by: DanMan at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (8uzBS)

251 California Prop 50 as it appears on the ballot:
"AUTHORIZES TEMPORARY CHANGES TO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAPS IN RESPONSE TO TEXAS' PARTISAN REDISTRICTING..."

In essence, "What Texas is doing is morally reprehensible...so lets to worse!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (ynpvh)

252 >>MA's governor threatened to gerrymander recently. Her state is already 9-0 donk.


Healey really is dumber than a bag of hammers.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (viF8m)

253 IR frequency > Visual Light frequency
Posted by: 18-1

UV

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (1Nv0l)

254 I only vaguely know of this case as a thing, but I get the impression it's because the House is in recess.

Right?
---
Yup.
And the Speaker is mocking them on this.
They're holding these sad sack protests outside his office.
And he's like, "just doing what Pelosi did when she refused to seat our guy during a recess."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (BxFEL)

255 MA's governor threatened to gerrymander recently. Her state is already 9-0 donk.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:00 PM (sKqQm)

The next logical step for MA is to ban the Republican Party altogether. Work towards depriving any GOP Presidential candidate of the “popular vote.”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 02:07 PM (l3YAf)

256 The funniest thing about the NC map...the new districts look...normal.

Pretty much boxes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I would like to see districts that are composed of complete, already existing political entities -- entire counties, cities, townships, whatever. No more of this "following the interstate" crap in drawing district lines.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

257 Leftwingers are the real homophobes!
Posted by: GOPers at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

If they liked gays for anything more than votes or fucking with Christianity they wouldn't support Islam.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 02:07 PM (lonsH)

258 256 I would like to see districts that are composed of complete, already existing political entities -- entire counties, cities, townships, whatever. No more of this "following the interstate" crap in drawing district lines.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

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The problem is that districts have to be roughly equal by population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

259 If gerrymandering didn't exist the fight would be to control the "independent commissions' tasked with drawing up the districts. Might as well stick with gerrymandering and forget the commission
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (8RjCi)

All politics is the spoils system. People deluded themselves into thinking “non-partisan, independent” government was a thing.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 02:08 PM (l3YAf)

260 IR frequency > Visual Light frequency
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM


Problem solved.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 02:08 PM (ySpAZ)

261 And he's like, "just doing what Pelosi did when she refused to seat our guy during a recess."
___

The speaker is completely ignorant of the "it's different when we do it" reasoned judgements.
-Federal Court Judges

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 02:09 PM (Dv3i1)

262 I would like to see districts that are composed of complete, already existing political entities -- entire counties, cities, townships, whatever. No more of this "following the interstate" crap in drawing district lines.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
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This. Multnomah County in Oregon would be its own district, had they not split it in half to dominate purple/red counties to the east and west.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 02:09 PM (yy9ow)

263 >>> Do people in the solid blue areas still have to pay state taxes since they are not represented? I'd love a case about disenfranchisement of the vote due to gerrymandering, rather than saying straight up lack of representation.

Republicans in New England, with 40% of the cast votes but 0% representation, would like a word. It goes both ways!

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 02:09 PM (Eng1Z)

264 247 But then the cat would be chasing the beam.

IR frequency > Visual Light frequency

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

Depends what frequencies are absorbed by the atmosphere, which frequencies are scattered by the atmosphere. IR is a wider frequency range than visible...

https://tinyurl.com/yacebf3y

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:10 PM (ynpvh)

265 Leftwingers are the real homophobes!
Posted by: GOPers at October 22, 2025 02:04 PM (sKqQm)

Democrats are the real furryphobes!

Posted by: GOP Slogan from 2030 at October 22, 2025 02:10 PM (l3YAf)

266 I would like to see districts that are composed of complete, already existing political entities -- entire counties, cities, townships, whatever. No more of this "following the interstate" crap in drawing district lines.

In a rational, objective world you'd have districts mostly divided by urban vs suburban vs rural. So a couple of dots in the city, rings in the suburbs and big squares in the rural areas.

But this will naturally work against Democrats since the Hive city districts will be 90-10 donk and the other district types will be less lopsided but favor the GOP

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

267 The Democrats are worried enough about Abigail Spanberger that they're sending their highest-ranking homosexuals. First Obama, and now Pete!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 02:10 PM (XwyaG)

268 Nap time.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2025 02:10 PM (EaUHc)

269 Republicans in New England, with 40% of the cast votes but 0% representation, would like a word.
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But that's completely different!
--DUmmy, probably

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 02:10 PM (yy9ow)

270 The problem is that districts have to be roughly equal by population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Understood. But I'm sure you could do that by following existing political boundaries. Might be a little more difficult, but it seems like it could be done, except maybe in the biggest cities like New York or LA.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

271 But that's completely different!
--DUmmy, probably


See above - its because "we're smart!"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:11 PM (sKqQm)

272 270 The problem is that districts have to be roughly equal by population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Understood. But I'm sure you could do that by following existing political boundaries. Might be a little more difficult, but it seems like it could be done, except maybe in the biggest cities like New York or LA.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

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Often cities represent like 40% of a state's entire population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

273 Make all voting districts circular. Each one touching others but not overlapping. Anyone living in those little scraps of land that aren't in any district doesn't get to vote and doesn't have to pay any state or federal taxes, including property taxes.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 02:11 PM (2J/Lj)

274 259 If gerrymandering didn't exist the fight would be to control the "independent commissions' tasked with drawing up the districts. Might as well stick with gerrymandering and forget the commission
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 02:06 PM (8RjCi)

All politics is the spoils system. People deluded themselves into thinking “non-partisan, independent” government was a thing.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 02:08 PM (l3YAf)

IIRC, Kali's commission is weighted Dem...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

275 Eastern NC is pretty hard core Trump country. No big cities. No big university towns. So not many crazy Leftist enclaves. Local politics is more, well, local, and that seems to be reflected in the results of non-Presidential elections.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 02:12 PM (MZ+PY)

276 that tit for tat is the only winning strategy?

Actually in some tests. (and you Morons will love this) two tits for tat works best.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 02:12 PM (FhXTo)

277 >> In a rational, objective world you'd have districts mostly divided by urban vs suburban vs rural.

In a rational, objective world the left wouldn’t exist.

In our imperfect world, they not only exist, they are engaged in violent insurrection against us, with few consequences for it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 22, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)

278 I would like to see districts that are composed of complete, already existing political entities -- entire counties, cities, townships, whatever. No more of this "following the interstate" crap in drawing district lines.

Don't know about where you live but in Texas, city limits do actually follow the interstates, especially smaller towns. If you look at a map, they all look like spiders.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (3nLb4)

279 276 that tit for tat is the only winning strategy?

Actually in some tests. (and you Morons will love this) two tits for tat works best.

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 02:12 PM (FhXTo)

That taint nothin'.

Posted by: Petey Bootyjuice at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (ynpvh)

280 This has already probably been mentioned. But here in California, Tom Steyer is really pushing Prop 50 (redistricting to help Dems) hard. And the entire argument is literally, "Stick it to Trump." It's all become so insulting.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (m0WlR)

281 Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

Don't you mean "western" NC?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

282 Would maximizing the Republican results from creative drawing of congressional district lines be a linear programming problem? It would be a shame to lose some seats because we didn't want to do the math.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (GPa4z)

283 Make all voting districts circular. Each one touching others but not overlapping. Anyone living in those little scraps of land that aren't in any district doesn't get to vote and doesn't have to pay any state or federal taxes, including property taxes.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 02:11 PM (2J/Lj)

Spherical Cows Now!

Posted by: Physicists Local 152 at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (l3YAf)

284 281 Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

Don't you mean "western" NC?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

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New map affects only eastern NC. And the two new districts are Trump+12 or better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

285 Actually in some tests. (and you Morons will love this) two tits for tat works best.
Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 02:12 PM (FhXTo)

Two tits and a discrete, tasteful, and well rendered tat is perfection!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 02:16 PM (2J/Lj)

286 Don't know about where you live but in Texas, city limits do actually follow the interstates, especially smaller towns. If you look at a map, they all look like spiders.
Posted by: Oddbob

That's interesting, thanks. I'll have to check out a map for that.

I'm in Fairfax County, VA, by the way.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

287 Line drawing tool

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kxJYFDgtkvU

Posted by: DaveA at October 22, 2025 02:16 PM (FhXTo)

288 280 This has already probably been mentioned. But here in California, Tom Steyer is really pushing Prop 50 (redistricting to help Dems) hard. And the entire argument is literally, "Stick it to Trump." It's all become so insulting.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (m0WlR)

Commercials by the League of Women's Voters, Obama, and others.
Love this commercial..."Wanna Stick it to Trump?"...
https://youtu.be/weIk2GOKezs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:16 PM (ynpvh)

289 Have you seen Barry's Prop 50 ad? He must hate being out in the cold.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 22, 2025 02:17 PM (YlWIZ)

290 Would maximizing the Republican results from creative drawing of congressional district lines be a linear programming problem? It would be a shame to lose some seats because we didn't want to do the math./i]

I suspect you'd write a program to look at say the last 10 house elections and have it run various iteration scenarios to maximize GOP office holders where the state wide trend is +0, +5, -5, etc...

But yes, math ultimately...and then how much risk you are willing to take - and this is CA's problem. They are already fairly safely gerrymandered, but if they do more and their is a +5 GOP wave over what they are expecting it could mean a couple dozen seats flipping if they are all estimated to give the Donks less then a +5 advantage.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

291 289 Have you seen Barry's Prop 50 ad? He must hate being out in the cold.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 22, 2025 02:17 PM (YlWIZ)

I have some javascript code that allows me to speed up all vids (including ads) on EweToob by as much as I want. I can't be too fast, or EweToob complains...a good 3x or 4x normally works...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:19 PM (ynpvh)

292
Commercials by the League of Women's Voters, Obama, and others.
Love this commercial..."Wanna Stick it to Trump?"...
https://youtu.be/weIk2GOKezs
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:16 PM (ynpvh)

We watch One America News and every commercial break is full of Yes on 50 Only occasionally is their an ad for No.. Thing is, what Lib is watching OAN ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 02:19 PM (VE6XX)

293 The League of Karen Voters is still around? Haven't of them since the 80s?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

294 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 02:20 PM (hs4ik)

295 258 256 I would like to see districts that are composed of complete, already existing political entities -- entire counties, cities, townships, whatever. No more of this "following the interstate" crap in drawing district lines.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

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The problem is that districts have to be roughly equal by population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

Make an Electoral College that's state-level

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 02:20 PM (xcxpd)

296 "I want my EBT"
Posted by: Joe Mama

Money for nothing and my chicks for free!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (L/fGl)

297 290 Would maximizing the Republican results from creative drawing of congressional district lines be a linear programming problem? It would be a shame to lose some seats because we didn't want to do the math./i]

I suspect you'd write a program to look at say the last 10 house elections and have it run various iteration scenarios to maximize GOP office holders where the state wide trend is +0, +5, -5, etc...

But yes, math ultimately...and then how much risk you are willing to take - and this is CA's problem. They are already fairly safely gerrymandered, but if they do more and their is a +5 GOP wave over what they are expecting it could mean a couple dozen seats flipping if they are all estimated to give the Donks less then a +5 advantage.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

Due to overcounting and illegals being counted, Kali already has too many seats in the House...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (ynpvh)

298 I haven't had a lot of experience, but I think you can load all the constraints on a linear programming model that you can think of and the math will spit out an optimal map, under those constraints.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (GPa4z)

299 221 CA gerrymandering more is risky for them. They could end up just allowing the GOP to pick up a bunch of seats in a small red wave.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

#1 pitfall of extreme gerrymandering. The Dems did it throughout the south up until the 90's, and in 1994 when the GOP finally retook Congress, that was one of the reasons.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (k1E2D)

300 Nood (female) Japanese PM.

Posted by: Grayman 27 at October 22, 2025 02:21 PM (pgwxJ)

301 That's interesting, thanks. I'll have to check out a map for that.

It's an artifact of the extraterritorial jurisdiction laws that allow a city to annex [ n ] miles in any direction (depending on population) but further along highways. I know of a few small towns with a couple thousand residents where you cross the city limits sign a good ten miles before seeing anything like a town.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 02:23 PM (3nLb4)

302 Then why are they hanging around Fredericksburg VA? It's a democratic stronghold.

It's just a fuc*ing photo op with Mayor Pete for the low info followers.

It's on the ropes.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 02:24 PM (NFX2v)

303 The League of Karen Voters is still around? Haven't of them since the 80s?

I had a friend who even in the '80s called them The League of Voters Who Dress Like Women.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 02:25 PM (3nLb4)

304 The current shutdown is over free healthcare for illegals.

Trump couldn't have picked a better issue to fight on


Yes and no. Mike Johnson's been pretty vocal that the Dems' real demand is that USAID be reinstated in full.

Not that I would think that's gonna poll any better.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

305 Lib Boomers who have nothing better to do are running to their phones to answer pollsters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

Who the hell still has land lines that the pollsters can call? This 78 year old boomer doesn't, and hasn't for years. A few of my friends have VOIP, but have never been called by a polling organization. Who ARE these people?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 22, 2025 03:22 PM (5xuJ/)

306 It is interesting that NJ has been trending rightward in recent years. It had long been deep blue but it seems its voters are waking up.

Any answers as to why?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (sKqQm)

Many libs moving to NC.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 22, 2025 03:23 PM (5xuJ/)

307 CNN's collective vagina is sandy.

Nay -- it's gritty.

- Ace

^This man is a national treasure and MUST be protected at all costs!

Posted by: Oscar Meyer's Weiner at October 22, 2025 05:18 PM (NqcCR)

308 Get back to the U.S. Constitution instead of UN Treaties Traitors like Obama, Kerry, Clinton Obama and Biden signs

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 22, 2025 05:41 PM (wGqjj)

"France's Crown Jewels" Stolen in Daring Daylight Heist from Louvre; French Right Blames "Le Wokisme" and the Drive to Hire Women No Matter What Their Qualifications

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I first heard it took seven minutes. Now they're claiming four -- but I think they're claiming it took less time to sell the idea that "there was nothing that anyone could have done to stop this, even if a qualified person was in charge of security."

You know why they're pushing that message.

"France's Crown Jewels" -- they're not really that, they're just priceless jewels with a historic legacy -- are worth an estimated $100 million.

If sold as they are, physically intact, and with their provenance intact. Which they can't be, of course.

The daylight heist about 30 minutes after opening, with visitors already inside, was among the highest-profile museum thefts in living memory and comes as staff complained that crowding and thin staffing are straining security.

Repeat after me: "There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if the director of security was chosen based on qualifications rather than what she's got between her legs."


The theft unfolded just 250 meters (270 yards) from the Mona Lisa, in what Culture Minister Rachida Dati described as a professional "four-minute operation."

One object, the emerald-set imperial crown of Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugénie, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, was later found outside the museum, French authorities said. It was reportedly recovered broken.

Images from the scene showed confused tourists being steered out of the glass pyramid and adjoining courtyards as officers closed nearby streets along the Seine.
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A lift -- which officials say the thieves brought and which was later removed -- stood against the Seine-facing façade, their entry route and, observers said, a revealing weakness: that such machinery could be brought to a palace-museum unchecked.

There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if someone qualified were the head of security.


Around 9:30 a.m., several intruders forced a window, cut panes with a disc cutter and went straight for the glass display cases, officials said.

There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if a qualified director of security had trained and drilled the guards to come running at the sound of breaking glass.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the crew entered from outside using a basket lift via the riverfront facade to reach the hall with the 23-item royal collection.

Their target was the gilded Apollon Gallery, where the Crown Diamonds are displayed, including the Regent, the Sancy and the Hortensia.

The thieves smashed two display cases and fled on motorbikes, Nunez said. No one was hurt. Alarms brought Louvre agents to the room, forcing the intruders to bolt, but the theft was already done.

Eight objects were taken, according to officials: a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense; an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife; a reliquary brooch; Empress Eugénie's diadem; and her large corsage-bow brooch -- a prized 19th-century imperial ensemble.

"It's a major robbery," Nunez said...

No shit? Pas de merde?

... noting that security measures at the Louvre had been strengthened in recent years and would be reinforced further as part of the museum's upcoming overhaul plan. Officials said security upgrades include new-generation cameras, perimeter detection, and a new security control room.

Whatever.

Police are searching for the three thieves. One of them may be named Pierre Despereaux and another uses various aliases including Lavender Goombs, Sillypants Jackson, Ghee Buttersnaps, Ovaltine Jenkins, Longbranch Pennywhistle, and Scooney "U-Turn" Singleton.


People are talking about the thieves chopping up the jewels into smaller, more salable gems but that would destroy about 90% of the value of the jewels. What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre.


The gay furry communist webzine Daily Beast is shrieking that MAGA is blaming the theft on woke DEI hiring of females based on their gender and not their abilities. Unfortunately for America's leading furry community webzine, the facts seem to indicate that's exactly what happened.

French and American conservatives have made Sunday's daylight Louvre heist the site of a battle in the culture wars upon learning the museum's security head is a woman.

After thieves executed a surprisingly simple heist to rob the museum of jewels that belonged to Napoleon's family, France's far right began blaming "le wokisme," believing Dominique Buffin, the first woman hired as security chief at the Louvre, was chosen for her gender and not her merits.


Speaking on French radio station Europe 1, Erik Tegnér, founder of far-right French news outlet Frontiéres, said, "The Louvre's security director would have been chosen not based on her abilities, but because she is a woman. It is this destruction by wokeism that we find notably in the United States."


On X, EU parliament member Marion Maréchal, niece of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen, said Buffin's hire was "part of a feminization policy" in France and demanded her resignation.

The basis for these claims appears to stem from a 2024 article in Le Monde, which said "feminization of recruitment" is important to Laurence Des Cars, the museum's first female director. Conservatives have jumped on this sentence to suggest Buffin is unqualified for the job and only got it because she is female.


Buffin, 46, began her career as a police officer in 2001. In 2013, she joined the Ministry of Culture, where she worked as an adviser on the security of French museums. In 2017, she was promoted to senior defense deputy and security official at the Ministry of Culture, and in 2024 was named the Louvre's security director.

...

The Daily Beast has reached out to the Louvre, which does not have a formal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy, for comment.

Oh, they don't have a formal policy of DEI. They just talk about le wokisme and the need for the "feminization of recruitment."

Was it really this woman's fault? Is she really unqualified?

I don't know. I don't work there.

But I do know this: the left insists on hiring based on factors having nothing to do with qualifications, experience, and ability, and then when things go south -- and they go south a lot -- they claim that the people they previously admitted were hired for anti-merit reasons were the the very best people for the job.

They keep claiming, absurdly, that although they confess they have reduced the required qualifications down to almost nothing as long as you are female or minority or "queer," this system just happens to keep coincidentally resulting in the most qualified people being hired. Female, minority, and "queer" people are hired for anti-merit reasons, but they insist that it turns out these anti-merit hiring criteria just so happen to result in the most meritorious candidates being hired.

In other words: We don't need the system of preferences and quotas at all because, according to the left, the most qualified people are being hired despite the anti-merit hiring practices. Thus, without these preferences and quotas, the allegedly "best" people for the job would have been hired anyway.

They're the best, right?

I'm sorry, I'm going to need more than "there was nothing anyone could have done, trust us, bro."

The thieves just literally pushed a very tall ladder/basket lift against the building at 9:30 in the morning, used power tools to cut through the exterior window, walked in and started smashing-and-grabbing. They were in and out in seven minutes.

But... the Louvre has hundreds of security guards. No one saw the ladder/"basket lift"? No one came running at the sound of smashing glass?


This account claims the jewels were protected by armored glass and would drop into below-the-floor safes if the glass were cut -- until 2019, when this actual security was replaced by... normal glass and no drop-thorugh-the-floor safes.

The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art. Did she decide that bulky armored displays were too "elite" and separate the people from their jewels

Failed French president Manny Macron announced an exciting new possibility for Louvre security.

Happy Humpday, y'all!

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM




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1 Called the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 12:10 PM (O7YUW)

2 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (sGHnN)

3 Stupid Frech.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (i24o9)

4 1 Called the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 12:10 PM (O7YUW)

And left the 1st open. True gentlemen.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (i24o9)

5 Now somebody stole their N.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (sGHnN)

6 The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art.

Sure, Jan

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 12:12 PM (Oy/m2)

7

I wonder if the thieves had "inside" help.

Posted by: four seasons at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (3ek7K)

8 Check E-bay.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (ewjUl)

9 You'd think a Team of Karens could keep most anything safe. Look at those haircuts.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (6Pd36)

10 Now somebody stole their N.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (sGHnN)

It's the perfect crime. It's probably a iside job. I would start lookig at Q.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)

11 Le' Fuq.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (ewjUl)

12 I actually touched the Mona Lisa back in 1971. It was not protected in any way back then. I have noticed that it is glass protected now.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (jc0TO)

13 That place is swanky.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (sGHnN)

14 "The Louvre's first female museum director hired the first female security chief and less than a year later Napoleon's crown jewels were stolen in broad daylight while the museum was open."


Gee I guess hiring someone based solely on their gender or color of skin might not be such a good idea after all.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 12:14 PM (0N4FZ)

15 Some middle eastern sheikh could buy them, and they will disappear from the west, like many artworks have.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 22, 2025 12:14 PM (wrEn7)

16 The Buffin chick is kinda cute.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at October 22, 2025 12:14 PM (6P0f1)

17 Can I just take a moment to appreciate how we MAGA types are getting blamed for noticing wokeism in other countries?

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (99eI0)

18 Das Boob?

Posted by: Jurgen Prochnow at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (7Q0e+)

19 We Surrender.

Posted by: French Security at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (sGHnN)

20 more than 1,300 diamonds

Someone is pissed at themselves for dropping this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (jc0TO)

21 Somehow, CBD is involved in this.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (Oy/m2)

22 The French are such fuckheads that I almost find myself cheering for the thieves here. Picturing Michael Caine in "The Italian Job".

And I've always thought, when I let my fantasies run towards spectacular heists, that one of the easiest ways to do such a thing was to do it in broad daylight, with incredible speed, and count on the shock causing everyone to just stand and stare while you did it and got away.
Of course that plan requires a complete lack of actual security on site.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (uWKK8)

23 Police are searching for the three thieves. One of them may be named Pierre Despereaux and another uses various aliases including Lavender Goombs, Sillypants Jackson, Ghee Buttersnaps, Ovaltine Jenkins, Longbranch Pennywhistle, and Scooney "U-Turn" Singleton.
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I have it on good authority that the Police would also like a word with Willie Mays Hayes.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

24 The theft unfolded just 250 meters (270 yards) from the Mona Lisa...

What is the point of including this factoid except to name check something recognizable by the average schmo? I mean, it's not likely that the thieves were going to run "just" over an eight of a mile each way from where they broke in to try to steal that too.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 12:16 PM (3nLb4)

25 It is good to be reminded that incompetence is a global product and not an isolated phenomenon.

Posted by: Corona_exile_back_in_exile at October 22, 2025 12:16 PM (4TAOz)

26 Willowed:

Since the space shuttle was given to NYC by Obama, and since none of the statues in the city of Houston have been torn down - give the 250 year statue to us. Antifa during 2020 announced it was going to tear down some statues at night in Houston, but a sheriff went on the radio and reminded them that in TX, criminal mischief after dark is grounds for the use of deadly force. Yes, you can get shot for painting graffiti on a fence after dark here.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM (Da7Vv)

27 The Buffin chick is kinda cute.
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She's not a Hooters 8.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM (TN0g+)

28 The Van Goghs are safe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM (sGHnN)

29 I'm shocked they had no insurance on these jewels.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM (viF8m)

30 "Culture Minister Rachida Dati "

I think I see the problem here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (8zz6B)

31 I'm shocked they had no insurance on these jewels.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM


Insurance companies would have audited the security.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (jc0TO)

32 1-2-3-4? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (ySpAZ)

33 Can I just take a moment to appreciate how we MAGA types are getting blamed for noticing wokeism in other countries?

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 12:15 PM (99eI0)

Counterargument. DailyBeast.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (i24o9)

34 You can have you crown jewels or you can have Karen police chiefs.

Up to you France.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

35 Afternoon ace.
Must have been the security chief's time of the month. I denounce myself

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (8RjCi)

36 Wait, how do you say Karen in French?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

37 Louvre security chief Dominique Buffin

Buffin? Ain't nuffin!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (2WIwB)

38 Why do I keep hearing Mancini?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (JJphd)

39 Why do the French have all those Van Goghs? Wasn't he Dutch?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (sGHnN)

40 Is naked ottoman guy still intact?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (paSBy)

41 The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art. Did she decide that bulky armored displays were too "elite" and separate the people from their jewels

WTF does that even mean?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

42 They even look the same over there, the Wokesters. It's uncanny.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (oSeBJ)

43 You had one job.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (sGHnN)

44 So 4m and a single guard with a gun couldn't get there in time?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (sKqQm)

45 What happened at the Louvre was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if Diversity becomes a casualty here.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Art Historian at October 22, 2025 12:20 PM (PiwSw)

46 I'm shocked they had no insurance on these jewels.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM

Well, it's the French.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 12:20 PM (Oy/m2)

47 White women have been far and away the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 22, 2025 12:20 PM (xTIDn)

48 The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art. Did she decide that bulky armored displays were too "elite" and separate the people from their jewels.


How the absolute FU*K can you justify this???
What an absolute idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 12:20 PM (2WIwB)

49 Face it, France is as fucked up as the US with DEI hires.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at October 22, 2025 12:20 PM (qZdIZ)

50 "There was nothing that anyone could have done,



Shooting them tends to stop them.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:20 PM (Qd7dZ)

51 The Van Goghs are safe.
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I've heard for years that the Van Goghs and other such works are indeed safe....safely tucked away elsewhere, and that replicas are on display due to influx of Muslims.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 12:21 PM (TN0g+)

52 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 12:21 PM (xatjc)

53 "France's Crown Jewels" Stolen...worth an estimated $100 million...If sold as they are, physically intact, and with their provenance intact. Which they can't be, of course.

!!!! I've been afraid to part with my family jewels, but I'm willing to reconsider with those kinds of prices!!!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at October 22, 2025 12:21 PM (JCZqz)

54 A DEImond heist

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:22 PM (lonsH)

55 WTF does that even mean?"

"We're broke"

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:22 PM (tubbA)

56 The Louvre security would be improved by Inspector Clouseau and Paul Blart , Mall Cop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 12:22 PM (8RjCi)

57 Is having "family jewels" really a prerequisite for being able to protect the crown jewels?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 12:22 PM (ltH/c)

58 1-2-3-4? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState



*makes note to change combination when I get home.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (Qd7dZ)

59 Well, the jewels are no longer separated from the people, so there's that.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (MZ+PY)

60 7

I wonder if the thieves had "inside" help.
Posted by: four seasons at October 22, 2025 12:13 PM (3ek7K)

They did, but because the people running the place are retards, not because there was a specific co-conspirator within the Louvre for the heist.

Posted by: Hey let's leave the place wide open! at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (TbWk/)

61 Looks like you'd expect. OTOH, Marion Maréchal, ("niece of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen") isn't half bad looking. Somehow, I'm not shocked.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (s0JqF)

62 The Louvre security would be improved by Inspector Clouseau and Paul Blart , Mall Cop
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 12:22 PM


Hell, it would have been improved by Inspector Gadget.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (ySpAZ)

63 Oh good grief I thought there were no guards, but I just found this quote on X: "After threatening guards with their power tools, the thieves took 9 pieces from the glass cases, then left the museum by descending the ladder to two other members of the crew, who were waiting on motor scooters."

So the museum did have security on site, and they basically stood there and smiled and nodded while it all was stolen. (reminds me of Holy Grail)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (uWKK8)

64 Security was on a cigarette break.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (sGHnN)

65 3 Stupid Frech.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (i24o9)

'Riund these parts, people read thst and assume you're writing about David.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 12:24 PM (ltH/c)

66 That part of the museum faces the river, and the street is usually pretty busy.

What a shit-show this is. But... other European museums have had robberies, and defacing by environmentalists is common.

I love the democratizing of the Louvre. I guess she was serious, and it is simply redistribution of its treasures to "The People!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 22, 2025 12:24 PM (n9ltV)

67 I believe the jewels were stored in glass cases, literally.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 22, 2025 12:24 PM (fTG6a)

68 The Buffin chick is kinda cute.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at October 22, 2025 12:14 PM (6P0f1)

Meh. Waffle House 3, at best.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:24 PM (8zz6B)

69 The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art. Did she decide that bulky armored displays were too "elite" and separate the people from their jewels

WTF does that even mean?
Posted by: Archimedes

It means that she wants to make it easier for the awful people to steal and/or damage the artwork for political purposes.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:24 PM (2J/Lj)

70 Security got distracted by a mime performance in the lobby.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 12:24 PM (Oy/m2)

71 I wonder if the thieves had "inside" help.
Posted by: four seasons


They did, but because the people running the place are retards, not because there was a specific co-conspirator within the Louvre for the heist.
Posted by: Hey let's leave the place wide open!


I'll take that kind of help any day.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:25 PM (Qd7dZ)

72 1-2-3-4? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState



*makes note to change combination when I get home.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM


Sign and countersign having been given, commenting may proceed safely.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:25 PM (ySpAZ)

73 1-2-3-4? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"

You left off the 5...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:25 PM (tubbA)

74 One word , Insidejob .

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (g47mK)

75 Security got distracted by a mime performance in the lobby.
Posted by: dantesed



Sounds like the beginning of a Jason Statham movie.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (Qd7dZ)

76 One of the properties of glass is that it's fragile iirc.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (sGHnN)

77 47 White women have been far and away the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action.


especially the lesbian ones

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (emBoF)

78 I also saw the British Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. They were behind about four inches of armored glass, with guards.

You ain't stealing those.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (jc0TO)

79 Oh good grief I thought there were no guards, but I just found this quote on X: "After threatening guards with their power tools, the thieves took 9 pieces from the glass cases, then left the museum by descending the ladder to two other members of the crew, who were waiting on motor scooters."

So the museum did have security on site, and they basically stood there and smiled and nodded while it all was stolen. (reminds me of Holy Grail)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (

"But they threatened us with a severe taunting!"

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (y9ksN)

80 Among the more destructive delusions forced upon everyone by the left is the notion that humans are simply interchangeable meat sticks. Percentages and proportions of various ethnicities or skin tones, sex characteristics should be exactly proportional to their representation in society. If not, then the only possible conclusion is RACISM or SEXISM, blah blah.

They are livid at the concepts of skills, aptitude, experience, and hard work. Persistence will take one farther than anything. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

They reject this, they want to wear a big watch, flight suit, and Ray-Bans, but they don’t want to go to Flight School. They want to wear scrubs and wear a stethoscope, but they don’t want to work in Residency or go to Medical School.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (ACATy)

81 Le retarde.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (DYX76)

82 Mission Impossible, et al always show hyper-competent criminals vying against world-class security systems and eventually foiled by even more hyper-competent government employees. I'm beginning to suspect this may be fiction.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 12:26 PM (hlNLQ)

83 63 So the museum did have security on site, and they basically stood there and smiled and nodded while it all was stolen. (reminds me of Holy Grail)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:23 PM (uWKK

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If they stopped the robbers and hurt them, the guards would be sued for meanness to redistibutive justice, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

84 Dang it, I am going to have to change my passwords.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:27 PM (sGHnN)

85 The truth is that the museum has no security at all. One man with a revolver could have prevented this heist. The shame of woke France is displayed for the world. Tis to laugh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 12:27 PM (pohLc)

86 After threatening guards with their power tools"

I've got an angle grinder and am not afraid to use it...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:27 PM (tubbA)

87 I watched a YT vid of the jewels stolen, and their provenance.

Crown jewels, simply irreplaceable and definitely impossible to sell unless it's to Dr. Evil and Number 2 in their secret lair

Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2025 12:27 PM (dCxaZ)

88 "Affirmative Action" is the mode the Left used to infiltrate and advance inside every corporation.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:28 PM (lonsH)

89 This post be full of Psych! refs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 22, 2025 12:28 PM (bss/y)

90 Security was on a cigarette break.
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You laugh, but smoking continues to be treated by society at large as a *serious* obligation. My Dad had a significant health issue that forced him to spend more than a month at a physical rehabilitation center. His condition required help anytime he needed to go to the restroom, change clothes, move from chair to bed or bed to chair, etc. The first night he was there he had to wait a HALF AN HOUR to go to the bathroom because...wait for it...all of the staff were assisting those in-patients who smoke with the walk-outside so they could have their final smoke of the day.

My Mom and I reported that the next morning, and it never happened again during his stay.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 12:28 PM (TN0g+)

91 The cordless drill with the thing that goes up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 22, 2025 12:28 PM (DYX76)

92 They did like three TV movies of Psych after the series ending episode, btw. Kind of odd. The guy who played Lassie suffered some sort of stroke.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (bss/y)

93 89- how many hats?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (hlNLQ)

94
And I've always thought, when I let my fantasies run towards spectacular heists, that one of the easiest ways to do such a thing was to do it in broad daylight, with incredible speed, and count on the shock causing everyone to just stand and stare while you did it and got away.
Of course that plan requires a complete lack of actual security on site.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:15

The secret is to act like you belong there and no one will question you. Confidence goes a long way apparently.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (hs4ik)

95 1-2-3-4? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"

You left off the 5...
Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:25 PM


I was quoting that Muse girl. Not my fault she can't meme properly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (ySpAZ)

96 They will return them for 1 Million Dollars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (sGHnN)

97 notion that humans are simply interchangeable meat sticks."

Okay...

/bears everywhere

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (tubbA)

98 Failed French president Manny Macron announced an exciting new possibility for Louvre security.

===

😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

99 This movie cries out for canisters of sleep gas being introduced into the ventilation system.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (jc0TO)

100 The head should be fired for this but will she.

Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (G0vdT)

101 That s/b head of security

Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (G0vdT)

102 The secret is to act like you belong there and no one will question you. Confidence goes a long way apparently.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM /i]

The clipboard effect.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

103 Ok, I'm the dummy that thought all of the treasure type displays were copies of the originals held in vaults. Quell idiot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (mlg/3)

104 dammit

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

105 The British crown jewels are surrounded by armed security, in a space that's purposefully dark to obscure the security measures, and is inside the grounds of the Tower of London -- there's only one gate to enter the grounds.

In Rome we saw a coin collection that dated back to the Roman Republic and up to last century -- and entry there was through a two-foot-thick vault door.

These clowns WANTED this theft to happen.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (1OiAC)

106 I was quoting that Muse girl. Not my fault she can't meme properly"

So you're surrounded by assholes?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (tubbA)

107 A further symptom of western decline, Fwance despite its many hypocrisies and ample flaws was for a long while at least a state with serious security and secret police in the pursuit of its own interests.

Women took care of that with their insane political preferences seemingly predicated on undermining the proper role of the Westphalian nation-state as "hello."

Posted by: sven at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (MUJd1)

108 Government’s “self-insure”.

I doubt the Smithsonian has insurance either.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (I/Icm)

109 Perhaps they thought the crane was being used by moslems. Therefore out of bounds.

Or maybe it had a small rainblow fag on it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (WPL6O)

110 The secret is to act like you belong there and no one will question you. Confidence goes a long way apparently.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM


And walking purposefully while carrying a clipboard.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (ySpAZ)

111 She's not a Hooters 8.

An 8 is really beautiful and quite rare, the same way a person with an actual IQ of 145 is really smart and you are unlikely to meet one today.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (Da7Vv)

112 Fetchez la vache!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, proposing new security measures at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (PiwSw)

113 Repeat after me: "There was nothing that anyone could have done, even if the director of security was chosen based on qualifications rather than what she's got between her legs."

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

Kimberly Cheatle is tanned, rested, ready, available, and only nearly lost a President's Head.

Make 30 For 30 Great Again!

/How do you say that in French?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (zQlkF)

114 It was me!

First I steel your girl, then I steel your jewels!

Posted by: Henrí (from Cheers you idiot) at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (BLqOI)

115 Uh oh. Someone's earnings report mist have sucked. Sudden nosedive in the market that I am on the wrong side of.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (jc0TO)

116 The head should be fired"

The big head?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (tubbA)

117 So you're surrounded by assholes?
Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM


Well, I do work in Boston.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (ySpAZ)

118 The pieces will be sold to Russian Oligarchs. Broken up and resold.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (pohLc)

119 "People are talking about the thieves chopping up the jewels into smaller, more salable gems but that would destroy about 90% of the value of the jewels. What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre."

After reading that Eugenie's crown was damaged upon recovery, I assumed that meant that many of the jewels (how many freakin' diamonds can one crown hold anyway) were removed for easier transport and later individual sale. I could be wrong, and maybe the thieves just accidently dropped it and thought staying on time schedule was more important than retrieving it.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (ltH/c)

120 The French are not *that* racist. After all, their flags are still white.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (lonsH)

121 Overlooked New Wave classic, lyrics excerpt:

Cezanne
by the Special Guests (1984)

"...I want to be a painter, I know I can!"
Now his oeuvre's in the Louvre, he's Paul Cezanne,
Cezanne
Cezanne, Cezanne, the father of Cubism."

Posted by: zombie at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (oraVG)

122 > This account claims the jewels were protected by armored glass and would drop into below-the-floor safes if the glass were cut -- until 2019, when this actual security was replaced by... normal glass and no drop-thorugh-the-floor safes.

They spent money to make the system LESS SAFE? On purpose?

Someone needs to check the bank accounts of everyone involved. Unless the investigators are DEI hires. In which case, I hope they can manage not to get their feelings hurt.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (Yp6az)

123 I don't think this reaches the Atomic Tranny Dogboy level of DEI. That shit was nuclear stupidity level DEI.

Literally.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (Q4IgG)

124 Dude, I just learned that 'brave' in French means dummy. This explains a lot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (mlg/3)

125 howdy all. happy hump day, may be be the humper or humpee as you so desire...

as to the theft piece, i'm reminded of a time in 2005 i was working in a major s. korean city doing fiber optics. we had unmarked minivans and ornage vests ad hard hats. we blocked off traffic and pulled manhole covers and were messing around with cables in front of major govt and public buildings.

and cops never bothered us. we didn't even have a korean national with us to help if something happened.

based on that, i'm not entirely shocked that no one cared when 3 workers pulled a cherry picker up to the building...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (nXhwP)

126 And walking purposefully while carrying a clipboard.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM


a white hardhat to complete the ensemble.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (jc0TO)

127 102 The secret is to act like you belong there and no one will question you. Confidence goes a long way apparently.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM /i]

The clipboard effect.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:30

And a high vis vest with a magnet logo for your truck and you can walk anywhere and no one will question you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (hs4ik)

128 The secret is to act like you belong there and no one will question you. Confidence goes a long way apparently.
Posted by: CaliGirl

The clipboard effect.
Posted by: toby928(c)


For getting into an area. Moving the jewels SHOULD have had a pre-meeting where every step was went over and security would know who was and wasn't allowed around them. If you weren't in the pre meeting, you wouldn't be there on actual.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (Qd7dZ)

129 So far, too two Reddit comments I've seen (summarized):

Trump had the jewels stolen so he could crown himself emperor when he builds his Arc de Triumph in DC

(From r/newzealand) Sure, it's a bad DEI failure, but at least the Louvre is still up and operational, unlike our DEI Captain and HMNZS Manawanui.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (JCZqz)

130 "After threatening guards with their power tools"

I've got an angle grinder and am not afraid to use it...
Posted by: man


That right there is hilarious! Threatened. With cordless power tools... These fucking surrender monkeys just give up and fall back because someone brandishes a cordless screw shooter at them!
This is the single most pathetic thing in this story.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (2J/Lj)

131 Women don't quite understand the need to keep the family jewels protected.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 12:34 PM (mJ1wx)

132 Crown jewels, simply irreplaceable and definitely impossible to sell unless it's to Dr. Evil and Number 2 in their secret lair
Posted by: kallisto at October 22, 2025 12:27 PM (dCxaZ)

Prediction: there will be a ransom demanded for the return of the jewels, payable in bitcoin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:34 PM (8zz6B)

133 They will return them for 1 Million Dollars.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM


That isn't really a lot of money these days.

- Number Two

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:34 PM (ySpAZ)

134 And walking purposefully while carrying a clipboard."

The youngest's bit of parking his white truck anywhere and hopping out wearing a yellow vest. No one ever said a word...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:34 PM (tubbA)

135 The secret is to act like you belong there and no one will question you. Confidence goes a long way apparently.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM

And walking purposefully while carrying a clipboard.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:31 PM (ySpAZ)

While wearing an appropriate hat. One that says authoritah. Because not just anybody can get an appropriate hat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:34 PM (i24o9)

136 They could just cut the stones.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:34 PM (sGHnN)

137 115 Uh oh. Someone's earnings report mist have sucked. Sudden nosedive in the market that I am on the wrong side of.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (jc0TO)
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thats quite a quick drop.

Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (G0vdT)

138 The thieves only needed to wait for the right time of month to break in.

Posted by: Roy at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (BZF07)

139
Didn't do Buffin...

Posted by: Every Male on the Planet at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (w9Wax)

140 First I steel your girl, then I steel your jewels!
Posted by: Henr� (from Cheers you idiot)

High five on the Cheers reference

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (y9ksN)

141 thats quite a quick drop.
Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM


and even quicker recovery.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (jc0TO)

142 This account claims the jewels were protected by armored glass and would drop into below-the-floor safes if the glass were cut -- until 2019, when this actual security was replaced by... normal glass and no drop-thorugh-the-floor safes.

They spent money to make the system LESS SAFE? On purpose?

Someone needs to check the bank accounts of everyone involved. Unless the investigators are DEI hires. In which case, I hope they can manage not to get their feelings hurt.
Posted by: bonhomme


2019 to 2025? That's definitely playing the long game.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (Qd7dZ)

143

"They didn’t just steal the crown jewels.
They stole a piece of France’s soul."

Yeah yeah yeah. Get bent mademoiselle.

I thought Inspector Clouseau was satire, but I guess it was truthtful.

Oui oui.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (et1vG)

144 After reading that Eugenie's crown was damaged upon recovery, I assumed that meant that many of the jewels (how many freakin' diamonds can one crown hold anyway) were removed for easier transport and later individual sale. I could be wrong, and maybe the thieves just accidently dropped it and thought staying on time schedule was more important than retrieving it.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 12:32 PM (ltH/c)

a report I saw says they dropped it in the street while they were getting away - imagine leaving eleventy million dollars laying in the street.

looking at the pictures of those two women up top, I wouldn't trust either one of them to make my souffle. The second one looks like one of the anarchists in The Big Lebowski, the first should have had a career making up hotel beds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (uWKK8)

145 "After threatening guards with their power tools"

I've got an angle grinder and am not afraid to use it...
Posted by: man


That right there is hilarious! Threatened. With cordless power tools... These fucking surrender monkeys just give up and fall back because someone brandishes a cordless screw shooter at them!
This is the single most pathetic thing in this story.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (2J/Lj)

Look out! He's got a Dremel!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (i24o9)

146 They could just cut the stones.
Posted by: Boss Moss


* autistic screeching in arabie *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (mlg/3)

147 Back in black.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (jc0TO)

148 Those have to be the ugliest French women I have ever seen. Did they hire them from Dykes R Us?

Posted by: That Guy at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (m6y9B)

149 The persons of interest are in a gang whose HQ is at the Potato Farm owned by Albert Potato. The suspects are named as: Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant-garde, Deja Vu, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (CwhoI)

150 They won't try to ransom the jewels. That would be stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (pohLc)

151 Oh bullshit "there was nothing that could be done" in the 1980s the guards at the Lovre had MAS-38SMGs as their arms, the femynyzation of everything in the west in the 90s and the 2000s and the demand to import nutjobs en masse is why we are where we are.

Posted by: sven at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (MUJd1)

152 > The British crown jewels are surrounded by armed security, in a space that's purposefully dark to obscure the security measures, and is inside the grounds of the Tower of London -- there's only one gate to enter the grounds.

When I visited, they wouldn't even let you stop to take a look. You had to walk as you were looking.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (Yp6az)

153
That right there is hilarious! Threatened. With cordless power tools... These fucking surrender monkeys just give up and fall back because someone brandishes a cordless screw shooter at them!
This is the single most pathetic thing in this story.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (2J/Lj)

I would have shot the thieves but I guess the French don't think in American.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (hs4ik)

154 They're trying to act like these were high-speed incredibly planned robbers.

They literally just ran a freaking lift up, broke a window, smashed the display cases, and ran. And there wasn't a SINGLE GUARD in one of the biggest rooms with the most valuable items in it to stop them.

This isn't even incompetence. The guards HAD to have been in on it.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (setIA)

155 I am the case!

Posted by: Inspector Clouseau at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (YoT4f)

156 If nothing could be done then why is security there? 🤔

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (lonsH)

157 148 Those have to be the ugliest French women I have ever seen. Did they hire them from Dykes R Us?
Posted by: That Guy at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (m6y9B)

They went to Britain for their makeovers.

Posted by: Roy at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (BZF07)

158 I represent Mademoiselle Buffin.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin esq. at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (wGerL)

159 >> "The Louvre's security director would have been chosen not based on her abilities, but because she is a woman. It is this destruction by wokeism that we find notably in the United States."

1. Has he looked at who is running the EU lately? Don't blame the US for this shit.

2. The destruction has not been done by the incompetent women, the destruction was done by whoever put these incompetent women into power. Who was that? (I assume mostly men, but which men. Why?)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (BLqOI)

160 I've got an angle grinder and am not afraid to use it...

You laugh but it's probably the second most threatening power tool after a 2 1/2 HP router with a raised panel bit.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (3nLb4)

161 I am the case!
Posted by: Inspector Clouseau


Does your dog bite?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (mlg/3)

162 [O/T -- Two WILLOWED belated laughs from The Art Thread:]

An above-ground gulag.
Posted by: ShainS

Sounds like my honeymoon...
Posted by: ...

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Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.
Posted by: Pudinhead

It'll be the basement of the Obama Presidential Monstrosity.
Posted by: ShainS

In the men's restroom handicapped stall.
Posted by: Joe Mama

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (4vd8A)

163 The French government is currently trying to destroy French culture. So this makes sense.

Posted by: That Guy at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (m6y9B)

164 Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant-garde, Deja Vu, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse."

Have we met before?

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (tubbA)

165 149 The persons of interest are in a gang whose HQ is at the Potato Farm owned by Albert Potato. The suspects are named as: Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant-garde, Deja Vu, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (CwhoI)


That's my favorite scene in that movie...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (PiwSw)

166 My money is on Eastern Europeans.

Posted by: mr tmz at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (rJ48h)

167 105 The British crown jewels are surrounded by armed security, in a space that's purposefully dark to obscure the security measures, and is inside the grounds of the Tower of London -- there's only one gate to enter the grounds.

In Rome we saw a coin collection that dated back to the Roman Republic and up to last century -- and entry there was through a two-foot-thick vault door.

These clowns WANTED this theft to happen.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 22, 2025 12:30 PM (1OiAC) Globo Homo hates the west, they are thrilled when our history is destroyed.

Posted by: sven at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (MUJd1)

168 Soviet Orcs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (sGHnN)

169 @BigSteve207
·
2h
NEW: Ex-Marine Graham Platner Taught Military Tactics, Recruited for Socialist Paramilitary Group in Maine

Reddit posts reveal embattled progressive star recruited and provided firearms training for the Maine Socialist Rifle Association...

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Okay...so this is the guy with the Totenkopf tattoo running for the Dem nomination for Senate in Maine.

He still has the tattoo, by the way.

So, while he's in the wilds, training Socialist radicals how to shoot, he's got this Nazi tattoo, and no one gives a shit. He doesn't give a shit. It's just a thing.

Tell me again how radical socialists hate Nazism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

170 Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM

Have we met before?

- Deja Vu

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (ySpAZ)

171 That right there is hilarious! Threatened. With cordless power tools... These fucking surrender monkeys just give up and fall back because someone brandishes a cordless screw shooter at them!
This is the single most pathetic thing in this story.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:33 PM (2J/Lj)

I would have shot the thieves but I guess the French don't think in American.
Posted by: CaliGirl


They had cordless power tools. Pfffffffft.
I have a cordless hole punch.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (Qd7dZ)

172 @131/Chuck Martel: "Women don't quite understand the need to keep the family jewels protected."

Threadwinner.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (O7YUW)

173 Can anyone account for the whereabouts of Danny, Rusty, Saul, Linus, Basher, and the rest of the gang on the day in question?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (Cw7cn)

174 Does your dog bite?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 12:38 PM (mlg/3)

Non!

Posted by: Inspector Clouseau at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (YoT4f)

175 Next they will burn down Notre Dame.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (sGHnN)

176
"Frances Crown Jewels"

I bet the jewels have hairy armpits.

Also these jewels were from Napoleon III, which nobody liked. So who cares.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (IifOV)

177 This isn't even incompetence. The guards HAD to have been in on it.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (setIA)

Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (pohLc)

178 Very clever use of AI in the security measures video. I wish AI could be kept to that and not other nefarious things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (7RYym)

179 Okay...so this is the guy with the Totenkopf tattoo running for the Dem nomination for Senate in Maine.

He still has the tattoo, by the way.
---------

The parties switched.

Wait

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (lonsH)

180 oh for heists I just remembered something I think from bowfinger - bring along a camera and convince the guards that they're just part of a movie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (uWKK8)

181 By the way, the security around government buildings in Paris is impressive, and much different than that around the Louvre.

It's usually groups of two big burly men, and one hot chick as window dressing. All are armed, and depending on where they are stationed, they have automatic weapons.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (n9ltV)

182
French Rifles: Never fired. Dropped once.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (IifOV)

183 When I visited, they wouldn't even let you stop to take a look. You had to walk as you were looking.

Outside that building I overheard two guards talking about a stroller that had been parked in one place longer than usual. I was impressed that they were paying attention to that level of detail.

Then, on the way back to my room I saw that the Queen was visiting Ireland and someone had made a call to one of the secret phone numbers...

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (1OiAC)

184 There was a great article that was linked on Instapundit a few days ago, written by a woman, Helen Andrews, bemoaning the feminization of everything. Definitely worth a read.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

185 141 thats quite a quick drop.
Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM

and even quicker recovery.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (jc0TO)
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Algo's gone wild.

Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM (G0vdT)

186 I've got an angle grinder and am not afraid to use it...

You laugh but it's probably the second most threatening power tool after a 2 1/2 HP router with a raised panel bit.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 12:37 PM (3nLb4)

When a radial arm saw is too heavy to carry.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM (i24o9)

187 That's my favorite scene in that movie..."
Right after the girl in the sand...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM (tubbA)

188 Sieben minutes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM (sGHnN)

189 181 By the way, the security around government buildings in Paris is impressive, and much different than that around the Louvre.

It's usually groups of two big burly men, and one hot chick as window dressing. All are armed, and depending on where they are stationed, they have automatic weapons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (n9ltV)

Well, you know what they think is important.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM (bss/y)

190 177 This isn't even incompetence. The guards HAD to have been in on it.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (setIA)

Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 12:39 PM (pohLc)

The Guards were told "Stay here and Guard the Jewels."

The Guards said "okay, so we Stay Here, and we let anyone who wants handle the Jewels."

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:42 PM (uWKK8)

191 When a radial arm saw is too heavy to carry.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM (i24o9)

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 22, 2025 12:42 PM (lonsH)

192 Give me a dozen men like Clouseau and I can destroy the world.

Posted by: Chief Inspector Dreyfus at October 22, 2025 12:42 PM (y9ksN)

193 They literally just ran a freaking lift up, broke a window, smashed the display cases, and ran. And there wasn't a SINGLE GUARD in one of the biggest rooms with the most valuable items in it to stop them.

This isn't even incompetence. The guards HAD to have been in on it.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 22, 2025 12:36 PM (setIA)

What's the first thought that crosses your mind when you see a manlift at the window of a large building downtown? Contractors? Window washers? Whatever. "Thieves" is waaay down the list.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (8zz6B)

194 The museum got nailed right in the Buffin

Posted by: Buffin worth Nuffin at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (FxINA)

195 bemoaning the feminization of everything. Definitely worth a read.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

Everything except females, apparently.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (lonsH)

196 They have 2 ladder trucks.

Surrender.

Get on your back. Spread those legs.
Now, be still.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (EyfuW)

197 195 bemoaning the feminization of everything. Definitely worth a read.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

Everything except females, apparently.
Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (lonsH)

========

The best women are men.

And the best men are women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

198 > An 8 is really beautiful and quite rare, the same way a person with an actual IQ of 145 is really smart and you are unlikely to meet one today.

I personally believe in the situational scale. An 8 that you see walking around in public is not as hot as an 8 on TV. That TV 8 isn't going to be as hot as a bikini model 8.

I think the disconnect is when people believe in a rigid scale talk with people who have a situational scale. A rigid scale 8 is going to be way hotter than a situational scale 8.

On top of all that, it goes without saying that people have their own tastes.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (Yp6az)

199 141 thats quite a quick drop.
Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM

and even quicker recovery.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (jc0TO)
-------

Algo's gone wild.
Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:41 PM


I had a way out of the money buy set up that just missed getting triggered in the whipsaw.

FML.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:44 PM (jc0TO)

200 I'm shocked they had no insurance on these jewels.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM (viF8m)

No doubt the director of security got a nice new penthouse suite in the most fashionable area in Paris with the money she saved on not paying for insurance.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 12:44 PM (kanec)

201 Napoleon III, which nobody liked."

Napoleon XIV, however...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:44 PM (tubbA)

202 Reminds me of that TV show Mission Impossible.

Posted by: Case at October 22, 2025 12:44 PM (9HFDU)

203 Le Wokeisme

Oh, woke is me!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 22, 2025 12:44 PM (lWPQK)

204 High five on the Cheers reference
Posted by: Josephistan

Thanks.
- the accent over the "i" did not print
- my French accent just looks like misspellings
- my Henri attitude looks rude.

Not one of my best jokes. That I am explaining it makes it worse.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (BLqOI)

205 I've mentioned before that I had a long run of, uh ... armed goonery both public and private before my current career in big tech. I have actually worked security in a real art museum, among a couple dozen other really odd types of facility.

Go to some rinkydink regional museum in basically any US city of 50k population and you will see SIGNIFICANTLY more security than this DEI-bint bullshit. Not more than the original setup the dipshits stripped out - display items that drop into secured containers is some really cool shit - but some serious stuff.

Not to mention when you have this much stuff, and this much staff, it's unthinkable not to have uniformed and plainclothes staff within sight of basically everything. Even high end retail does that.

In the long run it's sort of meaningless, I mean, who are they preserving these artworks for? Most of western europe will be gone as we know it in a generation, overrun by hordes of middle easterners and africans these same types of stupid cunts imported by the millions. No euro culture has a future unless they secure it on a mountain of skulls at this point.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (9etX0)

206 looking at the pictures of those two women up top, I wouldn't trust either one of them to make my souffle. The second one looks like one of the anarchists in The Big Lebowski, the first should have had a career making up hotel beds.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:35 PM (uWKK

They're fuckin' nihilists, man!

Posted by: The Dude at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

207 They democratized the jewels right out the side window.

Posted by: One for All and All for None at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (FxINA)

208 The Guards were told "Stay here and Guard the Jewels."

The Guards said "okay, so we Stay Here, and we let anyone who wants handle the Jewels."
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:42 PM (uWKK8

No, you stay here and guard the jewels.

Right, we go over there and you guard the jewels.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (y9ksN)

209 Look while you walk.

Reminded me of a stripper in Taipei.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (EyfuW)

210 They obviously cased the joint. Review the security tapes.

Head of Security: "we don't keep security tapes, that's elitist."

Posted by: WisRich at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (G0vdT)

211 Hard to fence.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (sGHnN)

212 I actually liked the Thomas Crown Affair remake better.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (EYmYM)

213 The best women are men.

And the best men are women.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

I think those 2 principles are the foundation of the Thai Ladyboy industry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (uWKK8)

214 French Rifles: Never fired. Dropped once.
Posted by: Frank Barone

We have a winner!

Posted by: Algonquin Club at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (w9Wax)

215 Most of western europe will be gone as we know it in a generation, overrun by hordes of middle easterners and africans these same types of stupid cunts imported by the millions"

Camp of the Saints...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (tubbA)

216 The administratiors of the Louvre got exactly what they wanted. Democratisation of art.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (8pW8Z)

217 ATMs must have better security.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (sGHnN)

218 On X, EU parliament member Marion Maréchal, niece of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen, said Buffin's hire was "part of a feminization policy" in France and demanded her resignation.

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

Next you'll be telling me that there's also a "an emasculation policy" in France as well.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (0RTcs)

219 No Bowler hats?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (sGHnN)

220 > The guards HAD to have been in on it.

Dude. Louvre employees are government employees. They're FRENCH government employees. Their competence ceiling is below the competence floor of retarded chimpanzees.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (Yp6az)

221 213 I actually liked the Thomas Crown Affair remake better.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (EYmYM)

The original still has the Best Chess Game Ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK8)

222 202 Napoleon III, which nobody liked."

Napoleon XIV, however...
Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:44 PM (tubbA)

They're coming to take me away, ha ha!

Posted by: To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

223 My 8 may not be someone else’s 8 and vice versa.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (EYmYM)

224 "I suspect everyone, and I suspect no one."

One of my favorite Clouseau lines, but I recently saw a very old movie (like 30s I think) and they had that line before him. Now I can't remember what movie it was.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:47 PM (BLqOI)

225 "France's Crown Jewels" Stolen

They never thought Trump would win.

Posted by: t-bird at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (upeQk)

226 They're fuckin' nihilists, man!
Posted by: The Dude at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)


IIRC, one of the nihilists was played by Aimee Mann.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (PiwSw)

227 Am I the 8,00000 person to reference Inspector Clouseau?

Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (Wmg4n)

228 In the long run it's sort of meaningless, I mean, who are they preserving these artworks for? Most of western europe will be gone as we know it in a generation, overrun by hordes of middle easterners and africans these same types of stupid cunts imported by the millions. No euro culture has a future unless they secure it on a mountain of skulls at this point.
Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (9etX0)

No voating our way out.... Important point to remember.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (YoT4f)

229 Comment last night said that before renovations the jewels were enclosed in heavy duty (bullet proof?) glass, sitting on a trap door that would immediately open if the glass was disturbed and drop the jewels into a secured self locking vault.

Yeah, covering them with a fish aquarium - real engineers of genius.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (XwyaG)

230 Widely available and cheap AI security cameras would have alerted security immediately. Hell, every grocery store uses them at self-checkout. You can buy them for your house for $100.

But the Louvre doesn’t have them. Pathetic.

Posted by: Novanglus at October 22, 2025 12:49 PM (VFJAx)

231 My 8 may not be someone else’s 8 and vice versa."

My god, it's symmetrical! Noah!

/ mind blown

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:49 PM (tubbA)

232 "...rather than what she's got between her legs."

@Ace, how dare you make assumptions about what she has between her legs!

Posted by: ZH Cohen at October 22, 2025 12:49 PM (toq7V)

233
>>Dominique Buffin, the first woman hired as security chief at the Louvre

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

Or, as some moron called her yesterday, "Dindoo Buffin."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 12:49 PM (ldc7S)

234 Am I the 8,00000 person to reference Inspector Clouseau?
Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (Wmg4n)

Does your dog beet?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:50 PM (EYmYM)

235 131/Chuck Martel: "Women don't quite understand the need to keep the family jewels protected."

If we're talking priceless jewelry? Dude! Women will cut a bitch for even looking at those the wrong way. Anyone tries to steal my grandma's wedding ring set is gonna get instant extreme prejudice. And those, while worth a lot of Benjamins, are not priceless.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:50 PM (2J/Lj)

236 "Oui oui."

Down the hall, on the right.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 22, 2025 12:50 PM (v/YwY)

237 Am I the 8,00000 person to reference Inspector Clouseau?"

Oui.

(And not oui, the magazine. So there)

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:50 PM (tubbA)

238 This is actually funny as hell.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 12:50 PM (pohLc)

239 The theft unfolded just 250 meters (270 yards) from the Mona Lisa

I had no idea everything was now measured on distance from the Mona Lisa. I guess that's like the "x miles from America" chyrons in Team America.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (2ocoG)

240 Bonjour.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (sGHnN)

241 Well, in fairness, she did reduce the elitism of the Louvre; all the good stuff will be stolen and replaced by..well, placards maybe. Or maybe some Hunter Biden fecal art masterpieces.

Posted by: Nelly at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (NuU9P)

242 "I suspect everyone, and I suspect no one."

One of my favorite Clouseau lines,
-------

That scene in one of the PP movies where he hops on the parallel bars is one of the single funniest things I recall ever watching. The scene continues (downstairs, naturally) with him interviewing the staff and its as off the wall as the parallel bars opener to it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (TN0g+)

243 "215 Most of western europe will be gone as we know it in a generation, overrun by hordes of middle easterners and africans these same types of stupid cunts imported by the millions"

Camp of the Saints...
Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:46 PM (tubbA)"

It's worse than most know already. Like one might find flash mobs in places like Baltimore, the "refugees" get together in groups of 1000-2000 and overrun places.. except now they're starting to do it to small French bumblefuck towns. Probably one of the main sources of rumbling about civil war in France, often overshadowed by similar rumblings from the UK.

And they're legit barbarians. There is video floating around from somewhere in France of these people simultaneously cooking, eating, and raping a lady.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (9etX0)

244 11 Harrowhouse is an underrated heist movie.

Charles Grodin and Canance Bergen.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (EYmYM)

245 Here's the "does your dog bite" bit for those who haven't seen it.

youtube.com/shorts/lLR-V2S0DC8

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (Yp6az)

246 Maybe it will turn out that the thieves are actually members of a team of security experts whose bid for providing security services was rejected by the Louvre as too expensive. They will now return the jewels in exchange for approval of their security contract.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (bNf8H)

247 239 The theft unfolded just 250 meters (270 yards) from the Mona Lisa

I had no idea everything was now measured on distance from the Mona Lisa. I guess that's like the "x miles from America" chyrons in Team America.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (2ocoG)

======

And it's not...close.

Nearly three football fields in a palace turned museum. How many rooms away? Like...a dozen?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

248 Emmanuel Macron
@EmmanuelMacron
Translated from French
The theft committed at the Louvre is an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our History.

We will recover the works, and the perpetrators will be brought to justice. Everything is being done, everywhere, to achieve this, under the leadership of the Paris prosecutor's office.

The Louvre New Renaissance project, which we launched in January, provides for strengthened security. It will be the guarantor of the preservation and protection of what constitutes our memory and our culture.

Macron is getting roasted in the comments.
He is an embarrassment to France.
Notre Dame burned under his watch.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (NpAcC)

249 You have really shitty security and crooks with no fear of reprisals, if this kind of smash and grab can work.

Why does The Bellagio in Las Vegas have better security than the Louvue?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)

250 Here's the "does your dog bite" bit for those who haven't seen it.

youtube.com/shorts/lLR-V2S0DC8
Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:51 PM



Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

251 DAMMIT



NO SPOILERS!

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

252 "Ok, is this a Rothko or did they just not finish painting the wall?"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (PiwSw)

253 What's the first thought that crosses your mind when you see a manlift at the window of a large building downtown? Contractors? Window washers? Whatever. "Thieves" is waaay down the list.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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True, but (a) shouldn't there be a guard who sees this shit role up somehow? One CCTV at least. (b) No one legitimately uses a man lift at that angle (at least not on state property in public.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (BLqOI)

254
>>What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre.

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

If France doesn't have any woke lesbians for the negotiating tasks, we could send them Randi Weingarten. Face it, she'd be a holy terror on the thieves, and we could send her on the condition that France keep her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (ldc7S)

255 Easy to tell. If she doesn't get fired, she's a diversity hire.

In a culture of meritocracy, failure leads to dismissal immediately.

We all know this won't happen

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (/xmMU)

256 A ladder probably would have worked. Road guard vests. Is that the punch you carry in your Oldsmobile if you are a Kenneddy?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (sGHnN)

257 Am I the 8,00000 person to reference Inspector Clouseau?
Posted by: Piper at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (

Should have gone with Chief Inspector Dreyfus for the win. Cato would have gotten you the bronze.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (kanec)

258 They did have insurance, right? RIGHT?!?!?!

Posted by: Case at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (9HFDU)

259 IIRC, one of the nihilists was played by Aimee Mann.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (PiwSw)

Cut off her pinky toe for the role. Hardcore method acting.

Posted by: No not really at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

260 251 DAMMIT



NO SPOILERS!
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)
======

Should we tell him that Spock is Harry Potter's father?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

261 249 You have really shitty security and crooks with no fear of reprisals, if this kind of smash and grab can work.

Why does The Bellagio in Las Vegas have better security than the Louvue?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)

why does My Ass have better security than the Louvre?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (uWKK8)

262 Bonjour"

Je ne parle pas...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (tubbA)

263 201 Napoleon III, which nobody liked."

Napoleon XIV, however...
Posted by: man

All Morons love a good Napoleon brandy, right?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (JCZqz)

264 There is video floating around from somewhere in France of these people simultaneously cooking, eating, and raping a lady.
Posted by: heya


Which part of her were they cooking and eating?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (8pW8Z)

265 226 They're fuckin' nihilists, man!
Posted by: The Dude at October 22, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)

IIRC, one of the nihilists was played by Aimee Mann.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 12:48 PM (PiwSw)

Would

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (xcxpd)

266 254
>>What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre.

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

If France doesn't have any woke lesbians for the negotiating tasks, we could send them Randi Weingarten. Face it, she'd be a holy terror on the thieves, and we could send her on the condition that France keep her.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (ldc7S)

======

"Our first round of negotiations were tough, but we've come to a partial resolution."

"What is it?"

"We will pay the robbers $100 million, and they will pick up the phone next time we call."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

267
Maybe it will turn out that the thieves are actually members of a team of security experts whose bid for providing security services was rejected by the Louvre as too expensive.

Posted by: Frasier Crane

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

Maybe their services were rejected as too masculine.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (ldc7S)

268 Look at all the woke DEI leftists entrusted by the Biden administration to run the military for national defense.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (RTEcs)

269 Which part of her were they cooking and eating?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM


Her penis.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (jc0TO)

270 Citizen Cake

Kudos for the Top Secret reference.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (u82oZ)

271 So, a lot of jewelry was stolen. Ummm...okay. Am I supposed to be outraged or what because I find that I just don't care and can't think of a single reason why I should.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (89Sog)

272 A 10 is easily identifiable by her elbows.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (lonsH)

273 European museums are a lesson in hypocrisy. My favorite is the British Museum which displays a large number of items stolen during invasions into Africa among many other places. They admit this. They announce this on the plaques in front of display cases. Some of the relics in that museum are sacred religious items of no value to the Brits but sacred to people in places like Angola. Many of these countries request that items be returned. At the same time, the UK bends over backwards to show favoritism at their own expense to the wave of immigrants (including places like Angola).

Oh, and yeah, the British Museum includes art items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. I don't know details about the contents of the Louvre. But, it's probably a good bet that they aren't much different.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (dIske)

274 Thief is another good jewel heist movie.

James Caan

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (EYmYM)

275 Conservatives have jumped on this sentence to suggest Buffin is unqualified for the job and only got it because she is female.

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

Noticed > Seized > Pounced > Jumped

Unless you're Van Halen, just sayin' ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (iBAge)

276 > Should have gone with Chief Inspector Dreyfus for the win. Cato would have gotten you the bronze.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (Yp6az)

277 Do you have a lice sance for this minkey??

A what??

A lice sance!

Oh, you mean a license.

Yes, a license!!

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (Oy/m2)

278 271 So, a lot of jewelry was stolen. Ummm...okay. Am I supposed to be outraged or what because I find that I just don't care and can't think of a single reason why I should.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (89Sog)

=====

Pretty obvious the point is to laugh at the woke Frenchies ruining their own institutions.

Where did you get the impression that you should be mad at this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

279 "Why does The Bellagio in Las Vegas have better security than the Louvue?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)"

Because they rake in an asston of money. Just about anyone with an asston of money has legit security. I have worked for generic offices full of phone jockeys that had guys on site, on call, with rifles and body armor.... because they made an asston of money, and had an asston of money, and could do what they wanted. Mostly we dealt with weird domestic shit (angry spouses showing up to the office), securing the parking area, and handling irate people who'd been fired.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (Qa1H2)

280 I need to rewatch "A Shot in the Dark". One of my top 10 comedies

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (y9ksN)

281 They're trying to act like these were high-speed incredibly planned robbers. They literally just ran a freaking lift up, broke a window, smashed the display cases, and ran.

Yes. When I first heard how it was done, my first reaction was “Wow. Sounds more like a brute-force smash-and-grab than a minutely-planned heist.”

I mean… the thieves literally dropped some of the loot on the way out? This is not a Pierce Bronson/Steve McQueen-level heist.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (EXyHK)

282 DAMMIT



NO SPOILERS!
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)
======

Should we tell him that Spock is Harry Potter's father?
------

That kind of wit is what draws us in, brings us closer and keeps the joint popping.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (TN0g+)

283 “They stole a piece of France’s soul.”

Wrong, France’s soul was smothered with a pillow in their sleep by demonic globalists. That is why such treasures were able to be stolen by a basic smash n’ grab.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (78mYQ)

284 The French have Oeuf on their faces....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (VE6XX)

285 I'm shocked they had no insurance on these jewels

Why? What would be the acceptable insured amount on the original Declaration of Independence? Or any other item that has value beyond its gold and jewels?

You spend the "insurance money" to protect it from damage or theft.

Posted by: Chuck C at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (0GLZr)

286
"Our first round of negotiations were tough, but we've come to a partial resolution."

"What is it?"

"We will pay the robbers $100 million, and they will pick up the phone next time we call."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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"We will give back the jewels plus $100 million, and the Louvre will pick up the phone next time we call."

Posted by: Thieves locked in a room with Randi Weingarten at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (ldc7S)

287 182
French Rifles: Never fired. Dropped once.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 12:40 PM (IifOV)

OMG. This is hilarious. Great literary reference as well +100.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (0CU3H)

288 True, but (a) shouldn't there be a guard who sees this shit role up somehow? One CCTV at least. (b) No one legitimately uses a man lift at that angle (at least not on state property in public.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (BLqOI)

And for a "secure" building you're going to know exactly what contractors and workmen are supposed to be there and when. That's just basic common sense. So it's just more retardation.

Posted by: Tards can still have kick-ass lives at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

289 >What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre

_Leverage_ is a well-constructed show with an absolutely rotten moral compass. So I'm assuming this is a joke.

This was a pro job, and pros don't chop up the take or try to fence an immediately identifiable piece. They were hired by a private collector who will keep the jewels (much more) safely in his private collection; they'll never see the light of day again.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (LgYtf)

290 True, but (a) shouldn't there be a guard who sees this shit role up somehow? One CCTV at least. (b) No one legitimately uses a man lift at that angle (at least not on state property in public.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (BLqOI)

There has to be a guard whose job it is to see unauthorized approaches to the building perimeter. To the casual passers-by, a manlift at a window does not immediately scream "robbery".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (8zz6B)

291 So, a lot of jewelry was stolen. Ummm...okay. Am I supposed to be outraged or what because I find that I just don't care and can't think of a single reason why I should.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (89Sog)

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It's not like some Islamists burned down Notre Dame.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:57 PM (iBAge)

292 The British series Hustle has several capers centered around audacious thefts. One is involving one of the Crown Jewels taken out of the Tower for a special exhibit.

Season 2 episode 6 Eye of the Beholder.
Worth watching and available on Prime among other places.


Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (WDjG6)

293 Conservatives have jumped on this sentence to suggest Buffin is unqualified for the job and only got it because she is female.
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Pro tip: You can remove "Conservatives have jumped on this sentence to suggest" from any sentence.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (lonsH)

294 It inclines one to think contemptuously of the French.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (XeU6L)

295 A 10 is easily identifiable by her elbows.
Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (lonsH)

And by the "BRRRRRRT" sound

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (y9ksN)

296 A 10 is easily identifiable by her elbows.
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And knees.

Posted by: Stan Hanes at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

297 Shouldn't the European left be happy about this theft? All those jewels, the product of imperialism, a display of obnoxious wealth were others can't get a fresh pomme, etc. etc.

Posted by: Lex at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (l5xX+)

298 This account claims the jewels were protected by armored glass and would drop into below-the-floor safes if the glass were cut -- until 2019, when this actual security was replaced by... normal glass and no drop-thorugh-the-floor safes.

The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art.


I figure the odds are at least 50% that this woman is going to be spotted wearing the jewels any day now.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (2ocoG)

299 Am I the 8,00000 person to reference Inspector Clouseau?

French Imperial jewels stolen in broad daylight from the Louvre? Dude, Pink Panther references were circulating before the thieves had left the complex...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (OUMaO)

300 There is one interesting issue.

A lot of the security measures in place probably evolved before the era of cheap battery power tools. Same with stuff like the locks on security gates outside stores, or the "boots" they put on cars -- shit is so easy to cut through nowadays, and that was not true until this century or so.

I bet a lot of museums are rethinking their security since even "bulletproof" glass has to have a steel frame, and that frame is easily cut with a battery angle grinder.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (BLqOI)

301 Oh, and yeah, the British Museum includes art items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. I don't know details about the contents of the Louvre. But, it's probably a good bet that they aren't much different.
Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (dIske)

The Louvre was created by Napoleon to store all the art that he 'acquired' on his military adventures.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (0CU3H)

302 "264 There is video floating around from somewhere in France of these people simultaneously cooking, eating, and raping a lady.
Posted by: heya


Which part of her were they cooking and eating?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 12:54 PM (8pW8Z)"

Limbs.

It cannot be overstated how utterly evil it is to let your society be overrun by barbarians.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (Qa1H2)

303 So, the Louvre's security plan is the same as France's immigration plan: let 'em in, let 'em loot.

Posted by: Sacre Blow at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (qUkBO)

304 280 I need to rewatch "A Shot in the Dark". One of my top 10 comedies
Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (y9ksN)

Decent song by Ozzy too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

305 I was on a plane with my Japanese boss coming back from a business trip. He told me he was going to get another flight when we landed because he had to go the Indiana Police.

I asked him why did he have to see the police before I figured out he was saying Indianapolis.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (EYmYM)

306
At first I thought, why grab these jewels and, as ace said cut them up or pull them off the settings and sell them separately? It's so much work, too much lost value. Why not just rob a jewelry store?

Then I realized. Jewelry stores have security.

Posted by: Thieves locked in a room with Randi Weingarten at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (ldc7S)

307 301 Oh, and yeah, the British Museum includes art items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. I don't know details about the contents of the Louvre. But, it's probably a good bet that they aren't much different.
Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 12:55 PM (dIske)

The Louvre was created by Napoleon to store all the art that he 'acquired' on his military adventures.
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (0CU3H)

So its the French version of the British Museum?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

308 Thief is another good jewel heist movie.

James Caan
Posted by: the way I see it at


Topkapi is like the godfather of them all.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 01:00 PM (mlg/3)

309 280 I need to rewatch "A Shot in the Dark". One of my top 10 comedies
Posted by: Josephistan
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I like that one better than the original Pink Panther movie. Although, I can only take Clouseau in small doses every couple of years or so.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

310 Was the heist during morning muz prayers? Guards might have been facing east.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 01:00 PM (s9EN2)

311 So, a lot of jewelry was stolen. Ummm...okay. Am I supposed to be outraged or what because I find that I just don't care and can't think of a single reason why I should.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80

Jewelry -- all jewelry -- bores the crap out of me. I guess if they're historical artifacts, that makes them more noteworthy than the rest, but I still don't care.

And equating jewels with a piece of one's soul is about the faggiest thing I have ever heard.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

312 "300 There is one interesting issue.

A lot of the security measures in place probably evolved before the era of cheap battery power tools. Same with stuff like the locks on security gates outside stores, or the "boots" they put on cars -- shit is so easy to cut through nowadays, and that was not true until this century or so.

I bet a lot of museums are rethinking their security since even "bulletproof" glass has to have a steel frame, and that frame is easily cut with a battery angle grinder.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 12:58 PM (BLqOI)"

Battery and gas powered tools for crime have been a thing for years.

This is pure DEI incompetence. Reminds me of the credit reporting agency that hired the music major for their head of IT security and a bunch of their hardware was left with the default password on it.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:00 PM (Qa1H2)

313 I have the 'crown jewels' right here *points*

Posted by: Mrs. Macron at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)

314 Edgar Fleury
@EdgarFleuryLDF

What was stolen from the Louvre is not merely a work of art.
It is a fragment of the French soul, torn from our shared memory.
Beauty does not belong to those who possess it,
but to those who respect it, protect it, pass it on.

Every theft, every act of vandalism,
reminds us how fragile culture is when conscience falls asleep.
One does not protect a museum with cameras,
but with a nation that still knows what it owes.

The memory of France is not for sale,
it must be defended like a bord

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (NpAcC)

315 Odds that this was an inside job? 90%.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

316 There has to be a guard whose job it is to see unauthorized approaches to the building perimeter. To the casual passers-by, a manlift at a window does not immediately scream "robbery".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


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Yes, I agree.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (BLqOI)

317 What's the first thought that crosses your mind when you see a manlift at the window of a large building downtown? Contractors? Window washers? Whatever. "Thieves" is waaay down the list.
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But not if you work there. I'm not even in security and the moment I see something that's not "typical" for the building, I get out of my chair and have a look around. Museum security should be more curious than I am.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)

318 280 I need to rewatch "A Shot in the Dark". One of my top 10 comedies
Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (y9ksN)

Me Too! I learned that it was an ordinary, not very good dectective - imitation Agatha Christie script being shopped around, and Blake Edwards read it and thought - wait a minute, what if I stick Clouseau into the middle of this? The result was genius!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (uWKK8)

319 255 Easy to tell. If she doesn't get fired, she's a diversity hire.

In a culture of meritocracy, failure leads to dismissal immediately.

We all know this won't happen
Posted by: Kevin Canuck

I mean, they eventually fired Des Moines schools superintendent "Dr." Ian Roberts, and he was DEFINITELY a diversity hire. A smooth, athletic, "educated" black dude hired by a board 100% comprised of middle-aged frumpy Karens.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (JCZqz)

320 The next National Treasures movie will have Nic Cage stealing the Liberty Bell by backing in a F-150, rolling it in, and puttering off.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (78mYQ)

321 You'd think if someone would be capable of safeguarding some over-the-top jewelry, it would be chicks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (9FEtL)

322 313 I have the 'crown jewels' right here *points*
Posted by: Mrs. Macron at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)


I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!!

Posted by: Candace Owens at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (PiwSw)

323 shouldn't there be a guard who sees this shit role up somehow?
___

"She" was busy in the women's bathroom retucking "her" penis.

Posted by: Sacre Blow at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (qUkBO)

324 At first I thought, why grab these jewels and, as ace said cut them up or pull them off the settings and sell them separately? It's so much work, too much lost value. Why not just rob a jewelry store?

Then I realized. Jewelry stores have security.
Posted by: Thieves locked in a room with Randi Weingarten at October 22, 2025 12:59 PM (ldc7S)

A jewelry store smash and grab happens every other day somewhere in the USA.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (EYmYM)

325 308 Thief is another good jewel heist movie.

James Caan
Posted by: the way I see it at
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Thief sort of takes the real Lufthansa Airport theft as inspiration and applying it to safecracking. What is true in both stories is that the little guys doing the robberies were whacked for insurance after the mob senior types got their hands on the loot.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (WDjG6)

326 The memory of France is not for sale,
it must be defended like a bord
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Here's a thought--perhaps defending *France* might be a good starting point.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)

327 Why ransom them? There are any number of billionaires and Arab potentates who want to own Napoleon's treasure, and occasionally dress a rented supermodel in them while banging her and then taking a dump on her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (BI5O2)

328 Odds that this was an inside job? 90%.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

That would presume the people inside have competence. Revised figure - 45%

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (lonsH)

329 Let us not diss battery-powered tools unnecessarily.

They have their uses; drilling holes for shelving installation, for example.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1)

330 I'm happy the jewels could be put to better use before France submitted to Islam

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 01:03 PM (sT6kc)

331 Thief is a great movie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 01:03 PM (BI5O2)

332 There is video floating around from somewhere in France of these people simultaneously cooking, eating, and raping a lady.

Is this the same as how the Indians used every part of the buffalo?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

333 The guy who directed Pink Panther movies was married to Julie Andrews.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 01:03 PM (Oy/m2)

334 The memory of France is not for sale,
it must be defended like a bord

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Do you have a leesense for that bord?

Posted by: Inspector Clouseau at October 22, 2025 01:03 PM (y9ksN)

335 They stole a piece of France's soul.
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Who will save your soul?

Posted by: Jewel at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (lonsH)

336 Smells like an inside job. They are using these idiots as a smoke screen. Theives knew gallery would not be open. Would not have guards in or nearby. (SMASHING GLASS CASES LOUD) they also knew they would not be bothered by outside patrols. They had somebody in security, or had worked inside long enough to have comms, and know patterns.

Posted by: Not the pink panther but... at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (HI/OC)

337 If a world-famous museum can be robbed in broad daylight… what does that say about the guardians of culture?

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They're Cultural Suicidal Death Cultists.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (uzjGf)

338 And equating jewels with a piece of one's soul is about the faggiest thing I have ever heard.
Posted by: Bulg


Well, to be fair, it IS France.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (Qd7dZ)

339 Maybe someone wants to be king

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (xatjc)

340 Battery and gas powered tools for crime have been a thing for years.

This is pure DEI incompetence. Reminds me of the credit reporting agency that hired the music major for their head of IT security and a bunch of their hardware was left with the default password on it.
Posted by: heya

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Yeah, gas. No one would notice that.

Battery saws and grinders existed as far back as the late 80s (IIRC) but even in the 90s they kind of sucked -- low power and short battery life) Yes, museums had 20, 30 years to react but I am just saying that I bet a lot need to fix a lot of vulnerabilities that did not exist 30 years ago and they did not realize existed until two days ago.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (BLqOI)

341 The guy who directed Pink Panther movies was married to Julie Andrews.
Posted by: dantesed

Blake Edwards

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

342 Easy to tell. If she doesn't get fired, she's a diversity hire.
____

*shifty eyes*
-Kathleen "The Force is Female" Kennedy

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (Dv3i1)

343 When Barron sits on the Throne of Skulls wearing the imperial crown, we will know who was really behind this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

344 A security force should always be told to question any contractor work that they have not been advised of and even then double check.

It’s only been the theft operating procedure in a million movies and real life thefts.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (EYmYM)

345 OT: If someone wanted a preening filibuster, the Senator from Oregon is doing his preening best, looking to beat Corey Booker's preening from earlier this year.

So, ultimately, probably no Senate shutdown votes today...maybe tomorrow...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (tOcjL)

346 The funniest ending to this caper would be Vlad Putin showing up wearing the jewels at a negotiation for the Uke war...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

347 Odds that this was an inside job? 90%.

Like I said earlier, the odds that the woman who ordered the security be reduced on this stuff shows up wearing the stolen items is at least 50%.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (2ocoG)

348 Blake Edwards
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM


The Comedian?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

349 I'll laugh if Melania shows up wearing this stuff.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (BI5O2)

350
I have to have a sales person open the case at a Walgreens to get deodorant, but these guys walk in to the louve and steal crown jewels.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (IifOV)

351 The French revolutionaries murdered their government and stole those jewels.
Perhaps someone was pissed off about that?

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (KtOUo)

352 I mean, they eventually fired Des Moines schools superintendent "Dr." Ian Roberts, and he was DEFINITELY a diversity hire. A smooth, athletic, "educated" black dude hired by a board 100% comprised of middle-aged frumpy Karens.
Posted by: Moron Analyst


I don't think they wanted to fire him, but the arrest and deportation order forced their hand.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (8pW8Z)

353 Did you guys know there was a woman who claimed she was the "real" Jewel Kilcher and that the stage Jewel was an impostor who stole her identity long ago and that all her concerts and performances were specifically designed to rub it in her face? She used to angrily comment on all the YT videos, etc.

People are fucking lunatics. I'm trying to figure out one good reason to ever be famous and it eludes me.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (lonsH)

354 Smells like an inside job. They are using these idiots as a smoke screen.

I suspect this happens a lot.

It wasn't an accident that two incompetent guards where on duty the night that Epstein was killed...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

355 The funniest ending to this caper would be Vlad Putin showing up wearing the jewels at a negotiation for the Uke war...
Posted by: 18-1

Eh. He's got the Romanov crown jewels if he wants them. Crown of Monomakh, etc.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)

356 Maybe someone wants to be king
Posted by: Skip



Has anyone seen Mel Brooks lately?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:06 PM (Qd7dZ)

357 How long until Macron blames a secret cabal of Bonapartist's who are seeking the Third Empire.? No Roi, Oui le Emperor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 01:07 PM (8RjCi)

358 The guy who directed Pink Panther movies was married to Julie Andrews.

Who showed her boobs in a movie and the female head of security is a boob! IT'S ALL RIGHT THERE, SHEEPLE!!

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:07 PM (3nLb4)

359 348 Blake Edwards
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM

The Comedian?
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

the movie director. Not all of his stuff was great, but he had more hits than misses.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8)

360 Straight forward Chicago smash and grab. Took 15 minutes to plan, 5 minutes to perform. High school kids could have pulled this off with zero security.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 01:07 PM (pohLc)

361 353 Did you guys know there was a woman who claimed she was the "real" Jewel Kilcher and that the stage Jewel was an impostor who stole her identity long ago and that all her concerts and performances were specifically designed to rub it in her face? She used to angrily comment on all the YT videos, etc.

People are fucking lunatics. I'm trying to figure out one good reason to ever be famous and it eludes me.
Posted by: ...
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Moths drawn to flames comes to mind.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)

362 "316 There has to be a guard whose job it is to see unauthorized approaches to the building perimeter. To the casual passers-by, a manlift at a window does not immediately scream "robbery".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

Nah. That requires discipline, forethought, and running an effective organization with accountability.

Not something DEI bints are known for.

If you put a cat lady in charge of a group expecting, say, a first world military, what you get instead is an arab military. If that example makes sense.

They are the worse embodiment of the stereotype about people like that having a social/consensus-constructed reality. The security, to them, was real, because it *felt* real, because they were properly ticking off boxes about mandatory sexual harassment training.

If you want a similar example that hits close to home of organizational decay, look at the failed American efforts to train Ukrainian assault brigades. They dicked around with compasses and entry level land-nav exercises, and ran them through 50 year old entry level task shit. When they were asked about drone training, the Americans said they didn't have any, nor the German permits to do so.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:07 PM (Qa1H2)

363 I have the 'crown jewels' right here *points*
Posted by: Mrs. Macron at October 22, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)


Big Mike has entered the chat.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (2ocoG)

364 > Oh, and yeah, the British Museum includes art items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust.

Are you talking about the Feldmann collection? If so, the museum and the heirs reached a settlement and the heirs agreed to let the museum continue to show the art.

There are other items that have unknown provenance and the museum has extended an open invitation to anyone to make a claim if they can.

Some items are known to be looted, but there are no known heirs.

It's messy, but I feel like the museum has done their due diligence to make it right. It's not like people have good claims to Holocaust artifacts and the museum told them to go screw.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

365 Did you guys know there was a woman who claimed she was the "real" Jewel Kilcher and that the stage Jewel was an impostor who stole her identity long ago and that all her concerts and performances were specifically designed to rub it in her face? She used to angrily comment on all the YT videos, etc.

People are fucking lunatics. I'm trying to figure out one good reason to ever be famous and it eludes me.
Posted by: ...



*DNA has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Qd7dZ)

366 sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (ldc7S)

367 Maybe the jewels were stolen by Bonapartists who want to revive the imperial throne. Er, are there any Bonaparte descendants still living?

Posted by: Paco at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (mADJX)

368 This robbery is the result of long term bureaucratic complacency and poor stewardship. The fact that they switched in incompetent female bureaucrats in place of incompetent male ones is of no consequence. It's not like the cranes and chainsaws by which this robbery was effected are recent inventions that should have been taken into account. The Louvre has been open to this type of attack for generations.

Posted by: AMartel at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (otvi3)

369 I bet she got hired for another reason that is very common in America: forget her credentials, expertise, or piffling matters like is she is qualified for the job.

She Knows People.

She did lots of networking for the job, and got it, for that reason and that reason alone.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (pNkJD)

370 Her indian name is Gentle Wind.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (EyfuW)

371 I would bone that Italian PM apart

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (lonsH)

372 I have to have a sales person open the case at a Walgreens to get deodorant, but...
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No offense, but you should move.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (TN0g+)

373 Zee zero sheets—zay are geeven

Posted by: Adieu mon bijoux at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (O/BXV)

374
Louvre's budget: €250 million

Louvre's password: 1234

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John Podesta's password -- "Password" -- is available for reuse!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (uzjGf)

375
OUT: Dindu Nuffin
IN: Du-Nuffin Buffin

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (wtvvX)

376 >>The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art.


What could be more democratic than handing it out to some laborer with an angle grinder?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (BLqOI)

377 "344 A security force should always be told to question any contractor work that they have not been advised of and even then double check.

It’s only been the theft operating procedure in a million movies and real life thefts.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:05 PM (EYmYM)"

It used to take 20 minutes just to get ready to walk 100 yards to go take a shit, in the museum I worked in.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (Qa1H2)

378 DNA has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Qd7dZ)

I believe she claimed it was, get this, a conspiracy.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (lonsH)

379 A single feminist alone could do nothing but a coven of feminists decide nothing could be done.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

380 The denizens of Democratic Underground are Big Mad! about the 'destruction' of the East Wing of the White House in preparation for the Big Beautiful Ballroom.

I hope Big Ballz is invited to the inaugural ball held there.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (0sNs1)

381 I bet she got hired for another reason that is very common in America




Sucking a golf ball through a garden hose.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (Qd7dZ)

382 Dollar General locked up the expensive shampoo.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (sGHnN)

383 Did you guys know there was a woman who claimed she was the "real" Jewel Kilcher and that the stage Jewel was an impostor who stole her identity

Posted by: ...

*DNA has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Qd7dZ)


DNA did the Suzanne Vega remix, not Jewel.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (2ocoG)

384 Apparently Jewel is friends with Ivanka. Performed for a RFK jr event and then later was forced to apologize for it...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (sKqQm)

385 We all know this won't happen
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (/xmMU)

You any relation to Andy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (8zz6B)

386 Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

The only ones I question a bit are the paintings actually sold prior to the war but subsequently claimed they were sold under duress .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (EYmYM)

387 Er, are there any Bonaparte descendants still living?
Posted by: Paco

Probably. One of Nappy I's nephews or great-nephews became Attorney General of the US. He founded the FBI.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

388 Just got a great headline on Newsbreak. "Jogger killed after colliding with Truck". Must have been jogging fast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (8RjCi)

389 C'mon. They don't give a crap about their cultural inheritance. I care even less than they do.

Frogs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 01:11 PM (9ipOP)

390 Apparently Jewel is friends with Ivanka. Performed for a RFK jr event and then later was forced to apologize for it...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (sKqQm)

She also dated Sean Penn for a while after her divorce. Took away any attraction I had for her.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:11 PM (EYmYM)

391 It used to take 20 minutes just to get ready to walk 100 yards to go take a shit, in the museum I worked in.
Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM


Dude. Just dump, smear it on a wall, and get hailed!

Posted by: Modern Artiste at October 22, 2025 01:11 PM (0sNs1)

392 380 The denizens of Democratic Underground are Big Mad! about the 'destruction' of the East Wing of the White House in preparation for the Big Beautiful Ballroom.

I hope Big Ballz is invited to the inaugural ball held there.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (0sNs1)

=======

Expanding the East Wing is evil! Progress must stop! Conserve things as they are!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

393 Has anyone seen Mel Brooks lately?"

It's good to be the king...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 01:11 PM (tubbA)

394 Meanwhile the Dems/media are having a meltdown over "Trump's" ballroom....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (VE6XX)

395 Reminds me of the Secret Service, and Bondi, and Brinson, and Biden. Joy.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (s9EN2)

396 >>>I'm trying to figure out one good reason to ever be famous and it eludes me.

poon

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (Y1sOo)

397 "Yeah, gas. No one would notice that.

Battery saws and grinders existed as far back as the late 80s (IIRC) but even in the 90s they kind of sucked -- low power and short battery life) Yes, museums had 20, 30 years to react but I am just saying that I bet a lot need to fix a lot of vulnerabilities that did not exist 30 years ago and they did not realize existed until two days ago.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:04 PM (BLqOI)"

Doesn't matter if they notice. What are they gonna do? There was no security personnel present in a position to do anything, and the guests aren't going to stop anything.

Not like a battery powered angle grinder going through the bars is quiet either.

As noted I have worked security for museums and other extremely secure sites. 100% it is known this is a thing. There is no excuse, there.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (Qa1H2)

398 I would bone that Italian PM apart

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (lonsH)

Speaking of things that only take 4 minutes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)

399 369 I bet she got hired for another reason that is very common in America: forget her credentials, expertise, or piffling matters like is she is qualified for the job.

She Knows People.

She did lots of networking for the job, and got it, for that reason and that reason alone.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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People getting hired because of patronage networks, regardless of qualifications, has been around as long as civilization.

A good system though weeds out the incompetents before there is a crisis that the incompetent idiot will fail.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (WDjG6)

400 Jewel is one of the top 3 living voices IMO

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (lonsH)

401 387 Er, are there any Bonaparte descendants still living?
Posted by: Paco

Probably. One of Nappy I's nephews or great-nephews became Attorney General of the US. He founded the FBI.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

Actor Rene Auberjonois was the descendant of Napoleon's sister and the King of Naples.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (uWKK8)

402 A good system though weeds out the incompetents before there is a crisis that the incompetent idiot will fail.

Pretty sure that's rayciss.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

403 Donald's pants require big ball room.

Posted by: Trump's Tailor at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (Dv3i1)

404 My daughter is taking a "bright side" attitude about this ...

"It's refreshing to see that these thieves were willing to put in the work to study the situation and then get in there quickly and efficiently and get the job done. That's better than what some people do with their day job. It's nice to know an actual heist can be done in the age of security everywhere."

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (2J/Lj)

405 399 People getting hired because of patronage networks, regardless of qualifications, has been around as long as civilization.

A good system though weeds out the incompetents before there is a crisis that the incompetent idiot will fail.
Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (WDjG6)

========

"I knew a guy who knows security."

vs.

"I know a woman who knows disparate impact on asylum seekers."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

406 My family jewels are, how do you say, intact and well taken care of. Also huge. The ladies, they like to polish them.

Posted by: The Paolo at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (gWBY1)

407 Here is your answer - given security failed, someone must be fired. Rightly so, it should be the head of security, and the dumbo that hired and directed her.

If they are not both immediately fired (and potentially prosecuted for dereliction of duty), then they are obviously DEI hires.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (D1vbu)

408 Dude. Just dump, smear it on a wall, and get hailed!
Posted by: Modern Artiste

Hunter Biden sock opportunity missed.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (77rzZ)

409 I guess French security ignored the very real possibility Muslims might decide such a lift is a perfect vehicle to deliver a very large bomb.

Yeah, I know raycisssss.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (tT6L1)

410 Actor Rene Auberjonois was the descendant of Napoleon's sister and the King of Naples.

They should have had him look like Nappy on DS9. I mean why not he's a shapeshifter...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

411 I watched an early Kubrick heist movie the other day, The Killing, and it was quite good and resembled this incident.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

412 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

You are good man TJM. I never got the impression that I should be mad about this. I hope the thieves live out their lives in luxury.

BTW, can we talk about this Prometheus thing?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM (89Sog)

413 Jewel is one of the top 3 living voices IMO

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (lonsH)

Like nails on a chalkboard crossed with a bleating fawn being eaten by a predator for me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM (i24o9)

414 Dollar General locked up the expensive shampoo.
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Dollar General doesn't sell expensive shampoo.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM (TN0g+)

415 387 Er, are there any Bonaparte descendants still living?
Posted by: Paco

I think the current Napoleonic pretender is an investment banker in London

Posted by: Josephistan at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (y9ksN)

416 Here is your answer - given security failed, someone must be fired. Rightly so, it should be the head of security, and the dumbo that hired and directed her.

I remember after Janet Reno murdered those people at Waco most people agreed she should resign. And then she..."took responsibility" and...just kept her job.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

417 396 >>>I'm trying to figure out one good reason to ever be famous and it eludes me.

poon
Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (Y1sOo)

Seems like the starfuckers would get old pretty quick. But what little ol' starfuckerless me know?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (9FEtL)

418 Speaking of things that only take 4 minutes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)

And might require a lift

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (lonsH)

419 Bear in mind these are the same retards that let other retards throw soup on the Mona Lisa.

Posted by: Window-licking soup-slingers at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (TbWk/)

420 To cheap to have $100,000,000 in jewels insured.
You know, that sounds French.

Posted by: Case at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (9HFDU)

421
FDR tore apart the White House for remodeling, as did Jackie Kennedy. It's been 60 years, time for another remodel.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (IifOV)

422 This pleases me. My residuals will skyrocket!

Posted by: Nick Lowe at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (w9Wax)

423 Rich + Famous < Rich

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (sKqQm)

424 The Louvre heist just makes me want to rewatch the Lupin TV series (which I really liked) and How to Steal a Million.

I think they had more security for the statue in How to Steal a Million than the Louvre had to protect these jewels.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (gWBY1)

425 I believe she claimed it was, get this, a conspiracy.
Posted by: ..

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I had to google Jewel Kitchner. Now I don't know which one is which.

What was that old show where they had 3 people stand in front of panel and say "My name is ....." and they had to convince them they were the real person? Maybe 60s or 70s era game show.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (BLqOI)

426 Like nails on a chalkboard crossed with a bleating fawn being eaten by a predator for me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM (i24o9)

I guess to each their own

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (lonsH)

427 424 I think they had more security for the statue in How to Steal a Million than the Louvre had to protect these jewels.
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (gWBY1)

=======

And it was a forgery!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

428 I would bone that Italian PM apart

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (lonsH)

Speaking of things that only take 4 minutes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


4? Showoff.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (Qd7dZ)

429 They will head to a pawn shop.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (sGHnN)

430 Speaking of things that only take 4 minutes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)

And might require a lift

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:15 PM (lonsH)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (i24o9)

431 I would bone that Italian PM apart

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:09 PM (lonsH)

Speaking of things that only take 4 minutes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)


Remember, in Sweden it's not rape if it's quick, according to a judge there.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

432 You are good man TJM. I never got the impression that I should be mad about this. I hope the thieves live out their lives in luxury.

BTW, can we talk about this Prometheus thing?
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM


Pro Tip: He actually prefers to discuss Alien: Covenant.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (0sNs1)

433 "I knew a guy who knows security."

vs.

"I know a woman who knows disparate impact on asylum seekers."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Rotten ruling elite networks in the West assume that their credentials are fungible and universal. Plus, it seems that nincompoops in office cannot be removed for incompetence because of their identity and politics of the ruling class as well.

So we keep rolling snake eyes because the elites have loaded the dice.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (WDjG6)

434 FDR tore apart the White House for remodeling, as did Jackie Kennedy. It's been 60 years, time for another remodel.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (IifOV)

Non for the people Swimming pools, bowling alleys, tennis courts, putting greens are just a few construction projects over the years.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (EYmYM)

435 As noted I have worked security for museums and other extremely secure sites. 100% it is known this is a thing. There is no excuse, there.
Posted by: heya

-----------
I am not making excuses. And I agree that the vulnerability is obvious and should have been fixed. I am also saying that human nature is such that people refuse to admit security flaws until it slams them in the face.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (BLqOI)

436 From Wiki:

Charles Joseph Bonaparte (/ˈboʊnəpɑːrt/ BOH-nə-part; June 9, 1851 – June 28, 1921) was an American lawyer and political activist of French noble descent who advocated for progressive and liberal causes. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he served in the cabinet of the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt.

He was a descendant of the House of Bonaparte. His grandfather was Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Emperor Napoleon I,[1] and his grandmother was Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte.

Bonaparte was the U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later the U.S. Attorney General.[2] During his tenure as Attorney General, he formed the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI).[3][4] Bonaparte was one of the founders and for a time the president, of the National Municipal League. He was also an activist for the voting rights of black residents of his native city of Baltimore.[5]

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (77rzZ)

437 Harder to get toothpaste in Manhattan than jewels in the Louvre.

Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (qUkBO)

438 > The only ones I question a bit are the paintings actually sold prior to the war but subsequently claimed they were sold under duress .

That's fair. Like I said, it's messy. That sort of thing is hard to prove. Maybe it's sour grapes, or maybe there really was duress.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (Yp6az)

439 It's all guns, boobs and rape gangs with you people.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (lonsH)

440 Dollar General doesn't sell expensive shampoo.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:14 PM

Head & Shoulders with aloe. Duh.

Posted by: Hacksaw Jim at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (IifOV)

441 Pro Tip: He actually prefers to discuss Alien: Covenant.

Rolling Spaceship of Doom vs Stop and Smell the Xenomorph Flowers

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

442 Speaking of woke feminists . . .

One year ago today, Kamala Harris said President Trump has been an "obstacle" to border security.

Today, President Trump has achieved the most secure border in American history.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)

443 Speaking of things that only take 4 minutes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM


Tell us you know about cup sizes without telling us you know about cup sizes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (0sNs1)

444 425 I believe she claimed it was, get this, a conspiracy.
Posted by: ..

--------
I had to google Jewel Kitchner. Now I don't know which one is which.

What was that old show where they had 3 people stand in front of panel and say "My name is ....." and they had to convince them they were the real person? Maybe 60s or 70s era game show.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (BLqOI)

To Tell the Truth

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (wtvvX)

445 FDR tore apart the White House for remodeling, as did Jackie Kennedy. It's been 60 years, time for another remodel.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (IifOV)

in fact the part that Trump is tearing apart was a set of offices added by FDR in the 40's. Real historic.
"BUT ELEANORE ROOSEVELT ONCE WALKED THERE!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (uWKK8)

446 NEW - Louvre security chief Dominique Buffin, the museum’s first female security head, hired last September by the museum's first female director, accused of being a "diversity hire" — Telegraph

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"I'd hit both of those hot babes in a Commie New York Minute!" -- Megan Rappin'hoe

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (uzjGf)

447 Remember, in Sweden it's not rape if it's quick, according to a judge there.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

Second look at Sweden?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (i24o9)

448 "A good system though weeds out the incompetents before there is a crisis that the incompetent idiot will fail.
Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 01:12 PM (WDjG6)"

This is why I called out the credit bureau that had the VP in charge of IT security who was a music major. It was clowns all the way down. You get massive organizational failure when the people whose job it is to hire professionals that know what they're doing, don't. The fundamental failure is that they are too stupid to know they are stupid.

Similar case of failure in IT is the trading firm about 10 years back that shit the bed because they were pushing updates to their trading machines live, via thumb drive (huge red flag), and whose shitty Indian programmers were re-using variables (another huge red flag). They incurred a 9 figure loss in about 20 minutes and ceased to exist.

I can think of two more examples in the last few years - not publicly known - of major national corporations with oxygen-thief heads of IT who got ransomwared and whose backups were never tested. You wanna guess if the backups worked? Anyone?

We mostly don't have good systems anymore. We have cat ladies and Democrats.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (Qa1H2)

449 Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Yp6az)
__________________

Heh...yes, the Rosetta Stone is very British. Oh, wait, no. It's Egyptian. And, let's not forget that when England looted it, they weren't even fighting the Egyptians. They were fighting the French in Egypt, and saw a nice piece of loot.

The British Museum has a little program they are running now. They will temporarily loan looted items back to the countries from which they looted them. But, they all come back to the British Museum eventually.

How about the Benin Bronze statutes looted from what is now Nigeria. Let me ask that another way. How would like if the UK took apart the Lincoln Memorial to display in their museum?

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (dIske)

450 Since Ole Nappy and the Limeys showed us the way,

Trump should run US Military training exercise on Paris and grab all the stuff in the Louvre then on the way back, stop by London and empty out the British Museum-

For The Trump Presidential Library and Fabulous , Just the Best National Classy Art Museum of America.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (gH8ss)

451 Feeling like you've been abandoned? You have. Nood.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (3nLb4)

452 "What I imagine, based on years of study and watching the first four seasons of Leverage, is that the thieves intend to ransom the jewels back to the Louvre."

I think more likely they'll be sold intact to some ultra-rich Arab or Asian who wants them just to say they have them. They won't plan to ever publicly display them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

453 Nood North Carolina.

No relation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (xcxpd)

454 This pleases me. My residuals will skyrocket!
Posted by: Nick Lowe
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Cruel to be kind...

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (TN0g+)

455 Remember, in Sweden it's not rape if it's quick, according to a judge there.

Out: Rape

In: Unpermitted penising

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

456 "I am not making excuses. And I agree that the vulnerability is obvious and should have been fixed. I am also saying that human nature is such that people refuse to admit security flaws until it slams them in the face.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (BLqOI)"

That moment happened so long ago it was done and over with before I started in the industry, and *that* was back before I was 29

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (Qa1H2)

457 Jewel is one of the top 3 living voices IMO

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:13 PM (lonsH)

Jewel who?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (8zz6B)

458 He was also an activist for the voting rights of black residents of his native city of Baltimore.
____

Times were different back then.

Posted by: Yogi Berra at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (Dv3i1)

459 Too cheap to have $100,000,000 in jewels insured.
You know, that sounds French


Some things are simply irreplaceable. You buy insurance so you can re-purchase the item that was insured. Where do you go to replace a one-of-a-kind item?

Posted by: Chuck C at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (0GLZr)

460 They will head to a pawn shop.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 01:17 PM (sGHnN)


$1500's really the best I can do ...

Posted by: Rick Harrison at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (RIfpe)

461 That's fair. Like I said, it's messy. That sort of thing is hard to prove. Maybe it's sour grapes, or maybe there really was duress.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (Yp6az)

I agree with your comment completely.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (EYmYM)

462 think they had more security for the statue in How to Steal a Million than the Louvre had to protect these jewels.
Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:16 PM (gWBY1)

I think there's more security in a Bucees bathroom than they had at that part of the Louvre.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (2J/Lj)

463
Biden built a fake oval office and the media aren't curious as to why.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (IifOV)

464 The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art.

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

There those damn "bourgeois values" again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (uzjGf)

465 It's all guns, boobs and rape gangs with you people.

It's like ICE Capades Prometheus!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (0zUq5)

466 She was hired for her qualifications:

No experience
Has a vagina
Is not white
Hates western civilization
Is a criminal
Has a vagina

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (xvV+O)

467 In: Unpermitted penising
____

You can get permits for that?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (Dv3i1)

468 "439 It's all guns, boobs and rape gangs with you people.
Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 01:18 PM (lonsH)"

Have you traveled much? That's basically like half the planet.

Some time before it was swords, boobs, and rape gangs.

Posted by: heya at October 22, 2025 01:21 PM (Qa1H2)

469 Marion Maréchal is a 1

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (iNp3L)

470 Do they want to have a revolution the easier way or the hardest way?"

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 01:22 PM (EyfuW)

471
How about the Benin Bronze statutes looted from what is now Nigeria. Let me ask that another way. How would like if the UK took apart the Lincoln Memorial to display in their museum?
Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 01:19 PM (dIske)

I agree with you but it was at a time when might made right. Do they have anything they took when they burned DC?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (EYmYM)

472 They will head to a pawn shop.

Hardcore Pawn will offer $50. And a used condom.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (0zUq5)

473 Guards and TV security cameras would spoil the aesthetic of the Louver. Can't have that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (XwyaG)

474 >>> Oh, and yeah, the British Museum includes art items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust.

The movie Woman in Gold was really good, about the work to get back the Klimt painting to its rightful owners after the Nazis took it.

And I love after all the hardships to get it back, she turned around and put it in an American museum! To rub it in the faces of the people that denied her her family's painting, while also making sure future generations can see it.

It's at the Neue Galerie in NYC, and it's stunning in person. Definitely the crown jewel of that museum.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (gWBY1)

475 The British series Hustle has several capers centered around audacious thefts. One is involving one of the Crown Jewels taken out of the Tower for a special exhibit.

Season 2 episode 6 Eye of the Beholder.
Worth watching and available on Prime among other places.
Posted by: whig
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Haven't seen the show, but I have visited the Tower, and exchanged a few words with the Chief Warder. The Beefeaters are not a casual bunch, but all ex-military with long histories and experience.

No doubt 'Hustle' is in the vein of a 'Mission Impossible' style plot, proably a great show, but were there to be an actual confrontation with the Beefeaters, those guys have no sense of humor, and emphatically, the wherewithal to back it up

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 01:23 PM (XeU6L)

476 Perks of fame: free designer bags and clothes, and get into any restaurant whenever you want.

But the cons of modern fame don't outweigh the perks.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (gWBY1)

477 There are a lot of muslim/chinese/East European gangs in Europe. It is kind of funny how it worked out -- they cleaned up their own population and made them civilized, and then opened the doors to any criminal who wanted in.

A couple years ago someone stole a 100kg gold coin (I think it was Canadian Maple Leaf) on display in Germany. That is 220 lbs of gold.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (BLqOI)

478 It's at the Neue Galerie in NYC, and it's stunning in person. Definitely the crown jewel of that museum.
Posted by: LizLem

*takes notes*

Any chance they have DEI running security?

Posted by: Crane Operating Thieves at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (Dv3i1)

479 The head of the Louvre said her mission was to reduce the "elitism" of the Louvre and "democratize" art.
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An unbridled sucess, I would say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 01:25 PM (XeU6L)

480 5 Uh oh. Someone's earnings report mist have sucked. Sudden nosedive in the market that I am on the wrong side of.

Dow is down 0.80%

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at October 22, 2025 01:28 PM (iNp3L)

481 Speaking of theft, their losing the EBT cards and they're not happy.

https://is.gd/Fzp8BRF

Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)

482 hmm. i've gotten an e-mail from a nigerian prince who claims that he has inherited the french crown jewels and needs my help to ship them out of the country.

Posted by: anachronda at October 22, 2025 01:34 PM (sGtp+)

483 459 Some things are simply irreplaceable. You buy insurance so you can re-purchase the item that was insured. Where do you go to replace a one-of-a-kind item?

just hook me up to a 3d printer!

Posted by: chatgpt at October 22, 2025 01:37 PM (sGtp+)

484 Buffin- a medium-sized pudding pastry.

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 01:55 PM (jgmnb)

485 481 Speaking of theft, their losing the EBT cards and they're not happy.

https://is.gd/Fzp8BRF

Possibly the best reaction.

https://is.gd/aJGQ1t
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
-----------------------

Fat. All of them are fat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 02:03 PM (XwyaG)

486 CBD was recently in France.

Coincidence?

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2025 02:05 PM (EaUHc)

487 > Dominique Buffin, the first woman hired as security chief at the Louvre, was chosen for her gender and not her merits

Cherchez la femme.

Posted by: Scott at October 22, 2025 02:14 PM (kmvkg)

488 "Leverage"? This is a poor man's Hustle, available on Tubi.

Particularly great are the wine episode and the head to head duel.

Posted by: MikeN at October 22, 2025 02:20 PM (HVZOH)

489 This isn't complicated. Hire a guy - maybe an ex-Legionnaire who is comfortable with pulling a trigger - give him an MP5 and tell him "shoot anyone who tries to steal this stuff."

Posted by: PabloD at October 22, 2025 02:22 PM (Fswms)

490 The Louvre stole my password!

Now to read the comments to see which you also stole it.

Posted by: Goatweed at October 22, 2025 03:10 PM (jK3NL)

491 I toss this out there, and I may have been beaten to it because of the number of responses [TLDR]:

If it is found that the thieves and their accomplices were Islamic, in the Islamic Republic of France; a) will the investigation continue, b) if the investigation continues will the thieves be arrested if identified, and c) if arrested will the thieves be prosecuted?

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at October 22, 2025 03:16 PM (5JJE/)

492 It's also possible that it was a commissioned theft-- or at least, they'd approached folks about willingness to buy the stuff if successfully stolen. Some billionaire's paramour wearing the stuff occasionally...

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at October 22, 2025 03:18 PM (bmpUL)

493 Were the jewels always on display in bright light in easily broken glass displays or was this a new exhibit from the new director and security chief???
Were the security measures the same for this display if it was a long-running exhibit or did they change and who made the changes???
If this exhibit was always this ass-poorly planned with no regard to security, than all the previous security directors are to blame and incompetent - no one thought to improve. Incompetence is an ever-increasing trend in non-serious societies: it knows no difference in the sexes.

Posted by: ChicagoExPat at October 22, 2025 03:20 PM (xOJ6M)

494 385 We all know this won't happen
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at October 22, 2025 12:53 PM (/xmMU)

You any relation to Andy?
-------------------------
My mother is always saying "Why can't you be more of a moron like Andy Canuck"?

Please don't bring that up, too much pain

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at October 22, 2025 03:29 PM (/xmMU)

495 I'd suspect Putin behind this, given the Napoleon connection. Mother Russia carries a grudge.

Posted by: Nathan at October 22, 2025 04:27 PM (uyP11)

496 Clearly Napoleon should have sold those jewels and kept Louisana.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

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Which Base?

As the Schumer Shutdown drags on, two things have become increasingly clear:
1. This is shaping up to be yet another example of how the party that initiates a shutdown battle rarely wins it.
2. Schumer has thrust the Democrats into a game of "chicken" with the Party's dual bases.

Trump's approval is hanging on and, depending on which polls you choose to examine, a sizable plurality or outright majority of people lay the blame for the shutdown where it belongs: firmly on the Democrats. This is in part because Trump is outmaneuvering Schumer at every turn. Unlike Obama, he isn't being petty with it. He's getting soldiers paid and working to gut Democrat programs while daring the Party to challenge him.

And the Party can't. They might even be right that Trump can't properly move money around like he is (I've read many analyses and there appears to be little agreement as to the limits of this particular gray area), but they can't come out as fighting to make sure soldiers don't get paid. Jeffries can refuse a funding bill to "reopen the government" and Schumer can refuse to back down on his demands, but the Party is unwilling - for now - to sue over Trump's money movements and turf whatever support it has left among normals. Trump has cornered Schumer so far, and Schumer now has the unenviable task of deciding which of his party's bases will be demanding his scalp.

As Ace covered yesterday, outlets are now beginning to report that the Democrats fear their radical far-left base and are terrified at the prospect of capitulating and passing a budget CR. Even their so-called "centrists" are afraid of the monster babies they've spent a generation cultivating, and are terrified to move. But on the other side of the monster babies is the other Democrat base and that base wants - in fact, desperately needs - the Schumer Shutdown to end.

That base is the government itself. Trump's share of the vote in Washington, DC in 2024 was a staggering 60.6% higher than it was in 2016, and an incredible 19.8% higher than it was in 2020 - and it came to a whopping ... 6.47%. Kamala Harris racked up 92.15% of the vote in the nation's capital. The government is not just a Party stronghold, it is likely the Party's most important and far-reaching stronghold. Not everywhere is thoroughly rotten as DC itself, but nonetheless "federal government employee" is a synonym for "Party member," and there are around three million of them. Three million people, virtually all of whom are Party members and, crucially, who work manfully day in and day out on the Party's business. They are the lubricant that the keep the gears of the Democrat gristmill turning at the federal level.

That base is being hung out to dry, and that probably has the Party at least as terrified as the monster babies do. The longer Schumer drags this out, the more damage Trump and his OMB can do. He will win the lawsuits and after the 30-day mark, I expect him to escalate dramatically. Every cut is a Democrat cut. When so many are Party loyalists, you don't even have to be careful with who you fire. As the scythes start cutting the government workforce in ever-greater swathes, the Party hurts more and more. These aren't just loyal members, they are important members.

The Party base in the federal government doesn't merely vote correctly and send twenty bucks to the candidate every four years. Day in and day out, it advances the agenda and the Party's ambitions. It allocates money. It administers programs as the Party wants it to. It implements policy - or refuses to. It punishes enemies and rewards allies. It smooths the road or obstructs it as needed and it does so automatically as the natural daily process. This Party base is vitally important and gets the daily work of the Party done, while the monster babies handle the street-level terrorism.

Schumer cannot have both. Trump is forcing him to choose. Schumer can satisfy the monster babies or he can satisfy the core workaday functionaries who keep the Party's lights on. The only thing that remains to be seen is which one he will choose to placate, and what the Party will offer to the other as it grovels for forgiveness.

My nickel is on ending the shutdown and defending the functional base of Party operations, probably within a week. Time will tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (Qd7dZ)

2 Munkey!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (ySpAZ)

3 Aaaah oooooooooooo!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (yy9ow)

4
ESPONJA!!1!1!!!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)

5 Top 10!

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (TN0g+)

6 Nickles are racist.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (qXnAE)

7 Especially the wooden ones.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:02 AM (sGHnN)

8 Partner went tto.lunch, trying to finish this door hardware

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 11:03 AM (xatjc)

9 I forgot the government was shutdown, thanks for reminding me.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 11:03 AM (xatjc)

10 willowed:

Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.

Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (wiLD4)


I wonder what sort of abuse Merkley heaped on Cruz when Cruz did the same?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:04 AM (rbvCR)

11 Schumer cannot have both. Trump is forcing him to choose. Schumer can satisfy the monster babies [b[or he can satisfy the core workaday functionaries who keep the Party's lights on. The only thing that remains to be seen is which one he will choose to placate, and what the Party will offer to the other as it grovels for forgiveness.



He placates the workaday functionaries. Where's the whackadoodles going to go?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:04 AM (Qd7dZ)

12 Two more weeks and Schumer will own the longest running FedGov shutdown.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

13 2. Schumer has thrust the Democrats into a game of "chicken" with the Party's dual bases.

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

The Satanic Nihilists or The Nihilistic Satanists?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM (08TEw)

14 Great topic that was willowed:

The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?
Posted by: Oddbob

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM (TN0g+)

15 Nickles are racist.

Fucker.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM (ufSfZ)

16 "My nickel is on ending the shutdown and defending the functional base of Party operations, probably within a week. Time will tell."

Yea, I said this yesterday after the splashy news reports that the Democraps really want to end the shutdown but they're scared of their cannibalistic mutant-monster left. I strongly suspect this was a trial balloon to set up a big cave.

The Democraps forgot the First Rule of Monsters: They always turn on their creator.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

17 My nickel is on ending the shutdown and defending the functional base of Party operations, probably within a week.
================
Agree. After all, the Dem leadership has no coherent goal and are acting tactically just because they want to demonstrate "fight". Pretty weird way to fight Trump, by bankrupting your own voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (wiLD4)

18 USPS must not be entirely government.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (sGHnN)

19
Schumer is mainlining by the bushel grilled grey meat burgers topped with processed cheese product still wrapped in plastic about now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (xG4kz)

20 He placates the workaday functionaries. Where's the whackadoodles going to go?
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:04 AM


To the barricades.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (jc0TO)

21 Nickles are racist.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Can you back that up?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

22 That base is being hung out to dry, and that probably has the Party at least as terrified as the monster babies do. The longer Schumer drags this out, the more damage Trump and his OMB can do. He will win the lawsuits and after the 30-day mark, I expect him to escalate dramatically. Every cut is a Democrat cut. When so many are Party loyalists, you don't even have to be careful with who you fire. As the scythes start cutting the government workforce in ever-greater swathes, the Party hurts more and more. These aren't just loyal members, they are important members.

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Democrats have used patronage, knowing the civil service was not non-partisan, for decades.

Republicans didn't use patronage except at the very highest levels, and even then they were compromised by establishment/donor desires.

This has created a target rich environment for someone like Trump who is sick of the federal government's shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

23 Schumer has thrust the Democrats into a game of "chicken" with the Party's dual bases.

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The Satanic Nihilists or The Nihilistic Satanists?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM


Yes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:07 AM (ySpAZ)

24 My youngest has been notified that they have passed their FE exam so one more step accomplished.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 11:07 AM (ExV1e)

25 Nickles are racist.

Fucker.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM


ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (ySpAZ)

26 They might even be right that Trump can't properly move money

Or do anything else. It seems that there are all these new laws that prohibit Trump from doing anything other than sitting in the Oval Office. If dems thought that they had the votes to make his existence illegal, it would be done within the hour.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (99eI0)

27 I suspect he tells the Anarchist Psychopaths to get fucked.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (UnA8+)

28 The Satanic Nihilists or The Nihilistic Satanists?

Splitters!

Posted by: Nihilists of Satan at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)

29 "The government is not just a Party stronghold, it is likely the Party's most important and far-reaching stronghold."

I watched the Fairfax(?) VA school board meeting. Parents were going BALLISTIC over LGBT teachers transing their kids behind their back. I remember thinking most are Federal employees, is Democrats.

Supporting trans issues has been the dumbest political move since Obama taunted Trump with "you'll never be President" at his own roast.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (ciYHQ)

30 My youngest has been notified that they have passed their FE exam so one more step accomplished.

Congratulations!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (99eI0)

31 He's going to drive trains?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:09 AM (sGHnN)

32 And I suspect that Democrats' fear of their base is overblown. I suspect that they somewhat believe it, but I don't think they should.

Incumbency is a very powerful thing, so 99% will survive primary attempts.

The money will end up backing them anyway in a few months when this is forgotten.

Imagine if Schumer had just...avoided the shutdown to begin with, though. We'd be nearly four weeks out from the clean CR passing, and we'd be talking about Trump's ballroom or the effort to get recompense from the DOJ exclusively instead of the shutdown while Vought et al just keep cutting billions in programs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

33 What is an "FE exam?"

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

34 USPS must not be entirely government.
Posted by: Boss Moss


It is but it isn't.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:09 AM (Qd7dZ)

35
Nickles are racist.

Fucker.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM


well played

golf clap

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 11:09 AM (tljrc)

36 FE = Fundamentals of Engineering.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (PMtkd)

37 I've thought the same thing from the beginning. Think the only thing that may have stayed Darth Vought's hand thus far is the looming VA election, but not so sure about that even- after all, if Schumer's shutdown causes the NoVA dems to lose their jobs, would they all blame Trump? (And even if they do, do we really care, may be a case of lose now to win later win they have to move).

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (hlNLQ)

38 FE = Fundamentals of Engineering.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

39 Fuckers of Nickel

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (jc0TO)

40 What is an "FE exam?"
Posted by: Bulg



It the exam that comes before the FI exam.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (Qd7dZ)

41 I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?
Posted by: Oddbob
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM (TN0g+)

Isn't that exactly what a filibuster is? One or more senators takes their allotted turn to speak, and simply doesn't relinquish it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (06Hmj)

42
Tell us about the bathrooms. Will there be grapfruit-scented foaming soap?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Well, I'm glad you asked, Shadout Mapes.

The bathroom facilities will be the Skelatrine. Located at the far end of the fairgounds behind the ziggurat, the Skelatrine will be a large pit filled with the bones of the enemy dead from the Glorious Restoration.

The runoff will be contained in cisterns which, when filled, will be taken by train to cargo vessel bound for the Persian Gulf, where they will be attached to modified heavy-lift Chinooks, and will vent their effluvia onto the Kaaba in Mecca.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (BI5O2)

43 ( bannable words here )

@libsoftiktok 5m
BREAKING: Democrats are planning to launch a “master ICE tracker” to track the locations of ICE agents and operations.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (mlg/3)

44 Which Base?

octal, naturally.

Posted by: anachronda, pdp-11 fanboi at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (sGtp+)

45 So a Night of the Long Knives is required. This is gonna be GREAT!

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (jFCkp)

46 You forgot #3: The Federal government can shut down, and hardly anyone notices.

Posted by: Daniel Simpson Day at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (aZoCk)

47 Whenever the shutdown ends the media will declare victory for Schumer and the stupid TACO meme will reappear.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (kTd/k)

48 Rank in order of heinousness:

Tattoo of Totenkopf

Tattoo of Adolph Hitler

Tattoo of Goblinoid Fauci

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

49 USPS must not be entirely government.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Last I knew they were supposed to be self-supporting.

So what you pay for postage and whatnot directly funds USPS operations, rather than being sent to the feds, having some bureaucrat take their cut and them dole a pittance back out for operations.

But I don't know if that's actually the case or if I'm imagining it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (a+4eV)

50 So a Night of the Long Knives is required. This is gonna be GREAT!
Posted by: Pudinhead

A regular Rohm-com.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

51 It the exam that comes before the FI exam.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire


Masters of Trade pass the FU exam.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (mlg/3)

52 To speculate an answer to my own question, I can see the Majority Leader going through the roll with every R member saying "Nope, I got nuthin'" and every D member repeating Merkely's act. So it could theoretically take days or weeks to get through. But it would be fun to make them have to put in the effort.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (3nLb4)

53 Rank in order of heinousness:

Tattoo of Totenkopf

Tattoo of Adolph Hitler

Tattoo of Goblinoid Fauci
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM



How dare you!

Posted by: Greta on a Shelf at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (jc0TO)

54 To me, FE exam always meant Flight Engineer.

I took that test in 1989 and passed with a perfect one hundred percent score.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (Y1sOo)

55 42 The runoff will be contained in cisterns which, when filled, will be taken by train to cargo vessel bound for the Persian Gulf, where they will be attached to modified heavy-lift Chinooks, and will vent their effluvia onto the Kaaba in Mecca.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 11:11 AM (BI5O2)

Dabiq must also be defiled.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (UnA8+)

56 I went in to mail a small priority box and almost fell over when they said, "That'll be $12.60."

Then I asked how much a stamp costs and it was $.78 for one.

Ho-lee-shit.

WTF happened?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 11:13 AM (PMtkd)

57 42 The runoff will be contained in cisterns which, when filled, will be taken by train to cargo vessel bound for the Persian Gulf, where they will be attached to modified heavy-lift Chinooks, and will vent their effluvia onto the Kaaba in Mecca.

so... no dignity canals?

Posted by: anachronda at October 22, 2025 11:13 AM (sGtp+)

58 Schumer cannot have both. Trump is forcing him to choose. Schumer can satisfy the monster babies or he can satisfy the core workaday functionaries who keep the Party's lights on. The only thing that remains to be seen is which one he will choose to placate, and what the Party will offer to the other as it grovels for forgiveness.

I agree, but I still think the old timers have to come to grips with the fact that their day is over, and that is a hard pill to swallow. It's like the Kaiser's minions resenting the takeover by the gutter trash in the 1930s.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

59 So a Night of the Long Knives is required. This is gonna be GREAT!
Posted by: Pudinhead

A regular Rohm-com.
Posted by: Bulg


Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:13 AM (Qd7dZ)

60 I'm curious who y'all think . . .

Which donk senators change their votes?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 22, 2025 11:13 AM (8AONa)

61 I went in to mail a small priority box and almost fell over when they said, "That'll be $12.60."

Then I asked how much a stamp costs and it was $.78 for one.

Ho-lee-shit.

WTF happened?
Posted by: Seems Legit



Pensions.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (Qd7dZ)

62 I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?
Posted by: Oddbob
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:05 AM (TN0g+)


I assume that he sees more value in the government remaining shut down by the Democrat's hand than having it opened.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

63 Another note that I think supports the analysis- the brownshirts are, and always have been, disposable useful idiots. The dems have to know that once power is seized, they have to be neutralized, and I'm sure they'd do so ala Beria. Also, idiots are a dime a dozen, they can just re-stock later.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (hlNLQ)

64 Last I knew they were supposed to be self-supporting.

So what you pay for postage and whatnot directly funds USPS operations, rather than being sent to the feds, having some bureaucrat take their cut and them dole a pittance back out for operations.

But I don't know if that's actually the case or if I'm imagining it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (a+4eV)

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You are correct. USPS employees are NF (non-appropriated funds) rather than GS.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (DRSnL)

65 I thought FE = Iron?

Posted by: Daniel Simpson Day at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (aZoCk)

66 The Democraps forgot the First Rule of Monsters: They always turn on their creator.

"Do not call up that which you cannot put down."

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Joseph Curwen at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (ufSfZ)

67 Isn't that exactly what a filibuster is? One or more senators takes their allotted turn to speak, and simply doesn't relinquish it?

Yes, but the Leader could make them actually do it instead of just threatening to do it.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (3nLb4)

68 after all, if Schumer's shutdown causes the NoVA dems to lose their jobs, would they all blame Trump?

The will. It's absurd, but I guarantee you that they will.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

69 Archimedes

The old timers were the corrupt, semi-reasonable ones.

New ones are more radical. Sanders an exception.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 11:15 AM (u82oZ)

70 Then I asked how much a stamp costs and it was $.78 for one.

Ho-lee-shit.

WTF happened?
Posted by: Seems Legit


As brilliant as the "forever" stamps are, in terms of convenience and not having to think about how much postage is, and the part where the ones you bought ten years ago increase in value over time...

They have made it very easy to the USPS to raise rates with nobody notcing.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:16 AM (a+4eV)

71 Beef prices are on the menu. DJT has proposed easing import regulations and tariffs to increase the supply of beef for retailers. Big Ag is miffed, stating that drought and screwworm expansion is the cause of domestic price increases.

I think increasing beef imports is a helluva good idea. We can't control the weather, why should the consumers bear the burden? The screwworm problem is far more serious and requires immediate action. There is a call for another sterilized fly facility on US soil. With the cattle imports (not the beef) closed due to screwworm expansion (diseased cattle have been found on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border), screwworm expansion into the US would be a crisis for US large animals and humans. The 'experts' say it would take 3 YEARS to build the sterilized fly facility. I'd get the Army Corps of Engineers involved if necessary. If emergency funding is unavailable, dump it on the Democrats.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:16 AM (rj6Yv)

72 It’s funny…. In my life I can’t tell the govt is “shut down” except for occasional mutterings at work that our govt customer counterparts are on furlough (which means a useless meeting is cancelled). It’s most instructive to see just how unneeded all the govt is….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 22, 2025 11:16 AM (WnEm5)

73 Yes; Thanks for the anniversary photo of Trump working at the McDonald's. That was a nice reminder!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 11:16 AM (ix8EF)

74 Which donk senators change their votes?
Posted by: 2009Refugee
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Those that plan to retire after this term like Shaheen (Durbin, Peters, Smith) and most vulnerable Democrats Ossoff.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

75 Isn't that exactly what a filibuster is? One or more senators takes their allotted turn to speak, and simply doesn't relinquish it?



Do they have allotted times? I thought they spoke until they could no longer speak or had to stop, and if they did, they were done.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:17 AM (Qd7dZ)

76 68- I agree, but they were going to vote 90% that way anyway, although I suppose it could drive up turn out.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:17 AM (hlNLQ)

77 Archimedes

The old timers were the corrupt, semi-reasonable ones.

New ones are more radical. Sanders an exception.


Agreed. That's why they don't want the SA taking over. If the entire system gets overturned, they lose their power, prestige, and money.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

78 ‘sizable plurality or outright majority of people lay the blame for the shutdown where it belongs: firmly on the Democrats. ‘

This is where the hokey sombrero meme (and the democrats’ reaction to it) comes into play.
It forces anyone not already locked into a side to ask whether there is anything to Trump’s charge that Schumer shut down the government in order to give money to illegal aliens.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

79 What is an "FE exam?"
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)


Fundamentals of Engineering. It is the professional exam which covers broad aspects of engineering and passing it is required to become an engineer-in-training. Next comes the area specific exam, in their case civil, to get their license as a Professional Engineer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (ExV1e)

80 FenelonSpoke

Trump makes Horatio Alger a slacker.
McDonalds, Garbage truck guy to President.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (u82oZ)

81 But I suppose that wouldn't be in The Spirit of Comity which Senators value more than pretty much anything. Certainly more than they value we mere citizens.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (3nLb4)

82 Can they take turns in a filibuster?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (sGHnN)

83 76 68- I agree, but they were going to vote 90% that way anyway, although I suppose it could drive up turn out.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:17 AM (hlNLQ)

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I suspect most are super voters who turn out no matter what.

Dispersing just 40,000-80,000 of them across the country because they can't find jobs in the DC Metro area will have material affects on things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

84 Beef prices are on the menu. DJT has proposed easing import regulations and tariffs to increase the supply of beef for retailers. Big Ag is miffed, stating that drought and screwworm expansion is the cause of domestic price increases.



Ok. Fine. But that doesn't change the fact that prices will be screwed for at least a year from of a calf born yesterday.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:19 AM (Qd7dZ)

85 There was a reason the SA got the long knives at a certain point. It may be too late for the Democrats.

The lesson of Gollum is lost on them.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 22, 2025 11:19 AM (OUMaO)

86 Is the filibuster just political theater? Does it change people's minds? Does the delay make a difference?

Can you give examples of filibusters that "worked?"

Sincere question.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 11:19 AM (PMtkd)

87 But I suppose that wouldn't be in The Spirit of Comity which Senators value more than pretty much anything. Certainly more than they value we mere citizens.

I would so love it if they'd stop with the "my friend across the aisle" horses*** and just refer to them as "that syphilitic imbecile over there".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

88 72 It’s funny…. In my life I can’t tell the govt is “shut down” except for occasional mutterings at work that our govt customer counterparts are on furlough (which means a useless meeting is cancelled). It’s most instructive to see just how unneeded all the govt is….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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That is the real danger for Democrats. The longer the shutdown lasts without resolution and no disasters occur, then the higher the risk that people see many government workers as not essential to peace and prosperity.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (WDjG6)

89 Wait, is a filibuster about using the time to bribe the wobbly senators?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (PMtkd)

90 MSNBC: Half of Americans are blaming Republicans for the government shutdown, according to new Reuters/IPSOS polling. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

43% blame Democrats. The fact that it's only a 7 point difference shows the power of MAGA's propaganda machine.

They also want to actively destroy the government a la Project 2025, so a shutdown aligns highly with their motives. 

they have the majority, so it's their responsibility to write up a bill that gets enough votes. Republicans are failing at their job. They are hell bent on destroying the economy and killing USA citizens and that's not getting them enough votes.

It clicked for me when I realized the Civil War never really ended, it just moved from the battlefield to the core of federal government. This is the confederacy.

They actually have enough votes to pass a bill using the Nuclear option. They just dont want to open the Government.

While that is simple fact, it is actually notable that the Musk-Murdoch-Rogan propaganda machine is failing to confuse Americans out of that fact, like they have so many times in the past.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (JCZqz)

91 Godzilla, we turn our lonely eyes to you.
Please smash DC.

He is currently f-ing up Tokyo on TCM.
Monster day today on that channel.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (ufFY8)

92 I got some good news today after the collision I experienced. The insurance company (lady's that hit me) direct deposited money for me waiving a rental car. Neighbor has an old bomb I can use for short errands and even with insurance hoofing the bill a rental was a hassle. The knackerman is hauling off the KIA carcass in the next couple days, the insurance verifies no liens on the title, and I get another check deposited for the car. I have no complaints with her insurance company.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (gm9Sb)

93 82 Can they take turns in a filibuster?

tag team? off the ropes?

Posted by: anachronda at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (sGtp+)

94 If the Schumer crowd fear the hard leftists in their party, we need to keep an eye on them too. Each morning here lately I read yet another Marxist oriented professor essentially calling for a race/economic/religious war. The best thing Schumer can do for the country now it get these people out. But that is probably too out of character for him.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (2WIwB)

95 Beef prices are on the menu. DJT has proposed easing import regulations and tariffs to increase the supply of beef for retailers.

See, I'm with Big Ag on this.

We want American producers to be able to make money. If they make money, they expand their operations (or save for the inevitable down turn). If they expand their operations, the supply increases and prices go down. If beef stays expensive, demand drops and prices go down.

It will fix itself.

The government needs to stop interfering in ways that will destroy American ag industries.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (a+4eV)

96 Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 11:18 AM (u82oZ

LOL. I don't know if he came up with the idea or someone else did -as a response Biden calling Trump supporters garbage - but it was brilliant.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (ix8EF)

97 Ok. Fine. But that doesn't change the fact that prices will be screwed for at least a year from of a calf born yesterday.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:19 AM (Qd7dZ)

That's for domestic production. DJT wants to increase beef imports. Australia, Brazil, and Argentina, for instance.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (rj6Yv)

98 During a FedGov "shutdown" services deemed "essential" remain funded and open/in operation.

The USPS is a quasi-federal entity and almost always is considered essential. Debatable, but that's the situation with it.

Other essential activities include the National Weather Service, FAA air traffic controllers, some FDA stuff related to foods and so on. The automated stuff like social security payments and some welfare will continue as well.

After 60 days of shutdown I think things start to "get real."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

99 11
‘ Where's the whackadoodles going to go?’

To the NY Senate primary voting booth.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (jbnUc)

100 90
They also want to actively destroy the government a la Project 2025, so a shutdown aligns highly with their motives.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (JCZqz)

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Oh, look. A leftist who has discovered that the right hahtes the federal government and wants to see it shrink.

Give him a prize.

Perhaps Schumer should end the shutdown and prevent anymore destruction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

101 Can they take turns in a filibuster?

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Like a tag match in wrestling?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (RR3DO)

102 And New Zealand.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (sGHnN)

103 He placates the workaday functionaries. Where's the whackadoodles going to go?
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:04 AM (Qd7dZ)


He gets to stand aside and watch while the whackadoodles and their enablers get rolled up and get called a traitor and a turncoat by what used to be his base.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (rbvCR)

104 It clicked for me when I realized the Civil War never really ended, it just moved from the battlefield to the core of federal government. This is the confederacy.

Remind me which party freed the slaves.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

105 I thought New Zealand was only full of real men and sheep that knew it personally. Do they have cattle too?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:23 AM (hlNLQ)

106 See, I'm with Big Ag on this.

We want American producers to be able to make money. If they make money, they expand their operations (or save for the inevitable down turn). If they expand their operations, the supply increases and prices go down. If beef stays expensive, demand drops and prices go down.

It will fix itself.

The government needs to stop interfering in ways that will destroy American ag industries.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:21 AM (a+4eV)

Big Ag sez they can't fix the problem because of drought and the screwworm threat. Those are existential threats outside of capital investments.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:23 AM (rj6Yv)

107 Can you give examples of filibusters that "worked?"

Sincere question.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 11:19 AM (PMtkd)


IIRC, a filibuster of one of FDR's SCOTUS nominees gave the opposition time to dig up enough dirt to get them to withdraw.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 11:23 AM (ExV1e)

108 86 Is the filibuster just political theater? Does it change people's minds? Does the delay make a difference?

Can you give examples of filibusters that "worked?"

Sincere question.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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Cloture was created in 1917 as prior to that, the Senate had unlimited debate. If I recall correctly, the Armed Ships Bill going down to defeat was the proximate cause of the rule change.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)

109 The knackerman is hauling off the KIA carcass in the next couple days, the insurance verifies no liens on the title, and I get another check deposited for the car.
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Are you aware that KIA stands for Killed In Action?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 11:23 AM (jFCkp)

110 104 It clicked for me when I realized the Civil War never really ended, it just moved from the battlefield to the core of federal government. This is the confederacy.

Remind me which party freed the slaves.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

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Eh, tensions around the proper scope of government, a question that's always up but especially in America, is as old as the taxation to pay for the French and Indian War.

Dude just has to make it...Republicans want slaves. Because braindead leftist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

111 Filibuster < filled bustier

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 22, 2025 11:24 AM (RR3DO)

112 Mr Mannix, great work.

You described the warts on the monster really well.

But really i don't care how small the creature's dick is.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 11:25 AM (EyfuW)

113 The USPS is a quasi-federal entity and almost always is considered essential. Debatable, but that's the situation with it.

Oh no! I might not get my begging letters from politicians and charities I donated to, once, 20 years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 22, 2025 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

114 New Zealand got into cattle by accident. Dairy cows. Perfect climate for cows year round. Water everything. Then they learned you could do beef cows on purpose.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:25 AM (sGHnN)

115 Mexican farmers might be more amenable to a free market for agricultural products than US farmers.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 11:26 AM (GPa4z)

116 109 Heh. Heard that at least once a week for the thirteen years I had the car.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 11:26 AM (gm9Sb)

117 IIRC, a filibuster of one of FDR's SCOTUS nominees gave the opposition time to dig up enough dirt to get them to withdraw.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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LBJ's twin nominations of Abe Fortas for chief justice (from his associate justice seat) and Homer Thornberry to replace Fortas. Fortas went down because he took money from a foundation on the down low that had business before Scotus plus Southern Democrats did not want him on the court so a combination of GOP senators looking for a win in 1968 for Nixon and Southern Democrats who wanted an end to the Warren Court liberalism combined to block Fortas. Fortas eventually had to resign his seat and Nixon got his first two picks for Scotus--Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

118 Who is not passing the government funding bill approved in the House?

That’s who is to blame for the government shutdown.

Whether the reason not to pass it is justified or not is the real question .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (EYmYM)

119 Oh no! I might not get my begging letters from politicians and charities I donated to, once, 20 years ago.
Posted by: Archimedes

THAT WOULD BE A CATASTROPHE!!!!

Posted by: Uniparty Grifterd controlling the National levers of power at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (JCZqz)

120 Trump makes Horatio Alger a slacker.
McDonalds, Garbage truck guy to President.


Alger's books are interesting pulp trash. The most famous series was called Luck and Pluck, and its heroes are what we generally think of as the typical Alger rags-to-riches story.

Almost always, however, no matter how industrious the hero is and no matter how upstanding and manly, he only gets up on to the ladder of prosperity by luck - saving a rich man's child, foiling a bank robbery, and so on.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (ufSfZ)

121 Filibuster

Hey wait, how did you get a less-than sign without Minx mistaking it for a tag? Maybe Pixy smartened up the filters. Cool.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (3nLb4)

122 Hey MPPP- haven't seen you here in awhile- maybe I just missed you, but if not, welcome home!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (hlNLQ)

123 Big Ag sez they can't fix the problem because of drought and the screwworm threat. Those are existential threats outside of capital investments.
Posted by: mrp


Drought will fix itself in a couple of years maybe. Unless you want to get the government cloud-seeders in on the action of course.

Drought means that feed is more expensive, but drought doesn't happen everywhere all at the same time. Somebody somewhere is growing food that should be available for sale.

Assuming they're not shipping it to China. The number of feed warehouses with Chinese writing all over them in Central Washington does not fill me with hope in that regard.

As far as screwworm... that's the USDA's job.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (a+4eV)

124 Filibuster
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 22, 2025 11:24 AM


Drindl über alles!

Posted by: You Know Who at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (0sNs1)

125 The issue with FDR and Congress was the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 which aimed at packing the courts. Roosevelt's legislative initiative ultimately failed.

"Henry F. Ashurst, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held up the bill by delaying hearings in the committee, saying, "No haste, no hurry, no waste, no worry—that is the motto of this committee." As a result of his delaying efforts, the bill was held in committee for 165 days, and opponents of the bill credited Ashurst as instrumental in its defeat. The bill was further undermined by the untimely death of its chief advocate in the U.S. Senate, Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson." from wiki

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6)

126 118 Who is not passing the government funding bill approved in the House?

That’s who is to blame for the government shutdown.

Whether the reason not to pass it is justified or not is the real question .
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (EYmYM)

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Most polls on this issue ultimately just come down to confirmation bias tied up with partisanship.

"The other guys are to blame, not my guys."

With some minor fluctuation about which party gets the majority blame because of a variety of reasons.

Heck, an internal Dem poll leaked. "Republicans are being blamed more than Democrats!" By 1%.

This even-handed blame ends up being an actual outright failure on the part of the aggressors, those trying to make a political point of it to begin with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

127 See, I'm with Big Ag on this.

We want American producers to be able to make money.
If they make money, they expand their operations (or save for the inevitable down turn). If they expand their operations, the supply increases and prices go down. If beef stays expensive, demand drops and prices go down.

It will fix itself.

The government needs to stop interfering in ways that will destroy American ag industries.
Posted by: FeatherBlade



They aren't the ones making money though.
Live cattle prices are $2.42/lb.

Ribeyes are going for $18.98 at Sam's.
Someone in the middle is making a killing.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (Qd7dZ)

128 Hah. Not so cool. OK, AW, spill the secret.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (3nLb4)

129 And New Zealand.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (sGHnN)

No beef imports from Canada? It's right there, and I live in the middle of cow country. You can truck 'em in live to the packing plants.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 11:30 AM (8zz6B)

130 Ribeyes are $21/lb here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:31 AM (sGHnN)

131 You described the warts on the monster really well.
Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 11:25 AM


For her pleasure, of course.

Posted by: The Monster at October 22, 2025 11:31 AM (0sNs1)

132 But hey, if you want the government to do the US beef industry what they did to the US sheep industry in the mid 20th century, be my guest.

Then we can import all our meat from other countries.

That'll be safe.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:31 AM (a+4eV)

133 Is there a deal with Canadia yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:32 AM (sGHnN)

134 Mexican farmers might be more amenable to a free market for agricultural products than US farmers.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 22, 2025 11:26 AM (GPa4z)
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Mexico exported over 1,000,000 (live) cattle annually to the US before the screwworm crisis. Now, the border is closed to cattle importation due to the crisis. No wonder prices are going up. It's my understanding that the majority of cattle from Mexico are calves sent to El Norte feedlots.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:32 AM (rj6Yv)

135 They also want to actively destroy the government a la Project 2025, so a shutdown aligns highly with their motives.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 11:20 AM (JCZqz)
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It's incredible to me that these DU scabs seem to be obsessed political junkies that keep up all the Current Things, and some seem semi-intelligent, but they seem to think conservatives only very recently decided that big government is bad. I mean, that's only been a prime directive for the right for 100 years.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

136 Thx Joe.
I really , really , really feel bad for Schumer and his Dem geriatrics. A defenestration of the oldsters would make me feel much better. Then on to watching the commies, Antifa, BLM, Social Democrats etc rip each other apart

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 11:32 AM (8RjCi)

137 115 Mexican farmers might be more amenable to a free market for agricultural products than US farmers.
Posted by: Oglebay

Depends on the crop we are discussing. Produce often benefits Mexican producers especially during winter months in the states because of frost. Mexico though has never really been much of a row crop farming hotbed in crops like corn, wheat, etc. IIRC, Mexico has a high tariff on corn because it wants to maintain a domestic supply of such as a key to tortillas and other derivative food.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)

138 440 lbs on average per beef carcass. Meat that is.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:33 AM (sGHnN)

139 135 It's incredible to me that these DU scabs seem to be obsessed political junkies that keep up all the Current Things, and some seem semi-intelligent, but they seem to think conservatives only very recently decided that big government is bad. I mean, that's only been a prime directive for the right for 100 years.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 22, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

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"It's a huge secret! Republicans want to shrink the size of government!"

"Yeah, Mitt Romney lied about that, too. He said it to Republicans to get the Republican nomination in 2012."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

140 Hey MPPP- haven't seen you here in awhile- maybe I just missed you, but if not, welcome home!
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (hlNLQ)


Thank you!

I'm around on Tuesdays and Wednesdays because I work those days. I have to work this Friday morning, so I'll be around for a bit then.

Hope you have a lovely day!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

141 Talk about bad timing. JPMorgan officially opened its new, $3B HQ in Nuuu York City yesterday, just in time for Mamdani to destroy it lol.

Ooops. Oooopsie.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM (PGEno)

142 Mexico exported over 1,000,000 (live) cattle annually to the US before the screwworm crisis. Now, the border is closed to cattle importation due to the crisis.

If they wanted to continue exporting to us, they should have controlled their pests better.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM (a+4eV)

143 I have noticed fewer cattle trucks going by and a feed lot a few miles away has been pretty empty. Stockmen holding out for highest price or just hanging it up and getting out of the business?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM (gm9Sb)

144 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

Partisanship rarely has a basis in logic.

If a Republican Senate didn’t vote to pass a funding bill that had 100% medical coverage for transitions and it shut down the government , I would say the Republicans shut down the government but rightly so.

Of course the Dems can’t do that here because they shut it down to continue funding illegal aliens so they just illogically claim the Republicans shut it down.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:35 AM (EYmYM)

145 Romney killed KayBee Toys. Corporate Raidering.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:35 AM (sGHnN)

146 ... and what the Party will offer to the other as it grovels for forgiveness.

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"FREE Monster Cybertrucks for ALL Monster Babies!

Wait, that'll make Musk even RICHER -- Crap, Scratch That ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 11:35 AM (zQlkF)

147 I suspect that Trump might wait until after the upcoming Governor's elections to really do major personal cuts, if the shutdown lasts that long. I can see it harming Spears' campaign if he does too much before hand.

I'm not sure that Schumer is ever going to cave - this may have become a pure suicide mission for him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:35 AM (uWKK8)

148 you too!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:36 AM (hlNLQ)

149 It's incredible to me that these DU scabs seem to be obsessed political junkies that keep up all the Current Things, and some seem semi-intelligent, but they seem to think conservatives only very recently decided that big government is bad. I mean, that's only been a prime directive for the right for 100 years.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Conservatives to them are non-persons not worth discussing much or you might risk contamination. Politics to leftists is akin to religion, on the right, it is more transactional for most.

So it would be similar to evangelists spending their time discussing Islamic doctrine rather than preaching about their own values.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

150 If they wanted to continue exporting to us, they should have controlled their pests better.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM (a+4eV)

That's the story of immigration in general, ain't it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:36 AM (uWKK8)

151 At this point, a big bargaining chip is the back pay for those actually furloughed.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 11:36 AM (W7XSX)

152 I have noticed fewer cattle trucks going by and a feed lot a few miles away has been pretty empty. Stockmen holding out for highest price or just hanging it up and getting out of the business?
Posted by: bill in arkansas


Possible slowdown due to time of year. Calves are usually born in spring and go to market at 1 year.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:37 AM (Qd7dZ)

153 144 Partisanship rarely has a basis in logic.

If a Republican Senate didn’t vote to pass a funding bill that had 100% medical coverage for transitions and it shut down the government , I would say the Republicans shut down the government but rightly so.

Of course the Dems can’t do that here because they shut it down to continue funding illegal aliens so they just illogically claim the Republicans shut it down.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:35 AM (EYmYM)

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I only note that this shutdown is just following normal partisan lines. A lot like the 2019 shutdown.

It's not the 2013 shutdown that Democrats were able to use the media successfully to get even a large section of Republican voters to blame the GOP for.

Which provides the GOP with no incentive to bend or break, especially when the head of the party is head of the executive branch and wants to maximize the effects in ways that hurt his political opposition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

154 Talk about bad timing. JPMorgan officially opened its new, $3B HQ in Nuuu York City yesterday, just in time for Mamdani to destroy it lol.

Ooops. Oooopsie.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM

Can't wait until they tax the ever-loving shit out of that.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 11:37 AM (ewjUl)

155 I've always thought that in the end-

It's the Democrats who have to go nuclear on the monster babies, dispense hickory shampoos, and lock them up for a long long time.

Why?

They're murdering the Dims politically with the normals, and will start murdering insufficiently radical Democrats to "motivate " them.


Deep blue shitholes like Portland, Chicago will be begging for Trump to send in the NG.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (gH8ss)

156 Possible slowdown due to time of year. Calves are usually born in spring and go to market at 1 year.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:37 AM (Qd7dZ)

The calve and calvenots.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (ewjUl)

157 I have noticed fewer cattle trucks going by and a feed lot a few miles away has been pretty empty. Stockmen holding out for highest price or just hanging it up and getting out of the business?

Posted by: bill in arkansas,

My cattle rancher neighbor sold off a good chunk of his herd. Drought and cost of feed. He keeps just enough to maintain ag exemption on land.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (F2xQR)

158 Yes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:07 AM (ySpAZ)

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Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (zQlkF)

159 138 440 lbs on average per beef carcass. Meat that is.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:33 AM (sGHnN)

I saw one of those on a motorized scooter in Walmart yesterday.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK8)

160 If they wanted to continue exporting to us, they should have controlled their pests better.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:34 AM (a+4eV)

Before the sterile fly project in Central America, screwworm infestation was endemic in the US. Those little flies have wings, they don't need no stinkin' green cards.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (rj6Yv)

161 90
‘ They are hell bent on destroying the economy and killing USA citizens’

Just some of them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

162 I’m sure the climate activists also have had their had in trying to destroy the cattle industry.

Corn fed beef would be less expensive if not for ethanol. Unfortunately farmers like their subsidies.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (EYmYM)

163 They aren't the ones making money though.
Live cattle prices are $2.42/lb.

Ribeyes are going for $18.98 at Sam's.
Someone in the middle is making a killing.
Posted by: rickb223


I bet that's because the packing plants can't use foreign slave labor anymore and haven't figured out how to change their operations model yet.

I'm not sure importing fresh beef from other countries will solve that... Hopefully the threat will be incentive enough.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (a+4eV)

164 Flies stop screw worms?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:39 AM (sGHnN)

165 155 They're murdering the Dims politically with the normals, and will start murdering insufficiently radical Democrats to "motivate " them.


Deep blue shitholes like Portland, Chicago will be begging for Trump to send in the NG.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (gH8ss)

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If Section 2 of the VRA gets struck down, Democrats will enter into a deathmatch between their radicals and more moderate members.

Democrats would have to win the "popular House vote" by about 7 points to get a majority in the House based on the current partisan makeup of the country.

They're...really concentrated both in cities and across about a dozen states.

If they can never get a trifecta again, no matter what happens in the Senate and the Presidency, they have to change...somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

166 I agree, but I still think the old timers have to come to grips with the fact that their day is over, and that is a hard pill to swallow.

"I work for the people!"
"OK, grandpa. Take your pills and sit here so you can watch Matlock."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 11:40 AM (99eI0)

167 MATLOCK!

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

168 Every few months some people set up a huge tent at the local mall parking lot, selling "rib eyes" at ridiculously low prices. So low I think they might be the folks that clean up after a zoo tragedy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 11:41 AM (gm9Sb)

169 Splitters!

Posted by: Nihilists of Satan at October 22, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)

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Well-played and -socked, toby!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 11:41 AM (zQlkF)

170 I don't think ethanol is necessary anymore. Shale oil expanded.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:41 AM (sGHnN)

171 Calves are usually born in spring and go to market at 1 year.
Posted by: rickb223


A bunch of the ranchers in this area have gone to fall calving.

But I'm not sure how that affects the timing of taking them to market.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:41 AM (a+4eV)

172 Two weeks for the shutdown record?
Let's go for 3 at least

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 11:42 AM (xatjc)

173 A bunch of the ranchers in this area have gone to fall calving.

How do they get the cows to go along with that?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:42 AM (jc0TO)

174 To hell with a CR.

Why - for YRS - haven't the American people been pounded with the "Impact of Key Provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 COVID-19 Relief on Market place Premiums," KFF, March 21, 2021?

It's limited! There's no money sitting in safes to back it up!

Also, KFF, "Key Facts on Health Coverage of Immigrants"
Published: Jan 15, 2025

In part, "The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that these coverage restrictions will result in 1.4 million lawfully present immigrants becoming uninsured with $131 billion in reduced federal spending and $4.8 billion in increased federal revenues by 2034.

Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federally funded coverage including Medicaid, CHIP, or Medicare or to purchase coverage through the ACA Marketplaces. Medicaid payments for emergency services may be made to hospitals on behalf of individuals who are otherwise eligible for Medicaid but for their immigration status. These include lawfully present immigrants who are subject to a five-year bar for Medicaid and undocumented immigrants. ... Much of Emergency Medicaid spending goes towards labor and delivery costs. (more)

ACA's NOT affordable.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (NFX2v)

175 Only one year for such a big animal?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (sGHnN)

176 Every few months some people set up a huge tent at the local mall parking lot, selling "rib eyes" at ridiculously low prices. So low I think they might be the folks that clean up after a zoo tragedy.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 11:41 AM (gm9Sb)

That’s why I’ll never eat at Golden Corral.

All you can eat ribeye $2.99.

( I exaggerate for effect😀

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (EYmYM)

177 Last time I checked, both Ivermectin and Pyrethrin are good for screwworm.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (rbvCR)

178 Corn fed beef would be less expensive if not for ethanol. Unfortunately farmers like their subsidies.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (EYmYM)

I am seeing more fields planted to feed corn here in Alberta. Used to be quite a rarity; now it is commonplace. Maybe the seed companies developed a field corn that tolerates our climate and growing season better.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (8zz6B)

179 I *used* to be *with it*, but then, they changed what *it* was, so what I was *with*, was no longer *it*, and *it* had become was suddenly scary to me.

AND IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOOOOOO.

Posted by: Abraham J. Simpson at October 22, 2025 11:44 AM (PiwSw)

180 147 I suspect that Trump might wait until after the upcoming Governor's elections to really do major personal cuts, if the shutdown lasts that long. I can see it harming Spears' campaign if he does too much before hand.

I'm not sure that Schumer is ever going to cave - this may have become a pure suicide mission for him.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I just looked at 2026 and 2028 seats, there simply are not that many competitive Senate seats anymore with the current blue-red splits. AZ, NH, GA (Warnock) and NV in 2028. GA (Ossoff), NV (retiree), and mebbe MI in 2026. AZ's seat is Mark Kelly and he may be running for VP or Prezzie in 2028--voting for cloture is a no go for him right now. The other retiring Dems like Smith in MN or Durbin in IL are unlikely to be flipped to Red absent big changes in the electorate.

Right now, I see Schumer not feeling pressure from swing state D senators to end this and Ossoff (GA) apparently has raised 3 million bucks since the shutoff began which undoubtedly incentivizes him to continue the shutdown.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

181 Stop growing all those soybeans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:44 AM (sGHnN)

182 Possible slowdown due to time of year. Calves are usually born in spring and go to market at 1 year.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:37 AM (Qd7dZ)

The calve and calvenots.
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 11:38 AM (ewjUl)

Why do heifers sleep so well after giving birth?
They've been decalffeinated.

Posted by: Be here all week at October 22, 2025 11:44 AM (TbWk/)

183 Only one year for such a big animal?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM


My mother lived on a farm as a little girl and tried the 'pick up a calf everyday and you will be able to pick up a cow eventually' thing.

It didn't work.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

184 Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2025 11:14 AM (hlNLQ)

Exactly. Which is why I've said for a while that I'm sure all those Maoist professors aren't informing their dupes as to the fate of the Red Guard.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 22, 2025 11:45 AM (lFFaq)

185 Dems create Ponzi scheme programs like programs like Obamacare, Medicare, Social Security. Then when they inevitably collapse, they blame Republicans for not wanting to “fix” the programs.

It’s a neat trick.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:46 AM (PGEno)

186 A bunch of the ranchers in this area have gone to fall calving.

But I'm not sure how that affects the timing of taking them to market.
Posted by: FeatherBlade


They would go the next fall. No one really wants winter calves. Even though, that's when obstinate cows drop them.

No one, other than someone with a tiny boutique herd puts their beef cattle up in barns over winter.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:46 AM (Qd7dZ)

187 How do they get the cows to go along with that?
Posted by: toby928(c)


Breed 'em at a different time of year?

Gestation takes as long as it takes, so you either artificially inseminate them or let the bulls in with them that amount of time before you want the calves.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:46 AM (a+4eV)

188 What are the New World Screwworms and why are they a threat?

This video helps explain the threat and countermeasures:

(YT) LINK: https://tinyurl.com/43snhppz

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (rj6Yv)

189 Who would want to feed them for another winter?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (sGHnN)

190 Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:46 AM (Qd7dZ)

That’s what longhorns were created for😀

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (EYmYM)

191 A bunch of the ranchers in this area have gone to fall calving.

How do they get the cows to go along with that?
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:42 AM (jc0TO)

***

*looks in mirror*
Shines horns and hooves.
*smiles*

Posted by: Ferdinand the Bull at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (2WIwB)

192 “Do I own three residences? Yes I do.”
A beautiful home in Burlington.
A place in Washington.
And a “summer camp”.
“That’s it!”
-No King Sanders

-
He's held it at three!

You know who else had three houses? The Three Little Pig. Of course, Comrade Bernie is more a big pig. Incidentally, how exactly does that to each according to his need work?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (RR3DO)

193 Gestation takes as long as it takes, so you either artificially inseminate them or let the bulls in with them that amount of time before you want the calves.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:46 AM


But don't they go into season at particular times of the year, ie, Spring?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

194 In Soviet Russia worms screw YOU!

Posted by: worms worms worms at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (TbWk/)

195 If decisions to RIF get made, I assure you that 6% or so that voted for Trump will be among the unfortunates who get whacked. The people that run these agencies will inflict as much pain as possible on the citizens they "serve," and that probably means the competent people will go, and that means the Trump voters.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (MZ+PY)

196 Continued -

Healthcare and state working provisions include new federal Medicaid work requirements, which will require certain enrollees to work or volunteer for at least 80 hours a month STARTING IN 2027, with exemptions for individuals like the medically frail or parents of young children. In addition, some states have specific laws for healthcare workers, such as Pennsylvania's Act 102, which prohibits requiring nurses and other direct care staff to work overtime beyond their regular, agreed-upon schedule. (Emphasis added.)

Federal subsidies for ACA health insurance premiums are set to be cut at the end of 2025, meaning enhanced financial assistance will expire starting in January 2026.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (NFX2v)

197 Nobody but the politically "engaged" gives a shit that the government is shut down unless they are directly affected by it. Not one person.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (lonsH)

198 I guess one could artificially hormone the cows up.

Modern Technology.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (jc0TO)

199 Why do heifers sleep so well after giving birth?
They've been decalffeinated.
Posted by: Be here all week at October 22, 2025 11:44 AM (TbWk/)

A heifer is a female that hasn't birthed a calf yet. Once she drops a calf she is no longer considered a heifer.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (2J/Lj)

200 No one, other than someone with a tiny boutique herd puts their beef cattle up in barns over winter.
Posted by: rickb223


I don't know what to tell you and I don't know how they overwinter them. That's just what my cattle rancher uncle says his cattle rancher neighbors are doing.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:49 AM (a+4eV)

201 They aren't the ones making money though.
Live cattle prices are $2.42/lb.

Ribeyes are going for $18.98 at Sam's.
Someone in the middle is making a killing.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:29 AM


Between the live cattle and the steak, I certainly hope a killing is being made.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:49 AM (ySpAZ)

202 If Section 2 of the VRA gets struck down, Democrats will enter into a deathmatch between their radicals and more moderate members.

Democrats would have to win the "popular House vote" by about 7 points to get a majority in the House based on the current partisan makeup of the country.

They're...really concentrated both in cities and across about a dozen states.

If they can never get a trifecta again, no matter what happens in the Senate and the Presidency, they have to change...somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not sure that they can. Tammany Hall urban style governance is key to how the Dems run things now and as I said earlier, VRA lawsuits over majority minority districts in state legislatures is likely to change the complexion literally of those as well.

And EV vote shifts in 2030 may make it very difficult for any Dem to win the presidency. If the House is also out of reach, then the Senate firewall is likely to start crumbling either by workarounds to the filibuster and/or by rotten borough urban centers losing their grip on statewide races in places like MN.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

203 Federal subsidies for ACA health insurance premiums are set to be cut at the end of 2025, meaning enhanced financial assistance will expire starting in January 2026.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (NFX2v)

And we will be at the same place we were before ACA. I note it wasn’t the end of the world and insurance was less expensive.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (EYmYM)

204
Assuming they're not shipping it to China.



Or using food supplies as a weapon. See Stalin and the Holodomor; the Limeys in the Boer War; post-colonial civil wars in Congo, Biafra, Ethiopia; feeding MREs to US troops etc.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (y9nCu)

205 A heifer is a female that hasn't birthed a calf yet. Once she drops a calf she is no longer considered a heifer.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (2J/Lj)

Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.

Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

206 130 Ribeyes are $21/lb here.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Have you considered chicken? Or how about pork...the other white meat? Fill your tank with some E85. Mwahaha!!!

Posted by: Iowa, national producer of pork, poultry AND ethanol at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (JCZqz)

207 If decisions to RIF get made, I assure you that 6% or so that voted for Trump will be among the unfortunates who get whacked. The people that run these agencies will inflict as much pain as possible on the citizens they "serve," and that probably means the competent people will go, and that means the Trump voters.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (MZ+PY)

I don’t think k many if any of the 6% work for the government. Most people in DC are govt employees but not everyone. There’s a lot of economic activity in MD and VA not related to govt directly.

And some people want to live in Georgetown even if they don’t work in DC.

If you’re a Republican in DC chances are you’re a consultant or own a business or something. You’re not a fedgov parasite.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (PGEno)

208 202 Not sure that they can. Tammany Hall urban style governance is key to how the Dems run things now and as I said earlier, VRA lawsuits over majority minority districts in state legislatures is likely to change the complexion literally of those as well.

And EV vote shifts in 2030 may make it very difficult for any Dem to win the presidency. If the House is also out of reach, then the Senate firewall is likely to start crumbling either by workarounds to the filibuster and/or by rotten borough urban centers losing their grip on statewide races in places like MN.
Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

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They either moderate like Clinton in the 90s, or the follow the path of the Italian Democrat Party and just continue to cling to open borders as a core concept and grow increasingly irrelevant.

I'd bet on the latter, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

209 Sold my NASDAQ shorts for the day. Hopefully the market is turning.


*crosses fingers*

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:51 AM (jc0TO)

210 Three companies handle 75% of the beef processing. Two are Brazillian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:51 AM (sGHnN)

211 I would so love it if they'd stop with the "my friend across the aisle" horses*** and just refer to them as "that syphilitic imbecile over there".
------

That "blue slip" nonsense would be a good place to start. IF a Democratic senator opposes a judicial nomination, that means they're a GREAT judicial nomination and should be confirmed into office.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:51 AM (TN0g+)

212 Trump is outmaneuvering Schumer at every turn.


I pray he keeps it up. Screw the Dems. But I also hope he has a team war-gaming the hard left. If/when Mamdani wins, that will be replicated in at least three other major cities. (True, many are already Marxist, but that little shit in NY has come out of the closet and making it OK to say it.) This movement needs to be ended quickly before it gets a lot more ugly than it already is.

Posted by: Ferdinand the Bull at October 22, 2025 11:52 AM (2WIwB)

213 The neighbor who leases our pasture collects his calves every year and runs them to market. According to Wiki:

Feeder calves are less than 1 year old; feeder yearlings are between 1 and 2 years old. Both types are often produced in a cow-calf operation. After attaining a desirable weight, feeder cattle become finished cattle that are sold to a packer (finished cattle are also called fattened cattle, fat cattle, fed cattle, or, when contrasted with carcasses, live cattle). Packers slaughter the cattle and sell the meat in carcass boxed form.

Feedlots producing live cattle for slaughter will typically purchase 500–850 pounds (230–390 kg) feeder cattle calves and feed to grow the animals into 850–1,400 pounds (390–640 kg) cattle.[3][2] Backgrounding operations will typically purchase 300–600 pounds (140–270 kg) feeder cattle calves and feed to grow the animals into 650–875 pounds (295–397 kg) backgrounded cattle. Backgrounding cattle that achieve weights of 650–700 pounds (290–320 kg) are suitable for sale to grass feeding operations, whereas those achieving weights of 800–825 pounds (363–374 kg) are suitable for sale to feedlot operators.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:52 AM (Qd7dZ)

214 203 Federal subsidies for ACA health insurance premiums are set to be cut at the end of 2025, meaning enhanced financial assistance will expire starting in January 2026.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (NFX2v)

And we will be at the same place we were before ACA. I note it wasn’t the end of the world and insurance was less expensive.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (EYmYM)

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Actually, what it will be will be where we would be if temporary COVID subsidies for ACA plans had never become law in 2021.

The government is still covering something like 90% of the cost on average right now. It'll fall back in line with the pattern pre-covid and will be about 2/3 of the cost instead.

Which will blow up prices for the individual consumer by thousands of dollars. Because the ACA sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

215 A heifer is a female that hasn't birthed a calf yet. Once she drops a calf she is no longer considered a heifer.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (2J/Lj)

Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.
Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

OK folks. Nothing to see here. Lets just moooove along with these puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

216 But don't they go into season at particular times of the year, ie, Spring?
Posted by: toby928(c)


As far as I know, they're in season whenever they aren't pregnant or nursing.

Same reason deer can have late fawns if they don't get mated, or miscarry, or lose their young to predators.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (a+4eV)

217 I am happy for the bureacrats being let go to pursue those private sector jobs that wiil pay four times as much for their considerable skills, according to them.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (/f/TE)

218 They either moderate like Clinton in the 90s, or the follow the path of the Italian Democrat Party and just continue to cling to open borders as a core concept and grow increasingly irrelevant.

I'd bet on the latter, to be honest.
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I too think it will be the latter because they still intend to *steal* every election they are allowed to. And also because if they "moderate", they'd have to concede that at least some of Vance's policies aren't stone cold crazy.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (TN0g+)

219 Trump might do something.He never does make a national TV address, a short one. Whatever looney the left puts up to respond will look ridiculous

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (NTdv6)

220 You expect me to pay 1/3 of my health insurance cost? That’s straight up fascism bro!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (PGEno)

221 Don't be cowed by heifer knowledge.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (sGHnN)

222 Powerline reports an Alabama women was arrested at her local No Kings rally for wearing an overly realistic penis costume festooned with a sign saying "No Dicks!", which I believe is her life motto.

Anyway, if you'd enjoy some fun video...

https://tinyurl.com/3w6hkb8h

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM (GcJvH)

223 They either moderate like Clinton in the 90s, or the follow the path of the Italian Democrat Party and just continue to cling to open borders as a core concept and grow increasingly irrelevant.

I'd bet on the latter, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I simply do not know. A lot depends on what the GOP does---if Trumpism, MAGA, populism becomes a core and they can get their peeps to turn out plus fair elections, then the GOP will be the dominant party for awhile. If they decline back to the older GOPe style, then continued narrow elections as the country falls apart giving space to a new party. Sort of like what the UK has done and France plus Germany. Then the dying existing parties try to keep the newer parties out of office by any means possible.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)

224 The rental house beside my son's place has squatters that the cops won't evict. My son refers to them as "the crackheads".

At 5:30 this morning, he was awakened by all of the fire trucks. The crackheads finally managed to burn "their" place down!

"Equity" for squatters from our Blue city government just turned a valuable house into ashes.

Is Democrat governance always a source of destruction?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM (HlyYF)

225 “Do I own three residences? Yes I do.”
A beautiful home in Burlington.
A place in Washington.
And a “summer camp”.
“That’s it!”
-No King Sanders

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He's held it at three!

You know who else had three houses? The Three Little Pig. Of course, Comrade Bernie is more a big pig. Incidentally, how exactly does that to each according to his need work?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 22, 2025 11:47 AM (RR3DO)
***

Summer Camp is how they say Dacha in the US, right Bernie?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM (2WIwB)

226 All large governments work on lines of credit. And of course, JPMorgan is the largest most influential creditor there is. I wonder what would happen in NYC if the banks all decided to suspend credit to the city, "pending review of their liquidity and ability to repay"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

227 218
I too think it will be the latter because they still intend to *steal* every election they are allowed to. And also because if they "moderate", they'd have to concede that at least some of Vance's policies aren't stone cold crazy.
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (TN0g+)

=====

Obama killed the base knowledge of how to appeal to voters, and the Democrat Party is full of people who don't have that knowledge.

They know that the only way to win is to say radical things, collect large checks from donors, and fortify elections like Chicago.

A change of direction will require a personnel change at every level of the Democrat party. That either happens naturally over time (decades) or through a hostile takeover (like Obama in 2008 or Trump in 2016).

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

228 Powerline reports an Alabama women was arrested at her local No Kings rally for wearing an overly realistic penis costume festooned with a sign saying "No Dicks!", which I believe is her life motto.

Anyway, if you'd enjoy some fun video...

https://tinyurl.com/3w6hkb8h
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM


And these people wonder why no one takes them seriously?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (ySpAZ)

229 A heifer is a female that hasn't birthed a calf yet. Once she drops a calf she is no longer considered a heifer.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (2J/Lj)

Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.
Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

OK folks. Nothing to see here. Lets just moooove along with these puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

Trying to steer the conversation?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (F2xQR)

230 Good juxtaposition of the party members and monster babies there. Well done again, Mannix.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (i24o9)

231 Powerline reports an Alabama women was arrested at her local No Kings rally for wearing an overly realistic penis costume festooned with a sign saying "No Dicks!", which I believe is her life motto.

Anyway, if you'd enjoy some fun video...

https://tinyurl.com/3w6hkb8h
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM


That's my town, albeit, right at the city limits. Weird spot for the protest. I guess the city wouldn't let them use downtown.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (jc0TO)

232 Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.
Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

OK folks. Nothing to see here. Lets just moooove along with these puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

Trying to steer the conversation?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (F2xQR)

We are on the horns of a dilemma here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (i24o9)

233 A notell hotel around these parts had two deputies and two plain clothes around this morning.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (sGHnN)

234 Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.
Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

OK folks. Nothing to see here. Lets just moooove along with these puns.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM

Look, I have no beef with you. make no bones about it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (ewjUl)

235 If they can never get a trifecta again, no matter what happens in the Senate and the Presidency, they have to change...somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Texas Democrats faced a similar problem after the Anne Richards regime fell apart (it was a lot more corrupt than the media will ever acknowledge, but voters knew it)

Instead of reforming, they tried doing the same thing for a while, then the Texas Dem chairman said that it was now the Brown and Black People's Party, and they didn't want or need any white voters in it.

Texas Dems have not won a statewide race in 30 years now, and they're not getting better, they're increasingly falling apart. State level orgs are bankrupt; all efforts rely on out of state money. The only real political competition in Texas is between the MAGA wing, led by Paxton and Lt. Governor Patrick, and the Bush Family Org/CofC Republicans, who control the Texas House and most of the GOP Party apparatus. Actual democrats are irrelevant.

all that to say that yes, a party can make such bad choices that it ends up committing suicide. Texas Dems have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (uWKK8)

236 The rental house beside my son's place has squatters that the cops won't evict. My son refers to them as "the crackheads".

At 5:30 this morning, he was awakened by all of the fire trucks. The crackheads finally managed to burn "their" place down!

"Equity" for squatters from our Blue city government just turned a valuable house into ashes.

Is Democrat governance always a source of destruction?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM (HlyYF)

Now government can swoop in with one of their crony developers and take the property to build section 8 housing

Posted by: destruction on top of destruction at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (TbWk/)

237 213 That post is the reason I have always admired AG students. It's not just dig a hole and put some seeds in it as a midget prezzy candidate once said. Mentioned here before, I was a member of a VFW post in MD and one of the regulars was a former Intel officer and at the time a CIA recruiter. He had this thing about AG majors due to common sense and usually coming from a work ethic home. Also, he said they could be put in the field, travelling about the host country pretty easy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (gm9Sb)

238 These cow puns are bullshit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:58 AM (PGEno)

239 @224/Pillage Idiot: "Is Democrat governance always a source of destruction?"

See: "Eventualities of Communism"

In other words: Yes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 11:58 AM (O7YUW)

240 Don't be cowed by heifer knowledge.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (sGHnN)

Heifer? I hardly knew her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 11:58 AM (i24o9)

241 170 I don't think ethanol is necessary anymore. Shale oil expanded.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The spice must flow to the Senators and Congresspeoples, comrade.

Posted by: Auspex at October 22, 2025 11:58 AM (Y8DZL)

242 205 A heifer is a female that hasn't birthed a calf yet. Once she drops a calf she is no longer considered a heifer.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

So, I can fuck a heifer as much as I want after shocking my dog, and she's still a heifer? It's like super virginity!

(After all the digging into his past due to the dog shocking event, some very odd statements have come out... https://tinyurl.com/4ucwx93c )

Posted by: Hasan Abi Piker at October 22, 2025 11:58 AM (JCZqz)

243 I am not friends with, but I do know, the poor cops that had to arrest The Prick.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

244 Summer Camp is how they say Dacha in the US, right Bernie?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM

Yep, and he says it to make it sound like it's some tent pad with an outhouse.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (ewjUl)

245 They may never live this down.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

246 https://tinyurl.com/3w6hkb8h
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM

That's my town, albeit, right at the city limits. Weird spot for the protest. I guess the city wouldn't let them use downtown.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (jc0TO)

That's almost as good as the Reno 911 cops chasing the Milkshake guy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (uWKK8)

247 Don't consign a good running KIA to the shipbreakers. Flextape and you're good to go!

Posted by: Phil Swift at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (oftw2)

248 If they can never get a trifecta again, no matter what happens in the Senate and the Presidency, they have to change...somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)


They will have to re-invent themselves as a populist party, and not just a party of government and rich special interests.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

249 Kinda weird that’s it against the law to wear a dick costume. I can see something like this becoming a 1A issue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (PGEno)

250 Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.
Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

OK folks. Nothing to see here. Lets just moooove along with these puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

Trying to steer the conversation?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (F2xQR)

We are on the horns of a dilemma here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

These puns are udderly entertaining.

Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (lJ0H4)

251 Now government can swoop in with one of their crony developers and take the property to build section 8 housing

Posted by: destruction on top of destruction at October 22, 2025 11:57 AM (TbWk/)

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* Pacific Palisades, Califzuela has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (zQlkF)

252 248 If they can never get a trifecta again, no matter what happens in the Senate and the Presidency, they have to change...somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

They will have to re-invent themselves as a populist party, and not just a party of government and rich special interests.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

======

"A shit ton of welfare, but only for Americans."

There, I fixed the Democrat Party's populism problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

253 As far as I know, they're in season whenever they aren't pregnant or nursing.

... I mean... I'm sure it's more complicated than that because it always is, but it's to a rancher's benefit to have all the calves about the same age and stage of development.

And they're the ones who control when or whether their cows get bred, so...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (a+4eV)

254 You expect me to pay 1/3 of my health insurance cost? That’s straight up fascism bro!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:54 AM (PGEno)

Destroying certain health insurance products by government diktat then forcing everyone to purchase a health insurance product the coverage and nature of which the government dictates (at the cost to the consumer of a new car every year) is fascist.

Posted by: ACA is a fascist enactment at October 22, 2025 12:01 PM (TbWk/)

255 I thought Scotus picks went through unimpeded, until the Democrats decided to be asshoe. Clifford Haynesworth or some good ole boy name like that. ‘Jes regler folks

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 12:01 PM (Ft/w+)

256 There is a lot of bodywork being done in these parts with ducktape. Sometimes they just remove the crushed panel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 12:01 PM (sGHnN)

257 https://tinyurl.com/3w6hkb8h
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM

That's my town, albeit, right at the city limits. Weird spot for the protest. I guess the city wouldn't let them use downtown.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (jc0TO)

I am guessing all those inflatable costumes are made in Chy-nah.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:01 PM (8zz6B)

258 Mandani will turn NY into a big squatters camp.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 12:01 PM (xatjc)

259 212
‘ This movement needs to be ended quickly before it gets a lot more ugly than it already is.’

I’m glad to see someone besides me saying this , Mr. Bull.
Not only would I hate seeing and hearing from that muzzie communist , I think he’ll give the ‘Rats a rallying point. Even if he burns down their party in the process, there’ll be collateral damage to the country.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)

260 I am seeing more fields planted to feed corn here in Alberta. Used to be quite a rarity; now it is commonplace. Maybe the seed companies developed a field corn that tolerates our climate and growing season better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (8zz6B)


They are planting feed corn here in the Willamette Valley, which used to be unheard of. Oregon was wheat country forever, corn was for canneries.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (rbvCR)

261 These cow puns are bullshit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:58 AM (PGEno)

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Theres something in the way she mooooos,
That makes me love her like no udder lover...

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known As . . . at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (hrOf9)

262 If god forbid the Ds win everything, they will make DC and PR states and expand scotus. They were pretty close to doing that in 2021 and luckily Sinema and what’s his face from W. VA were there as a voice of sanity.

They’re gone. Is there someone to replace them? Maybe Fetterman. But that’s it I think. If they get 52 senate seats and the house and pres in ‘28 we are fuuuuuuucked.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (PGEno)

263 Well aren't you a bundle of killjoy. And I'll have you know heifer cow is better than none.
Posted by: Rough audience at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (TbWk/)

OK folks. Nothing to see here. Lets just moooove along with these puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

Trying to steer the conversation?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 11:56 AM (F2xQR)

We are on the horns of a dilemma here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

These puns are udderly entertaining.
Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (lJ0H4)

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Cattletales! There are several Gary Larson Far Side cartoons in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (zQlkF)

264 https://tinyurl.com/3w6hkb8h
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:55 AM

Something amusing about a cop leaning on the balls of a she-penis, while bystanders are yelling leave her alone.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (i24o9)

265 They will have to re-invent themselves as a populist party, and not just a party of government and rich special interests.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM


Considering that their radical base has no problem shooting Dems who stray and vote with Repubs, that option could get...sporty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (ySpAZ)

266 I don’t think k many if any of the 6% work for the government. Most people in DC are govt employees but not everyone. There’s a lot of economic activity in MD and VA not related to govt directly.

And some people want to live in Georgetown even if they don’t work in DC.

If you’re a Republican in DC chances are you’re a consultant or own a business or something. You’re not a fedgov parasite.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 11:50 AM (PGEno)

Maybe so, but my larger point remains- Not everyone who works for the feds is a Leftist. Chances are, they are the ones who make the trains run on time, to the extent they do. They will get the axe if the agency heads have a choice, because they do not want the trains to run on time to screw Trump.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (MZ+PY)

267 258 Mandani will turn NY into a big squatters camp.
Posted by: Skip

So he and the other millions of third world invaders will feel right at home.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (JCZqz)

268 265 Considering that their radical base has no problem shooting Dems who stray and vote with Repubs, that option could get...sporty.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (ySpAZ)

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Kristen Sinema voted for them 100% of the time, but she insisted that men were men and women were women.

She was hounded out of the party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

269 Kinda weird that’s it against the law to wear a dick costume. I can see something like this becoming a 1A issue.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 12:00 PM (PGEno)

Maybe the cops were concerned she might get eaten.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (8zz6B)

270 I thought Scotus picks went through unimpeded, until the Democrats decided to be asshoe. Clifford Haynesworth or some good ole boy name like that. ‘Jes regler folks
Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 12:01 PM


Previous judicial filibusters were bipartisan. I believe that the first partisan only judicial filibuster was Miguel Estrada in 2001.

The Democrats are always the innovators in destruction of traditions.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (jc0TO)

271 Boy, you people are really milking these cow puns.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (XSXrN)

272 255 I thought Scotus picks went through unimpeded, until the Democrats decided to be asshoe. Clifford Haynesworth or some good ole boy name like that. ‘Jes regler folks
Posted by: Common Tater

Nope. See Fortas and Thornberry. Even George Washington had one of his nominees rejected by the Senate. And Congress reduced the number of Scotus justices post Civil War to prevent Andy Johnson from being able to appoint a justice.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

273 Theres something in the way she mooooos,
That makes me love her like no udder lover...

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known As . . . at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (hrOf9)

Now you're just milking it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (i24o9)

274 They will have to re-invent themselves as a populist party, and not just a party of government and rich special interests.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

Trump beat them to it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (uWKK8)

275 Grabbing the bull by the horns they are

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (xatjc)

276 See Fortas and Thornberry. Even George Washington had one of his nominees rejected by the Senate. And Congress reduced the number of Scotus justices post Civil War to prevent Andy Johnson from being able to appoint a justice.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

This place.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:05 PM (i24o9)

277 >>That's my town,

Thought of you when I saw that video yesterday, although, for some reason, I thought you were in Daphne.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 12:06 PM (Y1sOo)

278 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 11:43 AM (8zz6B)

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

REALLY great to meet and hang out with you, AOP!

AZ Deplorable and blake as well ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 12:06 PM (zQlkF)

279 227
‘ That either happens naturally over time (decades) or through a hostile takeover (like Obama in 2008 or Trump in 2016).’

I think that we’re going to see more frequent ‘hostile takeovers’ of political parties, both here and worldwide.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

280 Thought of you when I saw that video yesterday, although, for some reason, I thought you were in Daphne.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 12:06 PM


A different Moron lives in Daphne.

We have about a half dozen in the county but we have not had a Meet Up.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

281 Cow puns, official abuse of she-penii, history lessons, and more, all in one thread.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:07 PM (i24o9)

282 My nickel is on ending the shutdown and defending the functional base of Party operations, probably within a week. Time will tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM


Am I wrong or is this not a CR that expires Nov. 22?

Do we then get to do this all again, for a few more months of spending?
This is theater and nothing more, although I do want to see how it goes.
Tune in tomorrow for another episode of raw dogging the public

Posted by: OneEyedJack at October 22, 2025 12:07 PM (Hx0tZ)

283 262 If god forbid the Ds win everything, they will make DC and PR states and expand scotus. They were pretty close to doing that in 2021 and luckily Sinema and what’s his face from W. VA were there as a voice of sanity.

They’re gone. Is there someone to replace them? Maybe Fetterman. But that’s it I think. If they get 52 senate seats and the house and pres in ‘28 we are fuuuuuuucked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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DC takes a constitutional amendment to become a state so much of the talk about that is blather. PR is more of a threat. But then again, Texas technically has the rare ability to turn into 4 states by its accession to the Union as an formerly independent and sovereign country.

I don't worry as much about the future because frankly the more assumptions one makes about future events, the less reliable the analysis becomes. And there is always black swan events that NO one see coming.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)

284 279 227
‘ That either happens naturally over time (decades) or through a hostile takeover (like Obama in 2008 or Trump in 2016).’

I think that we’re going to see more frequent ‘hostile takeovers’ of political parties, both here and worldwide.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 22, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

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2008 was more of a technical hostile takeover than a hostile hostile one.

The DNC wanted Obama's Chicago machine to come in and run things. It just represented a sweeping change in personnel all at once.

Trump's hostile takeover was actually hostile, and the party resisted. Most will end up with that kind of resistance.

The DNC is populated with people who eat because the DNC pays them. They don't want an outsider coming in and replacing them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

285 Maybe so, but my larger point remains- Not everyone who works for the feds is a Leftist. Chances are, they are the ones who make the trains run on time, to the extent they do. They will get the axe if the agency heads have a choice, because they do not want the trains to run on time to screw Trump.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (MZ+PY)

Trump supporters that get RIF'ed can contact the Trump people, and get re-hired after the shutdown ends.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:08 PM (8zz6B)

286 I think that we’re going to see more frequent ‘hostile takeovers’ of political parties, both here and worldwide.
Posted by: Dr. Claw


Like the far far far left wackos have the demoncrat party.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 12:08 PM (2J/Lj)

287 >>but we have not had a Meet Up.

Well, if you do at some point, I'm in. Just a short drive down I-10 for me.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 12:09 PM (Y1sOo)

288 The Democrats are going through their version of the MAGA influence on the GOP.

Except instead of MAGA it's straight up commies.

Neither party's Olde Guard is taking it well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 12:09 PM (Q4IgG)

289 285 Maybe so, but my larger point remains- Not everyone who works for the feds is a Leftist. Chances are, they are the ones who make the trains run on time, to the extent they do. They will get the axe if the agency heads have a choice, because they do not want the trains to run on time to screw Trump.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 12:03 PM (MZ+PY)

Trump supporters that get RIF'ed can contact the Trump people, and get re-hired after the shutdown ends.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:08 PM (8zz6B)

=======

"You can't attack this 94% target because of the 6%," is how you never pick a hill to fight on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

290 Mandani will turn NY into a big squatters camp.

--

That, but I also see it permanently transformed into a Dearbornistan or Minneapolistan. Once his muslim bretheren are entrenched, they're not leaving. Others will follow suit and more there, too. And boy, what a conquering they will think that is. To take over NYC.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 22, 2025 12:09 PM (qBdHI)

291 NOOD

Ace is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 12:10 PM (O7YUW)

292 Texas technically has the rare ability to turn into 4 states by its accession to the Union as an formerly independent and sovereign country.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 12:08 PM



There is a good argument that Texas lost it's special privileges after being readmitted at the end of the Late Unpleasantness.

So, probably no Texas Navy either.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:10 PM (jc0TO)

293 Am I wrong or is this not a CR that expires Nov. 22?

Do we then get to do this all again, for a few more months of spending?
This is theater and nothing more, although I do want to see how it goes.
Tune in tomorrow for another episode of raw dogging the public
Posted by: OneEyedJack

The clean CR would expire in Nov 2026 as you mention but currently no spending authorizations for discretionary spending exist outside of teh Veteran's funding bill and that of the BBB bill.

Senate has not been moving budget bills through committee markup nor the House regarding committee work nor floor votes on budget bills with its members out of district. The NDAA is an exception to that (House version passed) and the Senate did take a vote on its own NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) this week I think.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)

294 Theres something in the way she mooooos,
That makes me love her like no udder lover...

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known As . . . at October 22, 2025 12:02 PM (hrOf9)

Now you're just milking it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (i24o9)


Boobs Teats!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (2WIwB)

295 Since the space shuttle was given to NYC by Obama, and since none of the statues in the city of Houston have been torn down - give the 250 year statue to us. Antifa during 2020 announced it was going to tear down some statues at night in Houston, but a sheriff went on the radio and reminded them that in TX, criminal mischief after dark is grounds for the use of deadly force. Yes, you can get shot for painting graffiti on a fence after dark here.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 22, 2025 12:11 PM (Da7Vv)

296 If any of the current/former federal employees think there is *anything* they can say to get the pitiless federal government's subject classes to pity them, they're totally delusional.

This is a hostile, adversarial relationship. They hate us, and we reciprocate. That's it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 12:12 PM (fwTGI)

297 Someone here has been in Daphne besides me? I always knew that bitch was trouble.
— Fred

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 12:12 PM (XSXrN)

298 Thought of you when I saw that video yesterday, although, for some reason, I thought you were in Daphne.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 12:06 PM

Sigh. I've always wanted to be in Daphne.

Posted by: Velma at October 22, 2025 12:14 PM (y9ksN)

299 The Democrats are always the innovators in destruction of traditions.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 12:04 PM (jc0TO)


We are teatering on the edge of the precipice!

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 12:17 PM (rj6Yv)

300 Boy, you people are really milking these cow puns.
Posted by: Bulg



You have to make hay when the time is right.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:18 PM (Qd7dZ)

301 Thought of you when I saw that video yesterday, although, for some reason, I thought you were in Daphne.
Posted by: one hour sober

Sigh. I've always wanted to be in Daphne.
Posted by: Velma


Me too.
Posted by: Niles Crane

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 12:19 PM (Qd7dZ)

302 207 If decisions to RIF get made, I assure you that 6% or so that voted for Trump will be among the unfortunates who get whacked. The people that run these agencies will inflict as much pain as possible on the citizens they "serve," and that probably means the competent people will go, and that means the Trump voters.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 22, 2025 11:48 AM (MZ+PY)

Go the an agency's personnel office and FOIA for employees who've gotten letters of disciplinary action for insubordination.

Those are/were the competent employees who, sooner or later, put their foot down and were - at the minimum - disciplined. Further, disciplined for three years with a letter in their personnel file, affecting their potential for any promotions, bonuses, training, etc. for that period of time - at the very minimum - and/or suspended for weeks and then a letter of disciplinary action previously described put in their personnel file.

Knew & still know of so many placed under PIPs, given letters and suspensions - none of which were for EAP issues such as drugs or drinking on the job - and most we good to excellent employees.

It'll be better under The Donald.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 12:29 PM (NFX2v)

303 Which will blow up prices for the individual consumer by thousands of dollars. Because the ACA sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

Which will cause us to be in same position before ACA where people just went uninsured.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 12:42 PM (EYmYM)

304 Democrats fear their radical far-left base. And I don't think that is just electoral fear, it is physical fear. They fear the monster babies will stalk, attack, and murder them and their families.

Either choice spells doom for Schumer. I just don't see how Dems win this fight. It was pointless and hopeless.

By the by, one thing this has exposed is how deeply stupid Hakim Jeffries actually is. I mean, he's literally dumb as a log, and in interviews people talk circles around him. I always thought he wasn;t that bright...but...wooof.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 22, 2025 01:20 PM (D1vbu)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Pcasso Blind Man.jpg

The Blind Man's Meal
Pablo Picasso

I'm unsure why Picasso became the icon he is; although self-promotion and his vile politics did a lot to keep him in the limelight. But... he did have talent. And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death.

***

If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
-- Archimedes

For you new readers, here is the art in question. And here.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 yuk

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

2 yup.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (R11M+)

3 COME BACK!

I was going to make Expresso!

Posted by: Blind Man at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

4 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Qd7dZ)

5 Tangled up in blue.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (0nHVk)

6 Kind of blue

Posted by: Miles Davis at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (5hIiN)

7 Bland

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Zombie vibe.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (Qd7dZ)

9 Don't like the style, even though it's better than cubism. WNH.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

10 in braille, "do not touch."

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

11 Dude has some long fingers.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (Qd7dZ)

12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPl_wr2QNw

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

13 Bluey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (yy9ow)

14 Dude needs to cut back on the uranium in his diet.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (99eI0)

15 Picasso normally sucked at art. Imma happy he made money, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (jFCkp)

16 Am I blue?
Am I blue?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

17 It's best if you're blind rather than see both of those links posted.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

18 CBD just can't pass up a chance to show the nekkid lardass on the ottoman, can he?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

20 So, Mamdani won? At least New Yorkers are equal now!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

21 I've never been a fan of Picasso.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

22 The Blind Man's Meal
Pablo Picasso

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

It's A Miracle

A carpenter named Liam MacGraw
Was blinder than old lady Shaw
But imagine his glee
When he crowed, "I can see!"
As he picked up his hammer and saw

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (/iMjX)

23 Dude needs to cut back on the uranium in his diet.
Posted by: NR Pax


We tried to tell him about that colloidal silver.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (Qd7dZ)

24 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."
----------------
Today's painters are known as Movie Directors.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (jFCkp)

25 no utensils. must be eritrean.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (R11M+)

26 He's got dem low-down, lost-love, existential blues.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

27
I Am Curious, Blue.

Posted by: Swen Jakof at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (KrNsD)

28 The beret gives it a French alien vibe.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

29 I think the Obama library is perfect. Looks like a turd stood on it's end.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

30 28 The beret gives it a French alien vibe.
-------------
This is the forerunner of DEVO.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (jFCkp)

31 And music for today's art: https://tinyurl.com/4s4mkj7d

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

32 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete

You must both be unfamiliar with my work, including "Immersion (Piss Christ)." Unless you are only talking paintings, and not photography.

Posted by: Andres Serrano at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (JCZqz)

33 He's got dem low-down, lost-love, existential blues.
Posted by: Count de Monet

He's blind, so he can't work at the carwash.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

34 Those shoulder separations are painful AH.

Posted by: Geo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (4QBVB)

35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

36 tangled up in crystal persuasion clues.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

37 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

Every man knows that the last Great Artist was Frank Frazetta.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (uWKK8)

38 Bobby Blue Blind.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (6tEBv)

39 > If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

From the minecraft school of architecture.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (1Nv0l)

40 If we're talking about the Obama Lie Brary.....

https://tinyurl.com/udz8mm8h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (WjhjO)

41 I'm not a reader. Just come here to look at the pretty pitchers. And am usually sorely disappointed.

Posted by: Arts and Farces at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

42 Dude unfortunately worked all day long at the watch factory painting radium on dial and hands.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (w9Wax)

43 From the minecraft school of architecture.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

You know, that's pretty spot on.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

44 > If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
-- Archimedes

I'd say more like the fat, naked guy's dildo, myself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:38 AM (qpyNK)

45 "Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great."

Jerome as Picasso, Art School Confidential

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (BHrzb)

46 39 > If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

From the minecraft school of architecture.
------------------
Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (jFCkp)

47 35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

What are those word supposed to be? Like a giant scabble.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

48 Bleecchhh.....

This one goes with the other tinder, unless one of you all want to buy it. Just make an offer.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (89Sog)

49 I don't think Picasso was a great artist, and certainly not the last great artist.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (pohLc)

50 And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artis

Honestly...if forced I'd go with Banksy. Both more recent and Banksy is a better artist.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

51 Picasso's blue period. Or his zombie period.
Would hang though and then be depressed
Thx cbd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (8RjCi)

52 Oi! You think I can't see the gum you stuck on my table there?

Posted by: Barliman Butterbur at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (rMn9h)

53 35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (uWKK8)

54 Blind man's meal is kind of sparse.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

55 that one goes right indigo storage closet.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (GbwPZ)

56
No art by commies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (tgvbd)

57 50 eric powell.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:40 AM (R11M+)

58 53 35 Someone here said it, I'll enlarge on it: the Obama Library is like a Nazi flak tower, but without the charm.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (yy9ow)

There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM (uWKK

https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/
1979903820885848443

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

59 I also think Clinton's library is perfect. A fucking giant single wide trailer, fucking up the beautiful landscape around it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (pohLc)

60 "Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great."

**Carlo Ponti has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (ufSfZ)

61 Picasso is another artist who doesn't do much for me.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (xatjc)

62 Guy went blind because he followed CBD's advice and didn't put carrots in his chili. Sad.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

63 Eh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (PSEDc)

64 3 COME BACK!

I was going to make Expresso!
Posted by: Blind Man at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)


LOL... Brilliant minds.. That's the first thing I thought of too...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

65 Kind of Halloween maybe, could be a zombie

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (xatjc)

66 Everyone talks about Picasso's blue period. Trust me, you don't want to see the other one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (mlg/3)

67 LOL... Brilliant minds.. That's the first thing I thought of too...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

it is posted above

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

68 Alternate title - Breakfast at Oleg's Diner, Chernobyl

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (Dv3i1)

69 How about Escher as the last great artist? I actually like his stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

70 19 "And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

Every man knows that the last Great Artist was Frank Frazetta.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (uWKK

Alberto Vargas and Patrick Nagel have entered the chat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (wVcYX)

71 I think I prefer Hunter's art to Picasso.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (pohLc)

72
Meanwhile we will have

1) The Trump 45 Presidential Library and Golf Course

2) The Trump 47 Presidential Library and Resort

Both yuge, classy and luxurious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)

73 59 I also think Clinton's library is perfect. A fucking giant single wide trailer, fucking up the beautiful landscape around it.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (pohLc)

Rush called it Trailer Park and Massage Parlor

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (gbOdA)

74
Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM


it'll be 217 bankers boxes in a two car garage and smell like crack-smoke

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (tljrc)

75 There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.
_____

The Devil and the Democrats can't abide mockery. Keep it up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (Dv3i1)

76 But... he did have talent.

https://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (ExV1e)

77 There are a lot of hilarious memes of it on X and other places. Putting 4 legs on it and having it attack the Rebel Base on Hoth, for example.
Posted by: Tom Servo


*snort

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (Qd7dZ)

78 I'm sorry, Picasso was not a good artist in any period. His popularity mystifies me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (XV/Pl)

79 marcel marceau after miming a bank heist.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (R11M+)

80 I don't love it, but... It does effectively communicate what seems to be a lonely life, and I can appreciate the skill required for that.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (lA1d2)

81 I like some of Picasso's work, though I agree with the view that after "Guernica" he never did anything on that level the rest of his life.
Heck, he could get a house given to him just for drawing a picture of it. Why strive?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)

82 ah, yes, the blue phase

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (g47mK)

83 72
Meanwhile we will have

1) The Trump 45 Presidential Library and Golf Course

2) The Trump 47 Presidential Library and Resort

Both yuge, classy and luxurious.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)

Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)

84 Reminds of scene from dumb and dumber of blind kid petting dead parakeet "pretty bird, pretty bird. Polly want some bread?"

Posted by: Geo at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (4QBVB)

85 67 LOL... Brilliant minds.. That's the first thing I thought of too...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

it is posted above
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

Great scene ! I'm always afraid to go to the links here....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (VE6XX)

86
Oops - a limerick

There was a blind waiter named Knapp
Whose handicap caused quite a flap
He put buttered bread
On a customer's head
Then ladled hot soup in his lap.

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)

87 Last great artist? "Great" as in "household name"? Yea, probably Picasso. I'd say the last great artist I know of was Jack Vettriano.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)

88 Not fond of Picasso though I like this one better than any of the cubist stuff.

Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (lJ0H4)

89 Waiter, There's a soup in my fly!

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

90 The last great American Artist was Bob Ross.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (XV/Pl)

91 Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue" from the Sixties as soundtrack for this?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)

92 90 The last great American Artist was Bob Ross.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 09:45 AM (XV/Pl)

His trees were always so happy....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (VE6XX)

93 Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)

It will have a fighting Octagon with death matches.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (gbOdA)

94
"Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great."

__________

We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)

95 Picasso bleh

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (+El+t)

96 Do you want fries with that?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (IC093)

97 At least the guy in the painting still has his handy dandy notebook.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (wVcYX)

98 I think he is very interesting. We are used to seeing abstract art, in paintings, in architecture, but at the time he was unique, influenced generation of artists. He did reflect the modern age pretty well, cubist, angular.

Posted by: runner at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)

99 Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)


No one wants to touch Robert Reich.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 09:46 AM (ExV1e)

100 Then ladled hot soup in his lap.
Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)

GTF Out when he brings the cigar humidor.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

101 I’d say Van Gogh is the most popular artist in the world far more than Picasso.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (EYmYM)

102 We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But was it high-quality ass?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

103 100 candy corn halloween.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

104 101 I’d say Van Gogh is the most popular artist in the world far more than Picasso.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM (EYmYM)

I certainly prefer Van Gogh...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 09:48 AM (VE6XX)

105 102 that is such an important query.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

106
1) The Trump 45 Presidential Library and Golf Course

2) The Trump 47 Presidential Library and Resort

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Interesting. Does he get two? If not, we need to make that a rule: if you do a Cleveland, you get two. For the degree of difficulty.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (1Nv0l)

107
We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But was it high-quality ass?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:47 AM


Quantity has a quality of it's own.

-N.Bonapart

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (tljrc)

108 An art dealer friend once brought some drawings to Picasso for authentication.

Picasso dismissed them as fake.

The dealer was skeptical... they looked real to him. So he came back with another one that he knew was genuine.

Once again, Picasso declared it to be a fake.

"But Pablo, I saw you draw this. You gave it to me with your own hands."

"Bah. Anyone can do a fake Picasso. I sometimes do them myself."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (qpyNK)

109 Everyone talks about Picasso's blue period. Trust me, you don't want to see the other one.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025


***
"We visited Picasso. He was just beginning his Blue Period, but we came over, so he started it ten minutes later."
( -- Woody Allen)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (omVj0)

110 We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Ron Jeremy?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (Qd7dZ)

111 >>I also think Clinton's library is perfect.

The Left always disparage Trump for putting his name on his buildings.

The thing is, he puts his name on the things *he's built*, while the people in DC love to put their names on things that *the taxpayers* have built and paid for, such as schools, government offices, ships, etc.. The ultimate 'you didn't build that.'

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (GbwPZ)

112 If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.

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Trump's presidential library will have showgirls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (L/fGl)

113 Don't think much of this painting and I'll remain a Helen Keller Skeptic until my dying day.

Posted by: Not Falling For It at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (oftw2)

114 Speaking of a blind man's meal, and given the fact this will inevitably turn into a movie thread...
I recently learned that the actor portraying the blind man who hosts the monster for a meal in Young Frankenstein was Gene Hackman. The way he's been made up I didn't recognize him.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 22, 2025 09:50 AM (bVKL8)

115 You'll dance to anything by The Cure.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 22, 2025 09:51 AM (ULPxl)

116 Why not the Trump Steakhouse and Dwarf Tossing Arena?
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:44 AM (UnA8+)


How dare you!

Posted by: Robert Reich at October 22, 2025 09:51 AM (PiwSw)

117 The best I can say is Picasso is not as overrated as Rothko.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:52 AM (EYmYM)

118 > One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I heard about a guy who had a policy of asking every woman he met for sex.

According to him, 90% of the time they'll say no (at least at first).

But that other 10%...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:52 AM (qpyNK)

119 Trumps library personnel will all be hot women, and you will have to pay to get in, and there will be a line.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (pohLc)

120 > the Obama "library"

Tell me you're a totalitarian Marxist without telling me you're a totalitarian Marxist.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (1Nv0l)

121 I recently learned that the actor portraying the blind man who hosts the monster for a meal in Young Frankenstein was Gene Hackman. The way he's been made up I didn't recognize him.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 22, 2025


***
I recognized him when I saw the film new in the '70s, and he was fairly new on the film scene then. His voice was always identifiable.

He looked, like a lot of actors did in Mel Brooks movies, as though he was having fun -- much like his turn as Lex Luthor in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

122 daley plaza is cursed with the cassandra babboon.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (R11M+)

123 Trumps library personnel will all be hot women, and you will have to pay to get in, and there will be a line.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

======

And it will be called "Hooters".

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (1Nv0l)

124 Picasso is the Meryl Streep of the art world.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (3ImbR)

125 113 why can't helen keller drive?
because she's a woman.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (R11M+)

126
The Obama library looks like one could perform maintenance on your U-boat there. If you stood the sub on it's props.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (y9nCu)

127 Hey. Lay off me. There was a sale on blue paint.

Posted by: P. Picasso at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (bVKL8)

128 That library looks like an airport art installation. By the rental car pickup.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (V73x6)

129 If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
-- Archimedes

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AKA The Obama Presidential Outhouse & Bathhouse, not to be confused with the Clinton Presidential Trailer Park & Massage Parlor.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (BZKvP)

130 For you new readers, here is the art in question.

CBD, what have we done to you to deserve this?

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (0CU3H)

131 And it will be called "Hooters".
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 22, 2025 09:53 AM (1Nv0l)


Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 09:55 AM (ExV1e)

132 You know how they always use some type of mysterious blue liquid to demonstrate absorbency in the commercials for feminine hygiene products?

You guessed it: Picasso.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:55 AM (qpyNK)

133 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

134 Comey Asks Judge to Dismiss Criminal Charges, Claiming Selective Prosecution

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He's right, you know. They're targeting criminals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

135 So it's an architecture thread?

Posted by: Just got here at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (bVKL8)

136 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Folks rave about their wings, but I can get better wings in the grocer's freezer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)

137 A little color variety would help.

Posted by: LeRoy Neiman at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (wVcYX)

138 And there is an argument to be made that he was the last "Great" artist...certainly no one has achieved anywhere near his popularity since his death."

Uh, CBD, you forgot T. Kincade. Sheesh!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

Every man knows that the last Great Artist was Frank Frazetta.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (uWKK

I'd say Bob Ross and his happy trees.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew8)

139 had a policy of asking every woman he met for sex.

According to him, 90% of the time they'll say no (at least at first).

But that other 10%...

Posted by: Rodrigo

I learned from reading the classic "How To Pick Up Girls" in the 70s that you miss every shot you don't take.

Aren't you Hank Ryan's sister? Do you come here often? Can you direct me to the Obama Bibliothek?

Posted by: Man About Town at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)

140 So it's an architecture thread?
Posted by: Just got here

Because the guy in the art is actually a member of the Bourbon royal house.

He's a blue prince.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

141 Meeting/Approaching/Flirting with women is a skill.

And like all skills you get better of it the more you do.

Which, ironically, means the men that women will generally observe to be the most fun to talk to out of the blue are also the most likely to be some sort of "player".

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (sKqQm)

142 Yes. Folks rave about their wings, but I can get better wings in the grocer's freezer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)


*shifty eyes*

Posted by: People who say they read Playboy for the articles at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (PiwSw)

143
Braille Bread - a limerick

The tale oof a blind man from Leeds
Who picks up a breadstick and reads
The waiter says, "Sir,
I hate to demur,
But you're reading the sesame seeds!"

Posted by: muldoon at October 22, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

144 Gene Hackman was no Michael Caine or Nic Cage.

He didn’t make that many movies relatively speaking.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EYmYM)

145 The rendering of perspective gets a solid C-

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (JkO4W)

146 > CBD, what have we done to you to deserve this?
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:54 AM (0CU3H)

Hey, no trickery there. The link was accurately described as a naked fat guy on an ottoman and it was, in fact, a naked fat guy on an ottoman.

If you clicked it, that's on you. :-)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (qpyNK)

147 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EyfuW)

148 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Folks rave about their wings, but I can get better wings in the grocer's freezer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)


Yet, for some strange reason, people once raved about their wings. Then the waitresses became less attractive and the wings, suddenly, tasted worse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (ExV1e)

149 "because she's a woman."

I don't understand why some of you gents have trouble telling trans and women apart until you're in the motel room, so I'll offer my expertise. There's one foolproof way - ask them to parallel park

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (ciYHQ)

150
Hey, no trickery there. The link was accurately described as a naked fat guy on an ottoman and it was, in fact, a naked fat guy on an ottoman.

If you clicked it, that's on you. :-)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (qpyNK)

Which is why I didn't click on it....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (VE6XX)

151 A little color variety would help.
Posted by: LeRoy Neiman at October 22, 2025 09:57 AM (wVcYX)

You started off as a Playboy artist.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (EYmYM)

152 Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (N39Ws)

153 Gene Hackman was no Michael Caine or Nic Cage.

He didn’t make that many movies relatively speaking.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025


***
Which sounds like, once he became a "name," he picked his projects carefully.

I think he started his career fairly late in life, as did Ed Asner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (omVj0)

154 134 Comey Asks Judge to Dismiss Criminal Charges, Claiming Selective Prosecution

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I was told that "nobody is above the law"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (JkO4W)

155 133 Hooters is dying because all the attractive young women who would have worked there started OF instead. -- Asmongold
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I thought it was because their food sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
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Hooters are life.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (36PRH)

156 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.
Posted by: dreamingrobot


Is? How familiar are you with this thing?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (mlg/3)

157 I'm of a different opinion than all y'all on this one.

Would hang.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (x7+cv)

158 Huh, I saw some headline somewhere AGAIN that stated Harris and her VP candidate AOC, would take every state.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (PMtkd)

159 I never liked Hooters wings but I thought their hamburgers were great.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (EYmYM)

160 Banksy is a better political artist.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (KtOUo)

161 Of course the man is blue. The government is shut down.

Posted by: Sword of Damocles at October 22, 2025 10:02 AM (oftw2)

162 I'm just here for the celery sticks.

Posted by: Said no man ever at October 22, 2025 10:02 AM (bVKL8)

163 158 Huh, I saw some headline somewhere AGAIN that stated Harris and her VP candidate AOC, would take every state.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (PMtkd)

If that happened I'd be nervous if I were Kamala....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

164 158 Huh, I saw some headline somewhere AGAIN that stated Harris and her VP candidate AOC, would take every state.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (PMtkd)

Elections? Doubtful
Erections? Also doubtful.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (N39Ws)

165 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us. The food was fine, but I did notice there was only one waitress who could have been considered above an 8. Mostly because the others were overweight in greater or lesser degree.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

166 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.
Posted by: dreamingrobot

Some say he's the gangster of love.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

168 Some say Pablo Picasso is an asshole.
Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EyfuW)

Repoman soundtrack is timeless.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (V73x6)

169 > There's one foolproof way - ask them to parallel park
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:00 AM (ciYHQ)


"She parks... just like a woman."

Posted by: Bob Dylan at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (qpyNK)

170 More like 'Woofsvagen'

@disclosetv 6m
JUST IN - Volkswagen to halt production at key German plants from next week amid missing chips from China — BILD

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (mlg/3)

171 Is? How familiar are you with this thing?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Well i heard on the grapevine.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (EyfuW)

172 Trump-Putin Meeting Cancelled as Russia Insists Goal to Conquer Ukraine Hasn't Changed

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Translation: Go ahead. Tomahawk me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

173 167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

The Birdcage....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

174 I'm of a different opinion than all y'all on this one.

Would hang.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (x7+cv)


Differing tastes are part of the strange beauty of life. If not for people, like yourself, talentless hacks would be forgotten when they died.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (ExV1e)

175 Best place to pick up girls is a roller or ice skating rink. "Would you like to skate?", and there you are holding hands on first base!

In the old days dance halls worked, until people started frugging in the early 60s.

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (oftw2)

176 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Wow, it's seldom that a woman will go into a Hooters.

How's it going with Miss Linda and the move to Indiana?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

177 I’ve commented before that the art world was woke way before the term was coined.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (EYmYM)

178 >If beautiful architecture counts as art, then the Obama "library" is a fat, naked guy on an Ottoman.
----

somebody looked at the plans and the artist conceptions and thought, 'It's magnificent. Build it!'

what narcotics were they high on that day?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (AOsQT)

179 Translation: Go ahead. Tomahawk me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

----------

Now things get interesting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (JkO4W)

180 167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

The Birdcage....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

The Replacements . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

181 Creepy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (PGEno)

182 172 Trump-Putin Meeting Cancelled as Russia Insists Goal to Conquer Ukraine Hasn't Changed

-
Translation: Go ahead. Tomahawk me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

183 Jack Lawrence travelled with (Blind) Doc Watson for many years. He said after a large breakfast at a diner Doc pulled a $20 bill out of his wallet and paid for the meal “that’s a 20”. “Doc, can you tell by feel or something?”

“No, I ain’t that good. I just know where I put ‘em.” Have always wondered about blind folks and cash. It would be seemingly easy for lowlifes to rip them off.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (eEPa7)

184 Ugly architecture, like most ugly things, is from a dark place.

You can come complacent to ugliness.

I'm repulsed by Obama's library.

I wonder what lofty bullshit will be spewed to justify it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (PMtkd)

185 akso
I rate the art as blech

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (AOsQT)

186 somebody looked at the plans and the artist conceptions and thought, 'It's magnificent. Build it!'

what narcotics were they high on that day?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (AOsQT)

All of them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (snZF9)

187 Well i heard on the grapevine.
Posted by: dreamingrobot

Why were Helen Keller's hands purple?

Because she got all her news through the grapevine.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

188 Can trannies parallel park?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (kTd/k)

189 Picasso was almost finished with his painting when Guernica was bombed. He named the painting for it for the publicity.

H/T A.H. Lloyd (I believe).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:06 AM (yy9ow)

190 We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

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Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

191 But you're reading the sesame seeds!"

Posted by: muldoon


Heard about a blind dude got arrested at a strip joint. They said he was getting too handsy, but then he always did have trouble reading the room.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (OUMaO)

192 Why was Helen Keller's cheek red?

She tried to answer the iron.

Why does Helen Keller masturbate with one hand?

She moans with the other one.

Posted by: Bob Dylan at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (qpyNK)

193 Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

I'm no fan of little Z either

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

194 Was Helen Keller a lesbo?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

195 "She parks... just like a woman."

Yes she does!

And she scrapes … just like a woman…

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:08 AM (eEPa7)

196 I don't know... there are some good sniper firing positions in the facade of the Zoobama Library and Mens Baths

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (x7+cv)

197 Spock before he became vulcan.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (snZF9)

198 Junior is reading The Miracle Worker in school right now.

I remember my mother showing me the movie version when I was young. I mostly just recall the scene when Helen first learned the word milk, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

199 We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

-----

Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)

Mebbe resolve this the old-fashioned way, like between a Starship captain and a Gorn commander . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (wVcYX)

200 Obama's building looks like a porta-potty that was firebombed but the fire department drowned the fire mid-destruction.
Obama's shit house.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (KtOUo)

201 We should wash our hands of this whole thing but I have to admit I'd like to Tomahawk Putin to hell....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

-----

Interesting, I feel that way about Zelensky.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:07 AM (PMtkd)


I feel that way about the CIA asshats who started the whole thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (ExV1e)

202 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)
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He was a hoot in "Get Shorty."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (yy9ow)

203 Launch in 6 minutes

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-5
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 22, 2025
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Posted by: Joyenz at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (2F0/Y)

204 I remember my mother showing me the movie version when I was young. I mostly just recall the scene when Helen first learned the word milk, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Patty Duke was awesome in that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

205 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us. The food was fine, but I did notice there was only one waitress who could have been considered above an 8. Mostly because the others were overweight in greater or lesser degree.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

When Hooters was at its peak, it was a treasure of gorgeous women. Then the feminazis took over. It's been all downhill from there.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 10:10 AM (g8Ew8)

206 Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Shitter's full!

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at October 22, 2025 10:10 AM (upeQk)

207 If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time, and I think the problem would go away.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (pohLc)

208 We knew someone who used to live in the area and is now in Colorado. He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth. He also got more ass than a toilet seat. One of life's mysteries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Betting he had huge feet.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (/StR6)

209 Spock before he became vulcan.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


You mean before the rice farming accident?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (mlg/3)

210 207 If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time, and I think the problem would go away.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (pohLc)

If we could isolate them from the populus...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)

211 He was short, pudgy, bespectacled and a loudmouth.

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (ufSfZ)

212 "Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR."

It reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

213 Was Helen Keller a lesbo?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)
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No. She was going to elope with a gentleman, but Annie Sullivan got wind of it and warned the guy off in no uncertain terms.

Annie used Helen for her own self-aggrandizement. She was not, at bottom, a nice person.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (yy9ow)

214
I feel that way about the CIA asshats who started the whole thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (ExV1e)


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You, Sir, have an excellent point.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (PMtkd)

215 Putin is the one who has to give concessions based on the current proposals and Zelensky not agreeable to giving up any of Ukrainian territory that existed prior to the start of the war.

That’s what I call a stalemate and we should wash are hands of the entire situation lest we get muddy or fleas. Pick your idiom.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (EYmYM)

216 Mime?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (sGHnN)

217 Obama's library looks like an erect penis raping the sky.

Posted by: Leftist Tropes Incorporated at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (m0WlR)

218 Why was Helen Keller's cheek red?

She tried to answer the iron.


And her ear?

They called back.

Posted by: t-bird at October 22, 2025 10:12 AM (upeQk)

219 It reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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Yes!! This!

It's beyond dystopian.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:13 AM (PMtkd)

220 212 "Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR."

It reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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It's obviously of a similar school of thought as Brutalism. Intentionally square and ugly and featureless architecture.

The library has some curves and isn't quite as ugly as the Hoover building, but it's obviously of the same thought strain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

221 "If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time"

Remember the Law of 3's. Add Soros and we're golden.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:13 AM (3MYGJ)

222 Obama's library looks like an erect penis raping the sky.

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And is the penis here in the room with us now?

Posted by: S. Freud at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (JkO4W)

223 If we Tomahawk Putin, we should do Zelensky at the same time, and I think the problem would go away.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (pohLc)


Throw in Starmer, Macron, whatever asshole runs Germany, and that EU bitch and you've got a deal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (ExV1e)

224 Helen Keller was more of a communist than Stalin.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (EYmYM)

225 149 (it's funny because she was blind).

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:15 AM (R11M+)

226 reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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You talking about Albany capitol buildings?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:15 AM (EYmYM)

227 Spock before he became vulcan.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You mean before the rice farming accident?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (mlg/3)

lol yup.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (snZF9)

228 153 ed didn't start drinking until he was in his fifties.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (R11M+)

229 226 reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.
Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

It needs some gold !

Posted by: 24Karat Trump at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

230 Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM

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It'll be the basement of the Obama Presidential Monstrosity.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:16 AM (BZKvP)

231 Throw in Starmer, Macron, whatever asshole runs Germany, and that EU bitch and you've got a deal.

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Fred Mertz is PM of Germany. Ethel is already pegging him every night so he'd hardly notice a Tomahawk up his ass.

Posted by: S. Freud at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (JkO4W)

232 It's hard to imagine that dumbass, Obama, saying "yes, that's it, that's how I want my archives to be displayed, in an ugly, depressing, waste of money."

Wait, that's exactly how his Presidency played out.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (PMtkd)

233 Obama's building looks like a porta-potty that was firebombed but the fire department drowned the fire mid-destruction.
Obama's shit house.
Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2025 10:09 AM (KtOUo)

It does look like a multi story outhouse.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (kTd/k)

234 reminds me of Soviet architecture deliberately intended to crush the spirit.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (3MYGJ)

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An above-ground gulag.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (BZKvP)

235 The crockery seems ok, but the test is meh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (sGHnN)

236 I think we can all agree, Obama's Library is one of the ugliest buildings in the world. I think any wino living in a tent on the street could have come up with a more attractive design. I suppose he thought he had to outdo Clinton.






Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (pohLc)

237 meh. Put Putin and Zelensky in a cage and let them fight for it. Two men enter, one man leaves. If Putin Wins, Ukraine becomes a Russian State. If Zelensky Wins, Ukraine's old borders are restored and Russia GTFO.

Posted by: Aunty Entity at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (m0WlR)

238 232 It's hard to imagine that dumbass, Obama, saying "yes, that's it, that's how I want my archives to be displayed, in an ugly, depressing, waste of money."

Wait, that's exactly how his Presidency played out.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (PMtkd)

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He's a dull, unimaginative leftist who can't break from the current thing in any way shape or form.

Of course when some architect presents him with something ugly, saying it's groundbreaking, Obama will fall head over heels for it.

Have you seen his official WH portrait?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

239 A couple of years ago, Miss Linda and I visited the Hooters close to us. The food was fine, but I did notice there was only one waitress who could have been considered above an 8. Mostly because the others were overweight in greater or lesser degree.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

For real: A new Hooters just opened near The Villages in FL.

Insert joke here:

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TezPK)

240 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (kTd/k)

241 237 meh. Put Putin and Zelensky in a cage and let them fight for it. Two men enter, one man leaves. If Putin Wins, Ukraine becomes a Russian State. If Zelensky Wins, Ukraine's old borders are restored and Russia GTFO.
Posted by: Aunty Entity at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (m0WlR)

Good plan

Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (VE6XX)

242 ....who could have been considered above an 8...
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"Above an 8"'s aren't abundant in the wild. An 8 is a really pretty woman.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TN0g+)

243 Remember Obama’s and Michelle’s official portraits ? So good they did a do-over.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (EYmYM)

244 173 "the conversation"

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

245 Remember that Obama depicted himself sitting in the bushes for his presidential portrait. His artistic sensibilities are not exactly solid.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (JkO4W)

246 242 ....who could have been considered above an 8...
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"Above an 8"'s aren't abundant in the wild. An 8 is a really pretty woman.
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TN0g+)

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And a restaurant that separates itself from other sports bars by having pretty ladies as waitresses should have more than one 8 and none below a 7.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

247 Have you seen his official WH portrait?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)
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Both the library and the portrait are curiously a propos.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (yy9ow)

248 "Obama's presidential library building brings to mind the Tower of Mordor from LOTR."


It looks like the core of a collapsed pyramid. The pyramid of Meidum to be exact. Fitting actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meidum

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (snZF9)

249 This skyscraper humor is really reaching new heights.

Posted by: Oh, no... at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (bVKL8)

250 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Depressing art. Never been a Picasso fan either. I just can't see it.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (2WIwB)

251 Have you seen his official WH portrait?

He he. You mean black guy hiding in the weeds?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (pohLc)

252 Come Back! I was gonna make espresso!

Posted by: iamnotthekenyaninterloper at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (y9skt)

253 240 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (kTd/k)

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Maybe it's not too late to attach a giant sculpture of a fly to the side of the library.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (JkO4W)

254 An above-ground gulag.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM (BZKvP)

Sounds like my honeymoon...

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (lonsH)

255 Remember that Obama depicted himself sitting in the bushes for his presidential portrait.
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And appears to have three hands.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (yy9ow)

256 Imma looking forward to the Biden Presidential Library.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:39 AM

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It'll be the basement of the Obama Presidential Monstrosity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe

In the men's restroom handicapped stall.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (TezPK)

257 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

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What are you trying to say?

Posted by: Michelle at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (m0WlR)

258 Remember that Obama depicted himself sitting in the bushes for his presidential portrait. His artistic sensibilities are not exactly solid.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:19 AM (JkO4W)

With a six fingered hand.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (EYmYM)

259 251 Have you seen his official WH portrait?

He he. You mean black guy hiding in the weeds?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (pohLc)

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"It's different and new!"

"It's a shitty style that's actually been prominent in shitty Photoshops for decades."

"But no other president will have one like it!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

260 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)
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He was a hoot in "Get Shorty."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Harold in Young Frankenstein.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (/StR6)

261 188 yes, but they have to use gender neutral shift juice.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (R11M+)

262
Have you seen his official WH portrait?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

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As I was reading your comment, I remembered the idiotic portrait.

It is only overshadowed in terms of crappiness by the portrait of the idiot son of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (PMtkd)

263 That building is an example of the emperor has no clothes syndrome. It's clearly ugly. Anyone can see that but it was probably designed by an important architect.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (kTd/k)

264 Fred Mertz is PM of Germany. Ethel is already pegging him every night so he'd hardly notice a Tomahawk up his ass.

Vance and William Frawley did not like each other. Vance was pissed because even made up as Ethel, she thought Frawley's character was too old for her. He considered Vance a PITA and a loudmouth. "She's the finest gal to ever come out of Cherryvale, Kansas, and I wish she'd go back there."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (ufSfZ)

265 The best architects always think outside the blocks.

Posted by: Please stop... at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (bVKL8)

266 192 why was her other cheek red? they called back.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (R11M+)

267 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

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What are you trying to say?
Posted by: Michelle at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (m0WlR)

You read me well.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (kTd/k)

268 Obama's entire presidency was built on the Emperor's New Clothes principle. His library is the same.

"You flyover hicks are just too obtuse to know cutting-edge art."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (JkO4W)

269 You'd think Obama would recognize ugly when he sees it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

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What are you trying to say?
Posted by: Michelle at October 22, 2025 10:20 AM (m0WlR)

Careful now. Aunt Ester wields a mean bat'leth.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (wVcYX)

270 Only thing wrong with Barry's WH portrait is they covered up the back of David Brooks' head on his lap

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (DDhhw)

271 Harold in Young Frankenstein.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 10:21 AM (/StR6)
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The Monster's skyward look of exasperation was *chef's kiss*.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (yy9ow)

272 268 Obama's entire presidency was built on the Emperor's New Clothes principle. His library is the same.

"You flyover hicks are just too obtuse to know cutting-edge art."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 10:23 AM (JkO4W)

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"I defer to the experts in all things. And I'm as good as the experts in all the things they do."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

273 205 well, we've still got the twisted clit.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (R11M+)

274 Obama Library comes with pre-drilled holes in the men's room toilet partition. Classy.

Posted by: The Chicago Poof at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (oftw2)

275 Old and busted: Tower of Babel

New and cool: Tower of Ebonics

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

276 270 Only thing wrong with Barry's WH portrait is they covered up the back of David Brooks' head on his lap
Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (DDhhw)

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lol

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (PMtkd)

277 Vance and William Frawley did not like each other. Vance was pissed because even made up as Ethel, she thought Frawley's character was too old for her. He considered Vance a PITA and a loudmouth. "She's the finest gal to ever come out of Cherryvale, Kansas, and I wish she'd go back there."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I read that the actors who played them in that recent Lucy movie with Nicole did a really good job, and practically stole the show.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

278 *ahem*

Posted by: Twin Peaks at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (bVKL8)

279 Only thing wrong with Barry's WH portrait is they covered up the back of David Brooks' head on his lap

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 10:24 AM (DDhhw)

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I'm pretty sure that Fake Tapper was also double-teaming him at the sitting.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:26 AM (BZKvP)

280 "Can trannies parallel park?"

It's coded into the Y chromosome

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:27 AM (ciYHQ)

281 The architect behind the monstrosity is no Frank Lloyd Wright and that is no Fallingwater House.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:27 AM (kTd/k)

282 277 I read that the actors who played them in that recent Lucy movie with Nicole did a really good job, and practically stole the show.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

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That film is a very good example of how editing is dying as an art form throughout the filmmaking industry.

It should have been 90 minutes with focus. Instead it's over 2 hours filled with subplots.

Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, so it's no surprise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

283 "Above an 8"'s aren't abundant in the wild. An 8 is a really pretty woman.
Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:18 AM (TN0g+)

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And a restaurant that separates itself from other sports bars by having pretty ladies as waitresses should have more than one 8 and none below a 7.
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Absolutely. Twin Peaks may have solved this.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:28 AM (TN0g+)

284 "Absolutely. Twin Peaks may have solved this."

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This will require some field research.

Posted by: Guys everywhere at October 22, 2025 10:29 AM (bVKL8)

285 WTF will they put in the library about Obamacare?

His crowning disaster.

The world's dumbest and most destructive tax?

We shut down the government for two weeks and this is all we got?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:30 AM (PMtkd)

286 I knew a gal who worked (briefly) for Hooters. The waitresses were required to be flawless. If you showed up with a zit, you got sent home, no pay.

Turnover was pretty high.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:30 AM (yy9ow)

287 The art...

Picasso sucks. His so called "artwork" is ugly. And stupid. My daughter is an artist and her work when she was 15 yrs old was better than anything I have ever seen from Picasso.

Thanks anyway CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (2J/Lj)

288 It should have been 90 minutes with focus. Instead it's over 2 hours filled with subplots.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I can't be the only one that hates flash-forwards and flashbacks being the bulk of any flick.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (mlg/3)

289 285 WTF will they put in the library about Obamacare?

His crowning disaster.

The world's dumbest and most destructive tax?

We shut down the government for two weeks and this is all we got?
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:30 AM (PMtkd)

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By the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

290 281 The architect behind the monstrosity is no Frank Lloyd Wright and that is no Fallingwater House.
Posted by: Northernlurker

No roof leaks, then?

Posted by: It's Raining Men! at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (oftw2)

291 > y the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.
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Lair

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

292 Iv' been up 29 hours.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:32 AM (sGHnN)

293 It is only overshadowed in terms of crappiness by the portrait of the idiot son of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (PMtkd)

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You're gonna need to be MOAR specific.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (BZKvP)

294 By the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)


It is the Hole into which all Black flows.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (ExV1e)

295 Presidential Bathouse.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (sGHnN)

296 They don’t call it the Obie Library, because it isn’t a library. It isn’t going to contain papers or documents, because there aren’t any. They shredded all that shit. It will be called the Obie Presidential Center or somesuch.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 10:33 AM (uBmgH)

297 It is only overshadowed in terms of crappiness by the portrait of the idiot son of Queen Elizabeth.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:22 AM (PMtkd)
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Well, that was at least competently executed, even if the concept was dumb.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 22, 2025 10:34 AM (yy9ow)

298 289 wasn't expecting much reading, then?

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:34 AM (R11M+)

299 from the Obama building architectures' website

https://twbta.com/work/cultural/

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:34 AM (AOsQT)

300 I can't be the only one that hates flash-forwards and flashbacks being the bulk of any flick.

Authors are told in writing advice books not to use flashbacks.

Naturally, all three of my novels are entirely flashbacks.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (ufSfZ)

301
I think he started his career fairly late in life, as did Ed Asner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM


IMDB shows Gene Hackman's first credit as 1961, when he was 31 years old

his last credit was in 2004, when he was 74

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (tljrc)

302 By the way, it's not even described as a library. It won't have a single document within its walls.

It's a center.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

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I never bothered to investigate. I thought the point of Presidential libraries was to have a place to store and showcase documents of the president's time in office. As well as highlighting special deals made with other countries and whatnot. A snapshot of their time in office with pictures, videos and personal memorabilia for future generations to remember and study.

What's a "center" for? Reserving for weddings?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (PMtkd)

303 there are no curves anywhere in their designs

everything is blocky and squarish

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (AOsQT)

304 This coming Saturday, October 25, Picasso turns a gross of years (144, for those mathophobes on the thread, which seems to be all of you.)

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:36 AM (ltH/c)

305 This man can tell it's Folgers Crystals, probably decaf.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 22, 2025 10:36 AM (4DY5T)

306 I wish the Obama Center would open soon while the remaining members of The Who can still piss on it.

Posted by: Who's Next? Take Two at October 22, 2025 10:36 AM (oftw2)

307 Authors are told in writing advice books not to use flashbacks.

Naturally, all three of my novels are entirely flashbacks.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Eddie Muller once showed a noir on TCM that had, IIRC, a flashback within a flashback, within a flashback. But the flashbacks were not for the entirety of the movie.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

308 302 I never bothered to investigate. I thought the point of Presidential libraries was to have a place to store and showcase documents of the president's time in office. As well as highlighting special deals made with other countries and whatnot. A snapshot of their time in office with pictures, videos and personal memorabilia for future generations to remember and study.

What's a "center" for? Reserving for weddings?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:35 AM (PMtkd)

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I've only ever been to W's library, and it's a museum to the public, but I think it does actually house many of the documents from his administration for research purposes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

309 307
Eddie Muller once showed a noir on TCM that had, IIRC, a flashback within a flashback, within a flashback. But the flashbacks were not for the entirety of the movie.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

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*scribbling notes furiously*
-Christopher Nolan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

310 Memento is entirely flashbacks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 10:37 AM (jc0TO)

311 Pimentos are the red thingees?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:38 AM (sGHnN)

312 Picasso musta been a cool dude. He was never called an asshole.

https://youtu.be/8gOJoKNrRI0?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ltH/c)

313 Memento is entirely flashbacks.
Posted by: toby928(c)


Yes, and that's why no one should use it again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (mlg/3)

314 "Picasso sucks."

Dr Who's homage on Van Gogh will get dust in your eye...

https://tinyurl.com/5fsfs7w4

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ciYHQ)

315 311 Pimentos are the red thingees?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:38 AM (sGHnN)

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No, those are red giant suns that are nearing their deaths, soon to collapse in on themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

316 Iv' been up 29 hours.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:32 AM (sGHnN)
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I think they say you should see a doctor after four hours

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (NRqwE)

317 I think we could save some money building a single Presidential Library and telling everyone to dump their files there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:41 AM (NRqwE)

318 I think we could save some money building a single Presidential Library and telling everyone to dump their files there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Isn't that the purpose of the National Archives?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

319 That new moon is no moon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (sGHnN)

320 316 Iv' been up 29 hours.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I'm sorry. I'm guessing it's insomnia or illness? Trying getting off the computer and see if you can get some Advil PM.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (8Cor4)

321
But it was definitely not a Happy Meal!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (L592k)

322 Maybe this one is a more fitting accompaniment to this particular painting:

https://youtu.be/6ezLLmeBqBs

Posted by: tankdemon at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (ltH/c)

323 I knew a gal who worked (briefly) for Hooters. The waitresses were required to be flawless. If you showed up with a zit, you got sent home, no pay.

Turnover was pretty high.
Posted by: Captain Obvious


Hard to believe Hooters was that picky, since they forced them to wear dancers tights that were thicker than a burlap bag.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (Qd7dZ)

324 Pimentos are the red thingees?
Posted by: Boss Moss


Yes. Supposed to be bits of chili peppers, but today they're actually chili pepper jelly.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (mlg/3)

325 Trying to switch to day walking, and failing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (sGHnN)

326 I thought Presidential libraries were funded by donations.

Except, of course, for the dems, which in some way is money funneled to "donors" from the American taxpayer.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (PMtkd)

327 I think Obama's "center" is going to be a shadow government type thing. He's been sticking his nose into both Trump's and previously, *biden's administrations.

Maybe not Barry directly, but he's known for fucking around while not finding out.

There are still a lot of people associated with his administration that need "attention."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

328 Isn't that the purpose of the National Archives?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)


Heh.

Posted by: Sandy Burglar at October 22, 2025 10:45 AM (PiwSw)

329 Has anyone seen the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" written by Steve Martin? It's a fun what if story about Picasso and Einstein meeting up at a bar, before Einstein becomes famous. Worth seeking out. I love that Steve Martin was not just funny, but also did some great theatre work.

"... imagines a fictional encounter between a young Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein at a Parisian bar in 1904. The comedy explores their contrasting creative processes and the future of art and science through witty dialogue, while also featuring a cast of eccentric characters. The play is known for its blend of humor and profound questions about creativity, love, and the meaning of life."

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:45 AM (gWBY1)

330 328 Isn't that the purpose of the National Archives?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

Heh.
Posted by: Sandy Burglar at October 22, 2025 10:45 AM (PiwSw)

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This place kills me.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (PMtkd)

331 The Hillary Clinton Presidential Medicine Cabinet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (sGHnN)

332 The Hillary Clinton Presidential Medicine Cabinet.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Liquor Cabinet.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

333 That new moon is no moon.
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That's because its not Monday.

Posted by: Simon Le Bon at October 22, 2025 10:47 AM (TN0g+)

334 331 The Hillary Clinton Presidential Medicine Cabinet.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:46 AM (sGHnN)

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Another good one.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:47 AM (PMtkd)

335 The new White House Ballroom interior is going to be spectacular. The artist's rendering is jaw-dropping.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

336 Having seen his work in person, it's undeniable that Picasso was a great artist and changed art forever. Few artists get to rightfully claim they stood art on its head in the way he did.

However, he was a vile person. Picasso's granddaughter wrote a searing biography on him. Sounds like he was a sociopath.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (gWBY1)

337 I hope the Bill Clinton Presidential Library has a mock Oval Office with wet wipes on the desk.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (PMtkd)

338 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.

Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (wiLD4)

339 335 The new White House Ballroom interior is going to be spectacular. The artist's rendering is jaw-dropping.
Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

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It is entertaining that Obama's center is finishing right about the same time that Trump's ballroom is starting.

People on the left insisting that Obama's center is beautiful but Trump's ballroom is hideous is an edifying moment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

340 Here is the plan for my Presidential library:

It will be sited in the mountains above the Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct. This will, unfortunately, necessitate some excavation of the glorious natural features, to accomodate the colossal size of the ziggurat, and its large surrounding fairgrounds - but it will be constructed from the harvested stone.

The ziggurat itself will be made from native sandstone. It will be opulent, with its first layer colonnaded by native limestone pillars in the Doric style, with solid gold capitals - 500 of them, one for each State, with each one's name punched into it. Not leaf or plate - solid gold only.

The interior will not be opulent. It will be austere - a massive viewing chamber clad in basalt, with crystal braziers bearing eternal flames that dimly light it, with brighter flames above my onyx sarcophagus, toward the end of the chamber. My sarcophagus will have a crystal plinth atop it, that holds a single copy of my only book - "End of the Left: The Singular Achievement of Our Exalted and Beloved Ultrapresident YD," by The Exalted and Beloved Ultrapresident YD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (BI5O2)

341 I can't be the only one that hates flash-forwards and flashbacks being the bulk of any flick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:31 AM (mlg/3)

It's why I can't watch the series Lost. That shit drives me crazy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (g8Ew8)

342 The Indian press was freaking out about the ballroom like it was a real story. Wishcasting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (sGHnN)

343 318 I think we could save some money building a single Presidential Library and telling everyone to dump their files there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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A lot of early presidents have their files at the Library of Congress as do many, but not all, Supreme Court Justices.

Obama's 'library' is in part because all his records were supposed to be digitized and stored offsite. That is increasingly common nowadays in libraries as they convert over to digital rather than a holding place for printed books and documents. National Archives is leading the charge in part.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (WDjG6)

344 However, he was a vile person. Picasso's granddaughter wrote a searing biography on him. Sounds like he was a sociopath.
Posted by: LizLem

So he was a peak asshoe?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

345 Pimentos are the red thingees?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yes. Supposed to be bits of chili peppers, but today they're actually chili pepper jelly.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 10:43 AM (mlg/3)


The Theda Bara sandwich, Photoplay magazine, February 1916:

Minced ham.
Sliced pimento.
Sliced sweet pickles.
Toast with mayonnaise.

"It bites a little and says 'more.'"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ufSfZ)

346 338 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.

Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:49 AM (wiLD4)

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If I understand the Senate rules around filibuster correctly (half remembered from whig's explanations), it's that in this moment, on this business, each senator has one opportunity to take the floor and speak. A cloture vote is just about ending that period of debate early.

The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

347 I think we can all agree, Obama's Library is one of the ugliest buildings in the world. I think any wino living in a tent on the street could have come up with a more attractive design. I suppose he thought he had to outdo Clinton.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:17 AM


*Boston City Hall has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ySpAZ)

348 It will have a light-well above it, that bathes it in its own column of sunlight at noon daily, at which time the Limbaugh Stentor will read one of its 365 pages aloud in his sonorous voice and rhythmic cadence. The Stentorian Reading will be livestreamed from loudspeakers mounted on the Capitol Buildings of the 500 States, each and every day.

Except for Leap Years. During Leap Years, the final two pages of "End of the Left" will be read at dawn on the first day of spring, as the opening of the ceremony for the Feast of the Restoration. The first day of spring will be determined as the first sunny day of spring, when all comers can enjoy ribeye steaks, baked potatoes, and fine wine provided free of charge by the government.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (BI5O2)

349 I never noticed any heat in a Pimento.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:51 AM (sGHnN)

350 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

Or something.
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I think if I was going to do an all night long filibuster, I'd include a recitation of the history of the band April Wine, or my recollections of the Big Red Machine...you know...just to make it more interesting.

Posted by: Simon Le Bon at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (TN0g+)

351 The 500 governors-general will each send a delegation of their States' hundred most intelligent and physically fit young men, dressed in brilliant white, powdered togas. These delegations will, throughout the feast day, burn an effigy of their respective State's last prominent Leftist who fell beneath the Yudhishtirian Bonesaw during the denouement of the Glorious Restoration. The governors-general may take a great deal of creative liberty in displaying their local artisans' work with these effigies.

At nightfall, these 50,000 boys will be anointed into the priesthood, given their ceremonial gold-bladed bonesaws, and sent back to each of their 500 states to ensure that their futures are secured against the Marxists.

There will also be a great fireworks diplay, and a champagne toast at midnight.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)

352 Anyway, glad to see a Senator go old-school and actually stand up for a real filibuster, rather than just mail it in, the way they do nowadays.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

If senators had to do that, you would see a lot more older senators retire or quit filibustering when the wind blows. One solution to the filibuster problem is to use the nuclear option to return the rules back to talking filibusters that stop senate business until resolved but still only require 60 votes for cloture. That would reduce the frequencies of them.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (WDjG6)

353 The left, who never worried for a day when Obama or Biden gifted billions of dollars to terror regimes, are now hand-wringing over a currency support deal Bessent struck with Argentina, a deal that will end up making money for the Treasury.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (wiLD4)

354 MRP, yes! New ballroom addition will be a fitting addition. It makes sense a man known for adding to the architecture of a city would add to the architecture of the White House as POTUS. Whereas all Obama added was a basketball hoop.

It's crazy that Trump's team had to make an actual timeline list of all the changes to the WH to prove this is in line with past presidents. Truman gutted the whole White House! The pics of it as a shell, no floors or anything, is wild.

And the left is fine with dismantling all of western civilization and shredding the constitution, but screams bloody murder about a building they like to remind us was built by slaves. Cry moar.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (gWBY1)

355 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)


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You're the President we need and oddly, deserve.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (PMtkd)

356 I never noticed any heat in a Pimento.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:51 AM (sGHnN)

I can, but only after I'm pickled.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (rj6Yv)

357 I think if I was going to do an all night long filibuster, I'd include a recitation of the history of the band April Wine, or my recollections of the Big Red Machine...you know...just to make it more interesting.
Posted by: Simon Le Bon

A day-by-day timeline of the Hundred Years' War.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

358 180 167 I always liked Gene Hackman's work. Especially in the French Connection and The Unforgiven.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 10:03 AM (pohLc)

The Birdcage....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 22, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

The Replacements . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

Young Frankenstein...

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (UnA8+)

359 It's not his library - I don't even know if he has one - but if you can stand traveling through the land of militant gaystapii, slumming NYC grandees play-acting as farmers and Bernie Sanders acolytes, the Calvin Coolidge birthplace in Plymouth Notch VT is a very nice, low-key place to visit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (ufSfZ)

360 Dr Who's homage on Van Gogh will get dust in your eye...

https://tinyurl.com/5fsfs7w4

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ciYHQ)

Looks like the Musée d'Orsay

Posted by: javems at October 22, 2025 10:54 AM (8I4hW)

361 I noticed Vincent had his ears on.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:54 AM (sGHnN)

362 The Theda Bara sandwich, Photoplay magazine, February 1916:

Minced ham.
Sliced pimento.
Sliced sweet pickles.
Toast with mayonnaise.

"It bites a little and says 'more.'"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

That's some top-notch sammich-makin'. Hope Theda got married.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

363 Pimento was the original name for the Ford 4cylinder sub-compact that came out in the early 70s. Changed right before release to the Pinto to try to cash in on the Mustang name.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (oftw2)

364 Looks like the Musée d'Orsay


I wonder if they have security.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (sGHnN)

365 Hah- some Senator (Jeff Merkley, Socialist Oregon) talked all night long in a one-man actual filibuster in the Senate, protesting the grave threat of Trump to all human life as we know it.

His press secretary said that the fact that his wife was entertaining her bull and he didn't want the Senator present had nothing to do with this event.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)

366 I think if I was going to do an all night long filibuster, I'd include a recitation of the history of the band April Wine, or my recollections of the Big Red Machine...you know...just to make it more interesting.
Posted by: Simon Le Bon

A day-by-day timeline of the Hundred Years' War.
Posted by: Bulg


War & Peace.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (Qd7dZ)

367 There will also be a great fireworks diplay, and a champagne toast at midnight.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)


Tell us about the bathrooms. Will there be grapfruit-scented foaming soap?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (PiwSw)

368 The Lagina brothers did some Oak Island research at the FDR library.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (kTd/k)

369 "Picasso sucks."

Dr Who's homage on Van Gogh will get dust in your eye...

https://tinyurl.com/5fsfs7w4

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:39 AM (ciYHQ)

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Thanks, that was well done.

Never seen Dr. Who, But The Wifey was a big fan decades ago before we met.

Where do I know that actor (Tony Curran) portraying Vincent from?

Ah, The Pillars of the Earth.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (08TEw)

370 War & Peace.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire

In Russian.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

371 You musn't eat the mints.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:56 AM (sGHnN)

372 I wonder if they have security.
Posted by: Boss Moss a


I'm in charge here~~!!!!

Posted by: Franch Grrrl Bosses at October 22, 2025 10:57 AM (mlg/3)

373 the Calvin Coolidge birthplace in Plymouth Notch VT is a very nice, low-key place to visit.
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Places like that are worth the drop in!

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:57 AM (TN0g+)

374 Yudhishthira's Dice, you use your tongue prettier than a $20 whore! You need to use AI to make pics of your ziggurat of glory come to life, and show us.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (gWBY1)

375 Picasso kinda sucked at art.

Look at his “Pink” period that preceded this, his “Blue” period. He had all the technical skills you could think of and made art with happy themes. He turned his back on that, undoubtedly for personal reasons, and began painting like this, but that was just the beginning. He had as many phases as turns in his life. He didn’t always use all his talent. He didn’t have to. But he was always serious about art.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (ZVgZ4)

376 "Authors are told in writing advice books not to use flashbacks."

My peeve is what I call the John Carson writing style, where the author gives you the Big Reveal and then spends 11 chapters building up to it.

Exception: really wish GoT had gone that direction with "Winter is coming". Although now I understand how the wife feels after sex.

Posted by: Fen at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (ciYHQ)

377 Great sidebar post, whoever put it up!

One year since PDJT manned the drive through at Micky D's

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (wiLD4)

378 Someone inform Garret

@zerohedge 2h
VOLKSWAGEN TO HALT GOLF PRODUCTION FROM WEDS DUE TO CHIP SUPPLY ISSUES: BILD

Posted by: Franch Grrrl Bosses at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (mlg/3)

379 You musn't eat the mints.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Aw, man!
Posted by: Texas A&M Aggie lamenting the fact that they can no longer access the urinal cakes

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (Qd7dZ)

380 I noticed Vincent had his ears on.
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Copy that--the smokey's are thick out there today.

Posted by: Crusader at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (TN0g+)

381 *Boston City Hall has entered the chat*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ySpAZ)


For visitors to Boston who want to see the decline of architecture and beauty in the USA, it can be done within the space of a few blocks:

Start at the Old State House on Washington Street.

Proceed to the Old City Hall at 45 School Street (now housing a Ruth's Chris Steak House).

End at Boston City Hall at 1 City Hall Square.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:59 AM (ufSfZ)

382 And the left is fine with dismantling all of western civilization and shredding the constitution, but screams bloody murder about a building they like to remind us was built by slaves. Cry moar.

Posted by: LizLem at October 22, 2025 10:53 AM (gWBY1)

I've always thought that using temporary structures at the White House to expand seating capacity for state events was embarrassing for the country. Inflatable columns and walls compared to the European masonry and vaulted ceilings is infuriating.

Posted by: mrp at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)

383 Monkey.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (PiwSw)

384 Monkey up!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (Qd7dZ)

385 Someone inform Garret

@zerohedge 2h
VOLKSWAGEN TO HALT GOLF PRODUCTION FROM WEDS DUE TO CHIP SUPPLY ISSUES: BILD

Posted by: Franch Grrrl Bosses at October 22, 2025 10:58 AM (mlg/3)

I thought his thing was hairy dudes on Vespas.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 22, 2025 11:00 AM (i24o9)

386
nood rant

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)

387 I liked Dali better than Picasso.

Picasso's early works look a bit like Rembrandt, or those Russian realists, but I never saw what he was doing with cubism or whatever it was, besides exploiting pareidolia

Posted by: Kindltot at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (rbvCR)

388 Looks like the Musée d'Orsay


I wonder if they have security.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 10:55 AM (sGHnN)
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CBD would know, now that he's finished visiting the Louvre and all of the other landmark exhibitions in Paris.

They used to call visits like his "casing the joint".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (wiLD4)

389 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

390 For visitors to Boston who want to see the decline of architecture and beauty in the USA, it can be done within the space of a few blocks:

Start at the Old State House on Washington Street.

Proceed to the Old City Hall at 45 School Street (now housing a Ruth's Chris Steak House).

End at Boston City Hall at 1 City Hall Square.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 10:59 AM


^^^ This.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (ySpAZ)

391 The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 22, 2025 11:01 AM (3nLb4)

392 If some Democrat President had wanted to tear down the East Wing to build a Mosque, every single other Democrat would be shedding tears of joy and talking about how for the very first time, they're FINALLY proud of their country.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 11:02 AM (UnA8+)

393 Tell us about the bathrooms. Will there be grapfruit-scented foaming soap?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes


Wait, grapefruit has a scent?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 11:02 AM (mlg/3)

394 If I understand the Senate rules around filibuster correctly (half remembered from whig's explanations), it's that in this moment, on this business, each senator has one opportunity to take the floor and speak. A cloture vote is just about ending that period of debate early.

The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes. There is the Senate rule that states a senator can only rise and speak twice on the matter under discussion (gets complicated with amendments, and so on) but once the speaker's list is exhausted, then vote occurs without cloture because no one is left able to speak to the matter. This rule has existed since the Senate was created. Ironically, Sen Merkeley's legislative aide has a 2022 article on it (non technical).
https://tinyurl.com/cxpvvb27

Congressional Research Service, CRS, has the technical explanation. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/96-548


Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:03 AM (WDjG6)

395 FFS, nood

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 11:04 AM (mlg/3)

396 391 The filibuster and cloture vote become unnecessary after every senator have taken their opportunity to speak.

I did not know that. So in theory, the Majority Leader could call out every member by name, ask if they want to speak to the issue at hand, and after calling all 100 (or however many are present) call for a vote? So why doesn't he do that?
Posted by: Oddbob
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The Senate rule has to be invoked by the majority that limits debate, two, the amount of time on the floor. Senate rarely meets 5 days a week or even 24-7. The non technical article above mentions it would take about 500 hours or so of debate if each senator took 5 hours for debate (about 21 days running 24-7 and 7 days per week). Normal Senate workdays would take 62.5 days at 8 hours per day session with 7 days per week). Move that to 40 hours per week and no weekends, it rises to 87.5 legislative days.

And Senators would have to be in Washington close by because a quorum call could be expected at any time.

Posted by: whig at October 22, 2025 11:10 AM (WDjG6)

397 I don't like Picasso as much as other "great" artists. Anyway, Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol were "great" artists who came after Picasso.

Posted by: PG at October 22, 2025 11:12 AM (uX4U2)

398 Here's a link to a pic of the Obama library, with it's final addition on top:
https://x.com/KingLibertarian/status/1978988097283981404

Picked the link up from VictoryGirlsBlog.

Posted by: George V at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (HUbHH)

399 That's a mime, baby.

Posted by: Austin Powers at October 22, 2025 11:42 AM (MZ+PY)

400 400

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (RuTUS)

401 The Blind Man's Meal
Pablo Picasso

I've never seen this one. It's wonderful.

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 02:37 PM (RuTUS)

402 He has Bread but what in the Vase?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 22, 2025 05:43 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 10/22/25

BerniePlatner.jpg

Good morning kids. Clearly they're not making Nazis and kings like they used to since if they did, those who have been shrieking the loudest and shrillest about President Trump and the majority of American-Americans who voted for him would have long ago been smoke up a chimney or worm/alligator food via his death squads, n'est ce pas?

But once again, that kind of talk resulted in this happening late yesterday:

A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said. The US Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said. Investigators searched his car and deemed it to be safe, Secret Service officials said in a statement.

Authorities did not immediately provide any additional information about the crash, the driver’s identity or any potential motivation.

That last sentence means that the media knows he has to have some sort of link to the Democrat party and or Antifa.

Oh these Democrats and their mouthpieces have trouble identifying Nazis, terrorists and tyrants. Honestly, I don't know why since all they have to do is look directly into the nearest mirror.

And with that, I give you exhibit A, or really exhibit A on top of 200 years of Democrat/Leftist wastage of life, treasure and human potential that has brought this nation to the brink of destruction.

Yeah, No Kings but plenty of Totenkopfs. . .

I had an early investigative piece on Graham Platner, the Bernie Sanders endorsed Senate candidate, was not working class (he’s the grandson of a world famous architect, the son of a lawyer who went to a prep school) and not a disillusioned veteran, but was a longtime leftist.

But Dems were sitting on a much bigger pot of opposition research which included Platner’s past Reddit history in which he claimed that he was a Communist and that white rural people were stupid and racist. “Bastards. Cops are bastards.” Platner replied, “All of them, in fact.”

“Bastards. Cops are bastards.” Platner replied, “All of them, in fact.”
In another since-removed post from 2020, Platner responded to a thread titled “White people aren’t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks” by writing, “Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are.”

Could things get worse? There was Planter’s reported self-identification as an “Antifa Supersoldier”.

But no, that didn’t do it, the SS tattoo however is making Platner a truly national figure.

The Democrat propaganda complex is spinning faster than a gaggle of Dervishes pleasuring their nether regions on an Iranian centrifuge like a teenybopper on the basement washing machine.

And yet, Pete Hegseth, a true patriot who is arguably President Trump's best pick insofar as what he has done to date as sec Def and now Secretary of War, was slimed as a white supremacist by the acolytes of the purple-lipped, closet queen dog-eating communist scumbag:

Pod Save Graham Platner. The former Obama White House aides Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, now hosts of the podcast Pod Save the World, helped the Maine Senate candidate frontrun the news that he has a Nazi tattoo emblazoned on his chest—a stark contrast to their condemnation of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's tattoo of a Jerusalem Cross as a "dog whistle" for "white nationalists."

The chutzpocrisy is so utterly blinding that it can be seen by Ray Charles if he were standing on the surface of a supernova 5 billion light years away. I look forward to living long enough to see the day that President Hegseth is sworn in for his second term.

Of course the dream Democrat ticket of Sanders and Platner '28 might derail all that, especially with the catchy slogan of Molotov & Von Ribbentrop '28.

In other news, it is gratifying to see that John Brennan, the turducken of Benedict Arnold/the Rosenbergs and John Walker Lindh rolled into one being referred to for indictment by the DOJ. Not that he will ever be convicted in any DC court set alone see the inside of a jail cell. How he ever was allowed to join the CIA let alone get an interview is still beyond my comprehension. Meh, how the hell did Obama ever become president?

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

2 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

3 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

4 Greetings and good morning, Horde! Today is the third injection for my knee. The second one definitely brought on a lot of improvement so I'm hopeful that this will give me even better results.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 07:39 AM (99eI0)

5 the car, and driver, should've been been utterly ventilated by 9mm holes - jjs

The caliber wars begun they have

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

6 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday.

Hard to believe Kushner and Witkoff would sit face-to-face with a known hostile actor, liar, and propagandist Lesley Stahl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:41 AM (9ipOP)

7 Happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:42 AM (9ipOP)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 07:43 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Director Tulsi Gabbard organized the group — which has been meeting since April — to "share information, coordinate and execute," officials told Fox News Digital on Monday.

Ah, if only that had read "share information, coordinate and execute officials".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

10 A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.

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Sounds to me like a missed opportunity for the Secret Service to get in some real-world RPG practice from the White House roof.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:45 AM (dIdMH)

11 Although I admire our President a great deal, I think another monument in D.C. is a terrible idea.
D. C. Location is an insult to monuments.
I would have suggested Philadelphia as a location for a 250 year monument, but that city is also an insult to First World Civilization.

Posted by: Fenderbender at October 22, 2025 07:46 AM (1FEc1)

12 “And really just deeply misogynistic,” Bufkin said in a post on X. “Apparently Usha doesn’t think for herself?”

Which is why she converted to Catholicism and started eating meat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

13 "Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting"

Buy 6 and get the 7th free.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

14 [WILLOWED:]

I am doing my part to save the Earth by conserving bits. Every omitted apostrophe saves at least 8 bits which can be used by AI to create more videos of cats flying kites.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

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* snort *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:47 AM (dIdMH)

15 A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.

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Sounds like it could be a test for a future attack?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 07:47 AM (6U1c2)

16 (Fine, and jail, their employers too - jjs)

FIFY.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

17 “ But God will never forget the needy;
the hope of the afflicted will never perish”

Psalm 9:18

Posted by: Marcus T at October 22, 2025 07:48 AM (FwedH)

18
On the one hand, the Death's Head was used long before the Nazis showed up. On the other hand, so was the swastika.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 07:49 AM (tgvbd)

19 An online database logged over 63,000 user-submitted posts that cheered Kirk’s death, though the site was later taken down. One of the few unremoved celebratory posts, which references the song “No One Mourns the Wicked,” has 234,000 likes. As Christopher Rufo observed, many who work in the “helping professions”—teachers, nurses, school counselors, social workers, and physicians—celebrated, mocked, or justified the assassination. - City Journal
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Teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, college professors all fully Nazified well before Hitler was ever named Chancellor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:49 AM (9ipOP)

20 I quickly read the article on too many ribbons. Brought up was the practice of only wearing your top three awards. I had an Adjutant, mustanger major that practiced that. Bronze star with V, Purple Heart, and his Marine Corps Good Conduct medal. That's only awarded to enlisted, and he wore it just to show where he came from.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)

21 How do these leftists like Psaki and others claim to know what is going on in the Vance's marriage?
As if Usha is dropping hints to leftists clods!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 07:49 AM (rZCVI)

22 ICE raids are nothing new. The carefully organized freak-out is.

If you are being told political things in such a manner as to produce a large emotional response, you are almost certainly being lied to.

OTOH, if you are being told political things in such a manner as to produce a no emotional response, you are almost certainly being lied to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

23 Not sure the mighty turducken deserved to be used in a John Brennan metaphor. These are difficult times we live in.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 07:50 AM (V73x6)

24 New theory on shutdown...Dems hold out til mid-to-late Nov making R CR also moot, forcing Johnson to bring back the House, who now inducts a new D (that has been waiting for her seat) and has traitor Massie and possibly MTG or the loud CA guy refuse to sign a 2nd clean CR, so does not have the majority anymore on a clean CR and must add D priorities to do so...

It's the only thing I got on how they can win...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 07:51 AM (tOcjL)

25 "How do these leftists like Psaki and others claim to know what is going on in the Vance's marriage?"

Projection.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

26 Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 07:39 AM (99eI0

And I hope that it does bring much improvement!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 07:51 AM (rZCVI)

27 Sounds like a great fundraiser stream

@politico 13h
Platner says he’ll remove tattoo that resembles Nazi symbol http://ow.ly/AcAA106oI2G

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 07:51 AM (mlg/3)

28 18
On the one hand, the Death's Head was used long before the Nazis showed up. On the other hand, so was the swastika.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 07:49 AM (tgvbd)


Very true, but their most notorious usages and what they represented are still within living memory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 22, 2025 07:52 AM (x0n13)

29 11 Although I admire our President a great deal, I think another monument in D.C. is a terrible idea.
D. C. Location is an insult to monuments.
I would have suggested Philadelphia as a location for a 250 year monument, but that city is also an insult to First World Civilization.

Posted by: Fenderbender at October 22, 2025 07:46 AM (1FEc1)

The only city feds can protect a Trump monument from being immediately torn down is DC..

If it got put up in Philly, they'd tear it down in 3 seconds and cheer its destruction and the mayor and Gov would do nothing but thank the destroyers...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 07:52 AM (tOcjL)

30 "It appears to be more like a political ploy giving Donald Trump discretion over which employees should be compensated."

Trump should reply that, if they were to pass the Defense spending bill, it would free up the money he's using to pay the troops to be available for other things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

31 Local news says SNAP benefits will not go out in November if the shutdown continues. The downtrodden are promising looting if that happens. It's kind of a waste having the National Guard guarding grocery stores, but if that's what it takes...

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

32 Lee says the states are more than capable of enforcing their own health and safety standards and called for state law to apply to beef that is produced and sold in the same state.

You could have a uniform national standard without requiring the feds to enforce it other than spot checks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

33 @politico 13h
Platner says he’ll remove tattoo that resembles Nazi symbol http://ow.ly/AcAA106oI2G
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 07:51 AM (mlg/3)
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Flamethrower?
Broken bottle?
Can we watch?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:54 AM (9ipOP)

34 "It’s honestly amazing that every single Republican candidate is literally Hitler,” another person said. “I mean, what are the chances? lol they really have just one play in the playbook.”
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Jason Howerton makes a funny, but he's right on target. "Racist Nazi" is an all-purpose description of everyone to the right of Mao, apparently.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 07:54 AM (64F0j)

35 SBA Launches Probe Into Firms Allegedly Using ‘Minority’ Front To Win Multi-Million No-Bid Contracts

That's handy but how is that legal? We must crush every instance of racial favoritism in the government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

36 the states are more than capable of enforcing their own health and safety standards

"Reg. Penn Dept. of Agriculture" waves from the past...

Posted by: man at October 22, 2025 07:55 AM (tubbA)

37 But Dems were sitting on a much bigger pot of opposition research which included Platner’s past Reddit history in which he claimed that he was a Communist ...

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[1 of 2:]

We all knew that Brennan was an admitted Commie, but I just learned this past week from some conservative talk radio host (can't remember whom) that in a 1973 interview, Comey also admitted to being a Commie.

Unbelievable that these scum rose were installed to be the Directors of the CIA and FBI.

When I was being interviewed by Ford Aeorspace's Security Officer for a Security Clearance in 1987 (their Las Vegas division had an Operations & Maintenance contract with the US Air Force and Nellis Air Force Base), he literally asked: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of The Communist Party?"

I literally laughed out loud (because I thought that was only something you saw in the movies or on TV); and he was not amused.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:55 AM (dIdMH)

38 31 It's kind of a waste having the National Guard guarding grocery stores, but if that's what it takes...
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)



Kim-chee'd rested and ready!


- - Rooftop Koreans

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 22, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

39 I wish the new conservative PM of Japan well and hope that she has good and loyal -to her-security.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 07:56 AM (rZCVI)

40 31 Local news says SNAP benefits will not go out in November if the shutdown continues. The downtrodden are promising looting if that happens. It's kind of a waste having the National Guard guarding grocery stores, but if that's what it takes...

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

Local news is wildly liberal. They want to stoke fears to try to shift shutdown blame.

Trump will fund SNAP, at least for Nov 1, as his "treat" to the people while Dems are playing only "tricks" on them...yes, I foresee him also getting into the holiday with his announcement. Dems wanting to stoke fear, horrify the middle class, etc, etc...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 07:56 AM (tOcjL)

41 "Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: report"


Those tranyy bois don't fvck around. I saw them having a kick boxing contest when I was at Pattaya Beach in 87. They invited anyone who wanted to get in the ring with them. A least half a dozen big guys got their a$$es kicked quick before they ran out of volunteers.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 22, 2025 07:57 AM (0N4FZ)

42 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 07:57 AM (cWtNZ)

43 "If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States"

"So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel"

Posted by: Tee Hee Lawrence at October 22, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

44 And I hope that it does bring much improvement!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


With the second injection, I would say that I'm somewhere between 50-75% improved. Thus the reason for my current optimism.

The only downside is that I'll have to go back regularly for boosters until it gets to the point I need a knee replacement. Thank you Marine Corp for the damage you did to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 07:58 AM (99eI0)

45 31 "Mostly peaceful protesters now exiting the Giant Eagle through what was once the front window. Here we have Latitia who doesn't want to give her last name. Are you going to feed your family?" "Damn right I is gonna feed dem. I gots Hohos, Snapple, some chips and a few 40s". "Latitia, did you consider stopping by the pharmacy for some Ozempic?"

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 22, 2025 07:59 AM (gm9Sb)

46
[2 of 2:]

Also, in the late 90's, a neighbor friend in The US Army Reserve was up for a promotion; I was called by a DOD investigator as a character reference.

He systematically asked me a long list of various questions about my neighbor's behavior and lifestyle (basically assessing if he was in any way compressible or blackmail-able?).

i remember immediately being struck by the thought that our Commander-in-Chief at that time would fail such scrutiny and background checks ... and for a whole lot of reasons.

And don't get me started on his treasonous "wife!"

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:59 AM (dIdMH)

47 Sanae Takaichi Wins Historic Vote to Become Japan’s First Female Prime Minister

I assume, unless she's assassinated, that we can look forward to numerous articles about how she isn't a REAL woman since she isn't simpatico with the globohomo agenda.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

48 I would have suggested Philadelphia as a location for a 250 year monument, but that city is also an insult to First World Civilization.


yeah God no

I think DC has plenty of room honestly

but what about Boston?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 08:01 AM (emBoF)

49 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
Bernie has lost his mind, if he ever had one. "The Nazis will help us fight oligarchs " is an insane take

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:01 AM (8RjCi)

50 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:01 AM (Qd7dZ)

51 good morning! lots of good news (to me) today. Love the new Japanese PM!

beautiful fall morning here with the deer and the squirrels and the many, many trees

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 08:02 AM (emBoF)

52 Paul Fussell opened his book Wartime to illustrate how much all these wars degrade our society iirc. Security. Government More and more removed from the people, not without reason. But.

Washington used to be a sleepy southern town that rolled up the sidewalks at night. During DCs frequent summer thunderstorms motorists would pull under the White House portico to get out of the rain and wait it out for a few minutes. Don’t try that now

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 08:02 AM (0cASp)

53 Clearly they're not making Nazis and kings like they used to

And they ain't making Jews like Jesus any more, either.

How the Missile Crisis looked to Cubans. (They were shocked at learning they lived on the island of Q-burr - jjs)

It plays fast and loose with the facts, but the Kevin Costner movie Thirteen Days is a pretty good retelling of the CMC.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 08:02 AM (ufSfZ)

54 "Leftists Overwhelm Small Farm With Death Threats For Hosting Conservative Think Tank"

We need to get names out in public. Go after them, their employers and anyone who said a kind word to them five years ago.

Venues like this need to tell the crybullies to STFU and make it clear that security is allowed to kill them.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 08:02 AM (99eI0)

55 Thanks, JJ! You rock!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 08:02 AM (kHop/)

56 So J. Kimmel is trying to build an audience and, according to Hollywood In Toto, hit on the idea of having a drag queen dressed all in pink sarcastically read a book Eric Trump wrote, to children on his TV show.

Comedy had a long way to drop before reaching peak stupid, but Kimmel got there. He made the leap.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 08:02 AM (cr3+l)

57 48 I would have suggested Philadelphia as a location for a 250 year monument, but that city is also an insult to First World Civilization.


yeah God no

I think DC has plenty of room honestly

but what about Boston?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 08:01 AM (emBoF)

Current Boston might be the only place worse than Philly to put one and expect it to survive the hate for 5 seconds...I mean, have you seen their mayor and Gov?

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 08:03 AM (tOcjL)

58 49 Morning Horde, thx JJ.
Bernie has lost his mind, if he ever had one. "The Nazis will help us fight oligarchs " is an insane take
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:01 AM (8RjCi)


Remembering my college radio days where we had a news guy who had the IQ of a pencil eraser but the voice of Darth Vader pronounce NeoNazis as

Knee-Oh-neighs-eyes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 22, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

59 How many days since Jimmy Kimmel made someone laugh?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 08:04 AM (kTd/k)

60 McLaughlin also revealed that more than two million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office, including 1.6 million who self-deported. Approximately 485,000 people have been arrested for immigration violations.

Over 70% have felony convictions or charges. Not arrest, but actual court cases or DA charges.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

61 59 How many days since Jimmy Kimmel made someone laugh?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 08:04 AM (kTd/k)


Recalling a Mel Brooks routine . . . "Did he fall down an open manhole cover and die?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 22, 2025 08:06 AM (x0n13)

62 >> Progressives Eye Takeover Of Deep Red States

“ She said they can work to “shift the brand” in states with little Democratic representation by “[fielding] candidates who are vetted, with local ties, authentic.”

So- lie about toeing the line for the Democrat Communist Party and what you really believe.

Ok. That’ll work.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 22, 2025 08:06 AM (FwedH)

63 Current Boston might be the only place worse than Philly to put one and expect it to survive the hate for 5 seconds...I mean, have you seen their mayor and Gov?


well that's a shame

I think of Boston as a sort of buttoned-up, staid city. Like Philly once was, believe it or not

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 08:06 AM (emBoF)

64 Of course the dream Democrat ticket of Sanders and Platner '28 might derail all that, especially with the catchy slogan of Molotov & Von Ribbentrop '28.

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Or, to save precious bits for use by AI to create more videos of cats flying kites (h/t fd), shortened to:

Sanders & Son (SS) 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:06 AM (dIdMH)

65 Yeah that’s the security flaw you can drive a truck through. If you win an election, they “deem” you’ve passed a background check.

The House at least, had one final check, it wasn’t enough to get elected, they would have a final vote whether to seat someone or not. I don’t know how often they exercised that right, but at least it was a potential QC check. Naturally the court decided that will never do.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 08:07 AM (0cASp)

66 Is there anyone here who doesn't have at least one SS tattoo?

Posted by: My Body, My Canvas at October 22, 2025 08:07 AM (oftw2)

67 > A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House.
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Nutter.

However the entire area in the capitol city where our political class does their donor's bidding is rife with barriers, confusing signage, flashing arrows, people on bikes or just walking into the middle of the streets. It's easy to become disorientated.

And that was 40 years ago... It's hasn't gotten better.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 08:09 AM (Q4IgG)

68 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:01 AM (Qd7dZ)

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Good morning, rickb -- a pleasure to get to meet & chat with you this past Saturday!

I had meant to tell you, and can't remember now if I did, about an interaction and joke I believe you made -- which I've since repeated at least 100 times to others:

Some years ago here I asked "Am I the only one with OCD who MUST have his close tags in his nic in alphabetical order?"

To which you replied: "You're not OCD if you haven't spelled it CDO."

Never not funny!

Apropos is this link that scampydog posted in last night's ONT:

x.com/PecanC8/status/1978139681859489933

[Remind me again who coined that phrase "Acehole" at the MoMe?]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:09 AM (dIdMH)

69 I think of Boston as a sort of buttoned-up, staid city. Like Philly once was, believe it or not
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 08:06 AM (emBoF)


Boston hasn't been that since Cleveland Amory died. You might find a few old-line Brahmins in the Back Bay, but Boston is now any large city with urban outdoorsmen, feral yutes, college slackers, bohos, perverts and Southie wiggers.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (ufSfZ)

70 It's National Nut Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

71 DHS officials revealed exclusively to Breitbart News that the agency has issued more than 31,600 fine notices to illegal aliens, totaling more than $9.6 billion.

“Our message is clear: If you’re in the country illegally, leave now or face the consequences,” DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin told Breitbart News.

Can we put a lean on Central America? Or just take their fines out of their Foreign Aid?
Bet that would be a serious dick punch!

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

72 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

73 A lot of people are citing the FOX News poll claiming that Cuomo and Mamdani are neck and neck among Jewish voters.

The poll is wrong. Period.

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Jewish voters in the five boroughs are so reliably Democrat that everyone is anticipating Madmani will win their votes, and the election. But if he doesn't, is that enough to lose to that POS Cuomo? I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 08:11 AM (iKIZT)

74 "It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

*reads while eating breakfast, nearly chokes on Honey Nut Cheerios*

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

75 "Jen Piss-Hockey needs to have her filthy sewer wired shut."

Took me a minute to realize you meant her mouth.

Posted by: RADinVA at October 22, 2025 08:12 AM (naiw2)

76 You Are Being Lied To About ICE

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

77 The cognitive dissonance that takes place inside a leftists brain is really something.

The spend years calling all of their opponents Nazis and with the next breath the enthusiastically support a leftist with an actual Nazi tattoo.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (viF8m)

78 70 It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

deez nutz

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

79 [Remind me again who coined that phrase "Acehole" at the MoMe?]
Posted by: ShainS


It was a pleasure meeting you and your wife.
Didn't you coin that?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (Qd7dZ)

80 Just watched a clip on Bartiromo. It was if Jon Stewart and Bernie on Stewart's show. Stewart showed a bit of a clue pointing out if give unlimited funds to insurance companies through Obamacare subsidies and to colleges they cost of those things will exceed inflation. Bernie naturally said it was all the fault of oligarchs who he thinks should survive on $ 1b. Bernie never breaks character

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (8RjCi)

81 McLaughlin also revealed that more than two million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office, including 1.6 million who self-deported.

Do you know how much it would cost to deport everyone? Are you going to go door-to-door? -- pretty much everyone in politics not named Trump

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

82 Boston is in far better shape than San Francisco.

It was clean. No poop. Only hobos we saw were on Boston Common.

We were impressed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:14 AM (A0sqA)

83 Abolishing the Supreme Court seems rather ... kingly.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 08:14 AM (jc0TO)

84 When was the last time David French the Apostate wrote something thoughtful and perhaps unexpected?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 08:14 AM (kTd/k)

85 It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood


Bust 'em if ya got 'em!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:15 AM (Qd7dZ)

86 Ending the filibuster is something we hear about every term, but it never happens. Too many Senators in the current majority know the day will soon come when they will need to rely on it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 08:15 AM (iKIZT)

87 It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

deez nutz
Posted by: r hennigantx


Bofa deez nutz.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:15 AM (Qd7dZ)

88 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

89 “Democratic senators acknowledge a handful of their colleagues would love to end the tense standoff over federal funding,” the report adds, “but they say those members are worried a liberal backlash could end their political careers.”

Gooder and Harderer
You lie down with dogs, you get fleas

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

90 82 Boston is in far better shape than San Francisco.

It was clean. No poop. Only hobos we saw were on Boston Common.

We were impressed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:14 AM (A0sqA)

Totally cleaner...but totally as whacko - if Trump put up a monument, the entire city would destroy it in 5 seconds...the Trump hatred there rivals Portland...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 08:16 AM (tOcjL)

91 *reads while eating breakfast, nearly chokes on Honey Nut Cheerios*
Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 08:12 AM (vFG9F)
*****
I've got that in my pantry.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

92 70 It's National Nut Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

Also International Wombat Day

Posted by: Gref at October 22, 2025 08:17 AM (5rh/l)

93 Graham Platner, not a very kosher person is he.

Talk about "who's a Nazi"

And like evil little Hitler Jungen they snap their heels, raise their arm, and go "yeeeeh!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 08:17 AM (v7zmp)

94 It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

/punchline
I didnt say she was Nutz, I said she was fucking Goofy.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

95 “The blood of thousands of Nigerian martyrs cries out for justice.”
Yes, Al Jazeera, There IS a Christian Genocide in Nigeria
_____

Quick! Someone tell Pope Leo before he embarrasses himself blessing an ice cube again!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 08:17 AM (Dv3i1)

96 23 Not sure the mighty turducken deserved to be used in a John Brennan metaphor. These are difficult times we live in.
Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 07:50 AM (V73x6)

It's perfect, as long as you remove the "-ucken" part.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:17 AM (UnA8+)

97 He should lean into it. The Dem base will have zero problem with it. The Left wing of the Party won't bat an eye if he says something like "Trump, a Western tool of the filthy Jewish race, has prevented our brother Party Hamas from concluding the final solution to the Jewish question in Israel. But that's OK. We'll finish the job after we assassinate him, and remove his subversive followers from our national community at the merciless points of our pistols."

They'll click their heels and salute. And they won't have any trouble rationalizing any of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:18 AM (BI5O2)

98 Che’ or Castro or somebody apparently wanted a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USA. They seemed not to care that Cuba would be destroyed. It was up to the Soviets to say, yeah no, that isn’t happening, and swapped out the locals on the missile sites with more reliable troopies to prevent this.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 08:18 AM (0cASp)

99 > It's National Nut Day.
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Looking at the newz, I'd say every day was nut day. They're everywhere. Doing what they do. Making everyone else go "hmmmm."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

100 Trump might not have to do anything to clean up Portland. Mt Hood is on high alert for an eruption and lahars after an eruption should swamp Portland. Just have to deal with mud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:19 AM (8RjCi)

101 I remember an episode of Kolchak that involved swastikas and some kind of Hindu monster.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 08:19 AM (kTd/k)

102 There's been so much fuss about ink art these days I think I need a little breather.

Posted by: Herve Villechaize at October 22, 2025 08:19 AM (rMn9h)

103 PISS-HOCKEY Psaki Claims JD Vance Is ‘Scarier’ than Trump, Implies Usha Vance Needs Rescuing: ‘Blink Four Times’

”Psaki — talking about how she wonders what goes on in Usha Vance’s mind, called for the second lady to “blink four times” if she needed help.

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Oh, my Usha ...
Blink four times while you're steeling if you want me
Otherwise, I'll hit my bong pipe
If the answer is no

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:19 AM (dIdMH)

104 I think the first thing the new Japanese PM did was to start the deportation process on their middle eastern immigrants

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 22, 2025 08:20 AM (r/a4i)

105 "Jen Psaki Claims JD Vance Is ‘Scarier’ than Trump, Implies Usha Vance Needs Rescuing: ‘Blink Four Times’"

What a disgusting thing to say.
Usha and conservative Erika Kirk have become extremely close friends.

I suppose Jen would be disgusted by that.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

106 Is this the fellow who used a shock collar on this dog during his show- Medhi Hasan?. Gosh is this
an Islam apologist . Link from "Twitchy":

https://tinyurl.com/zfx9f8aj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:21 AM (rZCVI)

107 I remember an episode of Kolchak that involved swastikas and some kind of Hindu monster.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 08:19 AM (kTd/k)
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Yes I barely remember that. Some kind of golem I recall.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:22 AM (A0sqA)

108 “Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to fly home for free and receive $1,000 stipend, while preserving the option to return the legal, right way,”
_____

Dems are advising illegals to forego this opportunity because they need their votes and census numbers more than they care about these people. Imagine that!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 22, 2025 08:22 AM (Dv3i1)

109 The German National Socialist Workers' Party swastika is different from the Tibetan ones.

The German one has been rotated 45 degrees for one thing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 08:22 AM (v7zmp)

110 reading about the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation gifts to far left terror sympathizers (and maybe actual terrorists) makes me wonder why these foundations are not required to give away all their money by some date certain, and go away. Give them 50 years past the founders death or something, but not "forever".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 08:23 AM (/QZJ1)

111 101 The one about the rakshasa. With Phil Silvers and Murray Matheson in it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:23 AM (77rzZ)

112 It's Day 22 of the shutdown.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

113 It's perfect, as long as you remove the "-ucken" part.
Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:17 AM (UnA8+)

XTC, Right? The 'turd' is the inner layer of the Brennan construction.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:24 AM (V73x6)

114
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 08:24 AM (tljrc)

115 106 Is this the fellow who used a shock collar on this dog during his show- Medhi Hasan?. Gosh is this
an Islam apologist . Link from "Twitchy":

https://tinyurl.com/zfx9f8aj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:21 AM (rZCVI)

No. That was a different Muslim Turkroach, Hasan Piker.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:24 AM (UnA8+)

116 Ask your doctor if Rakshasa is right for you.

Posted by: The Marketing Department at October 22, 2025 08:25 AM (bVKL8)

117 Hasan says "we are American as anyone else."

No.

You're not.

Get out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)

118 rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire,

You didn't think I'd notice you stole my 'Acehole' line? It's trademarked and there were witnesses! Expect a letter from my attorney. It'll be the one addressed in crayon.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:25 AM (V73x6)

119 Yeah, one of the best episodes of the series... the one where Kolchak is actually dragged in because he assumes, as one would, that the symbols being spread all over a Jewish neighborhood were a hate crime rather than trying to keep the Rakshasa from killing everyone... and that Kolchak himself only survived because he didn't have ANY real loved ones for the monster to plausibly decieve him in the form of after previous events.

Posted by: American Hawkman at October 22, 2025 08:25 AM (9VDxG)

120 47 Sanae Takaichi Wins Historic Vote to Become Japan’s First Female Prime Minister

I assume, unless she's assassinated, that we can look forward to numerous articles about how she isn't a REAL woman since she isn't simpatico with the globohomo agenda.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

I want to hear news about how the PM’s office from henceforth shall be called Takaichi’s Castle. With games on the lawn - winner gets a cabinet position!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:25 AM (WtEb/)

121 >>Boston is in far better shape than San Francisco.

>>It was clean. No poop. Only hobos we saw were on Boston Common.

>>We were impressed.

I lived and worked in Boston for many years. Despite being a Democrat run city from top to bottom it was always clean and safe by big city standards.

But the woke crowd started taking over about 15 years ago and it has been going downhill ever since. It has gotten as bad as San Francisco but it's on the path.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 08:26 AM (viF8m)

122 Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:24 AM (UnA8+)


The "Hasan" threw me off and all I can think about when I hear "Hasan" is a Bugs Bunny Cartoon, "Ali Baba Bunny" and the large guy guarding the cave with treasure. Maybe the cartoon is before your time.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:27 AM (rZCVI)

123 It is amazing how Hassan Piker, nephew of Cenk and a millionaire red-diaper baby, has totally crashed since it has been revealed he abuses his dog.

He has imploded almost as fast as VShojo did. And Hassan's biggest backer Twitch is immolating right now.

What happened with Twitch? Well one of their biggest stars, Emiru, was literally assaulted during a meet&greet at Twitchcon. Most if not all gifts for the Vtubers at Twtichcon got thrown away by the staff. The CEO of Twitch was caught on video with an underage girl and was also seen sporting this giant gold necklace advertising that Paedo hunting site Roblox.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 08:27 AM (v7zmp)

124 The shutdown will continue until people notice it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 22, 2025 08:28 AM (jc0TO)

125 We had got dogs at Sullivan's on Castle Island.

I asked for sauerkraut on my dog and the guy gave me the look that Boston people give New Yorkers.

"No kraut."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:28 AM (A0sqA)

126 Mamdani: Only Islamophobes Object To Me Campaigning with a WTC Bombing Co-Conspirator

Only Islamophobes object to us raping and killing your daughters.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

127 > It's Day 22 of the shutdown.
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14 days to break the record.

35 days under Trump I. Mostly bitching about his funding for the border wall. Not every FedGov office was affected either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 08:29 AM (Q4IgG)

128 Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:24 AM (UnA8+)

In the cartoon the large guy branding a scimitar and who is guarding the treasure says ," Hasan chop!!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:29 AM (rZCVI)

129 And in this corner . . .

KJP and Karoline Leavitt throw down.

Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre calls Karoline Leavitt "DEPLORABLE...

"LEAVITT FIRES BACK: "Karine worked for the most incompetent president in history, so I guess she has a reason to be BITTER. But being BITTER will not sell you books."

"With all due respect to my predecessor, she is one of the main culprits of the greatest cover-up and scandal in American history. She took the podium every day and LIED to the press about the incompetence of her boss, and on this book tour, she continues to lie."

https://is.gd/ktznrz

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Well, first, "Deplorable" is a compliment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 08:29 AM (L/fGl)

130 It was a pleasure meeting you and your wife.
Didn't you coin that?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (Qd7dZ)

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lol

Well hell, even if I didn't, I'll take credit for it!

Too funny ... everything is kind of a blur (my adrenaline, not to mention the booze, was really pumping. Don't know if you could this exchange with Sponge yesterday, something else hilarious that I'd since forgotten:

[Sponge:] I will remember the moment I asked likely the dumbest question you'd ever heard, forever.

[Me:] Heh. You're gonna have to remind me (or at least a hint). I do remember being befuddled -- and the look on your face.

[Sponge:] You asked about where the First Lady was, and I was taking you to introduce, and asked what your name was......

[Me:] ROFLMAO!

I DO remember that now ... and the look on your face when you realized it! Hey, TBF, we'd only known each other for minutes.

THANKS for retrieving & memorializing THAT Classic Memory forever ;-) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:29 AM (dIdMH)

131 124 What happened with Twitch? Well one of their biggest stars, Emiru, was literally assaulted during a meet&greet at Twitchcon. Most if not all gifts for the Vtubers at Twtichcon got thrown away by the staff. The CEO of Twitch was caught on video with an underage girl and was also seen sporting this giant gold necklace advertising that Paedo hunting site Roblox.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 08:27 AM (v7zmp)

Also featuring a diaper-fetish vtuber, Tyler Jewart, on their main page.

"Why do you know this?"

"Stuttering" Craig Skistimas covered it on his podcast, Side Scrollers.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:30 AM (UnA8+)

132 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 22, 2025 08:27 AM (McGe+)

You're a dimwit. It is funded by private donations.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)

133 The one about the rakshasa. With Phil Silvers and Murray Matheson in it.
Posted by: Bulg


Holy cow! Carol Ann Susi, aka Mrs. Wolowitz on Big Bang Theory was on three episodes of TNS.

Phil Silvers was in Season 1, Episode 11 - Horror in the Heights.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:30 AM (Qd7dZ)

134 Troll faithfully belching the Line.

Belch troll, belch for us!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:30 AM (A0sqA)

135 The "Hasan" threw me off and all I can think about when I hear "Hasan" is a Bugs Bunny Cartoon, "Ali Baba Bunny" and the large guy guarding the cave with treasure. Maybe the cartoon is before your time.😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:27 AM (rZCVI)

I remember the 3 Stooges having trouble with Hasan Ben Sober.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (WtEb/)

136 New MAHA Guidelines Could Melt Fears About Unsaturated Fats

That headline doesn't match the content of its article. RFK Jr is saying saturated fats are not the demons we've been led to believe.

Be better, Legalinsurrection, be better.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (/HDaX)

137 XTC

I am trying to forget the Crinkly Furry Vtuber thank you very much. *shudder*

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (v7zmp)

138 Sebastian Gorka tells Just the News that in his first nine months, Trump has taken out 370 jihadists worldwide.

That's 26,640 virgins for those keeping score.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

139 135 Troll faithfully belching the Line.

Belch troll, belch for us!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 08:30 AM (A0sqA)

Less troll, probably more paid...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (tOcjL)

140 124 It is amazing how Hassan Piker, nephew of Cenk and a millionaire red-diaper baby, has totally crashed since it has been revealed he abuses his dog.


new vids and photos of his previous dog with cuts all around his neck - prong collar use

horrible trainers out there I swear. prongs can be used in VERY LIMITED fashion (not that I would). and should never be causing a torn-up throat

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF)

141 Grandma killer Cuomo has a plan for NYC and it's to get the hell out of Dodge.

Andrew Cuomo said that if Mamdani wins, "he's moving to Florida." New Yorkers cannot run from their problems. Can you imagine if George Washington had done that? To my friends here in New York: stay, fight the Mamdani regime, stand up for this incredible city, and make us proud.

https://is.gd/t243as

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 08:32 AM (L/fGl)

142 What if they held a shutdown and nobody showed up?

Posted by: Asks a Boomer at October 22, 2025 08:32 AM (bVKL8)

143 You didn't think I'd notice you stole my 'Acehole' line? It's trademarked and there were witnesses! Expect a letter from my attorney. It'll be the one addressed in crayon.
Posted by: JSpicy


LOL. I knew it was someone in the Shade Tree Group.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:33 AM (Qd7dZ)

144 Totenkopfs ?? Are they the "baddies" ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 22, 2025 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

145 Report: Texas Finds Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Registered on State Voter Rolls

Only eligible United States citizens may participate in our elections,” Nelson said, adding that the Trump Administration has given states “free and direct access” to a dataset “for the first time,” which she called “a game changer” in Texas’ election review.
*******
Deport any illegal that voted in past elections.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

146 Remember Trump is a sekret NAZI because, uh...reasons.

The Dem Senate candidate with a NAZI tattoo? Uh...it was just a youthful mistake.

Why hasn't he had it removed? Uh...reasons

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (sKqQm)

147 Mamdani: Only Islamophobes Object To Me Campaigning with a WTC Bombing Co-Conspirator

Only Islamophobes object to us raping and killing your daughters.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

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

Even though he was born in Uganda, they'll run him for POTUS one day as "The 12th Imam, DogEater II."

Making The Muzzie Brotherhood Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dIdMH)

148 The shutdown will continue until people notice it.
Posted by: toby928(c)


They may want to rethink that.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (Qd7dZ)

149 >Progressives Eye Takeover Of Deep Red States
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It happened to Colorado
It can happen to YOU

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (AOsQT)

150 I want to hear news about how the PM’s office from henceforth shall be called Takaichi’s Castle. With games on the lawn - winner gets a cabinet position!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Right you are, Ken! Skipper, take it away!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (yjljJ)

151 It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood


Bust 'em if ya got 'em!
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:15 AM (Qd7dZ)


Yeah, baby!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 22, 2025 08:36 AM (ufSfZ)

152 131 It was a pleasure meeting you and your wife.
Didn't you coin that?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 08:13 AM (Qd7dZ)

That wasn't my wife! i haven't had one of those since the last one took all of my money.

But I did coin it when I was being particularly spicy and got called, justifiably, an asshole. Of course, I needed to one-up that and called myself an acehole. You said you loved it and were going to use it. I'm 100% on board with that.

Was great to meet you at the MOME. I hope you had a great time and hope to see you next year.

Posted by: JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:37 AM (V73x6)

153 Deport any illegal that voted in past elections.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

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That's a federal crime. Exile & imprison them in Club Gitmo or CECOT with an aside of Waterboarding Therapy.

Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:38 AM (dIdMH)

154 Sometimes you feel like an Almond Joy...

Posted by: Sometimes you don't at October 22, 2025 08:38 AM (bVKL8)

155 I remember an episode of Kolchak that involved swastikas and some kind of Hindu monster.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 22, 2025 08:19 AM (kTd/k)


"Horror In The Heights," which also starred Phil Silvers. Critics call it one of the best episodes of the series, though I'm not a particular fan of it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 08:38 AM (ufSfZ)

156 As far as Hasan Piker's crashout, it was interesting hearing the truth come out of him, whining about how he actually hates streaming and hates Socialism (when his whole thing is about pushing Socialism and Communism on idiot teens and young adults).

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:38 AM (UnA8+)

157 It happened to Colorado
It can happen to YOU
Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 08:35 AM (AOsQT)

Colorado was a low population state that got colonized by California. That’s how it got ruined.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2025 08:39 AM (WtEb/)

158 We need common sense ladyboy control!

Posted by: Happy Harry at October 22, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

159 It's National Nut Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

So it's a pants optional day?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 08:39 AM (L/fGl)

160 Was great to meet you at the MOME. I hope you had a great time and hope to see you next year.
Posted by: JSpicy


I did and you will. I've already made plans.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 08:40 AM (Qd7dZ)

161 Take care of your nuts and they'll take care of you.

Posted by: Squirrel in the backyard at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (bVKL8)

162 It's National Nut Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)


Almond Joy. Because . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (wVcYX)

163 That's 26,640 virgins for those keeping score.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

No Maths Please

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

164 Anonosaurus Wrecks

Only for the National Socialist leader of Germany.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

165 99 > It's National Nut Day.
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Looking at the newz, I'd say every day was nut day. They're everywhere. Doing what they do. Making everyone else go "hmmmm."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

9 days before No Nut November, too.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (N39Ws)

166 "Horror In The Heights," which also starred Phil Silvers. Critics call it one of the best episodes of the series, though I'm not a particular fan of it.
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Saw it when I was a wee little child. Gave me nightmares.

It's kind of a time capsule. Indian food was still considered exotic in 1975.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 08:42 AM (/5WHP)

167 So it's a pants optional day?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 08:39 AM (L/fGl)
*****
Pants are always optional.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

168 >Colorado was a low population state that got colonized by California. That’s how it got ruined.

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https://tinyurl.com/mscuwnak

It was a deliberate effort

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 08:43 AM (AOsQT)

169 KJP writes a book dumping on Dems.
Kamala writes a book dumping on Dems.
Angry black women dumping on Dems doesn't seem like a winning strategy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:43 AM (8RjCi)

170 Bernie about Platner,

“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"

When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."

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Bernie Bernie Bernie, 6,000,000 > 50,000.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 08:44 AM (L/fGl)

171 Kolchak himself only survived because he didn't have ANY real loved ones for the monster to plausibly decieve him in the form of

The monster impersonated Miss Emily, his colleague at the wire service, but Kolchak didn't fall for it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:44 AM (77rzZ)

172 162 It's National Nut Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)


Almond Joy. Because . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (wVcYX)



DEEZ!!1!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 22, 2025 08:45 AM (x0n13)

173 This might be fake:

kate beckinsale followed you

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 08:46 AM (AOsQT)

174 Bernie naturally said it was all the fault of oligarchs who he thinks should survive on $ 1b. Bernie never breaks character

I would pay good money for an 'interviewer' to call out that addled, Ben-Gay odiferous grifter.

"If you're so concerned about poverty in America, you worthless old bastard, why don't you sell one of your three houses and give the money away? Oh, that's right - they're not your houses! They're in your crooked, university-bankrupting wife's name so you can pretend to be a man of the people! You're a lousy, slacking running dog of capitalism and I only wish I could time-travel your saggy, flatulent, dingleberried ass to the Khmer Rouge and let you have a good, hard taste of real socialism!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 08:46 AM (ufSfZ)

175 Funny thing about Ribbentrop. He was one of the few people that Hitler couldn't cow into submission. He visited Berlin, and Hitler tried to bully him with his histrionics, but Molotov just looked at him stolidly and didn't react.

I guess working for Stalin would have that effect on you.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

176 The CEO of Twitch was caught on video with an underage girl and was also seen sporting this giant gold necklace advertising that Paedo hunting site Roblox.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 22, 2025 08:27 AM (v7zmp)

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We've come a long way and seen a hell of a lot (of Satanic behavior) exposed since the Comet Pizza days ... and still only know the tip of the iceberg.

So disgusting.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (dIdMH)

177 I never knew Judas Priest was a euphemistic expression. Where the hell have I been?

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (lonsH)

178 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (cYBz/)

179 > >Colorado was a low population state that got colonized by California. That’s how it got ruined.
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The left doesn't just move elsewhere.

They move elsewhere and (this is important) they get involved in local politics right away. They dominate the local, political scene, even in blood red areas. Because the locals don't care about local politics. At least not enough to get involved when it matters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (Q4IgG)

180 Funny thing about Molotov. He was one of the few people that Hitler couldn't cow into submission. He visited Berlin, and Hitler tried to bully him with his histrionics, but Molotov just looked at him stolidly and didn't react.

I guess working for Stalin would have that effect on you.
Posted by: Bulg

Not Ribbentrop, dammit!

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

181 >>>Progressives Eye Takeover Of Deep Red States
----

>>It happened to Colorado
It can happen to YOU

Meanwhile both NJ and VA have very close governor races and PA is getting redder by the day. And Trump took every swing state.

What's really been interesting to see is the growth of Turning Point chapters since Charlie's death. Young people are joining in droves and that's the future. Almost every night you can find posts on X showing photos of sold out venues on a college campus somewhere in the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 08:48 AM (viF8m)

182 Rusty nuts? Too tight and need loosening?

Posted by: WD-40 at October 22, 2025 08:49 AM (wVcYX)

183 This might be fake:

kate beckinsale followed you
Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 08:46 AM (AOsQT)

In contrast I got hearted by the actual Julie Newmar. I am special.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 08:49 AM (lonsH)

184 161 Take care of your nuts and they'll take care of you.
Posted by: Squirrel in the backyard at October 22, 2025 08:41 AM (bVKL

You're gonna love Offer "Vince" Shlomi's nuts!

(Slap Chop)

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 08:50 AM (UnA8+)

185 I never knew Judas Priest was a euphemistic expression. Where the hell have I been?
Posted by: ...

Well, ellipses are used to signify omission.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

186 "Horror In The Heights," which also starred Phil Silvers. Critics call it one of the best episodes of the series, though I'm not a particular fan of it.
------------------

Saw it when I was a wee little child. Gave me nightmares.

It's kind of a time capsule. Indian food was still considered exotic in 1975.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 08:42 AM (/5WHP)


My favorite episode is probably Demon in Lace, where a Babylonian spirit possesses a dead girl. But I also like the two made-for-TV movies, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 08:50 AM (ufSfZ)

187 On Piers Morgan, Harry Sisson dares @JackPosobiec and the panel to name one high-ranking Democrat who's compared Trump to Hitler. It doesn't go well for Harry.

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"We did not have Hitler sex with that meme. Not once. Not a single time."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 08:50 AM (L/fGl)

188 "If you're so concerned about poverty in America, you worthless old bastard, why don't you sell one of your three houses and give the money away? Oh, that's right - they're not your houses! They're in your crooked, university-bankrupting wife's name so you can pretend to be a man of the people! You're a lousy, slacking running dog of capitalism and I only wish I could time-travel your saggy, flatulent, dingleberried ass to the Khmer Rouge and let you have a good, hard taste of real socialism!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 08:46 AM (ufSfZ)

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Pure poetry. The only thing missing was "nickelfucker".

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (dIdMH)

189 This might be fake:

kate beckinsale followed you
Posted by: Don Black


You should totally give her all your money.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (mlg/3)

190 I post this periodically because it makes me laugh:
Bugs Bunny in "Ali Baba Bunny":

https://tinyurl.com/bddx9rxb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (L2PcB)

191 The Kolchak ep about the Doppelganger is probably the scariest one of all.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

192 There's nothing sharp on a prong collar. I used one briefly when I first got Jake, to try and get him to stop pulling on the lead.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (kUxzU)

193 Christopher Lloyd is 87 today. Been around a long time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (8RjCi)

194 Well, ellipses are used to signify omission.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

Ohhhhh no

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (lonsH)

195 On Piers Morgan, Harry Sisson dares @JackPosobiec and the panel to name one high-ranking Democrat who's compared Trump to Hitler. It doesn't go well for Harry.

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It would be quicker and a shorter list to name all the high-ranking Democrats who haven't yet compared Trump to Hitler.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 08:52 AM (dIdMH)

196 Nelson said on Monday that an election evaluation in Texas has sparked an eligibility review across the 254 counties after more than 2,700 potential illegal immigrants were found on the state’s voter rolls.

A drop in the bucket compared to the 100k or more in every big county that live a UPS stores, 7-11s, and demolished Apt Buildings.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

197 "Horror In The Heights," which also starred Phil Silvers. Critics call it one of the best episodes of the series, though I'm not a particular fan of it.

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It's kind of a time capsule. Indian food was still considered exotic in 1975.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I think I had Rakshasa once for lunch. Didn't like it.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM (cYBz/)

198 Christopher Lloyd is 87 today. Been around a long time
Posted by: Smell the Glove


Damn. Damn damn.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

199 190 I post this periodically because it makes me laugh:
Bugs Bunny in "Ali Baba Bunny":

https://tinyurl.com/bddx9rxb
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (L2PcB)

Thanks Fenelon. Grew up watching Bugs Bunny cartoons every Saturday morning. Brings back great memories.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM (N39Ws)

200 Andrew Cuomo said that if Mamdani wins, "he's moving to Florida."
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He might move to Florida, but plenty of New Yorkers will move to NJ and I expect my house will finally be worth enough for my bride to agree to sell it!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 08:54 AM (vIQqs)

201 It would be quicker and a shorter list to name all the high-ranking Democrats who haven't yet compared Trump to Hitler.
Posted by: ShainS

How many of these numbskulls have ever read a book about the actual Hitler?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

202 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM (N39Ws)

You're welcome. It's good to have a laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:54 AM (L2PcB)

203 A resurfaced video shows Platner with a chest tattoo that seems to resemble the German SS Totenkopf, the skull-and-crossbones emblem used by Nazi “Death’s Head” units.

I like HR Pufnstuf much better than SS Totenkopf.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

204 198 Christopher Lloyd is 87 today. Been around a long time
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Damn. Damn damn.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)



Jim Ignatowski: "Well, I could be wrong, but I detect something in here that's a lot more powerful than oatmeal."

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 08:55 AM (N39Ws)

205 How many of these numbskulls have ever read a book about the actual Hitler?
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

Or seen the 3 stooges skit?

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

206 @196 if there's 2700 or n Texas I can't imagine how many there are here in NY

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 08:56 AM (8RjCi)

207 I like HR Pufnstuf much better than SS Totenkopf.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Pufnstuf certainly had better drugs.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

208 Aliens. They are most assuredly not immigrants. Never use propaganda nomenclature.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 08:56 AM (OtFdX)

209 Bugs Bunny in "Ali Baba Bunny"

I can hear the shrieking about this in my head already. We Gen X types are formidable to have lived through such horrors on our television.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 08:56 AM (99eI0)

210 On Piers Morgan, Harry Sisson dares @JackPosobiec and the panel to name one high-ranking Democrat who's compared Trump to Hitler. It doesn't go well for Harry.

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Classic noob lawyer misstep - asking a question for the record without already knowing the answer.

Posted by: Count de Monet, watched a few episodes of Perry Mason at October 22, 2025 08:57 AM (wVcYX)

211 Deport any illegal that voted in past elections.

What about the millions that didn't personally vote but had a ballot submitted in their names?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

212 Erika Kirk is everything in a woman these ugly lefty cat ladies fear. Usha has been in the spotlight as her best friend and rock. She also is the thing that makes normie leans left look at JD and go hmmm Not Hitler. Naturally she's in the cross hairs. It won't end well for them.

Posted by: chicom astronaut puddingcup at October 22, 2025 08:59 AM (jPdyB)

213
Radical Pennsylvania Bills Could Allow Public Funding Of Abortion Up To Birth

I wouldn't be astonished if I was wrong, but it's hard for me to see these get implemented. They're just proposed bills, the legislature is controlled by the GOP in the Senate and nearly even in the House, they're Constitutional amendments and have to undergo referenda and PA has a higher than average percentage of Catholics.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 08:59 AM (tgvbd)

214 A drop in the bucket compared to the 100k or more in every big county that live a UPS stores, 7-11s, and demolished Apt Buildings.

A couple of years ago I remember following a thread where a conservative reporter had found hundreds of people registered to vote out of an empty warehouse.

The FNM buried the story but before they did they argued it was non-news because these were just homeless people using the nearest address to where they camped out. Note, the reporter found no homeless people camping around the warehouse...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

215 Kolshak was the inspiration for the X-Files.

Fox or ABC tried rebooting Kolshak in 2000s or 2010s but it was lame. Bigger budget but weren't willing to go as dark as the original.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 08:59 AM (/5WHP)

216 Okay, it's not the chariot race from Ben Hur, but it will do for now

https://tinyurl.com/3mpsrk3k

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)

217 Look who's gone butch.

Scarborough: Republicans are going to regret what they’re doing now when a progressive president takes over.

“This will come back to haunt them."

They keep screaming at the top of their lungs about how a “Trump revenge tour” is a grave threat to the country —

— while in the next breath warning the left can’t wait to seek revenge should they reclaim power.

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For some reason, Mrs. Wrecks is incensed about Top Gun Trump’s poop video. Then she told me Trump is such a homophobe he has ordered Hiroshima bomber Enola Gay to be renamed. I asked if was renamed to Enola Butch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (L/fGl)

218 Aliens. They are most assuredly not immigrants. Never use propaganda nomenclature.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 22, 2025 08:56 AM (OtFdX)

Illegals.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (lonsH)

219
Christopher Lloyd is 87 today. Been around a long time
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Damn. Damn damn.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM

Jim Ignatowski: "Well, I could be wrong, but I detect something in here that's a lot more powerful than oatmeal."

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 08:55 AM


The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (tljrc)

220 Fetterman Says He’ll Back a Senate GOP Move to Abolish the Filibuster.

When the Senate actually represented each State the filibuster required important new law to be approves by 3/5ths of the states. Now the Senate is almost a national position instead of a State position as the Ossoffs and Betos just got to NY and Cal to get outside money to run.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

221 The first season of x-files where they generally had plausible deniability for the monsters of the week was pretty good

Once it just because all the monsters and aliens are real my interest dropped off

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

222 >>But no, that didn’t do it, the SS tattoo however is making Platner a truly national figure.


IT'S FUNNY HOW THE LEFT IS SO MUCH MORE WELL-VERSED IN NAZI/KKK SYMBOLISM, LANGUAGE, AND DOGWHISTLES THAN THE PEOPLE THEY CONSTANTLY CLAIM ARE NAAAAZIS. WHO HERE WOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED THE TATTOO'S HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 22, 2025 09:01 AM (GbwPZ)

223 I like HR Pufnstuf much better than SS Totenkopf.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Pufnstuf certainly had better drugs.
Posted by: Bulg

Tele Tubies have entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:01 AM (cYBz/)

224 The Kolchak ep about the Doppelganger is probably the scariest one of all.

"Firestarter."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (ufSfZ)

225 The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (tljrc)

Slow Down

What do you do when approaching a caution light?

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

226 Fox or ABC tried rebooting Kolshak in 2000s or 2010s but it was lame. Bigger budget but weren't willing to go as dark as the original.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I hate reboots. If you wanna do a show that's similar to an earlier one (e.g., like the X-Files was similar to Kolchak), that's fine. But don't go with the same title, the same characters, and the same exact premise. That's just lame.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

227 Deport any illegal that voted in past elections.

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There was a policy announcement around illegal voters some months ago. Upshot was barred from citizenship if I recall. I'd favor the same thing for the useful idiots the left has purposefully imported into red areas. They are not innocent, they are knowing leaches and they know what leverage they had to get the goodies. Take their DNA and make it chain familial.

Posted by: chicom astronaut puddingcup at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (jPdyB)

228 Or seen the 3 stooges skit?
Posted by: r hennigantx

Vaudeville was dying in the late 20s. Shemp went to Hollywood, but Moe and Curly came home to Brooklyn, bought a small parcel of land and put up 4 homes. Just as the Depression hit. They didn't make much, if anything on the 4 houses and left for Hollywood too. Three of the houses were demolished for street widening and such over the years, but one is still standing.

Posted by: The House That Moe Built at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (oftw2)

229
Who knew the Brits were such a nostalgic people?

They seem determined to relive the

Life-Style of the Glory Days of the Blitz.

https://tinyurl.com/4aysnvnj

Frequent Blackouts, limits on food...maybe their ample supply of jihadis can provide the exploding buildings for them!

Ah! To be in Britain October 1940...and Now you Can!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 22, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)

230
I hate reboots. If you wanna do a show that's similar to an earlier one (e.g., like the X-Files was similar to Kolchak), that's fine. But don't go with the same title, the same characters, and the same exact premise. That's just lame.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM


agreed

now do Star Trek...

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (tljrc)

231 A couple of years ago I remember following a thread where a conservative reporter had found hundreds of people registered to vote out of an empty warehouse.

The FNM buried the story but before they did they argued it was non-news because these were just homeless people using the nearest address to where they camped out. Note, the reporter found no homeless people camping around the warehouse...
Posted by: 18-1

I worked with state wide elections for years - Especially in MS, the homeless were assigned an 'address' for the nearest park bench by the Dem canvassers.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (cYBz/)

232 >>Andrew Cuomo said that if Mamdani wins, "he's moving to Florida."


Way to demonstrate how loyal you are to the voters.
Any other setbacks, particularly any that might occur should you win, that would cause you to flee the city you claim you want to lead?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (GbwPZ)

233 I never knew Judas Priest was a euphemistic expression. Where the hell have I been?

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 08:47 AM (lonsH)

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I remember cracking up my mom and grandmother around age seven by using the phrase I"d picked up from someone: "H. E. Double-Toothpicks."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dIdMH)

234 I hate reboots. If you wanna do a show that's similar to an earlier one (e.g., like the X-Files was similar to Kolchak), that's fine. But don't go with the same title, the same characters, and the same exact premise. That's just lame.
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Battlestar Galactica has entered the chat.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (/5WHP)

235 Loyola student newspaper creates ICE tracker, says immigration enforcement is ‘unconstitutional’

https://tinyurl.com/znvv7yxx

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

236 Okay, it's not the chariot race from Ben Hur, but it will do for now

https://tinyurl.com/3mpsrk3k
Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)


That made me smile. Thank you.

Speaking of Ben-Hur, I wish William Wyler had taken a page out of Billy Wilder's book and cast the silent Ben-Hur and Messala, Ramon Novarro and Francis X Bushman, in a short cameo in the Heston version.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:04 AM (ufSfZ)

237 Morning again, news addicts! A tip of the chapeau to JJ for his expert assembly of these news stories every day.

I'm shaved, showered, fed, finishing my last cup of coffee, and ready (for certain values of "ready") for the day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:05 AM (omVj0)

238 Battlestar Galactica has entered the chat.

The mini-series and first season of that show was pretty good.

When they land on Planet Iraq and Cylon George Bush starts oppressing them though the show jumped the shark

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

239 How many of these numbskulls have ever read a book about the actual Hitler?

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

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And know that he assassinated his opponents.

Geez, that sounds kind of familiar recently, no?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:06 AM (dIdMH)

240 >>Andrew Cuomo said that if Mamdani wins, "he's moving to Florida."


Didn't Cuomo constantly demonize Florida's policies during the COVID times?

But now - now! - it's his safe space??
Quite an admission, buddy, that you wouldn't flee to blue state, such as CA, MA, WA, or VA. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:07 AM (GbwPZ)

241 When you look up national socialism on wiki this is what you get.

>>Nazism ... is the far-right totalitarian ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.


Only in the deluded brains of leftists does the idea of socialism being a "far-right totalitarian ideology".

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)

242 The first season of x-files where they generally had plausible deniability for the monsters of the week was pretty good

Once it just because all the monsters and aliens are real my interest dropped off
Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:01 AM (sKqQm)


The writer Richard Matheson noted that from the start, the Kolchak series had written itself into a corner: OK, so Kolchak works in Vegas and comes across a vampire? We can accept that.

Then he moves to Seattle and crosses paths with a mad doctor killing people for his immortality potion? Coincidental, but still believable.

But then he settles in with INS in Chicago and comes across a supernatural event every week in the same city?

Nope.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:07 AM (ufSfZ)

243 224 The Kolchak ep about the Doppelganger is probably the scariest one of all.

"Firestarter."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (ufSfZ)

The dude with the bamboo that was a vampire like thting.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:07 AM (gbOdA)

244 "A Clinton would never defile the White House"

~~ Hillzabub, yesterday, as quoted in the NY Post.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (iRJ3E)

245 A guy in a Unibomber tee shirt has some thoughts.

https://is.gd/PHv9pn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (L/fGl)

246 Lloyd was Rev Jim on Taxi, Doc Brown in BttF, Kruger in Star Trek, and he debuted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, among other things. Damn good career

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (8RjCi)

247 >Ah! To be in Britain October 1940...
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Me dear old Mum (pbuh) was
5 years old
remembered all the planes flying overhead the night of June 5-6, 4 years later

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (AOsQT)

248 The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work
Posted by: AltonJackson

One of my favorite eps with Rev. Jim was when he starts up his own bar with the help of his rich brother. A guy acting like a hard-core alkie comes in close to closing time and pleads for Jim to give him a bottle of something. Jim relents and hands the guy a bottle in a brown paper guy, whereupon the drunk reveals himself to be an alcohol-patrol officer and announces that he's going to have to arrest Jim for violating the state's liquor laws. The rich brother, who is there, starts shaking his head and expressing disappointment in Jim, whereupon Jim pulls out the bottle in the paper bag and reveals it to be Selzer water, and orders the officer out of the bar. Great stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

249 I post this periodically because it makes me laugh:
Bugs Bunny in "Ali Baba Bunny":

https://tinyurl.com/bddx9rxb
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 08:51 AM (L2PcB)

Good God, Fenlon is posting Russian Bugs Bunny disinformation. We are lost.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 22, 2025 09:09 AM (n4GiU)

250 "A Clinton would never defile the White House"

~~ Hillzabub, yesterday, as quoted in the NY Post.

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Now, deflower, sure.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

251 I talked to Pappy Eromero who actually fought Hitler in France. I know something about that subject.

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 09:09 AM (jgmnb)

252 The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work
Posted by: AltonJackson


Talk about a trip in the way back machine.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:09 AM (Qd7dZ)

253 I hate reboots. If you wanna do a show that's similar to an earlier one (e.g., like the X-Files was similar to Kolchak), that's fine. But don't go with the same title, the same characters, and the same exact premise. That's just lame.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

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Well, at least they're not swapping out the original characters' races, sexes, and "genders."

/Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:09 AM (dIdMH)

254 Christopher Lloyd is 87 today. Been around a long time
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Damn. Damn damn.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 08:53 AM

Jim Ignatowski: "Well, I could be wrong, but I detect something in here that's a lot more powerful than oatmeal."

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 22, 2025 08:55 AM

The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (tljrc)

Didn't watch many Taxi episodes, but I do remember the one with a flashback to Jim in college, before the drugs took hold.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX)

255 But then he settles in with INS in Chicago and comes across a supernatural event every week in the same city?

Nope.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)


Things like that work if you have some premise where the truth of such things is actively being hidden from the public in some way--which is more or less what X-Files did, and was the seed of its 'mythos'--otherwise you have the Jessica Fletcher Effect in play and it's just silly.

Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (OUMaO)

256 R/democraticsocialism Do not squander Graham Platner

If the choice is between Graham Platner and Susan Collins the choice is completely clear to me tattoo, Blackwater and all

The right is okay with an unrepentant rapist and pedophile who wants to enrich his pocketbook. We have a messed up, repentant democratic socialist who wants a better world for the working man.

The military is incredibly right wing. I don’t give a shit about this, and his Reddit messages show he’s no Nazi. If you think Susan Collins is going to lose to a 90 year old centrist dinosaur, you’re delusional. I’m not falling for this bait to stop running a good candidate.

I was in the military for the same periods, saw combat, have PTSD, and a pretty fraught digital footprint. You know what I don’t have? A fucking NAZI TATTOO. I’m confused as to why people are completely overlooking the comments he made about rape as well. It’s many things combined.

Agreed. It’s very strange, but again, he is a socialist running for office. He is very clearly not a fucking fascist. Please don’t vote based on vibes.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (JCZqz)

257 >>The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work

The episode where he goes to the DMV to take the driver's test is one of the funniest I ever saw.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (Y1sOo)

258 Psaki's comments about Vance . . . it's true we don't know as much about him, his real positions on things, as we do Trump. He appears to be the real MAGA deal. There's always the chance that, elected in 2028, he might well swerve back into RINO territory.

For now, he's saying the right things, and that's good.

AS for Usha needing help, well, we all know how Dems project and claim conservatives are doing and thinking what they, the Dems themselves, are. Psaki could use some intervention herself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (omVj0)

259 246 Lloyd was Rev Jim on Taxi, Doc Brown in BttF, Kruger in Star Trek, and he debuted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, among other things. Damn good career
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (8RjCi)

Judge Doom, damnit.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)

260 And here comes work. Perhaps see you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)

261 Paul Lyndh >>>>>>>>John Walker Lindh

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:11 AM (0CU3H)

262 I’m confused as to why people are completely overlooking the comments he made about rape as well.

Well, I wrote some thoughts on the topic

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at October 22, 2025 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

263 Paul Lynde. Drat.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:11 AM (0CU3H)

264 Former Sen. John Sununu, brother of Chris, announces New Hampshire Republican Senate run

https://tinyurl.com/5n99c533

Posted by: redridinghood at October 22, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

265 The dude with the bamboo that was a vampire like thting.

"The Spanish Moss Murders?" The one with Pere Malfait?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:12 AM (ufSfZ)

266 "A Clinton would never defile the White House"

~~ Hillzabub, yesterday, as quoted in the NY Post.

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I'll bet there's still Bubba's semen, cigars, and cocaine hidden away in secret cubby-holes (or "chubby-hoes," amirite?).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:12 AM (dIdMH)

267 The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work
Posted by: AltonJackson


***
Agreed . . . but his Klingon commander in Trek III is a remarkable dramatic performance too. His Kruge is insane even by Klingon standards.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

268 The 2005 Dr Who Reboot worked out quite well ... for a while.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 09:13 AM (/5WHP)

269 I was in the military for the same periods, saw combat, have PTSD, and a pretty fraught digital footprint. You know what I don’t have? A fucking NAZI TATTOO. I’m confused as to why people are completely overlooking the comments he made about rape as well. It’s many things combined.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


He's gonna be banned by lunch.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:13 AM (Qd7dZ)

270 Former Sen. John Sununu, brother of Chris, announces New Hampshire Republican Senate run

I guess the best we could hope from him is something like Kelly Ayotte...but probably more like his brother...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

271 >>Agreed. It’s very strange, but again, he is a socialist running for office. He is very clearly not a fucking fascist.

See? Leftists have been brainwashed by government schools and garbage dumps like wiki to believe socialism is the opposite of fascism. It isn't.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (viF8m)

272 Former Sen. John Sununu, brother of Chris, announces New Hampshire Republican Senate run

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The Sununus are like the Bushes of Kennedys.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (dIdMH)

273 Look out! Extreme Hakeem is pissed!

REP. JEFFRIES: "You better watch how you talk when you talk about me."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (L/fGl)

274 FWP

I am out of limone biscotti

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (AOsQT)

275 Trump is such a homophobe two of his top guys are queer.

Posted by: Braenard - some Best Friends are more important than others at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (K+X3x)

276 Christopher Lloyd was also in that Clue movie in the late 80s.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

277 Didn't watch many Taxi episodes, but I do remember the one with a flashback to Jim in college, before the drugs took hold.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025


***
I don't think I've ever seen that one! It's so neat when high-quality sitcoms do flashbacks to earlier times in the characters' lives. Rob Petrie told us about how he met Laura, for instance, and the time he agreed to stay awake for 100 hours on the air as a DJ.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (omVj0)

278 Running an actual NAZI for Senate and arguing he is obviously better then a left of center Republican is peak 2025 Democrat.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

279 Look out! Extreme Hakeem is pissed!

REP. JEFFRIES: "You better watch how you talk when you talk about me."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (L/fGl)

Well, he's no Shaft.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

280 "A Clinton would never defile the White House"

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That's because you gotta win first, sweet cheeks.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (lonsH)

281 Didn't watch many Taxi episodes, but I do remember the one with a flashback to Jim in college, before the drugs took hold.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX)

That episode was absolutely hysterical.

Fun fact: pre-drugs Jim's stoner Harvard roommate was played by...Tom Hanks.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (0CU3H)

282 The most embarrassing thing about Platner isn’t the Nazi tattoo.

It’s that he’s a younger guy (41), was a Marine, and yet he’s a flabby tub of tallow. That almost nude “dance” he did, with his flabby gut flapping around? Holy hell of Satan. Hegseth is like Mr Olympia by comparison.

Is there anyone in the entire democrat party who keeps themselves in shape and isn’t a creepy weirdo?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (mrJNK)

283 >> "A Clinton would never defile the White House"


I'm beginning to think she wants to be struck by lightning.
Not only was there the Lewinsky business (and other sexual assaults) in the Oval office, not only did Hillary attempt to steal a truckload of WH furnishings she had asked American artisans to craft (for free) for the WH so that occupants could enjoy them for many years, the Clinton team vandalized the WH West Wing and Old Executive office building as they exited.

W. chose to downplay it as a gesture of goodwill after the contentious recount, but there was costly damage that we, the people, had to pay to repair.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:16 AM (GbwPZ)

284 Christopher Lloyd was also in that Clue movie in the late 80s.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
His Uncle Fester in the two Addams Family movies in the '90s was the definitive version of the character -- even more than Jackie Coogan's original. (So were all the other lead actors in that. He was in good company.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:16 AM (omVj0)

285 REP. JEFFRIES: "You better watch how you talk when you talk about me."

Dude, I have my doubts that you could beat a dick let alone a man.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:17 AM (99eI0)

286 Is there anyone in the entire democrat party who keeps themselves in shape and isn’t a creepy weirdo?


those that are, are the exceptions that prove the rule

Platner is creepy. they can push him all they want. he gives off very bad vibes.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:17 AM (emBoF)

287 It’s very strange, but again, he is a socialist running for office. He is very clearly not a fucking fascist. Please don’t vote based on vibes.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 09:10 AM (JCZqz)

This is hilarious.

Posted by: dantesed at October 22, 2025 09:17 AM (Oy/m2)

288 "A Clinton would never defile the White House"



*human humidor has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:17 AM (Qd7dZ)

289 Fun fact: pre-drugs Jim's stoner Harvard roommate was played by...Tom Hanks.
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025


***
A year or so before his lead turn in Bosom Buddies (which was a better comedy than its premise suggested), and a while before he moved into films.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (omVj0)

290 See? Leftists have been brainwashed by government schools and garbage dumps like wiki to believe socialism is the opposite of fascism. It isn't.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (viF8m)

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I always preferred -- and should, and wish it were, use(d) more often -- Ayn Rand's all-encompassing term used for every such anti-Individual Liberty, anti-Human Rights, and anti-Capitalist political philosophy:

Collectivism.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (dIdMH)

291 His Uncle Fester in the two Addams Family movies in the '90s was the definitive version of the character -- even more than Jackie Coogan's original. (So were all the other lead actors in that. He was in good company.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I never saw those. But I can see him as Fester.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

292 Then: Of course the president has the right to make you take a poison shot, lock you in your house, and arrest opposition political candidates. No one is above the law!

Now: HOW DARE YOU ENFORCE THE LAW!

Posted by: The left at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (sKqQm)

293 282 The most embarrassing thing about Platner isn’t the Nazi tattoo. It’s that he’s a younger guy (41), was a Marine, and yet he’s a flabby tub of tallow. That almost nude “dance” he did, with his flabby gut flapping around? Holy hell of Satan. Hegseth is like Mr Olympia by comparison.

Is there anyone in the entire democrat party who keeps themselves in shape and isn’t a creepy weirdo?
Posted by: Elric the Blade

I don't see the problem here...and I remember Obama crushing it on the basketball court, and getting swoll with 15lb weights!

Posted by: LTC "Bearclaw" Vindman at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

294 I'll bet there's still Bubba's semen, cigars, and cocaine hidden away in secret cubby-holes (or "chubby-hoes," amirite?).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe

White House Construction Crew Finds 1,357 More Cocaine Stashes

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (L/fGl)

295 I don't think I've ever seen that one! It's so neat when high-quality sitcoms do flashbacks to earlier times in the characters' lives. Rob Petrie told us about how he met Laura, for instance, and the time he agreed to stay awake for 100 hours on the air as a DJ.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:15 AM (omVj0)

And on Friends back to high school years, when Ross and Chandler enter the house with Flock of Seagulls haircuts.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (wVcYX)

296 This is hilarious.


it is! "just ignore that he's a creepy nazi and vote for him"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (emBoF)

297 It's a scathing indictment of history classes in schools that so many children are growing up thinking that if we became a communist nation, the world would be sunshine and rainbows and everything would be 100% fair.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:19 AM (99eI0)

298 The dude with the bamboo that was a vampire like thting.
*
"The Spanish Moss Murders?" The one with Pere Malfait?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025


***
Sounds like an early Ellery Queen title!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:19 AM (omVj0)

299 I always preferred -- and should, and wish it were, use(d) more often -- Ayn Rand's all-encompassing term used for every such anti-Individual Liberty, anti-Human Rights, and anti-Capitalist political philosophy:

Collectivism.


agree. with a splash of Materialism and a large dose of Utilitarianism - but those will naturally go with a selfish worldview

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:19 AM (emBoF)

300 Platner is creepy. they can push him all they want. he gives off very bad vibes.
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Dude, they literally told you not to vote off vibes! Gahl!

Posted by: DSA Apologists at October 22, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

301 Interesting new poll out today about the NYC mayors race.

Among native born Americans, Cuomo is winning. But Mamdani is crushing him with foreign born citizens.

This is big reason the radical left want to important so many foreigners.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:20 AM (viF8m)

302 Are we sure that the Clintons weren't one of the Biblical Plagues?

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:20 AM (UnA8+)

303 His Uncle Fester in the two Addams Family movies in the '90s was the definitive version of the character -- even more than Jackie Coogan's original. (So were all the other lead actors in that. He was in good company.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
I never saw those. But I can see him as Fester.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025


***
The movies are both laugh-out-loud funny, and completely in the spirit of the old TV series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:20 AM (omVj0)

304 Christopher Lloyd is still working. He played the old dad with a murky past in Nobody 2. I saw it last night. He’s old and wasn’t given much to do, but he’s still working in Hollywood.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 22, 2025 09:21 AM (mrJNK)

305 REP. JEFFRIES: "You better watch how you talk when you talk about me."

Dude, I have my doubts that you could beat a dick let alone a man.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:17 AM (99eI0)

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

On his radio show yesterday, Larry Elder quipped (paraphrasing):

"Hakeem Jeffries is complaining about the AI video Trump posted showing him dropping feces on the No Kings protesters. I don't know why he's complaining since he's got that sombrero to protect him."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:21 AM (dIdMH)

306 297 It's a scathing indictment of history classes in schools that so many children are growing up thinking that if we became a communist nation, the world would be sunshine and rainbows and everything would be 100% fair.


I have two friends who wanted to speak about this topic at my daughter's private HS - one from the USSR, one from China. they weren't interested in those perspectives. however, my sons' private HS was very interested! they amazingly taught history pretty much "straight."

I suppose girls' schools can't handle such a thing? rrrr

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:21 AM (emBoF)

307 For some reason, Mrs. Wrecks is incensed about Top Gun Trump’s poop video.

+++
It's a good bet that somehow she imagines this reflects poorly on her and what other people think of her. Woman are very concerned with tribe and what others think. It was a crass video targeted at engaging young men. So what. We are past civility and middle ground. The party of the vapors accused Trump of liking to be peed on and had no problems going on and on about that in front of the children. There's a certain symmetry to it. Just sayin.

Posted by: chicom astronaut puddingcup at October 22, 2025 09:21 AM (jPdyB)

308 Fun fact about Christopher Lloyd: In tony New Canaan CT, one of the premier public places to congregate is Waveny Park, which is a former 450-acre estate that is a great destination for people who want to check out a beautiful mansion and immerse oneself in a spectacular natural environment.

That's the house that Lloyd grew up in, before moving to Westport CT. His family donated the property to the town.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:22 AM (0CU3H)

309 It's a scathing indictment of history classes in schools that so many children are growing up thinking that if we became a communist nation, the world would be sunshine and rainbows and everything would be 100% fair.

Saw a great clip where some prankster went on campus with a referendum to implement socialism.

Many kids signed, and he would then always engage them to let them know this was specifically on campus - that instead of each student getting a grade, they would "share" marks equally.

Which prompted a bunch of comments along the lines of:
But I worked for MY grades!
Some of the students in my classes don't do as much work as me!
This isn't fair!

Posted by: The left at October 22, 2025 09:22 AM (sKqQm)

310 304 Christopher Lloyd is still working. He played the old dad with a murky past in Nobody 2. I saw it last night. He’s old and wasn’t given much to do, but he’s still working in Hollywood.


he was GREAT in both Nobody films

he was also in the last season of Wednesday

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:22 AM (emBoF)

311 Are we sure that the Clintons weren't one of the Biblical Plagues?

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:20 AM (UnA8+)

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* snort *

So stealing that ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 09:22 AM (dIdMH)

312 I wish the rainbow hewed hair crowd would make good on their armed insurrection. I have a shitload of ammo and ready to go. I know many (rightly so) dread civil war, but it is inevitable as they are intractable and I will never bend a knee to a communist imbecile.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:22 AM (pohLc)

313 Christopher Lloyd was also in
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an episode of The Big Bang Theory

I'd link it, but it would be willowed

Posted by: Don Black. Message: light fuse, run away at October 22, 2025 09:22 AM (AOsQT)

314 There is an unfortunate look that prominent people have, like they are owned. A puppet. You can see they are not quite themselves. Not really free. Like imagine what someone who was being blackmailed would walk around looking like. It's unmistakable when you know the look. I don't mean all these people are blackmailed, as such.

Once you start looking for it, it answers a lot of questions, and saves you trying to figure people - politicians - out. Trump 100% does not have it. He's the clearest example of someone who doesn't. We have lots of examples of people that do have it. Mueller did. John Roberts does. It's almost hangdog, but not quite. Learn to spot it and you won't be as disappointed by the eventual betrayers.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 09:23 AM (lonsH)

315 307 For some reason, Mrs. Wrecks is incensed about Top Gun Trump’s poop video.


I liked the JD Vance sequel one lol

loving that guy my God

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:23 AM (emBoF)

316 This is big reason the radical left want to important so many foreigners.

The Great Replacement Theory is both a rayciss conspiracy theory AND the topic of a best selling book by two of the Democrats top strategists.

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Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:23 AM (Qd7dZ)

318
speaking of old movies, the 4K re-release of Sean Connery's Outland drops on 04NOV25

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:23 AM (tljrc)

319 It's a scathing indictment of history classes in schools that so many children are growing up thinking that if we became a communist nation, the world would be sunshine and rainbows and everything would be 100% fair.
Posted by: NR Pax

There need to be history classes expressly dedicated to teaching the evils and failures of commumism, socialism, and progressivism, from the French Revolution to the present day.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

320 I am out of limone biscotti
Posted by: Don Black.

I only bake my biscotti once. Does that make it moncotti?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 22, 2025 09:24 AM (cYBz/)

321 Posted by: chicom astronaut puddingcup at October 22, 2025 09:21 AM (jPdyB)

I didn't care , and last I checked I pee sitting down so the heck with what other ladies think., Mrs. Wrecks aside.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 09:24 AM (7RYym)

322 Didn't watch many Taxi episodes, but I do remember the one with a flashback to Jim in college, before the drugs took hold.
---------------

"Research shows that experimenting with marijuana can sometimes lead to harder drugs. And who knows? I could be one of those people."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 09:24 AM (/5WHP)

323 They made a movie trailer, but never the actual movie, with Christopher Lloyd playing an evil Willie Wonka in what would have been a horror movie.

Honestly, I'd probably have watched it if they had made the movie.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 22, 2025 09:25 AM (sKqQm)

324 304 Christopher Lloyd is still working. He played the old dad with a murky past in Nobody 2. I saw it last night. He’s old and wasn’t given much to do, but he’s still working in Hollywood.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

My mom's in her early 70s now, has been in community theater and local films since her college days, and she's still at it. There are some that are just driven to the arts, I guess.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 22, 2025 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

325 318
speaking of old movies, the 4K re-release of Sean Connery's Outland drops on 04NOV25
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:23 AM (tljrc)

Shotguns in space. Yay!

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 09:26 AM (0CU3H)

326 Well, the Irish are hot headed.

VIDEOS: Irish crowds riot outside migrant hotel after rape of 10-year-old girl

https://is.gd/1PDBqO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 22, 2025 09:26 AM (L/fGl)

327 244 "A Clinton would never defile the White House"

~~ Hillzabub, yesterday, as quoted in the NY Post.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (iRJ3E)

They stole the fucking China and Silverware. They took pieces of furniture from the Smith to Arkansas and NY.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

328 VIDEOS: Irish crowds riot outside migrant hotel after rape of 10-year-old girl

These immigrants are just raping the girls the Irish won't. Really it is an act of love

Posted by: Jeb Bush at October 22, 2025 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

329 It's popular to dunk on how strange it was that Kolchak kept running into weird stuff in Chicago, but, to be fair, some of the most memorable episodes of the series were set elsewhere... the Vampire was a direct sequel to the first of the TV movies and was set in Vegas again and the Werewolf was on a cruise ship. And a few other episodes are directly covered up by the government, which implies that this happens more often than you'd think EVERYWHERE, there's an existing plan in place, and Carl is just the unluckiest man alive... or the Hindu Monster Hunter that met him earlier was correct the first time, and Carl really IS destined to stumble onto this stuff or draw it to him EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: American Hawkman at October 22, 2025 09:27 AM (9VDxG)

330 I think the people who do the media /A1 things for Trump must have a lot of fun. It sounds like they enjoy their jobs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 09:27 AM (7RYym)

331 Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 22, 2025 09:18 AM (emBoF)

Sometimes in order to defeat Hitler you have to vote for Hitler.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 09:27 AM (lonsH)

332 There need to be history classes expressly dedicated to teaching the evils and failures of commumism, socialism, and progressivism, from the French Revolution to the present day.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

Title:
100 Million Dead People is a Good Start

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:28 AM (gbOdA)

333 Woke Leftism is an ersatz religion.

It has tenets of faith that adherents must believe no matter how silly they are and how much they defy reason and evidence. If you stray from these beliefs you're branded an apostate and ejected from the Body.

It's Medieval!

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 22, 2025 09:28 AM (dtajH)

334 Christopher Lloyd playing an evil Willie Wonka in what would have been a horror movie.
______________

One thing in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that works so well is Gene Wilder clearly DGAF if those kids die.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 22, 2025 09:28 AM (/5WHP)

335 Unfortunately, History taught today is basically Social Studies with a Theological bent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:28 AM (jFCkp)

336 The girl, who reportedly has special needs and was placed in a Tulsa (government social service agency) care home last February, wandered away during a planned outing.

The government can't be bothered to do the things people expect it is doing, like taking care of special needs children, but it can always find money and time to bring in rapefugees...interesting how that works isn't it?

Posted by: Jeb Bush at October 22, 2025 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

337 >>REP. JEFFRIES: "You better watch how you talk when you talk about me."


Noticed something the other day: Hakeem Jeffries and Pritzker both have Sanpaku eyes. Creepy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:29 AM (GbwPZ)

338 These immigrants are just raping the girls the Irish won't. Really it is an act of love
Posted by: Jeb Bush at October 22, 2025 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

Thats IslamismAphobic

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)

339 Saw a great clip where some prankster went on campus with a referendum to implement socialism.

He's a better man than me. I would have put them in the labor camps and only given them one meal a day if I was in a good mood.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:29 AM (99eI0)

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Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 22, 2025 09:29 AM (Qd7dZ)

341 Hakeem Jeffries and Pritzker both have Sanpaku eyes.

So does AOC. It's like a warning sign for normal people.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 09:30 AM (99eI0)

342 > Tears of the Left Kentucky Bourbon
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

343
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Posted by: r hennigantx at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

344 The commies have done a good job in the schools. We are a country of ignoramuses. Cant do simple math, can't use common tools, couldn't find Ukraine on a map. And are convinced they are geniuses.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (pohLc)

345 One thing in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that works so well is Gene Wilder clearly DGAF if those kids die.
---------------
Yep. This is why I don't watch the sequels. Gene is the only Willy Wonka. Same deal with James Bond.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 22, 2025 09:31 AM (jFCkp)

346 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

347 His Uncle Fester in the two Addams Family movies in the '90s was the definitive version of the character -- even more than Jackie Coogan's original. (So were all the other lead actors in that. He was in good company.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 09:16 AM (omVj0)


I have never liked the movie versions. They are too dark and malevolent for my taste. I prefer the Addamses as they were in the original cartoons and the TV series - odd, with disturbing interests and tastes, but friendly to anyone friendly to them. The live movie versions are practically S&M videos.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)

348 In the auto shop waiting room and "MASH" is on the TV. Reading AoS and hearing the most annoying, overused laugh track in the.background.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (RjXD2)

349 >>For some reason, Mrs. Wrecks is incensed about Top Gun Trump’s poop video.


I haven't seen it, but isn't it that Trump retweets funny videos from social media? Fore example, he didn't make the viral sombrero video, he just boosted it bigly.

Maybe that wouldn't make a difference to her, but to me, it seems like he and his team are just having fun boosting jokes/memes that are already going viral. They are not spending time thinking up and producing these things.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (GbwPZ)

350 osted by: chicom astronaut puddingcup at October 22, 2025 09:21 AM (jPdyB)

I didn't care , and last I checked I pee sitting down so the heck with what other ladies think., Mrs. Wrecks aside.

+++
Good. This is why JD said I don't care Margaret and frankly my dear started trending. It's sorely needed.

Posted by: chicom astronaut puddingcup at October 22, 2025 09:34 AM (jPdyB)

351 There need to be history classes expressly dedicated to teaching the evils and failures of commumism, socialism, and progressivism, from the French Revolution to the present day.
Posted by: Bulg at October 22, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

There is. It's called the news.

Posted by: ... at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (lonsH)

352 There was a typo in the Koran. It's Virginians.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (W7XSX)

353 vmom 3d, if you're here, thanks for the nerdwallet reference. Not too helpful because it doesn't do reviews of specific branches.

Google has branch reviews. I don't expect much from their ratings but it's interesting to see the overall difference in branch average ratings between one city and another for the national bank my accounts are in.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (WjhjO)

354 352 There was a typo in the Koran. It's Virginians.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (W7XSX)

72 clones of Raff Nawvum.

Posted by: XTC at October 22, 2025 09:36 AM (UnA8+)

355 In the auto shop waiting room and "MASH" is on the TV. Reading AoS and hearing the most annoying, overused laugh track in the.background.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (RjXD2)

I have the first 4 seasons on DVD, and there is an option to play without the stupid network demanded laugh track. It was far better. Well, until the entire show started to suck.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (PSEDc)

356
speaking of old movies, the 4K re-release of Sean Connery's Outland drops on 04NOV25
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:23 AM (tljrc)



Great flick. Except the young homo playing the kid. The character might raise a femme son like that, but Connery wouldn't.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 22, 2025 09:49 AM (y9nCu)

357 The Reverend Jim Ignatowski was one of the greatest TV characters of all time and Lloyd's most memorable work
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 09:00 AM (tljrc)

"The Big Bang Theory" episode with him playing a squatter was hilarious. But, the outtake with him was so funny that the entire cast burst out in laughter.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 22, 2025 10:01 AM (5xuJ/)

358 Texas finds thousands of illegal immigrants registered to vote on state voter rolls

Secretary of State Jane Nelson says 2,724 potential noncitizens flagged through federal database cross-check

… I was told this doesn’t happen

Posted by: SMOD at October 22, 2025 10:05 AM (RHGPo)

359 That’s 2724 POSSIBLE illegal aliens on the voter rolls that need to be investigated. You got suckered by a headline.

(Maybe they all are, but the investigation needs to go forward.)

Posted by: Cow Demons at October 22, 2025 10:44 AM (pNkJD)

360 There's a reason as to why we see masculinity attacked in the West. Conflict is coming, and every man will count. Some more than others, and our enemies know it.

Posted by: Augusto Perez at October 22, 2025 11:22 AM (R84pu)

361 In the auto shop waiting room and "MASH" is on the TV. Reading AoS and hearing the most annoying, overused laugh track in the.background.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 22, 2025 09:33 AM (RjXD2)

I have the first 4 seasons on DVD, and there is an option to play without the stupid network demanded laugh track. It was far better. Well, until the entire show started to suck.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 22, 2025 09:37 AM (PSEDc)

Could never get into the series. Too "sitcomy". Saw the movie in 1970 about 5 months after serving my two years in the army, and loved it. The football game is still funny after all these years. That was the R rated version. Altman hated the series as well, calling it "the antithesis of what we were trying to do with the film". I still play the DVD every few months or so. The scene with Frank and Hot Lips is hilarious. Great cast.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 22, 2025 11:27 AM (5xuJ/)

362 Good morning, all. Thank you, J.J.

Yeah, I know. Got involved for hours searching if someone/something that appears in a variety of press releases is a real person. It's very strange...

But, to matters at hand, it's a damn shame Jen Psaki has not one but two children, +/- 6 and 9 years old, and perhaps they should be saved from her. She certainly has that nasty ego for motherhood & the crazy eyes.

Also, months ago, Psaki and chubby hubby announced they were leaving the USA.

The Second Take
September 18
Greg Mecher, husband of MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, announced that their family will soon be leaving the U.S.: “My wife and I are gradually completing the procedures.”

Time's a wasting. Get going! You have no power here, witch!
------
Axios, "I am not a secret Nazi": Maine Senate candidate responds to tattoo accusations'

And "The Oyster Man" gets a defense (iffy, but still) from the ACLU: But they added, "[w]e do understand that sometimes people get tattoos without understanding their hateful association. In those cases, the bearer should be asked whether they repudiate its hateful meaning."

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

363 And, his offensive Reddit posts have also been blamed on a period when he was "struggling deeply" after returning from overseas service. But not from bar tending in D.C.,
and not from being an oyster farmer in Maine, "a core part of his identity."

Politico, 'Maine oyster farmer wants to upend Democratic politics with Senate bid'
Graham Platner wants to oust Sen. Susan Collins — and disrupt national Dems’ plans to unite around Gov. Janet Mills. 08/19/25

Reportedly, Platner's viral launch video and other campaign ads were produced by Fight Agency, the same Democratic consulting firm that worked for Mamdani's mayoral campaign. Also, Platner and Mamdani are part of a progressive movement that includes Bernie Sanders supporters. They aim to elect candidates who they believe will fight for structural changes to benefit working-class people.

And David Hogg likes him, too. (The Hill, 10/14/25)

>AOL, 'DNC chair: Platner’s resurfaced comments ‘not disqualifying’ 10/19/2025

>The Jay Jones Defense arises yet again: The Maine Wire, commentary, 'Graham Platner Wrote Some Dumb Stuff, So What?' Oct. 18, 2025

And Chuck Schumer is getting slapped around. 🤣

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 22, 2025 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

364 Only in the deluded brains of leftists does the idea of socialism being a "far-right totalitarian ideology".
Posted by: JackStraw at October 22, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)

Except they weren’t socialists. Willy Brandt had to go running for his life because of the Nazis.

Before you tell me “it’s in the name”, let me know how democratic the German Democratic Republic was.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 22, 2025 01:24 PM (pNkJD)

Daily Tech News 22 October 2025

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Tech News



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Song is Satellites by Cash Cash. Anime is a lot.



Disclaimer: Or used to be a lot.

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 (poke)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 22, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

3 Hmm. Weird.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 22, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

5 >>Amazon's premier US-East-1 datacenter collapse ... causing billions of dollars in losses? (Ars Technica)

I haven't read the article yet. In advance, I'm wondering why there would be loss: If I urgently "need" to buy a book, and the site is down for a day, I'll buy the book the next day = no $$$ loss.

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

6 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 22, 2025 04:06 AM (hoCmQ)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 04:08 AM (sAmhv)

8 Well, I guess this is a partial answer:

“The financial impact of this outage will easily reach into the hundreds of billions due to loss in productivity for millions of workers that cannot do their job, plus business operations that are stopped or delayed—from airlines to factories.”

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)

9 I'm wondering why there would be loss: If I urgently "need" to buy a book, and the site is down for a day, I'll buy the book the next day = no $$$ loss.
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It's a write-off.
They just write it off.
--Kramer

Posted by: Obligatory at October 22, 2025 04:10 AM (rdVOm)

10 5 >>Amazon's premier US-East-1 datacenter collapse ... causing billions of dollars in losses? (Ars Technica)

I haven't read the article yet. In advance, I'm wondering why there would be loss: If I urgently "need" to buy a book, and the site is down for a day, I'll buy the book the next day = no $$$ loss.
Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

Same reason that we're all dead from net neutrality.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 22, 2025 04:13 AM (y+qgR)

11 "Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions"

DNS=

“engineers later identified a Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem”

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)

12 "...hundreds of billions due to loss in productivity for millions of workers that cannot do their job..."
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Yeah. Those "millions of workers" are the only ones who lost money. No doubt got sent home without pay for the duration.

Employers lose a pittance over one day, probably make it up in the following days. Employees? Screwed. Short paychecks.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 04:15 AM (rdVOm)

13 5 >>Amazon's premier US-East-1 datacenter collapse ... causing billions of dollars in losses? (Ars Technica)

I haven't read the article yet. In advance, I'm wondering why there would be loss: If I urgently "need" to buy a book, and the site is down for a day, I'll buy the book the next day = no $$$ loss.
Posted by: m


Amazon makes almost no money from its storefront; all the money is in selling is cloud services to other customers.

And those customers lose money when the cloud falls over. Some of them, lots of money.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 22, 2025 04:16 AM (BLOW1)

14 10 5 >>Amazon's premier US-East-1 datacenter collapse ... causing billions of dollars in losses? (Ars Technica)

I haven't read the article yet. In advance, I'm wondering why there would be loss: If I urgently "need" to buy a book, and the site is down for a day, I'll buy the book the next day = no $$$ loss.
Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

Same reason that we're all dead from net neutrality.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 22, 2025 04:13 AM (y+qgR)

haha

I am not an economist.

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

15
Good morning, all. I wish I was done with this project. I wonder if ChatGPT can do all the proofreading for me. Maybe Cluely?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 04:17 AM (ldc7S)

16 A lot of productivity software is now in the 'cloud'. If the 'cloud' goes down, that software can't be used and nobody is working. It's what happens when you get away from storing your stuff 'in house'. You risk this. The Feds, some anyway, use Amazon Cloud services. Services they used to do themselves (I work at DoD). I prefer in house. The reason for use of Amazon, is of course, money. It 'saves' money. Yes, I put 'saves' in scare quote because obviously the FedGov saves nothing.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 04:18 AM (sAmhv)

17 13 5 Amazon makes almost no money from its storefront; all the money is in selling is cloud services to other customers.

And those customers lose money when the cloud falls over. Some of them, lots of money.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 22, 2025 04:16 AM (BLOW1)

Thank you. Learnin'!

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:19 AM (RuTUS)

18 I am not an economist.
Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

Which is for the best. Those people are complete bullshit artists. I have about as much faith in alchemy.

I don't trust that any serious analysis has gone into calculating losses here. Journalists, who could not calculate such a figure if they tried, are uncritically parroting a figure quoted them by an "expert." Hoe impressed are you with the experts these days?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 22, 2025 04:21 AM (y+qgR)

19 Had a guy at work, telling me how great the 'cloud' was-- about a decade ago. It's the latest and greatest! All your stuff is backed-up automatically! More storage! Blahblah.

I'm like, yeah, but all your sh1t is still on somebody else's machinery. wtf?

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 04:21 AM (rdVOm)

20 16 A lot of productivity software is now in the 'cloud'. If the 'cloud' goes down, that software can't be used and nobody is working. It's what happens when you get away from storing your stuff 'in house'. You risk this. The Feds, some anyway, use Amazon Cloud services. Services they used to do themselves (I work at DoD). I prefer in house. The reason for use of Amazon, is of course, money. It 'saves' money. Yes, I put 'saves' in scare quote because obviously the FedGov saves nothing.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 04:18 AM (sAmhv)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:22 AM (RuTUS)

21 And you're relying on somebody else for security of your stuff. Sure, they're secure, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

22 Thanks for putting me some knowledge. Still think Da Cloud is a dumb idea.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 04:25 AM (rdVOm)

23 "Employees sitting idle" ("nobody is working") makes sense.

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:25 AM (RuTUS)

24 A lot of productivity software is now in the 'cloud'. If the 'cloud' goes down, that software can't be used and nobody is working.

To me, this is like asserting that billions are lost every time there's a snow day. Salaried employees who are doing serious work with deadlines typically have to make up for lost time (whatever the cause) with additional work once the obstacle is resolved. If the system is down Wednesday for whatever reason, my Saturday is going to end up looking a lot like Wednesday otherwise would have looked, assuming I cannot somehow cram Wednesday's workload into Thursday and Friday. I think the idea that these stoppages (unless prolonged for a significant period of time) represent losses that can't be mitigated in whole or part is very dubious.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 22, 2025 04:33 AM (y+qgR)

25 haha a few days old but I had missed it:

Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* retweeted
Benny 'Duke' Rollins
@citizenkawala
Oct 17
Because we are the indigenous population.

DogeDesigner
@cb_doge
Oct 17
Why do some people still call it Twitter? 🤦‍♂️

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:34 AM (RuTUS)

26 Hopefully, keep saying not too many more days way up north. Am catching up on podcasts if nothing else on a boring drive

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:38 AM (+qU29)

27 Video is catchy
Off on the road, at least have Wi-Fi there, not sure how long.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 04:42 AM (+qU29)

28 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 04:44 AM (4MksP)

29 Christian devotional, "God understands"
Hebrews 2:7-15:

https://tinyurl.com/8ydm5j8x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 04:44 AM (looXz)

30 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 52 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It's supposed to rain all morning, then clear off for the rest of the day. We'll see.

As usual, about 3 hours or so worth of work to deal with this morning, so will see you all on the Morning Report.

Thanks for hearing me out yesterday (or at least scrolling past without comment). I'm sorry to be such a one-note crank. As I said, I'm hoping that once I finally retire in mid-February, all (or most) of this sadness and hoplessness will, as George Harrison said, blow away. If not, then time to change anti-depressants.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025 04:45 AM (ufSfZ)

31 Poignant political sign in a nearby neighborhood "We are all Charlie Kirk now."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 04:47 AM (looXz)

32 24: bear with asymmetrical balls

I don't know. I'm the tech side of the equation and a fed contractor. The federal leviathan is a bubble that doesn't look like anything outside itself. As a user, I know some of my services have gone down and then we use old fashion paper for logs, tickets, etc. The show goes on, slowly. 😉

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 04:49 AM (sAmhv)

33 And a sign from a different political perspective:

Vote as if your daughter's rights depend on it.

I wasn't sure what they were talking about : Right to have boys in your daughter's locker room? Right to become Jack and not Jill? Then I saw tiny lettering in the bottom of the sign "Kamala 2024"
O.K. They used an old sign to promote abortion. Nobody is going to take away this right in NJ

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 04:53 AM (looXz)

34 I once had a job where I had to drive over an hour to work every day.

It was not fun.
Tired when I got to work and even more tired when I returned home.

Thankfully, my commute now is from the shower to the computer desk. Two days a week I’ll have to drive over and check in to update progress.

That’s only a 15 minute trek, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 04:53 AM (6ydKt)

35 Rabbi's daughter writes on fear of the unknown and God with us

Genesis 8:16:

https://tinyurl.com/3wz9zsvc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 04:58 AM (looXz)

36 Just read an article where Amazon plans to replace 600,000 workers with automation and robotics by 2033 were leaked.

So in a few years your packages will be delivered by some kind of robot, probably drones, especially if you live in urban areas.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

37 I once had a job where I had to drive over an hour to work every day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf


I do that now. 81 miles each way. Three x a week.
Why?
I live on 100 acres. Was able to sell my house in the city for a ridiculous amount and move onto wife's family's land. Built our retirement home. I've been with my company 36 years. Have four left until I can retire with full SS.

And no real work/employment out here.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 05:02 AM (4MksP)

38 Comedian John Christ: "Bad kids with Biblical names" . Just scroll down to the little "play" button
Or watch on YouTube if you have an interest . It's not necessary to read a description from "FaithPot":


https://tinyurl.com/mrx3keby

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 05:02 AM (looXz)

39 Last reached I preached on the Old Testament prophet, Hababbuk , which is a wonderful book of only three chapters. I have never met a kid named "Hababbuk"😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 05:06 AM (looXz)

40 "It is always DNS."

And if it isn't, it's BGP.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

41 I do that now. 81 miles each way. Three x a week.
Why?
I live on 100 acres. Was able to sell my house in the city for a ridiculous amount and move onto wife's family's land. Built our retirement home. I've been with my company 36 years. Have four left until I can retire with full SS.

And no real work/employment out here.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 05:02 AM (4MksP)

That’s understandable then.
Three days a week makes it better, at least.

Sounds nice though.
You’ll have a nice retirement once the grind ends.

I’d like to live out in the middle of nowhere some day. The only drawback is having to drive to get to civilization when needed,

I lived out in the boonies near a lake for a year or so in the 90s. It was nice until I had to drive a half-hour just to get food.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 05:16 AM (6ydKt)

42 G'morning, all!

I think I need to unplug and replug each of my Amazon Dots and Echo's.

All the groupings are lost from the Amazon crash, and most folks are still screaming about their stuff not handling commands correctly.

And it's 60 degrees out, so perfect walking weather.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 22, 2025 05:18 AM (a1415)

43 I lived out in the boonies near a lake for a year or so in the 90s. It was nice until I had to drive a half-hour just to get food.

Posted by: SpeakingO


Yeah, that's the only drawback. It's 12 1/2 miles to the small town and your choices are limited and it's 34 miles in three different directions to much larger towns where you have a better choice of food.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 05:32 AM (Qd7dZ)

44 "A single-pass Turbo Pascal 3.0 compatible compiler ..."

Wow, there's a product (and language) I didn't think I'd be thinking about again today. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Pixy. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

45 er... scratch 'again' from #44.

Neurons aren't firing properly yet.

a) Terrible sleep due to head/chest cold
b) Not enough coffee yet

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

46 I'm calling a lid.

Before I even wake up.

I'm that good, Jack.

Posted by: Joe Biden Calling a Lid at October 22, 2025 05:35 AM (47/pr)

47 "I lived out in the boonies near a lake for a year or so in the 90s. It was nice until I had to drive a half-hour just to get food."

I see that occasionally. Folks come into town from the country and buy a months's worth of stuff. You need an extra fridge/freezer or two, and a generator for when the electricity fails.

I don't remember the exact names, but two brothers were named something like "Goodboy and Shithead." Goodboy became a criminal and Shithead became a police officer.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 05:35 AM (W7XSX)

48 But why would anyone write software in Pascal, once C was developed?

I am pretty fond of Pascal too. I was weaned on it. But really?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 05:37 AM (W7XSX)

49
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 22, 2025 05:38 AM (tljrc)

50 Good morning, everyone. This was one of those mornings where I glared at the alarm clock for daring to show me that it was time to get up.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 05:42 AM (99eI0)

51 Belated BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 05:45 AM (JZ+U7)

52 Drizzle all the way

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 05:50 AM (xatjc)

53 From Russia with love:

https://tinyurl.com/3jnmzrs7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 05:54 AM (JZ+U7)

54 Time for the morning walk


BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 22, 2025 05:54 AM (a1415)

55 Wow, that optical switch took me back.

I did a lot of board-level fiber routing and mech packaging during the optical telecom boom.

Man that stuff is dense. Keeping all those fiber ends clean is damn near impossible and they look like they are single mode with a very small core.

Plus they look like E2000 connectors that use a metal ferrule that is very difficult to inspect.

I reckon it will be a box that no one will be allowed to touch once it's up and running and rightly so.

Gonna share this with some of my old homies from back in the day.

Posted by: pawn at October 22, 2025 05:54 AM (tqkKb)

56 I think I need to unplug and replug each of my Amazon Dots and Echo's.

All the groupings are lost from the Amazon crash, and most folks are still screaming about their stuff not handling commands correctly.

And it's 60 degrees out, so perfect walking weather.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I have two dots. The one in my bedroom required unplugging and plugging a couple of times on the day of the crash. The dot in the living room worked fine.

Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 05:55 AM (lJ0H4)

57 MP4..You can unload on us anytime you feel like it. No need to apologize.

Posted by: Tuna at October 22, 2025 05:59 AM (lJ0H4)

58 51 Belated BOING!

A boing is never belated. It simply arrives when it is the correct time.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 06:01 AM (99eI0)

59 Fall weather is here now in upstate NY. We just don't have the electrical power to do much now. School districts, home builders, manufacturing all have been told no new construction.
All of our power plants have been shut down (coal and natural gas) to save the planet. Schools will have to go back to real books and use plenty of candles to read by. Great to have the Democrats running everything.

Posted by: Colin at October 22, 2025 06:10 AM (wlQdF)

60 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ late-toiling and early-rising satellites across the System! Woden's Day again, and while I did not have an uninterrupted night's sleep, I feel relatively human. No workout, but coffee and a pipe while I watch Johnny Yuma in The Rebel on Grit. Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)

61 Daddy, what did we use for lighting before candles and kerosene lamps?

Electricity.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 22, 2025 06:19 AM (W7XSX)

62 Updated my Garmin couple weeks ago, now every morning I turn it on then it keeps restarting 3 -5 times before it stays on. Today was at least a dozen times

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 06:26 AM (xatjc)

63 Bio of Amazon cloud author: “senior policy reporter for Ars Technica, dedicated to tracking social impacts of emerging policies and new technologies.”

Seriously ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 22, 2025 06:29 AM (6t8M3)

64 Thanks for hearing me out yesterday (or at least scrolling past without comment). I'm sorry to be such a one-note crank. As I said, I'm hoping that once I finally retire in mid-February, all (or most) of this sadness and hoplessness will, as George Harrison said, blow away. If not, then time to change anti-depressants.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 22, 2025


***
Morning, MP4! Yes, retirement will give you a whole new perspective on life. Breathing space, if nothing else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

65 63 Seriously ?
Posted by: Going deep.


At least it's a better job than barista.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 06:35 AM (99eI0)

66 @48

>>I am pretty fond of Pascal too. I was weaned on it. But really?

Same reason why there is a new C64, there is a sufficient base of people who have fond memories of learning Pascal as their first language and it's just a random cool thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 22, 2025 06:35 AM (XV/Pl)

67 Can you spot the Demoncrapic lie?

https://tinyurl.com/dhrd7u8v

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:36 AM (JZ+U7)

68 Same reason why there is a new C64, there is a sufficient base of people who have fond memories of learning Pascal as their first language and it's just a random cool thing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Wait, you're telling me BASIC isn't the bang-up language I was taught it was?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 22, 2025 06:37 AM (mlg/3)

69 Cause I’m working for a living.

Posted by: Eromero at October 22, 2025 06:38 AM (jgmnb)

70
Good morning, Hordians. Her Majesty and The Big Dummy head out this morning to Belton, TX, leaving me abandoned here at the Schloss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 06:39 AM (tgvbd)

71 America do you appreciate this man?

https://tinyurl.com/3fb3ftj9

You should!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:40 AM (WjhjO)

72 That ain't no way to talk to a lady!

https://tinyurl.com/2r9u7mah

Oh. My mistake. No lady.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:42 AM (WjhjO)

73 This past week a deposit of $261 showed up in my bank account from SS. When I went to the SS website (after yesterday's all-morning struggle with their new sign-on system), I see no explanation, only that it's a one-time payment. I suppose it's an adjustment of some kind, but I wish I could find out why.

Don't worry, I'm not gonna give it back! That, and the sale of two vintage fedoras I made on eBay, will pay for my new printer and the gas I bought on my Indiana trip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:43 AM (omVj0)

74 I'm having to use CorelDRAW for the first time in many years with the new job.

I'd forgotten how much I like it.
It's much more intuitive than Adobe Illustrator, for me anyhow.

And as a plus, you can still buy CorelDRAW and PhotoPaint as a package for a lifetime license. They offer a monthly-priced "Suite" like Creative Cloud, but I'm all for a one-time purchase over subscriptions.

For anybody who doesn't want to pay the Adobe tax, Corel is still a decent option, IMHO.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

75 The Chicago way:

https://tinyurl.com/32fdvrtz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:44 AM (WjhjO)

76 G'mornin' everyone!

" ... think the idea that these stoppages (unless prolonged for a significant period of time) represent losses that can't be mitigated in whole or part is very dubious."

well, yeah, but where's the grift in something with no harm done?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:45 AM (kHop/)

77 Thoughts on the thread:

Aww Pascal
I miss Pascal

C predates Pascal (which was created as a teaching language )

Why do you guys have Amazon dots?

Oh and good morning

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 06:47 AM (U1FmN)

78 I suppose it's an adjustment of some kind, but I wish I could find out why.

Don't worry, I'm not gonna give it back! That, and the sale of two vintage fedoras I made on eBay, will pay for my new printer and the gas I bought on my Indiana trip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:43 AM (omVj0)

SS is supposed to be getting a cost of living increase.
Maybe that was it?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 06:47 AM (6ydKt)

79 mornin yall

"An 11-year-old boy in Australia died from a brown snake bite after his father assumed he had consumed alcohol and told him to “sleep it off,” according to a Coroners Court of Queensland Findings of Inquest report. "

Father of the year never heard of slapping hot iron to it?

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

80 Biden's Dog, did you find good candidate states for stashing money at?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 06:49 AM (6U1c2)

81 You cannot hate the media enough. The current example is from the WSJ:

https://tinyurl.com/3z7et2bn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:50 AM (WjhjO)

82 Good morning everyone.

Would appreciate a prayer for Smash and MegaRoy. I'm on travel this week and MegaRoy has become lethargic and won't eat or drink. Sat hunched up in one spot all night and wouldn't let her pick him up. He went to the vet yesterday for a swollen jaw, (no bite or obvious infected tooth) and was given a healthy status.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 22, 2025 06:51 AM (1l1S+)

83
Morning coffee. The only friend I have.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 22, 2025 06:51 AM (tgvbd)

84 Posted by: BifBewalski at October 22, 2025 06:51 AM (1l1S

Will pray for them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 06:52 AM (7RYym)

85 This is one of the "news" articles on our local site:

"Windows 11 Pro can turn your current PC into a modern, gaming-ready setup for only $14.97"


Oh, well then. Only $15 to turn your PC into a modern spyware infected streaming pile of dung.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

86 82 St Francis & St Roque, please help MegaRoy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 06:54 AM (6U1c2)

87 meh, go ahead and laugh, I liked Fortran.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:54 AM (kHop/)

88 SS is supposed to be getting a cost of living increase.
Maybe that was it?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025


***
I had that at the beginning of the year, though. They don't say it's a continuing increase, but a one-time thing.

Found money, I calls it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:55 AM (omVj0)

89 Biden's Dog, did you find good candidate states for stashing money at?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 06:49 AM (6U1c2)
-

I was looking into Florida, in one of my current national banks' branches. What I found was reviews in practically every relevant branch that expressed nothing but disdain for the lack of service and the lack of professional behavior. It's like Florida big banks are telling people its no different at the big bank across the street, so what do you care?

Looking into Houston TX and Wilmington DE later on today. Still open for suggestions.

Must have:

- Personal and business checking, free with minimal balance.
- Domestic and international wire transfer service.
- Personal and business credit cards.
- No annual fee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:57 AM (WjhjO)

90 something very Idiocracy about assuming your 11-year-old has had too much to drink ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025 06:58 AM (kHop/)

91 I have noticed that SS is very proactive in applying adjustments; I don't have to ask them about such things. They just do it. And the few times I've spoken to them on the phone -- after the usual one-hour wait! -- they've been knowledgeable and helpful.

Medicare answers the phone much more quickly, and are actually pretty pleasant too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

92 After 3 people are killed in a shootout in the the hood, commissioner Stanley Stewart says " crime in that area is not unheard of".

He also says:

"You know your heart goes out to their families. Your heart also goes out to the fact that who ever did this crime, their family is going to lose them as well because they will end up getting caught so everybody loses across the board".

This is why that city is so f'd up. Lefty idiots.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

93 something very Idiocracy about assuming your 11-year-old has had too much to drink ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 22, 2025

***
Idiocracy
, and some Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre mixed in. Whatever the Aussie equivalents of those two are.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)

94 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 22, 2025 07:01 AM (bVKL8)

95 CommissionerStanley Stewart has a solution though:

"We got to think of a way locally to try to solve it and I think gun buy back programs. Making sure you get more churches and schools involved in the matter"

Why he left off midnight basketball, I don't know. These three people could still be alive if we had only been more compassionate.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

96 Oh, and I've been taking this creatine stuff that Ace wrote about a few weeks ago. Just 5g a day. Not sure if I'm seeing any improvement yet in mental clarity or workout strength (I'm not doing weights yet, just cardio with stretching). I guess it can take a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

97 After 3 people are killed in a shootout in the the hood, commissioner Stanley Stewart says "crime in that area is not unheard of".

Oh. Then nothing to worry about. Just one of those joys in-START STOMPING DOWN ON THIS SO HARD, YOU FIND FOSSILS IN THE SOIL!

Sorry. That got away from me.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 22, 2025 07:04 AM (99eI0)

98 After 3 people are killed in a shootout in the the hood, commissioner Stanley Stewart says "crime in that area is not unheard of".

***
This could be the official motto of Da Swamp.

There was a shooting yesterday on a street here called North Rocheblave. My reaction was, "Well, there's your problem right there, North Rocheblave." I don't think there is any part of Rocheblave these days that's safe to be in during daylight or dark.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 07:08 AM (omVj0)

99 Huh. Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting. Figures.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

100 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:09 AM (9ipOP)

101 Looking into Houston TX and Wilmington DE later on today. Still open for suggestions.

Must have:

- Personal and business checking, free with minimal balance.
- Domestic and international wire transfer service.
- Personal and business credit cards.
- No annual fee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 22, 2025 06:57 AM (WjhjO)


Charlotte, NC and Dallas are becoming financial hubs currently.
One or the other or both may replace NYC & San Fran as the big financial capitals if those cities keep up their socialist antics.

You might want to look into some local banks in those cities, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 22, 2025 07:10 AM (6ydKt)

102 Those poor Pali's are being treated worse by Hamas than anybody else, but who am I to criticize their culture.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

103 Our governor has suspended tolls on a new bridge over a canal on my side of the river. Apparently the tolls were being applied in a wildly inconsistent fashion, always too high of course. I need to take a drive across just to see what it's like before they slap tolls back on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 07:21 AM (omVj0)

104 Palestinians love Hamas, support Hamas, and should feel grateful to be tormented by Hamas. I wish them well. Reap what you sow, tards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 07:24 AM (BI5O2)

105 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 22, 2025 04:44 AM (4MksP)

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

Good morning, rickb -- a pleasure to get to meet & chat with you this past Saturday!

I had meant to tell you, and can't remember now if I did, about an interaction and joke I believe you made -- which I've since repeated at least 100 times to others:

Some years ago here I asked "Am I the only one with OCD who MUST have his close tags in his nic in alphabetical order?"

To which you replied: "You're not OCD if you haven't spelled it CDO."

Never not funny!

Apropos is this link that scampydog posted in the prior ONT:

x.com/PecanC8/status/1978139681859489933

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:26 AM (dIdMH)

106 Biden's Dog you can also check nerdwallet for reviews of banks, the big ones anyway

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 22, 2025 07:26 AM (6U1c2)

107 About time I shaved and showered, I guess. I'll peruse JJ's news links as usual. Later we're heading out for coffee (and maybe a croissant) and to run some errands, so I can probably hang out on the Art Thread for a bit too. Winning!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

108 Why London became the global capital of phone theft. (New York Times)

Because phone thieves didn't get arrested.

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

* Califzuela has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:28 AM (dIdMH)

109 Very saddened to learn that Rabbi Dov Fischer passed away during the high holidays. Ypu may have read him at American Spectator.

May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:29 AM (9ipOP)

110 Our governor has suspended tolls on a new bridge over a canal on my side of the river. Apparently the tolls were being applied in a wildly inconsistent fashion, always too high of course. I need to take a drive across just to see what it's like before they slap tolls back on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025


***
The new toll bridge is not the only way to reach the town on the other side of the canal. There's a completely free and well-paved state (?) road that you can take to get to the town from a different direction -- actually it's closer to where I live.

There's not much reason to go there unless you live there, but the state road is a nice drive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 22, 2025 07:30 AM (omVj0)

111 Palestinians love Hamas, support Hamas, and should feel grateful to be tormented by Hamas. I wish them well. Reap what you sow, tards.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 22, 2025 07:24 AM (BI5O2)
=====

Eventually they will execute the last Gazan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:30 AM (9ipOP)

112 Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 22, 2025 07:29 AM (9ipOP)

I so enjoyed his writing. I am sorry to hear that. May the Lord bless and comfort his family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 22, 2025 07:33 AM (rZCVI)

113 Im thinking of writing to Dear Abby.

Dear Abby -

My sister attended the No Kings protest in Atlanta and I cannot decide whether to mock her the next time I talk to her. Should I point out that she was hanging out with Antifa and George Soros funded protestors, or should I just let it go and let her think she has saved Democracy before she runs off to her lake house in her new Audi?

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

114 This is why that city is so f'd up. Lefty idiots.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

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

"Stanley Stewart is the Macon-Bibb County Commissioner for District 3 in Georgia."

* Waves at f'd from Macon whom it was a pleasure to hang out with at the TX MoMe this past Saturday! *

You mentioned that your former nic was "freaked," after which he shortened it to "f'd" -- but I now forget the reason why?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:37 AM (dIdMH)

115 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 22, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

116 Im thinking of writing to Dear Abby.

Dear Abby -

My sister attended the No Kings protest in Atlanta and I cannot decide whether to mock her the next time I talk to her. Should I point out that she was hanging out with Antifa and George Soros funded protestors, or should I just let it go and let her think she has saved Democracy before she runs off to her lake house in her new Audi?

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

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

"Dear fd,

Offer to buy her a one-way ticket to her favorite unicornopia hellhole that has no Kings (only Dictators). North Korea? Venezuela? Ukraine?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:39 AM (dIdMH)

117 "You mentioned that your former nic was "freaked," after which he shortened it to "f'd" -- but I now forget the reason why?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe "

I am doing my part to save the Earth by conserving bits. Every omitted apostrophe saves at least 8 bits which can be used by AI to create more videos of cats flying kites.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

118 I am doing my part to save the Earth by conserving bits. Every omitted apostrophe saves at least 8 bits which can be used by AI to create more videos of cats flying kites.

Posted by: fd at October 22, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

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* snort *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 22, 2025 07:46 AM (dIdMH)

119 Is this about us?

Posted by: Cats flying kites at October 22, 2025 08:12 AM (bVKL8)

120 nic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 22, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

121 119 Is this about us?
Posted by: Cats flying kites at October 22, 2025 08:12 AM (bVKL

Isn't ... everything?

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 09:14 AM (RuTUS)

122 it's pretty funny watching all the fusioneers lose their shit as their boondoggles get cancelled by Trump

MIT decided that if they can't do both, they'd rather harass Jews than do fusion

Posted by: TallDave at October 22, 2025 10:11 AM (lLLli)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - October 21, 2025 [scampydog]

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Pinch hitting this evening while Doof meanders his way home from his Texas adventure(s). Let's knock the rust off and get an ONT cranked up.

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Drat

Alright, parentals -what was your go to word when the littles were within earshot?

Fiddlesticks. Judas Priest.

26. Gee willickers!
27. Gee whiz
28. Cheese whiz
29. Good night
30. Sam Hill
31. Son of a monkey
32. Son of a bucket!
33. William Shatner
34. Son of a motherless goat

Bonus: Did any of your kids, nieces, or nephews ever give you that hot flush of embarrassment by dropping one of their newly discovered words in public? Church? School? Somewhere even worse?

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May as well do some Mark Twain quotes on swearing. He did have a way with words.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

...quadrilateral, astronomical, incandescent son-of-a-bitch.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 13 February 1903

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Not all summers were equal. What is that mediocre movie that ran on repeat all summer in your youth? Somehow, you watched it every time? You know, the one you can quote word-for-word?

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Harmless mystery click

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Mini Rant (a true rant would require...more attention).

Attention span and lack thereof. Article quotes the predictable, boring "fixes" that seem to get published for every human malady. I have an idea for the afflicted: Try harder.

Not long ago, there were reports comparing human attention spans unfavorably to those of a fish. It was claimed the average attention span for a goldfish was just nine seconds — a whole second longer than the average attention span for a person. First, it was an unfair attack on goldfish, who have demonstrated an impressive capacity for memorizing directions. Second, if you manage to get past the second paragraph of this article, you may have just proved the stat wrong.

Summary of the study here.

47% say that “deep thinking” has become a thing of the past – roughly double the proportion who disagree with this view (23%)

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Hat tip to commenter, Idaho Spudboy for the topic.

Yellowstone "Zone of Death."

Deep in Yellowstone National Park lies a 50-square-mile strip of Idaho known as the “Zone of Death,” where a legal quirk could, in theory, let someone dodge prosecution for serious crimes like murder. First flagged by law professor Brian C. Kalt in 2005, this loophole stems from a clash between federal jurisdiction and the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment, sparking debate about justice in America’s wildest corners.

Another take on the "Zone of Death."

Michael Belderrain illegally shot an elk in Montana in 2005 and cited Kalt’s article as a defense in 2007. Belderrain was standing in Yellowstone when he pulled the trigger and then dragged the elk to his truck parked in Yellowstone. Belderrain was indicted in the Wyoming District and objected that he had a right to be tried by jurors from Montana, which is actually possible, as the Montana portion of Yellowstone is (sparsely) inhabited by people.

Instead of trying to call such a jury in a loosely populated portion of Montana and argue why the Sixth Amendment did not entitle Belderrain to such a trial, the court dismissed the argument, supposedly because it would imply the Yellowstone Zone of Death contained a loophole.

Ultimately, Belderrain took a plea deal and the issue was left unresolved. For now, the loophole remains for Kalt’s imagined “perfect crime,” with the perpetrator potentially walking away freely.

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If you want to argue about the best all time country songs, head head to this list.

As a non-country music liking heathen, I recommend we cut to the real fun. The funniest country songs ever written.

Did I Shave My Legs For This? - Deana Carter

How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away - Dan Hicks

She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed

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Brenda Put Your Bra On

It's Hard to be Humble

Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On

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Big kitty doing the kitty thing.

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Louvre Heist.

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Louve robbed in broad daylight.

A group of masked burglars successfully pulled off one of the most daring heists in modern memory, stealing eight French crown jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight.

Some good photographs here of the jewels.

According to an official communiqué from the Ministère de la Culture de la République française, the following historical pieces from the Joyaux de la Couronne de France were stolen from the Musée du Louvre:

Diadème de la parure de la reine Marie-Amélie et de la reine Hortense
Collier de la parure de saphirs de la reine Marie-Amélie et de la reine Hortense
Boucle d’oreille (d’une paire) de la parure de saphirs de la reine Marie-Amélie et de la reine Hortense
Collier en émeraudes de la parure de Marie-Louise
Paire de boucles d’oreilles en émeraudes de la parure de Marie-Louise
Broche dite broche reliquaire
Diadème de l’impératrice Eugénie
Grand nœud de corsage de l’impératrice Eugénie (broche)

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This ONT brought to you by nudging: Calendar says it's time for you Lurkers to check in for the 4th quarter.

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1
Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K)

2 my friend, hello.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 21, 2025 10:00 PM (0CU3H)

3 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 21, 2025 10:00 PM (SRRAx)

4 10th

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 21, 2025 10:01 PM (kDHiw)

5 Just called

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 21, 2025 10:01 PM (0CU3H)

6 Not long ago, there were reports comparing human attention spans unfavorably to those of a fish.

Experts say that the average Icelandic Cod could solve a Rubik's Cube in under five minutes if only it had hands.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:02 PM (mC4Jq)

7 Good evening morons en bedankt Hondo

Back home in this 3rd world sh*thole

Found my neighbor's roof all over my garden and backyard. Yes his roof.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM (46KxU)

8 Evenin, gang.

what was your go to word when the littles were within earshot?

Woman who used to help take care of my little sister decades ago was very straight-laced Christian. But she would on occasion cut loose with

"Shoot a blue bean!"

Posted by: mindful webworker - I still use it today at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM (Qqyu2)

9 That's no lurker!

Posted by: ghost of kari at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM (ArNHX)

10 I remember "Good Night" from Charlotte's Web when Templeton's egg got crushed.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM (gKWVE)

11 The mountain lion's reactions proves that they're just as scared of us as we are of them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM (uQesX)

12
Not a country music aficionado by any means, but I have an idea for a song:

Now That I've Snagged My Man, I'm Gonna Let Myself Go To Hell

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 10:04 PM (ldc7S)

13 Top pic is the end of the Vittoriano Monument, known colloquially as The Typewriter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:04 PM (mC4Jq)

14
Not a country music aficionado by any means, but I have an idea for a song:

Now That I've Snagged My Man, I'm Gonna Let Myself Go To Hell
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Almost a direct quote from someone I know, but she actually keeps herself in VERY good shape lol.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 10:05 PM (ldc7S)

15 Top pic is the end of the Vittoriano Monument, known colloquially as The Typewriter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:04 PM (mC4Jq)

Much better looking building than Obama's buttplug in Chicago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 21, 2025 10:06 PM (uQesX)

16 Did Mussolini expect to have a monument like that?

Olivetti did.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:06 PM (mC4Jq)

17 Hey scampydog!

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 21, 2025 10:06 PM (fveCG)

18 Evening, QED Texan - and the fun part, Grandpa-to-be!

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:07 PM (41CYW)

19 re the Zone Of Death: if someone did a nasty in the Zone, I think the Feds could gather together a hasty tribunal of Idaho and Montana good ol' boys to sort it out. If he's guilty, he gets the choice of being pulled apart by horses on either side of the border. Either that or have fun in Florence CO.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 10:07 PM (gKWVE)

20 That Yellowstone thing is interesting.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:07 PM (PGEno)

21 Captain Haddock, of the Tin Tin series, has the best non-curses.
https://tinyurl.com/4kktccrv

Posted by: Abzod at October 21, 2025 10:07 PM (0X8xl)

22 Animal House

My buddy Paul z"l recounted the movie for me word for word while we were on a Boy Scouts hike.

He even imitated the sound of the janitor revving the chainsaw in Dean Vernon's office.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:07 PM (46KxU)

23 "You egg-sucking, sheep-stealing, one-eyed son of a stuffed monkey!" -- Mark Twain

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 10:08 PM (n9ltV)

24 A word that starts with F and ends with UCK is FIRETRUCK

Credit to the Time Police books by Jodi Taylor

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at October 21, 2025 10:08 PM (VcqhS)

25 I'm not OCD, so I had to look at before and after for a minute before I got it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 10:08 PM (Dc8dC)

26 Woman who used to help take care of my little sister decades ago was very straight-laced Christian.

*winces*

Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at October 21, 2025 10:08 PM (mC4Jq)

27 My favorite non-cuss word is Dagnabit.

I was hoping the French Crown jewels would contain the Crown so the Duke of Anjou could reclaim the French Throne.

It is prophesied.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 21, 2025 10:08 PM (W7XSX)

28 Inspector Clouseau was unavailable to comment.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at October 21, 2025 10:08 PM (7akls)

29 Do you love history?

This is the most enjoyably addictive History podcast on YouTube, with two genial and witty and erudite Englishman who are great storytellers:

https://m.youtube.com/@restishistorypod

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.

Posted by: Beverly at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (Epeb0)

30 Doggo - what, no golden birthdays? the Horde would love this concept...any of you from the central northern states familiar with this tradition?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (thfHj)

31 News said part of the loot was found outside on the sidewalk.

Posted by: davidt at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (i0F8b)

32 34, along with some more potent expletives that my Moron tongue was too weak to restrain....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (Z8Qvl)

33 I understood this. Are you in my camp?

We have a couple of rooms in the house that have 3 and even 4 way switches. I am most comfortable if they are all in the down position when the light is off. I will cross the room to get the switches "right". My wife finds this extremely amusing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (jc0TO)

34 Ouch. I guess my last comment was in the third quarter. Now I’m good until the first of the year

Posted by: Gnostic Surface at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (kZs1J)

35 I was hoping the French Crown jewels would contain the Crown so the Duke of Anjou could reclaim the French Throne.

The Napoleons only got up to III. They deserve a revival.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (mC4Jq)

36 I grew up in a sailor's house, on military bases, so all the swearing was r-rated and above.

Needless to say, us kids said the same words.

And yet, got our mouths washed with soap.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:10 PM (o18eU)

37 And Napoleon II never even got to sit on the throne.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:10 PM (mC4Jq)

38 27 My favorite non-cuss word is Dagnabit.

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Suffering succotash!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:10 PM (GdryQ)

39 Screw heads!

Actually the one switch up and the other down bothers me more.

Thanks for the ont.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

40 As David Allan Coe assured me, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" is the greatest country song of all time.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (lHPJf)

41 Best Country Song of All Time -
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones

My go-to curse word in polite company is: Crap!

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (5rh/l)

42 No list of funny country songs is complete without Piss Up A Rope by Ween.

Posted by: DPICM at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (M2VUX)

43 Oh boy! I got a Hat Tip! Can I apply this towards my AoS Cardboard-level membership?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (VcvS2)

44 Good evening good people.

Much of the appeal of living on the Cumberland Plateau is that there are no mosquitos. I don't know why, they just aren't here. And, BONUS, too high of an elevation for any Kudzu to grow.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (cYBz/)

45 Sweet sassy molassey!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (GdryQ)

46 Turkey britches!

Turkey britches on you!

You're full of turkey britches!

How'd you like to be buried head first in a pile of turkey britches!

Posted by: GuardianB at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (y9pGs)

47 Also, screw OCD!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (Z8Qvl)

48 Son of a Motherless Goat!

h/t, Steve Martin

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (mC4Jq)

49 She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed

Sounds like the epic tale of the Matchless in Leadville
mininghalloffame.org
Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor got the Goldmine all right. Didn't make her happy.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

50 "You Caught My Eye, When Your Boyfriend Knocked It Out."

Posted by: Country Song Title at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (i0F8b)

51 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (sAmhv)

52 Doggo - what, no golden birthdays? the Horde would love this concept...any of you from the central northern states familiar with this tradition?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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*Heavy sigh* I guess that's a boomerang. I'll leave that topic to the Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (41CYW)

53 What is it now? The Fifth Republic? Maybe the French should quit the Republic business and go back to a God-fearing Monarch.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (W7XSX)

54
I know it's the ONT, but I'm getting a laugh watching Latrine John-Pissoir deflect like a hockey stick while Stephen Colbert tries to get her to cough up her reasons for defending Dementia Joe.

She also says the Democrat party is throwing "vulnerable" people like herself under the bus.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (ldc7S)

55 There was a song Lileks played on his podcast years ago. I thought it was a Farin Young song, but I cannot find it on ewetub. 'Happy Birthday to me.' The saddest mist pathetic country song I have ever heard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

56 Thanks for the dandy Tuesday Night ONT, scampydog!

I totally get the light switch photo. Perhaps I'm too detail oriented?

I would like to see the jewels stolen from the Louvre recovered, but... French detectives and all I think of is Clouseau...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (kB9dk)

57 As far as that Pic of the switches, the screws have to all be horizontal or vertical. I've never heard of an inspector failing anyone, but they have that option due to "poor workmanship".

Posted by: Ex-Ex at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (22p5n)

58 Little Orphan Karine no home yet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (jc0TO)

59 Animal House... My buddy Paul z"l recounted the movie for me word for word while we were on a Boy Scouts hike.

Dang, now I miss him too and I didn't even meet him.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 10:14 PM (gKWVE)

60 To quote Col. Sherman T. Potter turn of phrase: Horse Hockey

Also used in my family: Lord love a duck; Lordy, Lordy

Posted by: Vendette at October 21, 2025 10:14 PM (MR1yy)

61 What is it now? The Fifth Republic? Maybe the French should quit the Republic business and go back to a God-fearing Monarch.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (W7XSX)


Yooo hoo! Oh, boys!

Posted by: Louis XXX at October 21, 2025 10:14 PM (mC4Jq)

62 Now That I've Snagged My Man, I'm Gonna Let Myself Go To Hell
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 10:04 PM (ldc7S)

LOL

It goes both ways, but that's funny!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 10:15 PM (Dc8dC)

63 I go nuts when my switches get whacked (when lights are on two sets of switches so up is off and the other is also up.) Ill go through and fix it so they are pointed the right way for on and off, dammit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

64 Buck Futter!!!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:15 PM (GdryQ)

65 Didja mean to have all three of your music video selections be playlisted? 'Cause they are.

Posted by: mindful webworker - music just keeps going on and on annnnd onnnn at October 21, 2025 10:15 PM (Qqyu2)

66 I'm with you, Gref - He Stopped Loving Her Today is it. I heard it on AM radio in the Mojave desert one afternoon and told my wife later it was the best country song I had ever heard. Prior to that, Crazy.

I understand the screw slot alignment. Formerly an aircraft electronics technician and often the QC guys would give us a soft fail for slots out of line.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 21, 2025 10:16 PM (ha1wR)

67 Ernest Lawrence, a physicist scientist of some renown, was very good natured and not given to profanity. “Oh Sugar!” was apparently his harshest expletive.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 10:16 PM (csF+K)

68 Doggo - what, no golden birthdays? the Horde would love this concept...any of you from the central northern states familiar with this tradition?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (thfHj)

Golden birthdays? I'm not up for that, but golden showers... I there!

Posted by: Pete Buttgigger at October 21, 2025 10:17 PM (uQesX)

69 Mother Fricken……!!!!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:17 PM (GdryQ)

70 Good evening, everyone. I'm officially delurking.

Okay, that was nice. See you again in two years.

Posted by: Sobek at October 21, 2025 10:17 PM (wUSmk)

71 I would like to see the jewels stolen from the Louvre recovered, but... French detectives and all I think of is Clouseau...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 21, 2025


***
Hercule Poirot! (Wait, he's Belgian)

Inspector Maigret? Inspector Hanaud?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:17 PM (omVj0)

72 Bob Saget!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 10:17 PM (mT+6a)

73 Evening, QED Texan - and the fun part, Grandpa-to-be!
Posted by: scampydog

Thanks. We’re thrilled. The mom-to-be (our daughter) has a pickup and a 2-door coupe. Think there’s a trade in for a minivan in her future?

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 21, 2025 10:18 PM (fveCG)

74 Didja mean to have all three of your music video selections be playlisted? 'Cause they are.
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Nope. Just pressed for time - attention span referenced above. Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:18 PM (41CYW)

75 A conspicuous omission from the list of funniest country songs:

https://youtu.be/1IBXaEGJHm0

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 21, 2025 10:18 PM (Z8Qvl)

76 Back off!

https://tinyurl.com/3y44jd5y

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:18 PM (o18eU)

77 Scheiße!!!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:19 PM (GdryQ)

78 The summer movie I saw over and over was the original True Grit. Mostly because I thought Kim Darby was cute. But the humor and the action worked for me too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:19 PM (omVj0)

79 Shucky Darn!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 21, 2025 10:19 PM (VcvS2)

80
We said whatever we wanted around our kids. Gotta toughen them up for the real world.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)

81 You fat….penguin!!!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:19 PM (GdryQ)

82 54
I know it's the ONT, but I'm getting a laugh watching Latrine John-Pissoir deflect like a hockey stick while Stephen Colbert tries to get her to cough up her reasons for defending Dementia Joe.

She also says the Democrat party is throwing "vulnerable" people like herself under the bus.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (ldc7S)


KJP and Kamala and most Democrats are only smart enough to go about three talking points deep in live conversations. If they can't escape a conversation after reciting those three talking points, everything else they say is a variation of ah-huminna-huminna-hummina-hummina...

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (5rh/l)

83 Good evening, everyone. I'm officially delurking.

Okay, that was nice. See you again in two years.
Posted by: Sobek
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Club restroom token to Sobek.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (41CYW)

84 Quarterly check in

Posted by: MikeD at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (nYX2t)

85 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (w3u3d)

86 Yes, I'm an anal bastard that lines up all the electrical plate screws. Years of doing kitchens and baths and working with electricians did that do me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (snZF9)

87 We said whatever we wanted around our kids. Gotta toughen them up for the real world.
___

Yeah, my parents said whatever they wanted in front of us.

The problem was when did the same.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (o18eU)

88 One of my pet peeve is when people plug something in using the top outlet. This is an indication of a disordered mind.

I’ve often thought outlets should be standardized at about waist height or better. They are always behind couches or furniture and inconvenient

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 10:21 PM (ywAtJ)

89 per reports, in 2015 the original installation of the jewels which featured bullet proof glass and a pedestal which would drop the jewels into an armored box if molested, was replaced with more modern display cabinets with standard glass and no safety as before.

ooopsie.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)

90 Best country songs?

"That Summer" and "The Beaches of Cheyenne" by Garth Brooks

"Three Wooden Crosses" by Randy Travis

"Love, Me" by Collin Raye

"Beaches" and "Crosses" are especially fine writing -- almost short stories in song.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:21 PM (omVj0)

91 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:17 PM (omVj0)

Wolfus, posted on ALH about MTM.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 21, 2025 10:22 PM (uQesX)

92 Scampydog!

So awesome to meet you and the Mrs last weekend. She’s a gem.

And thank you for the hug.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 10:22 PM (mT+6a)

93 Doggone it Roy Jean, how many times do I have to explain it to you. When I tell you to put a rock under the wheel I mean a rock. Now look at that, what you got there, no bigger than a grapefruit.

Posted by: Bill Fries at October 21, 2025 10:22 PM (EXyHK)

94 I got my foul mouth growing up on the mean streets.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:24 PM (46KxU)

95
May as well do some Mark Twain quotes on swearing. He did have a way with words.

I use language that will give a blue jay lockjaw.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 21, 2025 10:24 PM (1l1S+)

96 Five years before Hooper, there was Burt Reynolds in White Lightning (1973). I remember seeing it a couple times at the drive-in.

Posted by: Steamed Up! at October 21, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)

97 "Git yer tongue out of my mouth Baby 'cause I'm kissing you goodbye!"

Posted by: Tonypete at October 21, 2025 10:24 PM (cYBz/)

98 Fug.

Fug it.

You mother fugger.

(Read those in the novel “Battle Cry” by Leon Uris)

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:24 PM (GdryQ)

99 And thank you for the hug.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Was great to meet you too! Mrs. coached me up, "You know, you are going to have to hug some people."

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (41CYW)

100 Going farther back into country, Willie Nelson had a neat one, "I Gotta Get Drunk and I Sure Do Dread It."

I guess "Ode to Billy Joe" counts as country, and it is one beautifully constructed and arranged story-song tune, with Bobbie Gentry's perfect-for-country voice and a creepy hint of mystery too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (omVj0)

101
The "Zone of Death" was "The Train Station" in "Yellowstone". Same premise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (tgvbd)

102 Mark Twain claimed in his autobiography that his wife heard him swearing the first time when he thought he was out of hearing in his bathroom fighting with a shirt stud.
In short, he said that he came back to his bedroom where his wife fixed him with an angry glare and repeated the worst of his curses to him. He said he looked at her in surprise and said that if he truly had said it like that that he would never say it again.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (rbvCR)

103 Inspector Maigret? Inspector Hanaud?

Monsieur Dupin could do it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (EXyHK)

104 Boney Fingers!

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (i0F8b)

105 As far as that Pic of the switches, the screws have to all be horizontal or vertical. I've never heard of an inspector failing anyone, but they have that option due to "poor workmanship".
Posted by: Ex-Ex

Thanks Ex-Ex. I overlooked that! I used to always have the screws horizontal. Somewhere (I think here by a Moron) Inread that vertical is better—dust won’t collect in the slot.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 21, 2025 10:25 PM (fveCG)

106 Fug.

Fug it.

You mother fugger.

(Read those in the novel “Battle Cry” by Leon Uris)
Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025


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Didn't Norman Mailer use that first?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:26 PM (omVj0)

107 66 I'm with you, Gref - He Stopped Loving Her Today is it. I heard it on AM radio in the Mojave desert one afternoon and told my wife later it was the best country song I had ever heard. Prior to that, Crazy.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 21, 2025 10:16 PM (ha1wR)


George Jones. I cannot imagine any other singer making that one of the top Country songs of all time.

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 10:27 PM (5rh/l)

108 Inspector Maigret? Inspector Hanaud?
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Monsieur Dupin could do it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 21, 2025


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Probably without leaving his chambers.

The smart policemen will go to Arsene Lupin; he either was involved, or he knows who did it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:27 PM (omVj0)

109 A bench vise must have the handle hanging straight down when not in use.

There is a protocol for installing them, too. The inboard jaw should be located just proud of the edge of the edge of the bench, that way long pieces can be secured that need to hang vertical below the bench.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 10:27 PM (ywAtJ)

110 The Napoleons only got up to III. They deserve a revival.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 10:09 PM (mC4Jq)


I am not sure if Macron is going to usher in the Sixth Republic or the Third Empire. Maybe the Second Directorship.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 10:27 PM (rbvCR)

111 ***
Didn't Norman Mailer use that first?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:26 PM (omVj0)

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Good question.

I do not know.

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 10:27 PM (GdryQ)

112 My swearing doesn't mean any more to me than your sermons do to you.

-M. Twain

Posted by: pawn at October 21, 2025 10:27 PM (tqkKb)

113 Years ago, kiddo numero uno came home and said in a hushed tone..."I learned the four letter F word." I told him "You know that you can get in trouble for saying that, right?" He said he did, but I told him he should tell me it just to make sure. He didn't want to, but after promising he wouldn't be punished for it, he leaned over and whispered "Fart" in my ear.

Posted by: ERF at October 21, 2025 10:28 PM (qqD/x)

114 One of Burt Reynolds best friends was Charles Nelson Reilly. Burt owned a theater in FL and Charles both appeared in and directed plays there. An seemingly unlikely combo, but they were pals. Charles was also good friends with Julie Harris and Charles directed a Broadway play with her starring in it.

Posted by: Match Game 74 at October 21, 2025 10:28 PM (oftw2)

115 Come on! The best country song is that holiday classic, "The Christmas Shoes."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 21, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)

116 Additional Mark Twain quote-

"Two lawyers can make a living in a town where one can't"

Posted by: Miklos the Quoter at October 21, 2025 10:29 PM (M772T)

117 I'm out for tonight.
Thanks for a great ONT, scampydog!

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 10:29 PM (5rh/l)

118 Doggone it Roy Jean, how many times do I have to explain it to you. When I tell you to put a rock under the wheel I mean a rock. Now look at that, what you got there, no bigger than a grapefruit.
Posted by: Bill Fries at October 21, 2025


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My hat is off to you, sir, for "Wolf Creek Pass," "Convoy," and "The Old Home Fill-Er-Up and Keep-on-a-Trucking Cafe."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:29 PM (omVj0)

119 My mom and her mom would say “shoot”. I don’t think Mrs. QED and I and a code word.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 21, 2025 10:29 PM (fveCG)

120 Cheese and Crackers!

Posted by: davidt at October 21, 2025 10:30 PM (i0F8b)

121 34. Son of a motherless goat

I've used this one. Also sons of guns, beaches/beeches, and biscuits.

Variations on Carnac's flea/camel curses get hauled out once in a while, too.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 10:30 PM (nhCoE)

122 I'm out for tonight.
Thanks for a great ONT, scampydog!
Posted by: Gref
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Thanks for checking in, Gref. Was great to chat with you in TX.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:30 PM (41CYW)

123 Didn't Norman Mailer use that first?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025

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Good question.

I do not know.
Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025


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There's a story, possibly untrue, that when Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (which used "fug") was a best-seller, he attended a New York cocktail party. One of the guests -- it sounds like a Dorothy Parker-ism -- said, "Oh, so this is the young man who doesn't know how to spell 'fuck'."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:32 PM (omVj0)

124 https://tinyurl.com/3y44jd5y
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:18 PM (o18eU)
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Whatever's in that cat's claws no one wants in their bread.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:32 PM (7LqP0)

125 I understood this. Are you in my camp?

No, I prefer them horizontally aligned, not vertically...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

126 On cussing.. My family was rather like SMH's: grownups said whatever. Kids had to learn *the hard way* which words were allowed for them to speak, and which were not. (Ouch!)

But we knew better, by teenage-- don't say it in front of the adults.

I slipped up. Said "shit" in front of my sweet, southern grandmother (who never swore at all, that I'd ever heard) and she chastised me thus:

"Oh, honey! I wouldn't have that in my mouth!"

Oooooops.

Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm)

127 Ok since the ONT is early, I probably need to explain what I did at the mome at the gift table with the special guitar picks. I was running at half bourbon and not even sure I told the story right. sooo...
About 2 years ago i was sitting at the desk playing guitar and mrs b pokes her head in and says something about relics on tour. I said what, the Stones are touring again? No she says and repeats herself. Well, bad string of words to a musician, and again I focus on relics are on tour. I said is that a metal band? NOOOO asshole, the church...has relics...on tour..and they are local. She wants to go see them. Ok, why didn't you say that? So I go, and wow. They got shit loads on tables. Bone fragments from saints, they are class 1 relics. They also got things the saints owned, pieces of cloth, part of a staff, etc. These are class 2 relics. Anything you touch to these relics becomes a class 3 relic.

Part1

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 10:32 PM (snZF9)

128
KJP and Kamala and most Democrats are only smart enough to go about three talking points deep in live conversations. If they can't escape a conversation after reciting those three talking points, everything else they say is a variation of ah-huminna-huminna-hummina-hummina...
Posted by: Gref

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I've watched KJP in a few of these interviews now and she is reciting the same blocks of nonsense and using the same gestures in every one of them, regardless of the question.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 10:33 PM (ldc7S)

129 nurse ratched

Your hug was life affirming. You have skills ...

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 21, 2025 10:33 PM (u82oZ)

130 'Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind'

Posted by: Loretta at October 21, 2025 10:33 PM (XeU6L)

131 One of Burt Reynolds best friends was Charles Nelson Reilly. Burt owned a theater in FL and Charles both appeared in and directed plays there. An seemingly unlikely combo, but they were pals. Charles was also good friends with Julie Harris and Charles directed a Broadway play with her starring in it.
Posted by: Match Game 74 at October 21, 2025 10:28 PM (oftw2)

Very talented fellow. Unfortunately for him, most people only remember him as a "celebrity" who appeared on game shows.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 21, 2025 10:33 PM (uQesX)

132 Yaa, probably George Jones, He Stopped Loving her today will be in the #1 position. I'd go with Are You Sure Hank done it that way - Waylon Jennings but I'm a Waylon fan boy.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 10:33 PM (sAmhv)

133 Yet additional Mark Twain Quote, from "The Innocents Abroad"-

"The principal advantage of a cigar, is those who you least wish to speak with, avoid the aroma of that cigar"

Posted by: Miklos the Quoter II (OK, from memory) at October 21, 2025 10:34 PM (M772T)

134 What is it now? The Fifth Republic? Maybe the French should quit the Republic business and go back to a God-fearing Monarch.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 21, 2025 10:12 PM (W7XSX)

Yooo hoo! Oh, boys!
Posted by: Louis XXX at October 21, 2025 10:14 PM (mC4Jq)

I hear Meghan's looking for a title. Think she could handle the Muslims by applying the Lorena Bobbit fix.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 21, 2025 10:35 PM (S/Y4j)

135 "You Should Have Seen Me Runnin" , written by John Dawson and performed by the New Riders of the Purple Sage is a lovely country song. And "Mama Hated Diesels (So Bad)" by Commander Cody may be the saddest truck drivin' song ever.

Posted by: Cosmic Cowboys at October 21, 2025 10:35 PM (oftw2)

136 The worst thing I ever heard my mother say, and that only once, 'Damnation!'

Posted by: Loretta at October 21, 2025 10:36 PM (XeU6L)

137 “Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother” is arguably the finest country tune.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 10:36 PM (ywAtJ)

138 C.W. McCall. "Black Bear Road" was great, but "Wolf Creek Pass" was almost as good.

A long time ago, I asked my small town DJ why he didn't play Black Bear Road. He told me it was due to the reference of the dog making a yellow hole in the snow, which might upset some listeners.

It was a simpler time, back then.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 21, 2025 10:36 PM (VcvS2)

139 Fudge monkeys!

Posted by: SciVo at October 21, 2025 10:36 PM (VB5xp)

140 'Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind'
Posted by: Loretta at October 21, 2025


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Which reminds me of "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home." A wife tells her drunk husband that, since he loves his bar so much, she's going to redo their home in its image. I've forgotten the female singer, but the song is a masterpiece of working its concept out to the nth degree in the lyrics.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:36 PM (omVj0)

141 One of the general contractors I worked for as a yute would holler "Peter Rabbit" if he smashed his thumb or something big went wrong.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 21, 2025 10:37 PM (cYBz/)

142 I always loved Muttley from "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly and Muttley and Their Flying Machines". Many times I have said russet frackit double racket (or something like that)....

Posted by: ERF at October 21, 2025 10:37 PM (qqD/x)

143 Bonus: Did any of your kids, nieces, or nephews ever give you that hot flush of embarrassment by dropping one of their newly discovered words in public? Church? School? Somewhere even worse?



Hahaha YES! In the early 80s.... We were out at a fancy French restaurant in DC when my younger brother age about 3ish decided to share his recently learned word F bomb. He started shouting F*ck repeatedly. I'm about 10 years older than him and did not help the situation by laughing my ass off. My parents were NOT amused LOL

Posted by: NC Ref at October 21, 2025 10:37 PM (HIRLq)

144 "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino (to Decorate Our Home)", by David Frizzell might also make the list.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 21, 2025 10:37 PM (S/Y4j)

145 OOops /Loretta

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)

146 'Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind'
Posted by: Loretta

Try telling that to Darleen after a double shift and some Natty Daddys in the parking lot

Posted by: Miklos, doing the best a Man can at October 21, 2025 10:37 PM (M772T)

147 Cuomo endorses Sliwa
x.com/andrewcuomo/status/1980776430603559003

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 10:38 PM (gKWVE)

148 I'd go with Are You Sure Hank done it that way - Waylon Jennings but I'm a Waylon fan boy.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 10:33 PM (sAmhv)

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Ditto this

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 21, 2025 10:38 PM (Z8Qvl)

149 One of Burt Reynolds best friends was Charles Nelson Reilly. Burt owned a theater in FL and Charles both appeared in and directed plays there. An seemingly unlikely combo, but they were pals. Charles was also good friends with Julie Harris and Charles directed a Broadway play with her starring in it.
Posted by: Match Game 74 at October 21, 2025 10:28 PM (oftw2)

Very talented fellow. Unfortunately for him, most people only remember him as a "celebrity" who appeared on game shows.

People thought enough of him to immortalize him in song:
https://youtu.be/jsWZCDX01AE

So very NSFW. Or really for any sort of listening.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 21, 2025 10:38 PM (lUFok)

150 The mosquitoes don't bother me anymore. Can it be the carnivore diet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:38 PM (+U7B7)

151 Salty,
You made me weak in the knees.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 10:39 PM (mT+6a)

152 My hat is off to you, sir, for "Wolf Creek Pass," "Convoy," and "The Old Home Fill-Er-Up and Keep-on-a-Trucking Cafe."

All wonderful. On the topic of emotional country songs, though, Old Thirty and Aurora Borealis always hit me hard when they come up.

She was mud and sand and concrete mixed with water made of tears from the rivers runnin’ down the Great Divide. She was three thousand miles of rock ‘n rollin’ highway. A million memories long and two lanes wide.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 21, 2025 10:39 PM (EXyHK)

153 Hey Salty!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:39 PM (o18eU)

154 I always loved Muttley from "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly and Muttley and Their Flying Machines". Many times I have said russet frackit double racket (or something like that)....
Posted by: ERF

My film fave is "Mundane Noodle!!" by Darien McGavin in 'The Christmas Story'.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 21, 2025 10:40 PM (cYBz/)

155 Scheiße!!!
Posted by: EFG


I was probably in High School before I learned that one, and tied it back to my folks calling kiddo-mikeski a "little scheisser/shyster," AKA "a little shit," when I'd get in trouble.

I was a generation too American to have picked up any German from our original immigrant ancestors.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)

156
Where we live in Wyoming we don't have mosquitoes, but the flys are everywhere.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 10:40 PM (3ek7K)

157 nurse ratched

Unlikely! Snort.

Glad I got to talk to you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 21, 2025 10:41 PM (u82oZ)

158 Found my neighbor's roof all over my garden and backyard. Yes his roof.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM


I have always warned my daughters about getting roofied.

Sorry it happened to you.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 21, 2025 10:41 PM (HlyYF)

159 A mountain lion has a close encounter with a Halloween decoration and the reaction is priceless!

LOL, I love it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

160 I don't see a lot of skeeters here but the wasps make up for them. Ugh.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 10:41 PM (gKWVE)

161 I looked it up. Ketones repel mosquitoes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:41 PM (+U7B7)

162 https://tinyurl.com/3y44jd5y
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:18 PM (o18eU)
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LOL. Gal took it pretty hard. Guess she knows who is boss now.

Posted by: javems at October 21, 2025 10:41 PM (8I4hW)

163 89 per reports, in 2015 the original installation of the jewels which featured bullet proof glass and a pedestal which would drop the jewels into an armored box if molested, was replaced with more modern display cabinets with standard glass and no safety as before.

ooopsie.
Posted by: Kindltot
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This is what happens when people forget why they did it that way the first time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 10:42 PM (kkYD1)

164 I looked it up. Ketones repel mosquitoes.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Good to know. Sometimes the skeeters love me, other times they ignore.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:42 PM (41CYW)

165 There's always tear-jerker country songs like Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:43 PM (omVj0)

166 Quarterly check-in here, scampydog.

Nice ONT. I've also enjoyed reading about the TX MoMe experiences the last few days. Sounds like a good time!

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic at October 21, 2025 10:43 PM (cifhi)

167 …but "Wolf Creek Pass" was almost as good.

There isn’t a bad song on those albums. I can even enjoy Roses for Mama as long as it doesn’t co9 up to often.

“… but outside of that she’s cherry.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 21, 2025 10:43 PM (EXyHK)

168 Favorite Country Song - The Road Goes On Forever and the Party Never Ends, by Robert Earl Keen. Kinda like a whole episode of Miami Vice in a 5 minute song.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:43 PM (WtEb/)

169 Quarterly check-in here, scampydog.

Nice ONT. I've also enjoyed reading about the TX MoMe experiences the last few days. Sounds like a good time!

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic
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Good to see you back in the comments.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:43 PM (41CYW)

170 So, after my comment at #65, I ended up letting the beer goggles playlist run, and watching the videos. Fun stuff. But I had to stop it to get back to the comments doncha know.

Posted by: mindful webworker - you don' have t call me darlin, darrrrlin at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (Qqyu2)

171 A mountain lion has a close encounter with a Halloween decoration and the reaction is priceless!

LOL, I love it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025


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Exactly the same way a house cat would react, just with a lot more mass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (omVj0)

172 Dagnabit!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (/StR6)

173 Sacajawea and mother-of-pearl were my two go-to non-cussing cuss words.

Posted by: windbag at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (ObM+9)

174 156
Where we live in Wyoming we don't have mosquitoes, but the flys are everywhere.
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Cows?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (kkYD1)

175 I always loved Muttley from "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly and Muttley and Their Flying Machines". Many times I have said russet frackit double racket (or something like that)....
Posted by: ERF


Oh, I forgot Yosemite Sam. Great horny toads, but he was good for some rassel-frackin' rude ways to call an idjit an idjit.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE)

176 SMH at God's mercy

What did you get to go with the pink t-shirt?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (u82oZ)

177
Braenyard,

Yep, cows, sheep, horses chickens etc.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 10:45 PM (3ek7K)

178 173 Sacajawea and mother-of-pearl were my two go-to non-cussing cuss words.

Posted by: windbag at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (ObM+9)

My mother almost slapped my face for saying doggone...and I was just reciting a joke from the elementary school library...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

179 lol Salty.

The t-shirt is going to my eldest granddaughter for her birthday.

It will fit her perfectly, in more ways than one.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (o18eU)

180 per reports, in 2015 the original installation of the jewels which featured bullet proof glass and a pedestal which would drop the jewels into an armored box if molested, was replaced with more modern display cabinets with standard glass and no safety as before.
ooopsie.
Posted by: Kindltot

This is what happens when people forget why they did it that way the first time.
Posted by: Braenyard


I put this fence here for a reason, you consarned galoots.

Posted by: zombie G. K. Chesterton at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (nhCoE)

181 "Dropkick Me, Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life" was a great country western song.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (0Htd1)

182 Part 2

I see people touching everything to these relics. A cop touching his badge, women touching pictures, jewelry, rosaries, etc. I got nothing, just keys. Then I remember a pocket of guitar picks I always carry, so I touched a whole stack to everything, including what they claim to be a piece of the cross. I charged them up good, and my keys. So now I leave with a pile of semi worn class 3 relic powered guitar picks. I put them on my computer desk in a separate area, put a few in my pocket, and then spent 2 years staring at them. Every weekend I see the prayer list here and then my eyes go to those picks. Then last year the idea hit me, bring some to the mome for a few of the horde that really could use it. I didn't make it last year, but I did this year, and the 2 people that really stuck in my mind this year was Sponge's wife Kelly, and Theresa. I did have a few extra, so 2 others got them as well. On the surface, they are half used guitar picks. I spent years tossing them to people, but none were special like this. These babies got mojo, and I can't think of a better use for them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

183 Scampydog, did you say you live in MN? I'm from there originally, and a lot of my relatives are still there.

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (cifhi)

184 Whenever Burt Reynolds and Dom Delouise were together, I couldn’t stop laughing!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (WtEb/)

185 Food Lion has $3.99/lbs beef starting tomorrow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:47 PM (+U7B7)

186 175 I always loved Muttley from "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly and Muttley and Their Flying Machines". Many times I have said russet frackit double racket (or something like that)....
Posted by: ERF

Oh, I forgot Yosemite Sam. Great horny toads, but he was good for some rassel-frackin' rude ways to call an idjit an idjit.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE)

https://youtu.be/i3Yz3SI5icM

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

187 185 Food Lion has $3.99/lbs beef starting tomorrow.

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Officers, hurry! They're looting the Food Lion!

Posted by: Katy at October 21, 2025 10:48 PM (dyewR)

188 That is so sweet, Berserker.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:48 PM (o18eU)

189 When I was a teen I used to practice doing the Muttley laugh all the time, got pretty good at it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:49 PM (WtEb/)

190 Very touching, Berserker! Wow.

Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 10:49 PM (rdVOm)

191 Charles Nelson Reilly's last project was a one-man show where he reminisced on his life and career. One of the stops was professionally filmed and released. I watched it like five years ago. I think I'll go look for it again. He talks about being a survivor of the Hartford Circus Fire 1948 where about 150 people burned. It made him nervous to sit in an audience for the rest of his life. On stage or backstage was fine, just not the audience.

Posted by: The Life Of Reilly at October 21, 2025 10:49 PM (oftw2)

192 *salute*

Marine pilot killed in California helicopter crash ‘was one of the greats,’ squadron says
Maj. Tyler Braconi was killed after a his helicopter crashed during a routine flight over the California desert. A second Marine on board survived the crash.

https://tinyurl.com/mrmbyjus

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:49 PM (o18eU)

193 My grandpa said "cockeyed" a lot.

As in, "I couldn't get the cockeyed thing to work right."

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)

194 My 18-month-old granddaughter has me wondering if she will be a future MoMe attendee. Last week she was singing one of her favorite songs:

A B C D E F G
H I J K LM ope
Q R S
T U V
W X Y and Z
Now I know my A B Cs
Next tiiiiiiiiMoMe!!

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic at October 21, 2025 10:51 PM (cifhi)

195 Robert Earl Keen.

He did the Texas MoMe song.

…when I was a little boy
Only one or two
The first thing I did enjoy
Was a plate of Barbeque

Barbeque sliced beef and bread
Ribs and sausage and a cold Big Red.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 21, 2025 10:51 PM (EXyHK)

196 We sent our kids to the neighborhood Catholic school because it seemed like a much better intellectual and cultural situation.

Our 2nd daughter came home for lunch one day, leaned in close and said, "The boys are using the "F" word on the playground."

I was a little disappointed, because I had hoped she would be able to stay child like for a few more years.

I said, "I'm sorry they are saying that and upsetting you."

She then leaned in even closer and said, "They keep saying fart!"

Bride of PI and I just grinned at each other - it turns out we had picked the right school.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 21, 2025 10:51 PM (HlyYF)

197 Scampydog, did you say you live in MN? I'm from there originally, and a lot of my relatives are still there.
Posted by: Official Delurker
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Yep. MN. Did it backward - moved here from Phoenix. Guy that owned one of the gas stations used to say, "You must be the dumbest son-of-a-b*tch. Who moves here from Phoenix?" Whereabouts in MN are your relatives?

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

198 Hello everyone. Hope you're all doing well this evening.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2025 10:51 PM (CHHv1)

199
BeckoningChasm,

How is the cat?

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 10:53 PM (3ek7K)

200 {{{BeckoningChasm}}}

How are you doing?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:53 PM (o18eU)

201 In my yewt, I was driving my girlfriend's VW bug on the freeway with her and her three year old nephew in the back seat. I got cut off and the MFr word came out of my mouth. Minutes later, off the freeway, I had to to slam on the brakes to avoid another idiot. Out of the back seat came a hearty MFr! Spent the next ten minutes explaining why he shouldn't say that word. He didn't buy my explanations. I had a very frank conversation with his very pissed off mother a few weeks later.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 21, 2025 10:53 PM (/StR6)

202 Oh, I forgot Yosemite Sam. Great horny toads, but he was good for some rassel-frackin' rude ways to call an idjit an idjit.
Posted by: mikeski

https://youtu.be/i3Yz3SI5icM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Awesome!

Never not funny.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 10:53 PM (nhCoE)

203 185 Food Lion has $3.99/lbs beef starting tomorrow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:47 PM


Sorry to hear that the beautiful mountain lion from the Halloween scare ended up as road-kill in front of the Food Lion.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 21, 2025 10:53 PM (HlyYF)

204 "Dropkick Me, Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life" was a great country western song.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025


***
I keep thinking that was Bobby Bare. His "The Winner" is a '70s classic, and I loved "Food Blues" from 1980.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:53 PM (omVj0)

205 Have a great night, everyone.

May there be thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 21, 2025 10:54 PM (u82oZ)

206 181 "Dropkick Me, Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life" was a great country western song.
Posted by: nerdygirl


*sob*

Posted by: Jude McAtamney at October 21, 2025 10:54 PM (gKWVE)

207 Giving credit to TJM I also have to say I really appreciate and have worked into my repertoire F*ck a Duck!! Thank you TJM!

Posted by: NC Ref at October 21, 2025 10:55 PM (HIRLq)

208 Right through the heart of them righteous uprights . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 21, 2025 10:55 PM (ha1wR)

209 Niters, Salty.
*hugs*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:56 PM (o18eU)

210 On the surface, they are half used guitar picks. I spent years tossing them to people, but none were special like this. These babies got mojo, and I can't think of a better use for them.

Supernaturally powered guitar picks. Can't think of anything more metal than that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 21, 2025 10:56 PM (lUFok)

211 I was born a coal miners daughter

No Joke, Fat

Posted by: Joe B, receding rapidly into unwelcome memories at October 21, 2025 10:57 PM (M772T)

212 I love that Mac Davis song. My high school had a radio station, very small - could barely pick it up across town. But they played a lot of cool music. That was one of them. it was a credited high school class, even. My buddy was a DJ there for a year or so.

KYDZ, Cody, Wyoming.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 10:58 PM (0aYVJ)

213 Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone is another country classic

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 21, 2025 10:58 PM (JrV93)

214 And leave us not forget Garth Brooks's dark classic, "Momma's in the Graveyard, Poppa's in the Pen."

"I heard him cry for Momma up an' down the hall,
Then I heard the bottle break against the bedroom wall.
That ol' diesel engine made an eerie sound
When Poppa fired it up and headed into town --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 10:59 PM (omVj0)

215 I didn't see anyone link to that great swearing artist Sam

https://youtu.be/QnDxPG3KrtA

Posted by: mindful webworker - rowrbazzle -Pogo at October 21, 2025 10:59 PM (Qqyu2)

216 Officers, hurry! They're looting the Food Lion!
Posted by: Katy

Katy can have all my loot

If she will pillage me

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at October 21, 2025 10:59 PM (M772T)

217 1st intermission
alright then

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 10:59 PM (AOsQT)

218
Also used in my family: Lord love a duck; Lordy, Lordy

My mother said that, my father cussed and then mother was tsk and say, "Bill!"

His response: "Oh hell Jane."

It was a call and response every day of my life. I miss it now

Posted by: moki at October 21, 2025 11:00 PM (wLjpr)

219 LBJ was a Commander during the Tet Offensive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:00 PM (+U7B7)

220 "Whereabouts in MN are your relatives?"

Some in SE MN, mostly rural, and three nieces and their families in the Twin Cities area.

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic at October 21, 2025 11:01 PM (cifhi)

221 I'll say this, if those relics come around again, I'm touching a whole bag of them to those relics. I get them by the gross, so if they come around again I'll be passing them out at the next mome like ammo in colander face mask world.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9)

222 'Bout time I packed it in as well, folken. For some reason I didn't sleep much last night, and my afternoon nap was a waste of time too. Everybody be good, and if you can't do that, try not to get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 11:01 PM (omVj0)

223 216 Officers, hurry! They're looting the Food Lion!
Posted by: Katy

Katy can have all my loot

If she will pillage me

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at October 21, 2025 10:59 PM


Can I at least drive the getaway car?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 21, 2025 11:01 PM (HlyYF)

224 The cat is living his best life while mine slowly drains away.

I'm sure TJM will mention it, but Criterion's 50% flash sale starts tomorrow.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2025 11:01 PM (CHHv1)

225 I just avoid polite company.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 21, 2025 11:01 PM (44PAK)

226 The Nashville story about George Jones recording He Stopped Loving Her Today is that he refused to do so for quite a while, not liking the song. He finally agreed to cut it in one take. Then he called his manager or whatever and told him "I recorded the damned song today" and hung up.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 21, 2025 11:02 PM (ha1wR)

227
bear, yes, that is what we do, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 11:02 PM (3ek7K)

228 My grandpa said "cockeyed" a lot.

As in, "I couldn't get the cockeyed thing to work right."
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff

I felt his presence in doing kitchen sink plumbing repair/replacement

Posted by: Miklos and PVC are not friends at October 21, 2025 11:03 PM (M772T)

229 One of my all time favorite sad country songs is Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" followed closely by "Cold, Cold Heart". Hank ang like he was really suffering.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025 11:03 PM (0Htd1)

230 One I use a lot in mixed company is "Son of a diddly!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)

231 Delurk folks, the water is fine.

Fwance-hahaha

Posted by: sven at October 21, 2025 11:05 PM (MUJd1)

232 I've been volunteering on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood, once every week for about three years. Today I received my first bona fide death threat, from a passing man (wearing a dress, of course).

We got his license number, and we think we got the threat itself on video. We filed a police report, and the PD says they'll investigate once they see our video.

It all depends on what he actually said -- but we're still processing the cameras to see exactly what we have.

Posted by: Half Dozen at October 21, 2025 11:05 PM (EYvpB)

233 Supernaturally powered guitar picks. Can't think of anything more metal than that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura


Well, fighting demons by garroting them with a blessed guitar string, maybe.

.....probably not Buffy. Maybe Faith.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 11:05 PM (nhCoE)

234 Hahaha, the mountain lion got scared by the decoration, lol!

No.

You have a fuckin' mountain lion coming onto your porch. BAD! That's bad news.

It's time to deal with that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:05 PM (BI5O2)

235 I don't think I've ever heard Girl F. swear she is such a goody two-shoes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 11:07 PM (m6HS6)

236 *waves to sven*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 11:07 PM (o18eU)

237 I just avoid polite company.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Welcome over here, fukkin Asshole

Posted by: Miklos is kind, is his asshole way at October 21, 2025 11:07 PM (M772T)

238 Was it George Jones who did the relatively recent song about the girl in the Corvette? "The One I Loved Back Then."

"I had one that was
Hotter than a two dollar pistol,
She was the fastest thing around!
Long and lean, every young man's dream,
She turned every head in town.
She was built, and fun to handle, son;
I'm glad that you dropped in --
She reminds me of the one I loved back then."

In the second verse, in true country-song fashion, we find out the old man is referring to the narrator's brunette girlfriend in the 'Vette, not the 'Vette itself!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 11:08 PM (omVj0)

239
*winces*
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant

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

Now now. Those laces might not have been the least bit curly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 11:08 PM (ldc7S)

240 You have a fuckin' mountain lion coming onto your porch. BAD! That's bad news.

It's time to deal with that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:05 PM (BI5O2)

I've never seen a mountain lion in all my years hiking and camping in the Rocky Mountains, but I am damn certain they have seen me. I would get that hair rising on the back of the neck sensation. Pro-tip: look up into the trees. They're like leopards.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 11:08 PM (0aYVJ)

241 My grandpa never cursed.

He was the sweetest man. The only time I ever saw him frustrated with me and my brother was when we talked during his favorite (and only) tv program.

The Muppet Show.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 11:08 PM (mT+6a)

242 My grandpa said "cockeyed" a lot.

As in, "I couldn't get the cockeyed thing to work right."
Posted by: Pug Mahon
--------

Trying to extract a bit of electronics that wasn't designed to be extracted, I was surprised to hear an engineer very much my senior refer the bit as 'a whoremonger'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 11:08 PM (XeU6L)

243 I don't think I've ever heard Girl F. swear she is such a goody two-shoes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 11:07 PM (m6HS6)

Mrs B rarely curses, so when she does I know she's pissed. My tattoo idea was one of those times. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:09 PM (snZF9)

244 That was G. Jones, Wolfus.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 21, 2025 11:09 PM (ha1wR)

245 Oh, I forgot Yosemite Sam. Great horny toads, but he was good for some rassel-frackin' rude ways to call an idjit an idjit.
Posted by: mikeski


Ah, there's a Yosemite Sam mention. My faith in the Horde is resthorde.

Posted by: mindful webworker - morfleskoozle at October 21, 2025 11:09 PM (Qqyu2)

246 One of my all time favorite sad country songs is Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" followed closely by "Cold, Cold Heart". Hank ang like he was really suffering.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Your Cheating Heart

Posted by: Country Boy Miklos, telling on hisself at October 21, 2025 11:09 PM (M772T)

247 240 You have a fuckin' mountain lion coming onto your porch. BAD! That's bad news.

--------

I had a bobcat sitting under my birdbath once. They're girthy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 11:10 PM (dyewR)

248 The funniest country song ever written is "You Never Even Call Me By My Name", by Steve Goodman, who composed "City of New Orleans". He wrote it with John Prine, and they tried to jam in every country-song cliche into one song. Enjoy! https://tinyurl.com/5ba687ss

Posted by: Nemo at October 21, 2025 11:10 PM (4RPgu)

249 One of my all time favorite sad country songs is Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" followed closely by "Cold, Cold Heart". Hank ang like he was really suffering.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025


***
"Lonesome" has one of the best sad verses in pop or country music:

"Have you ever seen a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
It means he's lost the will to live,
And I'm so lonesome I could cry. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 11:10 PM (omVj0)

250 Mrs B rarely curses, so when she does I know she's pissed.
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Same here. I make up for the swearing shortfall, however.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 11:10 PM (41CYW)

251 CB Miklos, I think that is Hank's best song.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 21, 2025 11:11 PM (ha1wR)

252 Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 11:08 PM (0aYVJ)


Explains the full candy dish.

Posted by: MH-53J at October 21, 2025 11:11 PM (DJ3aj)

253
https://tinyurl.com/mrmbyjus
Posted by: SMH

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

How in the HELL did that happen? And the CH-53 Super Stallion earlier this year???

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 11:11 PM (ldc7S)

254 Mrs B rarely curses, so when she does I know she's pissed. My tattoo idea was one of those times. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Depends on the tattoo and on whom and where

Posted by: Miklos finds it difficult to typle while attemtong cig, lighter and drink simultaneously at October 21, 2025 11:12 PM (M772T)

255 Boy. Ah say, boy! You're sharp as a bowling ball, boy!

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 21, 2025 11:12 PM (bVKL8)

256 Sorry to hear that the beautiful mountain lion from the Halloween scare ended up as road-kill in front of the Food Lion.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot


Nope. I'm pretty sure mountain lion tastes like chicken.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025 11:13 PM (0Htd1)

257 My Sunday-School-teaching grandmother said to me one time when I was over at her house, as she winked and pointed to the starts of a beard Grandpa was growing, "Look at that sh*t on his face!"

lol

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic at October 21, 2025 11:13 PM (cifhi)

258 Supernaturally powered guitar picks. Can't think of anything more metal than that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura


Well, fighting demons by garroting them with a blessed guitar string, maybe.

.....probably not Buffy. Maybe Faith.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 11:05 PM (nhCoE)

Ooooh, an idea for old guitar strings. I like that. I'm guessing the church would blow a gasket of you touched guns and silver bullets to the relics. Still, there is a some humor in being able to say "Saint Paul sends his regards..BANG"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:14 PM (snZF9)

259 Didn't know there was a quarterly de-lurking requirement here now. How long has that been a thing?

Posted by: They Can't Have My French Fries at October 21, 2025 11:15 PM (Lhm5y)

260 Mrs B rarely curses, so when she does I know she's pissed.
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Same here. I make up for the swearing shortfall, however.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 11:10 PM (41CYW)

Yeah, me too. I make up for a small continent. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:15 PM (snZF9)

261 I love Hank Williams.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:15 PM (BI5O2)

262 257 My Sunday-School-teaching grandmother said to me one time when I was over at her house, as she winked and pointed to the starts of a beard Grandpa was growing, "Look at that sh*t on his face!"

--------

Grandma Walton hated Zeb's whiskers. Damn commie, he was.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 11:15 PM (dyewR)

263 Imagine a rather precocious 2 1/2 year old young lady with a penchant for politeness going through a stage where every time she said "thank you" is sounded a whole lot like "f*ck you". And, she said "thank you" at every opportunity because it was one of the first phrases that always solicited surprise on pleased grown-up's faces.

The hilarious thing about all of that is the context. We knew what she was saying and meant. She knew what she was saying, and meant. But, the context of the situations in which she would use it were legend. A waiter brings her some food in a restaurant...eye contact and "thank you/ f*ck you".

I credit that time with my ability to keep a straight face no matter the circumstances. Thank God we video taped it for posterity...and the kiddo's embarrassment.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 11:16 PM (dIske)

264 Seen on X or somewhere on the interwebs…

Husband: this is bull…
Wife: shhh, say snake instead, the kids
Husband: this is snake shit

Posted by: MH-53J at October 21, 2025 11:16 PM (DJ3aj)

265 How in the HELL did that happen? And the CH-53 Super Stallion earlier this year???
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
___

Dunno, but I wouldn't be surprised that poor maintenance was a contributing factor.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 11:17 PM (o18eU)

266 Didn't know there was a quarterly de-lurking requirement here now. How long has that been a thing?
Posted by: They Can't Have My French Fries
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Rules are mostly for decoration. Very similar to how the Horde treats HR policies.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 11:17 PM (41CYW)

267 When you get to a certain level you can communicate with the soul of a machine.

Most of my cussin serves this purpose.

Posted by: pawn at October 21, 2025 11:18 PM (tqkKb)

268 Hank Williams:

I like Honky Tonk Blues and Moanin' The Blues

https://youtu.be/bhcGcnlD0Z8

sorry about the ads

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 11:18 PM (AOsQT)

269 ... the 2 people that really stuck in my mind this year was Sponge's wife Kelly, and Theresa. I did have a few extra, so 2 others got them as well. On the surface, they are half used guitar picks. I spent years tossing them to people, but none were special like this. These babies got mojo, and I can't think of a better use for them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)


Mine is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for thinking of me 💕💕💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 21, 2025 11:19 PM (SRRAx)

270 Ooooh, an idea for old guitar strings. I like that. I'm guessing the church would blow a gasket of you touched guns and silver bullets to the relics. Still, there is a some humor in being able to say "Saint Paul sends his regards..BANG"

Makes "shot to hell" a bit more literal.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 21, 2025 11:20 PM (lUFok)

271 How can you guarantee proper torque if all the screws are lined up?

Posted by: Reforger at October 21, 2025 11:20 PM (SG6eL)

272 Dunno, but I wouldn't be surprised that poor maintenance was a contributing factor.

---------

PRO TIP: Never forget the cotter pin in the main rotor bolt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 11:20 PM (dyewR)

273 Wait? We can make rules for the lurkers?

I've got one. Every Oct. 21st, lurkers gotta punch themselves right in the nuts at 11:22pm.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:21 PM (BI5O2)

274
Country & Western songs...

Ok, let's all place our hands over our sports bras and sing The Lesbian National Anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mPigUgxpfco?feature=share


Posted by: Arbalest at October 21, 2025 11:21 PM (FlRtG)

275 *sob*
Posted by: Jude McAtamney

Oh, you want a sob song? "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean. He DIED saving all those miners.
https://tinyurl.com/msyj7wa2

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025 11:22 PM (0Htd1)

276 When busting balls with buddies at work, I mostly cuss, but when I want to be classy, I'll use "thank. you" or "go thank yourself"

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 21, 2025 11:23 PM (q9UI0)

277 Cussin' story #1

I was maybe less than thirteen when, one day, up at the lake, we were chucking rocks into the water (no good skippers to be found). Uphill from me, my step-brother picks up a big sort-flat rock, which, naturally, lands smack on top of my head. I let loose with a torrent of words that I didn't even realize I knew! Fortunately, I don't think any of the adults heard me.

Doc, friend of Dad's, said if he had his kit with him, he'd put a stitch in it. I probably still have a scar but still have my hair, so I don't know.

Cussin' story #2

Mom must have been in her late eighties when she happened to mention a word she said she'd never heard before: m_____f_____. As she walked out of the room all casual like. I don't care how old either of us was, that's a heckuva thing to hear from one's mother — who never cussed that I can (otherwise) recall.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rutabaga at October 21, 2025 11:23 PM (Qqyu2)

278 Ok, let's all place our hands over our sports bras and sing The Lesbian National Anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mPigUgxpfco?feature=share

Posted by: Arbalest
----------------
Heh.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)

279 Mrs B rarely curses, so when she does I know she's pissed. My tattoo idea was one of those times. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Depends on the tattoo and on whom and where

Posted by: Miklos finds it difficult to typle while attemtong cig, lighter and drink simultaneously at October 21, 2025 11:12 PM (M772T)

I have none. We were out in sturgis one year and I walked in to a tattoo place out of curiosity. the door was open and you saw people getting tattoos as you walked by. I looked on the wall and there it was.. the holy grail of tattoos as if the universe custom designed it for me. A reaper with the most wicked and detailed skull in a purple hooded robe and holding a blue gibson flying V guitar, the guitar I used most of the time for decades. I would have changed out the colors of the robe and guitar, but it was amazing, it was me. Of all the tattoos on the planet that one was MINE. It would have fit perfect on my upper right arm. It was THEE tattoo for me. Mrs B looks at it, turns to me and says in a low, slow, menacing tone "There is no...fucking...way..I'm waking up to that on the morning." Sigh...I knew she meant business.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9)

280 lolol Berserker

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 11:26 PM (o18eU)

281 Never had kids myself, but work buddy described coming home from grocery store, his 4 year old sticking his head down in the bag on the floor, trying to get the can of beans, dropping said can, and from the bag comes...

"fuckin' beans."

His wife apparently made it out of the kitchen before peeing herself laughing.

Posted by: Dale at October 21, 2025 11:26 PM (f45WX)

282 nerdygirl, McAtamney was a ref to the NYG kicker who didn't kick good on Sunday and, as of around noon today, is now open for opportunities elsewhere.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 11:27 PM (gKWVE)

283 George Jones. The King Is Gone
Prove me wrong...
https://youtu.be/Jc08gY8wfVc?si=AywLK63t2lgie9iz

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy's Husband at October 21, 2025 11:27 PM (dyL4B)

284 There is no...fucking...way..I'm waking up to that on the morning." Sigh...I knew she meant business.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9)

---------

Why does she hate fine art?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 11:27 PM (dyewR)

285 I didn't see Cheese and Rice

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 21, 2025 11:28 PM (a4flb)

286 I would never get a tattoo. But if I did, it would say "Stop Looking At My Arm, Pervert."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:28 PM (BI5O2)

287 Can I at least drive the getaway car?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Sure

While me and Katy are busy in the back seat

Here, have a beer

Posted by: Miklos says leys got to the Dexter Lake Club, because Otis, he loves us at October 21, 2025 11:28 PM (M772T)

288 Q4 check-in. Shortened my to-do list considerably

Posted by: Chunk at October 21, 2025 11:29 PM (T+AvH)

289 lolol Berserker

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 11:26 PM (o18eU)

You know her, you can just picture her doing that, right?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:30 PM (snZF9)

290 Why does she hate fine art?
Posted by: Cicero

Shit, that blows Dogs At Poker away!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 21, 2025 11:30 PM (q9UI0)

291 10:30 here. Goodnight, horde. Sweet dreams.

Posted by: Official Delurker, thinking of getting a new nic at October 21, 2025 11:30 PM (cifhi)

292 I've never seen a mountain lion in all my years hiking and camping in the Rocky Mountains, but I am damn certain they have seen me. I would get that hair rising on the back of the neck sensation. Pro-tip: look up into the trees. They're like leopards.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff

I often use doe in heat urine when I am hunting. It states on the bottle, do not use on yourself. There is a good reason for this. Of course I ignore that warning. Was hunting one day. Very calm day, no wind yet multiple times I was hearing does snorting in alarm. They were far enough away I was sure it wasn't me that was spooking them and it was a week day with no other hunters in the area. Multiple times I got a strange, hair on the back of my neck feeling. Gave up just before dusk and walking back to the truck, I got the same eerie feeling. Dropped the tailgate, sat down and unloaded my rifle. I looked up, and a big cat came up the same trail onto the road. He froze looking at me and then crouched. I didn't realize I could load my gun that fast. He jumped and disappeared just as I jacked a shell into the magazine. I still put doe in heat on my person.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 21, 2025 11:30 PM (/StR6)

293 If I can't have the Bayeaux Tapestry on my chest, I don't even want a tattoo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 11:30 PM (dyewR)

294 Sigh...I knew she meant business.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Or maybe No Business

Posted by: Miklos notes that women have significant advantage in negotiations with men at October 21, 2025 11:32 PM (M772T)

295 I prefer my lurker check-ins on a annual cadence. Coincides with nooky time with the hot wife.

Posted by: RichJ at October 21, 2025 11:32 PM (N+PhT)

296 If I can't have the Bayeaux Tapestry on my chest, I don't even want a tattoo.
Posted by: Cicero
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LOL. Well done.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 11:33 PM (41CYW)

297 You know her, you can just picture her doing that, right?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:30 PM (snZF9)
___

Oh yeah, which is why I'm still laughing.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 11:34 PM (o18eU)

298 Mine is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for thinking of me 💕💕💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 21, 2025 11:19 PM (SRRAx)

It was really my pleasure. I had a few on me in the period leading up to my bypass, when by all accounts I should have been dead weeks before. Never had a heart attack, heart is fine, warp speed recovery, zero issues, virtually no visible scars, never felt a hint of pain afterwards, and I feel like I'm 20 again. Damn right I'm giving those to people who need it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:35 PM (snZF9)

299 "Take this Job and Shove It" has special meaning for me. When about 22 it played on the intercom the day I quit a crappy job selling paint in the basement of an old Monkey Wards.

Of course a classic is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" by David Allan Coe.

Posted by: Farmer at October 21, 2025 11:35 PM (55Qr6)

300 I often use doe in heat urine when I am hunting. It states on the bottle, do not use on yourself. There is a good reason for this. Of course I ignore that warning.

I fear for Sock Monkey

I mean chacun à son goût and all, but still

Posted by: Miklos, laissez faire et cetera at October 21, 2025 11:35 PM (M772T)

301 I'm trying to cut down on my cursing, but it was not stopped when I was growing up. I try (and somewhat succeed) to use dagnabit, malarkey, criminy, and arrrgh! But I can't adjust where I came from.

I went to a wedding with a new goatee that my wife wanted (and she's wanted me to keep ever since). I went to say hello to my grandfather, who smiled, touched the hair on my chin, and before even saying hello, said, "What the fuck is this?"

Posted by: Nerd Herd at October 21, 2025 11:36 PM (NZPfR)

302 Binder called Karoline Leavitt, America's bossy big sis, deplorable today. ABBS ripped out Binder's pages, set them on fire with a smile. I am sort of feeling sorry for Binder: going through life dumber than a box of rocks has to come with some challenges.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 21, 2025 11:37 PM (uv8gn)

303 If I can't have the Bayeaux Tapestry on my chest, I don't even want a tattoo.
Posted by: Cicero

They could weave one from my abundant chest hair.

Ze probleme, she ees sol-ved

Posted by: Manly Man Miklos at October 21, 2025 11:38 PM (M772T)

304 Saw that Mamdani’s communications director is named Epstein. I mean how do you square this shit? Jewish comms director for a pro-Hamas candidate for mayor. OK sure. Why not?

This is why I’m in the let it burn camp. Fuck it, I’ll bring the gasoline yall light the fire in November.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:38 PM (PGEno)

305 If I can't have the Bayeaux Tapestry on my chest, I don't even want a tattoo.
Posted by: Cicero

LOL. Well done.
Posted by: scampydog


I didn't got that reference.....

But the Bayeux Tapestry is 230 feet long, so you need a lot of chest.

It also depicts 93 penises, so more than one wiener per yard.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

306 It also depicts 93 penises, so more than one wiener per yard.
Posted by: mikeski
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So 186 butt cheeks?

Posted by: Mayor Pete blinking rapidly at October 21, 2025 11:41 PM (41CYW)

307 I prefer my lurker check-ins on a annual cadence. Coincides with nooky time with the hot wife.
Posted by: RichJ

Whose hot wife?

Got yer car keys?

Posted by: Lurker Swingers Club at October 21, 2025 11:42 PM (M772T)

308 It also depicts 93 penises, so more than one wiener per yard.
Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)


Hey, that's one of the rules of my homeowner's association.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at October 21, 2025 11:42 PM (NZPfR)

309 Niters y'all.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 11:43 PM (o18eU)

310 I'll delurk to comment on that Neil McCoy video (didnt know that existed).

I was a sound man at a giant honkytonk in a GA college town (that was owned by the bud distributor) in the late 80s/early 90's. One of the worst gigs ever, but regular money is regular money.

this place was so bad the bar was cafeteria style.

Many, many Nashville touring bands/groups came through there. There was not a nicer person I met there in a couple years of working every other weekend than Neil. Also, the womens chased him like Elvis.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 21, 2025 11:46 PM (BmmO2)

311 Niters y'all.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Good night

Posted by: Miklos at God's Mercy at October 21, 2025 11:46 PM (M772T)

312 I fear for Sock Monkey

I mean chacun à son goût and all, but still
Posted by: Miklos,

That's not my only cat encounter. I ran into one at night on my property. There's a reason I always carry. I survived, he didn't. Didn't smell like a doe that night. I had a tree step break getting out of a tree stand one evening. It was about ten below zero. I fell about fifteen feet. The only thing I broke was my bow. Apparently I have yet to fulfill my purpose in life so I get to keep playing.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 21, 2025 11:46 PM (/StR6)

313 292 I've never seen a mountain lion in all my years hiking and camping in the Rocky Mountains, but I am damn certain they have seen me. I would get that hair rising on the back of the neck sensation. Pro-tip: look up into the trees. They're like leopards.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff
______________________

Same. Never have seen a mountain lion. I HAVE seen Lynx, however. Some idiot "animal expert" in upstate NY released in a bunch into the wild up there not understanding that Lynx have a territory of about 900 sq miles. For a while, they were showing up in heavily populated areas of NJ and half the state of Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 11:48 PM (dIske)

314 I'm trying to cut down on my cursing, but it was not stopped when I was growing up. I try (and somewhat succeed) to use dagnabit, malarkey, criminy, and arrrgh! But I can't adjust where I came from.

I went to a wedding with a new goatee that my wife wanted (and she's wanted me to keep ever since). I went to say hello to my grandfather, who smiled, touched the hair on my chin, and before even saying hello, said, "What the fuck is this?"

Posted by: Nerd Herd at October 21, 2025 11:36 PM (NZPfR)

I was at a family barbecue. My 80 year old aunt points me to the grill where some burnt blackened hotdogs were sitting and says "you want a hot dog?" I blurted out, "oh shit no, they look like mummy dick". lolol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)

315 Posted by: mindful webworker - rutabaga at October 21, 2025 11:23 PM (Qqyu2)

This is similar, but a mispronunciation...my upright farmwife grandma informed us that my aunt and uncle got a new car:
John and Carol got a new Vulva!

Posted by: Farmer at October 21, 2025 11:48 PM (55Qr6)

316 It also depicts 93 penises, so more than one wiener per yard.
Posted by: mikeski

Hmmmh. Many bags of dicks for Mark Hamill to eat, that be.

Posted by: Yoda at October 21, 2025 11:48 PM (m+sND)

317 No kings protest leaders told by democrat party leaders not to push for national general strike as it would upset corporate democrat party leaders donors.

Posted by: raimondo at October 21, 2025 11:52 PM (0YlgR)

318 So I was there working a hotel in the Catskills.

Tough crowd

One night they had me work the early lounge with the families.

With the adults, you gotta work Blue, ya know? They expect it. But not with children around.

So one asshole guys shouts "Make something funny!"

I sez why?

I'm lookin at your kid

Posted by: Miklos, for the Estate of Rodney Dangerfield at October 21, 2025 11:54 PM (M772T)

319 It also depicts 93 penises, so more than one wiener per yard.
Posted by: mikeski

So 186 butt cheeks?
Posted by: Mayor Pete blinking rapidly


Most of them are on horses, but I doubt that'll stop you, Mr. Mayor.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 11:55 PM (nhCoE)

320 No kings protest leaders told by democrat party leaders not to push for national general strike as it would upset corporate democrat party leaders donors.
Posted by: raimondo


Is raimondo more confused than usual, or did someone edit this for him?

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 11:57 PM (nhCoE)

321 Didn't smell like a doe that night. I had a tree step break getting out of a tree stand one evening. It was about ten below zero. I fell about fifteen feet. The only thing I broke was my bow. Apparently I have yet to fulfill my purpose in life so I get to keep playing.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my

*compares*

The first and last apply to me as well.

The Rest suggests a Life of Adventure

Posted by: Miklos, don't get around much these days at October 21, 2025 11:57 PM (M772T)

322 "Most of them are on horses, but I doubt that'll stop you, Mr. Mayor."

So glad I stayed for the comment of the night.

Nighty night.

Posted by: pawn at October 21, 2025 11:58 PM (tqkKb)

323 LMAO...I knew it. I freakin knew it.

HISTORIC: Louvre museum's first female security chief, hired by first female director, become first women to lose French crown jewels
(Not the Bee)

https://tinyurl.com/3p87cwfm

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 11:58 PM (dIske)

324 I often use doe in heat urine when I am hunting.
--------------
I use that also. If walking into stand, tie a piece of twine to the wick and a belt loop on the other end and drag it behind. If taking 4-wheeler or Can Am, tie it to the back and drag. Boots always get a splash of it. Have seen bucks walk straight line - following the scent. And a bobcat once.

Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2025 11:58 PM (41CYW)

325
This freakout over Trump's new YUGE, classy, luxurious, fine Corinthian leather ballroom is hilarious. $1/4B project, all privately funded to make the WH great again.

I was reviewing all the renovations that have been done on the WH over the years. Hell, Truman had to rebuild the whole thing, the WH proper. They gutted the entire WH, and there are pictures of that. They left the exterior walls standing, and completely rebuilt the interior. Photos show excavators inside, dirt and new steel framing be added all within the husk of the exterior walls.

They had to, the old structure was about to collapse. There were serious structural problems with the second floor structure in danger of collapsing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:00 AM (w6EFb)

326 Looking out the kitchen window one day, down near the burn pile, I saw what I at first took to be one amazingly large bobcat. Then I saw the tail. That was no bobcat!

I didn't get my refreshing afternoon beauty nap today, so I'm going to ahead and clock out 🕚 now. You keep on having fun, nightowls.

https://youtu.be/mO-OpFjHRbE

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hoot hoot at October 22, 2025 12:00 AM (Qqyu2)

327 HISTORIC: Louvre museum's first female security chief, hired by first female director, become first women to lose French crown jewels
(Not the Bee)

---------

Fat? Lesbian? What do I win?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 12:02 AM (dyewR)

328 Colorful metaphors were part of the lifestyle, at my former job. (factory) Of course we had to be careful--- the 'virgin ears' people, now known as "Karens"--- didn't need to hear such things. LOL.

Had a daily routine with a guy in one department, which started from a job-related argument before we became friends. It was a call & response thing that went on for months.

He'd say: "Mornin' bitch!"
I'd say: "Fuck off, P____!"

.......and, we were *checked-in* for our shift.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

329 Time for the biennial delurk, I guess! Almost done with this career, maybe time to finally retire and eventually take some of my social media off lockdown.

I did have one sailor working for me who would get frustrated and say "Cheese on rice!" on occasion. Which was extra funny, because [1] he normally swore like a sailor, being one, and [2] we all swore like sailors. The lack of profanity made it jarring!

Posted by: Chap at October 22, 2025 12:04 AM (T4zWV)

330 Fat? Lesbian? What do I win?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 12:02 AM (dyewR)

____________________

Security woman isn't fat. Director is. Not sure on the sexual proclivities...but turns out the Security chief was a definite DEI hire. They're going to run her out of town if the current attitude of the public is any indication.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 12:04 AM (dIske)

331 HISTORIC: Louvre museum's first female security chief, hired by first female director, become first women to lose French crown jewels
(Not the Bee)

---------

Fat? Lesbian? What do I win?
Posted by: Cicero
---------------
Dominique Buffin is her name. The plot, it writes itself.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW)

332 I occasionally drop a “mother mercy” or “son of a biscuit eater!”

Posted by: NCDave at October 22, 2025 12:05 AM (mAiNO)

333 They gutted the entire WH, and there are pictures of that. They left the exterior walls standing, and completely rebuilt the interior.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

The external walls were built by imported (legally) stonemasons from Scotland and Ireland.

The only original part that remains is entirely Gaelic.

Posted by: Miklos McMiklos, of the Auld and Ancient Clan McMiklos at October 22, 2025 12:07 AM (M772T)

334 Had a daily routine with a guy in one department, which started from a job-related argument before we became friends. It was a call & response thing that went on for months.
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'Evening, JQ. Had similar. Walked by HR office every morning and asked her, "Miss me?" She always replied (without looking up), "Apparently with every bullet."

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:08 AM (41CYW)

335 Dominique Buffin is her name. The plot, it writes itself.
Posted by: scampydog

I offer to undertake the Peter Sellers role

Posted by: It is time for another Pink Panther movie at October 22, 2025 12:09 AM (M772T)

336 scampydog

Haven't hunted in a few years. Nephew who lives below me showed me some pics of two 6pt (6×6) bucks coming into feed on his property. I have an old tree stand on our property line. Got the bow out today and stuck a few arrows in the target. I haven't used that stand since he moved in. I've had a hankering for venison jerky

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 12:11 AM (/StR6)

337 335 Dominique Buffin is her name. The plot, it writes itself.
Posted by: scampydog

______________________

That's a rather good stripper name. Although, if you're going to go after the big time...She'd have to change it to Dominique Boffin.

Posted by: Orson at October 22, 2025 12:11 AM (dIske)

338 So the democrat doctrine with foreign money splashing across the "NO KINGS" protest marches across the Republic...
accomplished exactly "JACK SHIT."

But we of the Republic now know them ALL!

Yes we do...Oh yes we do.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 22, 2025 12:12 AM (25kuG)

339 They're going to run her out of town if the current attitude of the public is any indication.
Posted by: Orson

Really?

Who set fire to Notre Dame?

N'est pas de verite

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at October 22, 2025 12:12 AM (M772T)

340 Dominique Buffin is her name. The plot, it writes itself.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW

dominique buffin dint do nuffin

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)

341 "No Kings" turned out to be a French Revolution slogan.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 22, 2025 12:14 AM (gKWVE)

342 That's a rather good stripper name. Although, if you're going to go after the big time...She'd have to change it to Dominique Boffin.
Posted by: Orson

You have to an eccentric Oxford prof or WWII engineer to receive the honorific "Boffin"

Posted by: Miklos thinks 'Hobart's Funnies" at October 22, 2025 12:15 AM (M772T)

343
Interior of the WH in May, 1950:

https://is.gd/7rDv2n

The second floor of the old WH was in serious danger of collapsing. The Trumans noticed a chandelier would sway when too many people were in one of the rooms. He joked that his bathtub was gonna crash through the floor with him in it.

It was getting bad during FDR, but he sort of dismissed a lot of the problems.

Anyway, there is nothing original in the WH at all, save for the exterior walls. They took to pains to recreate things very faithfully, and even reuse some old stuff when possible, but the basically, the WH is no original at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)

344 I've had a hankering for venison jerky
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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Be safe with that old stand. You mentioned you tumbled once already. 6x6 is nice! Next four weekends circled here - two bow. Two rifle - if necessary. I did just buy a crossbow, so maybe that too. We have whitetail here - a nice 5x5, two 'Ol Mossy 4x4's on cameras. You know how it goes, sit all day and see nothing - or chaos. Rut here should be last week of Oct - first few days of Nov. Good luck!

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:18 AM (41CYW)

345 dominique buffin dint do nuffin

I got nine now
and a bun in the oven

Posted by: Dominique Mama and ALL my baby Daddies at October 22, 2025 12:18 AM (M772T)

346 Dominique Buffin is her name. The plot, it writes itself.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW

dominique buffin dint do nuffin
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

* shoves comment of the week nomination in USB*

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 12:18 AM (/StR6)

347 I was at a family barbecue. My 80 year old aunt points me to the grill where some burnt blackened hotdogs were sitting and says "you want a hot dog?" I blurted out, "oh shit no, they look like mummy dick". lolol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)

LOL. You got me good with that story.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at October 22, 2025 12:18 AM (NZPfR)

348 Wonder if Bill Ayers and Bernardine Rae Dohrn are hopping out to another country these days...

might be wise of them.

might be wise.
.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 22, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)

349 Dominique Buffin is her name. The plot, it writes itself.
Posted by: scampydog

dominique buffin dint do nuffin
Posted by: Berserker


Yeah, that's the problem.

Posted by: the French crown jewels at October 22, 2025 12:20 AM (nhCoE)

350 >>burnt blackened hotdogs
-------

Well, thank God for ketchup!

(Truly, this is why I began putting ketchup on hotdogs)

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

351 Omg.

Lucy is playing hide and seek.

Holy shit. I better go.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 22, 2025 12:20 AM (mT+6a)

352 Be safe with that old stand.

That's tomorrow's project. Has to be old guy modified. Probably put a cup holder in for my coffee. It's pushing it to call it hunting. My house is 75 yds+ up the hill.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 12:21 AM (/StR6)

353
The "Lincoln" Bedroom was really a creation of Bess Truman. There is stuff that Lincoln used, including the bed, I think, but it was just a new room that was decorated with Lincoln stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

354 Tap, tap, tap. This thing on??

Posted by: TRex - tardy dino at October 22, 2025 12:23 AM (ie4QO)

355 353
The "Lincoln" Bedroom was really a creation of Bess Truman. There is stuff that Lincoln used, including the bed, I think, but it was just a new room that was decorated with Lincoln stuff.

---------

Notice how Buchanan didn't get a bedroom. Snobs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 12:23 AM (JkO4W)

356 "No Kings" turned out to be a French Revolution slogan.
Posted by: gKWVE
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On the upside:

"The Executions: After the communards were defeated, 147 were shot without trial on May 28, 1871, and buried in a mass grave. "

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2025 12:24 AM (XeU6L)

357 285 I didn't see Cheese and Rice

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 21, 2025 11:28 PM (a4flb)

It's in the article...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 12:24 AM (ynpvh)

358 Andrew Breitbart was on to them before anyone else was.

That's why he was taken out.

Word!

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 22, 2025 12:24 AM (25kuG)

359
When the work was completed, and the Trumans moved back in, Harry wrote thus in his diary:

"With all the trouble and worry it is worth it – but not 5½ million dollars! if I could have had charge of the construction it would have been done for half the money and in half the time!"

Everybody was pissed at the general contractor, and they barely even mentioned the name. They praised all the subs, but the general was basically persona non grata. His name was stricken from the record.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)

360 Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 22, 2025 12:27 AM (25kuG)

361 Notice how Buchanan didn't get a bedroom. Snobs.
Posted by: Cicero

William Taft didn't get a bathtub either.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 12:28 AM (/StR6)

362 ...Every weekend I see the prayer list here and then my eyes go to those picks. Then last year the idea hit me, bring some to the mome for a few of the horde that really could use it. I didn't make it last year, but I did this year, and the 2 people that really stuck in my mind this year was Sponge's wife Kelly, and Theresa. I did have a few extra, so 2 others got them as well. On the surface, they are half used guitar picks. I spent years tossing them to people, but none were special like this. These babies got mojo, and I can't think of a better use for them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

That is absolutely lovely, Mr. B. I really want to get to MoMeXI next year.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 22, 2025 12:28 AM (0CU3H)

363 Tap, tap, tap. This thing on??
Posted by: TRex - tardy dino
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Tardy? I would prefer to think you're working up some of that Golden BirFdaY content the Grateful was mentioning upthread.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:29 AM (41CYW)

364 First World Problems!

I've had my first glitch with Linux Mint 22.2 (the latest version). I was using Firefox while on AoS and on a different tab, looking at X. The screen locked up. The mouse could move around but clicking did nothing. Had to power it off. Waited a bit, turned it back on, and I thought it was fine but nope. Same scenario happened. So, I repeated what I did before and while booting up, I got an error message over and over. Looked up error message and apparently Linux Mint 22.2 has problems with Radeon chips. Mine anyway and others after looking up the error message. So, I'll try some steps I saw at Linux Mint forums, tomorrow.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 12:32 AM (sAmhv)

365 The "Lincoln" Bedroom was really a creation of Bess Truman. There is stuff that Lincoln used, including the bed, I think, but it was just a new room that was decorated with Lincoln stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally


The Lincoln "bedroom" was used at times by Lincoln as as office. Never a bedroom.

They didn't have interns or pizza in Lincoln's day.

Posted by: Miklos, Actual Degree type Historian person at October 22, 2025 12:33 AM (M772T)

366 Howdy doody ye good folks of the night.
FWIW Here's Your Damn Song by Diana Corcoran is head and shoulders above all other country songs. A pop-country artist parodying all the country music tropes quasi respectfully? With all the cliched twanging you could hope for? Yes please! I like music that is fun.

Posted by: Nato at October 22, 2025 12:34 AM (dkP1V)

367 publius, as usual you sent me on a reading adventure. Recalled the White House fire from HS history, but not the details. Reading mentioned the interior was a total loss after the Brits lit it on fire in 1814.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 12:34 AM (41CYW)

368
William Taft never got stuck in a bathtub as the legend goes, but he did overflow one in a hotel, causing water damage. There was the makings of an Inspector Clouseau incident there, sounds like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

369 "With all the trouble and worry it is worth it – but not 5½ million dollars! if I could have had charge of the construction it would have been done for half the money and in half the time!"

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And it would have looked like the Brown Derby Restaurant because all Truman knew was hats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 22, 2025 12:36 AM (dyewR)

370 cont'd

The error message was:

Radeon 0000:00:01.0: couldn't schedule ib

I'm on my other laptop now. It's got Linux Mint 20.2. The only problem with this one is keyboard/mouse will freeze up. I just use spare laptop/mouse and it keeps running. I think its a hardware issue with the laptop. That's why it was a cheap 'renewed' from Amazon.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 22, 2025 12:36 AM (sAmhv)

371

I was once sodomized in a WH pantry by a colored prep boy. Although decently gifted, for me it was like tossing a hotdog down a hallway...

Posted by: Hunter Bidet at October 22, 2025 12:36 AM (Wl+1U)

372
If you want to read a story, look up Winston Churchill claiming to have seen Lincoln's ghost in the WH -- while he was buck naked after getting out of the bath.

He said he walked out into the bedroom, and saw Honest Abe standing there next to the fireplace. He claimed to have said to the ghost, "Good evening, Mr. President, you seem to have me at a disadvantage."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:37 AM (w6EFb)

373
The Lincoln "bedroom" was used at times by Lincoln as as office. Never a bedroom.
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LBJ did. Ask me how I know this.

Posted by: Doris Kearns Goodwin at October 22, 2025 12:38 AM (XeU6L)

374 I was with my daughter at a relics event. Someones' kid asked if one of the " relic persons " was going to be there " live ? " presumably without a thumb and some fingers. I said " We can't dig him up just for you ! "
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old joke but a good one

Posted by: Lord Percy at October 22, 2025 12:39 AM (65L+K)

375 William Taft never got stuck in a bathtub as the legend goes

That was H. L. Mencken's Bathtub Hoax.

Decades after confessing that he had made it up, he was frustrated but also amused that it was a cockroach of a story that would not die.

Posted by: Miklos, something of a Mencken scholar at October 22, 2025 12:39 AM (M772T)

376 > : Did any of your kids, nieces, or nephews ever give you that hot flush of embarrassment by dropping one of their newly discovered words in public? Church? School? Somewhere even worse?

One of my sisters regaled her Sunday Schoo cass with "The House of the Rising Sun", which she apparently thought had something to do with church... "House of the Rising Son".. .get it?

I forget if she did not know all the words, or just did not know what the words meant. She was quite young.

In case you're not familiar with this song: despite the name, it is NOT a hymn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 12:43 AM (qpyNK)

377 LBJ did. Ask me how I know this.
Posted by: Doris Kearns Goodwin

LBJ orders pants



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_myjOr0OU

Posted by: Miklos, laughing at Historical Figures at October 22, 2025 12:43 AM (M772T)

378 > Schoo cass

Wow, that L is getting bad.

Time to buy a new keyboard. Sigh...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 12:43 AM (qpyNK)

379 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, staying at the WH in 1942 also claimed to have seen Lincoln's ghost. She said she heard a knock at the door, got up and opened it, and there stood Lincoln's ghost in his top hat and long coat. She said she fainted, but later denied she fainted.

Many others claimed to have seen the ghost as well, including Maureen Reagan.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

380 "Communard" sounds like a portmanteau of "communist" and "retard", which seems a bit redundant.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 12:45 AM (qpyNK)

381 LBJ did. Ask me how I know this.
Posted by: Doris Kearns Goodwin

At least LBJ was a gentleman

Not like that died-on top-of-me son of a bitch Nelson Rockefeller

Posted by: Megan Marshack, confused about men's trousers at October 22, 2025 12:46 AM (M772T)

382 Time to buy a new keyboard. Sigh...
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The letter stencils are wearing off of mine. Good thing I took typing classes! Key action is sluggish, but they still work. So far.

Was thinking of getting a backlit keyboard, just for fun.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

383 It's late, I'm going to bed.
Plate screws should be horizontal. Indoors.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 22, 2025 12:47 AM (n4GiU)

384 Alright, parentals -what was your go to word when the littles were within earshot?

Blast.

What is that mediocre movie that ran on repeat all summer in your youth?

John Carpenter's "The Thing". (Wouldn't call it mediocre.)

Okay, back to bed and "coughing the night away".

Blast this head and chest cold.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 22, 2025 12:48 AM (O7YUW)

385 As a lifelong toiletmouth, I was delighted to hear a fine G-rated alternative on some forgotten cartoon show a few years ago: "Motherfather Cockerspaniel!"

Posted by: Clio Weeps at October 22, 2025 12:49 AM (kSAM8)

386 That was H. L. Mencken's Bathtub Hoax.

Decades after confessing that he had made it up, he was frustrated but also amused that it was a cockroach of a story that would not die.
Posted by: Miklos, something of a Mencken scholar at October 22, 2025 12:39 AM (M772T)

I think the quote Ace uses on the site banner is the only intelligent thing Mencken ever said.

Posted by: Reforger at October 22, 2025 12:49 AM (SG6eL)

387 At least LBJ was a gentleman

Not like that died-on top-of-me son of a bitch Nelson Rockefeller
Posted by: Megan Marshack
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FDR just dropped dead on me.

Posted by: Lucy Mercer at October 22, 2025 12:50 AM (XeU6L)

388 Mac Davis was hilarious.

Thank you for the ONT. Tomorrow I'm getting back to my books. And I think I'll dig out the one bush and get the corner ready for the the monkey statue.

I'm on a corner lot. The monkey statue, 175 pounds, on the pedestal will look amazing. I expect him to be popular. As winter progresses, he will have hats and scarves.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 12:51 AM (Sco7b)

389 I'm going to take up a side hustle.

There is gold up in the foothills of my youth.

I am thinking...a pan, a small sluice and of course, a large caliber hand gun for the riffraff (mostly illegals and their pot grows in the mountains). With gold at 4,000...why the heck not!

Posted by: Nightwatch at October 22, 2025 12:52 AM (25kuG)

390 I think the quote Ace uses on the site banner is the only intelligent thing Mencken ever said.
Posted by: Reforger


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

Posted by: Mencken Man Miklos at October 22, 2025 12:52 AM (M772T)

391 FDR just dropped dead on me.
Posted by: Lucy Mercer

Truman was worse


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44

Posted by: People of Hiroshima at October 22, 2025 12:55 AM (M772T)

392 If they need something cleaner than a swear Vermonters will often say Jeezum Crow. I've never heard it elsewhere

Posted by: 496 at October 22, 2025 12:56 AM (7MeQV)

393 Just dropping by to wish you all sweet dreams, Horde, I've got an early alarm.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 22, 2025 12:56 AM (0nHVk)

394 Evening, Sacampydog, and ONT Horde! It was a pleasure to meet you at the MoMee, Scampydog.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 12:56 AM (8zz6B)

395 389 I'm going to take up a side hustle.

There is gold up in the foothills of my youth.

I am thinking...a pan, a small sluice and of course, a large caliber hand gun for the riffraff (mostly illegals and their pot grows in the mountains). With gold at 4,000...why the heck not!
Posted by: Nightwatch at October 22, 2025 12:52 AM (25k

Trudeau actually did me good.

During the trucker blockade when bank accounts were being frozen, I learned everything was just paper and could be frozen on a whim.

I took my late mother's money out of the stock matket casino and brought precious metals. Wow. That was a good move.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 12:58 AM (Sco7b)

396
292 I still put doe in heat on my person.

- - - - - - - -
Bob used to do that. 'til a buck snuck up behind him.

Don't be Bob...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at October 22, 2025 12:59 AM (puHxD)

397 No list of funny country songs is complete without Piss Up A Rope by Ween.
Posted by: DPICM at October 21, 2025 10:11 PM (M2VUX)



The Rodeo Song, by Gary Lee and Showdown. very nsfw

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:01 AM (8zz6B)

398 Good evening, AOP. Enjoyed chatting with you in TX. And the pecan cracking tool was fantastic.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 01:02 AM (41CYW)

399 Swear this is a true story. When I was in kindergarten I was fascinated with the whole Red Baron thing and aerial dogfighting. At recess I was running around with the other kids screaming "Fokkers! Fokkers!" School blew a gasket. Parents arrived. They explained with my airplane book. They refused to buy it. I was mystified as little me had never heard that word. Parents refused to explain. I was just banned from that word. Didn't understand til years later.

Posted by: Anonymous this time at October 22, 2025 01:03 AM (3/XaG)

400 Good evening, AOP. Enjoyed chatting with you in TX. And the pecan cracking tool was fantastic.
Posted by: scampydog

Brave man

I would never take the risk of AOP getting my nuts in a vise.

Posted by: Prudential Miklos at October 22, 2025 01:05 AM (M772T)

401 As far as that Pic of the switches, the screws have to all be horizontal or vertical. I've never heard of an inspector failing anyone, but they have that option due to "poor workmanship".
Posted by: Ex-Ex at October 21, 2025 10:13 PM (22p5n)

Thing is, if one were being completely anal about it, one would torque the screws to the specified torque value, and leave the slots where they wind up. Setting the slots all vertical, or all horizontal would almost guaranteee that some were under or over torqued.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:05 AM (8zz6B)

402 >>>Mint 22.2 has problems with Radeon chips. Mine anyway and others after looking up the error message. So, I'll try some steps I saw at Linux Mint forums, tomorrow.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Have a problem with a few clips on X. Ignorant thought here is that it has something to do with the presentation or way the clip is processed for loading. Like at AoS, my mouse freezes until ace is loaded. Only a few on X will literally do exactly as you experienced although most don't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 01:07 AM (kkYD1)

403 Brave man

I would never take the risk of AOP getting my nuts in a vise.
Posted by: Prudential Miklos
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Topic that almost made the ONT tonight? Which door did you walk into this week. I found mine - or more accurately, Miklos pointed it out.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 01:08 AM (41CYW)

404 If we're going to be getting into funny songs, my half French, half Polish side has to bring up the classic Polka tune...

"She's too fat for me!"

3 minutes. Because you need to be happy.
https://tinyurl.com/45f8eka9

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 01:09 AM (Sco7b)

405 Not a country music aficionado by any means, but I have an idea for a song:

Now That I've Snagged My Man, I'm Gonna Let Myself Go To Hell
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife? About 40 pounds.

Posted by: Try the veal. And your waitress. at October 22, 2025 01:09 AM (TbWk/)

406 Was fun to jump back in for an ONT post. Thanks to the Lurkers that delurked and all you regular...well, you know what you are. G'night, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at October 22, 2025 01:14 AM (41CYW)

407 Who's Gonna' Feed Them Hogs, by Tom T. Hall is one of the best representations of America, ever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 22, 2025 01:14 AM (kkYD1)

408 There is Wisdom in the Way of my People

Posted by: Miklos, Respected Tribal Out-pointer at October 22, 2025 01:17 AM (M772T)

409 We said whatever we wanted around our kids. Gotta toughen them up for the real world.
___

Yeah, my parents said whatever they wanted in front of us.

The problem was when did the same.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 10:20 PM (o18eU)

Always the double standards.
"You need to learn to stand up for yourself."
*half-assedly stands up against parent*
*gets beating from same parent*
"Stop moving around or it's just going to make it worse! You brought this on yourself!"
Pain, confusion, and a deep sense of reality distortion set in.
Learns to associate even moderate assertiveness with receiving violent outbursts.

Posted by: That's the clean version at October 22, 2025 01:20 AM (TbWk/)

410 The letter stencils are wearing off of mine. Good thing I took typing classes! Key action is sluggish, but they still work. So far.

Was thinking of getting a backlit keyboard, just for fun.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

Those are the ones I use. the backlit ones where the letters light up. Real nice until the letters wear away and you're left with rows of black keys with perfect glowing large white dots on the keys. The one I got now is still good, but the 7 key popped off and I can't get it back on. It just lays there and is ok, it works, but if I hit it too hard it launches up and lands somewhere else. I have to take the whole thing apart to reattach it. I like the backlit ones. They are quiet too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 01:21 AM (snZF9)

411 Lol..

"She's too Fat For Me."

1947

Unless people are bringing up "The Thin Man" movies, I'll claim tonight.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 01:22 AM (Sco7b)

412 Now That I've Snagged My Man, I'm Gonna Let Myself Go To Hell
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife? About 40 pounds.

Posted by: Try the veal. And your waitress. at October 22, 2025 01:09 AM (TbWk/)

My brother says as soon as you slip the ring on it's like pulling the cord on an emergency life raft. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 01:23 AM (snZF9)

413 "She's too fat for me!"



OK now you done it

Compare and Contrast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5H6ZTHBiM

vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_QOFAfxD4

(you may go to 1:45 if you short of soul time)

Posted by: Soul Train Miklos "Don" Cornelius at October 22, 2025 01:24 AM (M772T)

414 Posted by: That's the clean version
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Can relate to some of this. Also, nasty older sibling who hit me/broke my stuff intentionally and always said "I hate you" and "I'm gonna kill you"

Little JQ asked mom: "Why does ____ hate me?"

Mom says: "_____ doesn't hate you. ____ loves you."

WTAF?

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

415 The Rodeo Song, by Gary Lee and Showdown. very nsfw
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:01 AM (8zz6B)

If pressed, I can sing that entire song and not miss a single word.

I try not to do so in public.

Some fools still mistake me for a lady on occasion.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:29 AM (urtE/)

416 My brother says as soon as you slip the ring on it's like pulling the cord on an emergency life raft. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

I always observed that putting the ring on is like pulling the ring off a grenade

Posted by: Miklos also knows the term "starch bomb mamcita" at October 22, 2025 01:29 AM (M772T)

417 RE: my @414--

I'm no longer in contact with abusive sibling. F it. Parents are gone. I don't need to make nice-nice any more!

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

418
Was thinking of getting a backlit keyboard, just for fun.

Posted by: JQ

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

Backlit keyboards are dreamy. Worth it every time you use them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 01:31 AM (ldc7S)

419 Mom says: "_____ doesn't hate you. ____ loves you."

WTAF?
Posted by: JQ

Was your older brother's name Jesus?

Posted by: Miklos with distinct hispanic accent at October 22, 2025 01:32 AM (M772T)

420 The screw slot alignment post is intriguing. It reminds me of a Car and Driver article from the '90s, about a Rolls-Royce parts recycler guy (I think from rural Texas even) who could apparently rhyme off part numbers for obscure RR bits at will, and knew exactly what he had or did not have in stock of that part. The article's author got a wee bit creeped out when he noticed that all the screws on all the electrical enclosures were perfectly aligned.

C&D used to be a really fantastic magazine.

Posted by: far cry at October 22, 2025 01:33 AM (KY+QT)

421 Was your older brother's name Jesus?
Posted by: Miklos with distinct hispanic accent
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LOL, Miklos! Hahaha...

No. But he sure acts like he thinks he's God. Been 2 years and life is much better now.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)

422 Backlit keyboards are dreamy. Worth it every time you use them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Expensive keyboards are not worth it.

Cigarette and cigar ash, Cheeto crumbs, bits of caviar and the occasional spill of fine cognac

Get a new one

Posted by: Miklos is himself entirely disposable, when appropriate at October 22, 2025 01:36 AM (M772T)

423 That's tomorrow's project. Has to be old guy modified. Probably put a cup holder in for my coffee. It's pushing it to call it hunting. My house is 75 yds+ up the hill.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at October 22, 2025 12:21 AM (/StR6)

My dad, when he was older (80 or so) said he would sit on my sister's back porch, which was up one floor, and wait for a moose to walk by, and then just drill it from above. No more hauling canoes upriver and traipsing through the swamps to chase one down. Plus he would drag the beer fridge out there...

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:37 AM (urtE/)

424
Did you all see that some military contractor, at least informally, has admitted the infamous Jersey drone scare of late last year was all them. They were testing some new drone tech.

And it was probably psychological, too -- see how people would react.

Now, why they couldn't have just announced it at the time -- nothing to worry, just us, doing Top Secret Stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 01:37 AM (w6EFb)

425 383 It's late, I'm going to bed.
Plate screws should be horizontal. Indoors.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 22, 2025 12:47 AM (n4GiU)

This.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 01:38 AM (ynpvh)

426 My dad, when he was older (80 or so) said he would sit on my sister's back porch, which was up one floor, and wait for a moose to walk by, and then just drill it from above. No more hauling canoes upriver and traipsing through the swamps to chase one down. Plus he would drag the beer fridge out there...
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK

Old ways are Best ways

But try to tell the kids that

Posted by: Miklos has no meese, but beer fridge of course at October 22, 2025 01:39 AM (M772T)

427 Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:37 AM
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Niiiiiice! And not far from the house, makes processing a breeze.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

428 Niiiiiice! And not far from the house, makes processing a breeze.
Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

You might think so, but I'd rather not have the huge gut pile near the house. Bears love that stuff. And honestly, I'm too old to process an entire moose at the house. It used to take my family of 7 an entire week to get it all in the freezer. I'd take it to Alaska Sausage and get it done professionally. I'm much too lazy.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:41 AM (urtE/)

429 Now, why they couldn't have just announced it at the time -- nothing to worry, just us, doing Top Secret Stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

The same reason we keep quiet.

Review the papers that guy had us sign.

Posted by: Miklos, Project manager at Area Publius 51 at October 22, 2025 01:41 AM (M772T)

430 Miklos, when oh when will you MoMe? TX is a-callin'.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:42 AM (urtE/)

431 You might think so, but I'd rather not have the huge gut pile near the house. Bears love that stuff.
-------------

Well, there's this product that's called: Tarp

But yeah, I hear ya. It's not a small animal.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

432 > The Rodeo Song, by Gary Lee and Showdown. very nsfw
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 01:01 AM (8zz6B)

Very, very popular with Anchorage bar bands at one time. Possibly still is... I don't go to bars at night much these days.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 01:43 AM (qpyNK)

433 413 "She's too fat for me!"



OK now you done it

Compare and Contrast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5H6ZTHBiM

vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_QOFAfxD4

(you may go to 1:45 if you short of soul time)

Posted by: Soul Train Miklos "Don" Cornelius at October 22, 2025 01:24 AM (M772T)

I'm 29 and these were barely before my time. And damn, I miss "Sanford and Son." That was an amazing show.

My god daughter and her sisters are Jamaican. Incredibly beautiful black women. The leg video made me laugh.

The oldest girl was here at the house with her sisters when she was 12. We were playing 'Monopoly.' She was easily 6 feet tall a d had no idea what to do with the legs. It was like watching a baby giraffe. I love that girl...now in her 40's?.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 01:44 AM (Sco7b)

434 And Publius-

Could they help you with the device for Miss Mama?

Posted by: Miklos hopes so at October 22, 2025 01:44 AM (M772T)

435 > And honestly, I'm too old to process an entire moose at the house.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:41 AM (urtE/)

Heh... one of my late aunts came home from work one fine fall evening to find her future exhusband and his buddies butchering a moose on her dining room table.

Her very nice dining room table.

She was not amused.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 01:45 AM (qpyNK)

436 Very, very popular with Anchorage bar bands at one time. Possibly still is... I don't go to bars at night much these days.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 01:43 AM (qpyNK)

Was a regular at the Salty Dog in Homer when I was much much younger. I think even Hobo Jim did it a time or two. Back when I could get into any bar in Anchorage even though I was underage. They never carded girls.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:46 AM (urtE/)

437 417 RE: my @414--

I'm no longer in contact with abusive sibling. F it. Parents are gone. I don't need to make nice-nice any more!

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

I have a brother I no longer contact; it's been about 6 or 7 years...
He was the only access to Mom, so I sent him an email that had a scanned copy of her baptismal record; he sent letters to me, my former lawyer, and an email to me stating if I ever contacted him or my mom again he'd file a restraining order.
Such a nice boy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 01:46 AM (ynpvh)

438
Expensive keyboards are not worth it.

Cigarette and cigar ash, Cheeto crumbs, bits of caviar and the occasional spill of fine cognac

Get a new one
Posted by: Miklos is himself entirely disposable

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

Girls take care of their things.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 01:48 AM (ldc7S)

439 >> Could they help you with the device for Miss Mama?

I found some similar types of devices from Amazon which I liked, which are on the way. Not too expensive. Now, whether that means cheap shit that won't last, I guess I'll find out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 01:48 AM (w6EFb)

440 > But yeah, I hear ya. It's not a small animal.
Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

I know people that keep a dedicated chainsaw just for doing rough cuts on moose...you start out with a new chain and bar and keep it lubed with cooking oil.

Quite handy if you're a long way from the truck when you get your moose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 01:48 AM (qpyNK)

441 Such a nice boy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Wow. Coulda at least said "thank you" to you! What a jerk.

My bro.. well, let me put it this way:

If I was out in the water, drowning, I know I could count on him to throw me a... cinderblock.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

442 438
Expensive keyboards are not worth it.

Cigarette and cigar ash, Cheeto crumbs, bits of caviar and the occasional spill of fine cognac

Get a new one
Posted by: Miklos is himself entirely disposable

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

Girls take care of their things.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 22, 2025 01:48 AM (ldc7S)

It's about time for me to buy a new keyboard...been using this one for years. I can tell which keys I hit the most...seem to be 'a', 's', 'l', 'c', 'n'...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 01:50 AM (ynpvh)

443 > Back when I could get into any bar in Anchorage even though I was underage. They never carded girls.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 01:46 AM (urtE/)

Oh, yeah. It was a roaring boomtown in the late '70s-mid '80s. Bars open 24/7/365 (most of them did close down for an hour or two around 6:00 AM or so to clean up, but I don't think it was a legal requirement).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 01:51 AM (qpyNK)

444 Girls take care of their things.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Try telling that to Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen

Wait

I'll put you on speakerphone while I take cover behind the boat

Posted by: Miklos thinks a good talking to is in order at October 22, 2025 01:51 AM (M772T)

445 Did you all see that some military contractor, at least informally, has admitted the infamous Jersey drone scare of late last year was all them. They were testing some new drone tech.

And it was probably psychological, too -- see how people would react.

Now, why they couldn't have just announced it at the time -- nothing to worry, just us, doing Top Secret Stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 01:37 AM (w6EFb)

I never saw them in my part of jersey. Reason # 6458 why I think my part of jersey is outside of the normal space time continuum.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 01:54 AM (snZF9)

446 441 Such a nice boy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Wow. Coulda at least said "thank you" to you! What a jerk.

My bro.. well, let me put it this way:

If I was out in the water, drowning, I know I could count on him to throw me a... cinderblock.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

https://youtu.be/erNvauUb2jc&t=27s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 01:54 AM (ynpvh)

447 The Rodeo Song, for those who haven't had the pleasure:

https://tinyurl.com/3p6fz96n

As AOP noted, it's very much not safe for work.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 22, 2025 01:55 AM (qpyNK)

448 I recall that SND Jim had a Bad News Brother.

Serious sociopathic criminal.

How such can happen is a mystery to me.

Posted by: Mystified Miklos at October 22, 2025 01:57 AM (M772T)

449 Expensive keyboards are not worth it.

Cigarette and cigar ash, Cheeto crumbs, bits of caviar and the occasional spill of fine cognac

Get a new one
Posted by: Miklos is himself entirely disposable


You haven't lived until a bong falls over into a glass of coke and both pour into your keyboard. Funny thing, I ran it under the sink to wash it out, blew it out with compressed air, let it dry overnight and poof, back in service. That was a regular old dell keyboard from the early 2000s.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 22, 2025 01:57 AM (snZF9)

450 As AOP noted, it's very much not safe for work.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I work from home

So pretty standard

Posted by: Miklos can cuss in at least six languages at October 22, 2025 01:59 AM (M772T)

451 That was a regular old dell keyboard from the early 2000s.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

We changed things

Posted by: Planned obsolescence and just generally crap by Dell et alia at October 22, 2025 02:00 AM (M772T)

452 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 01:54 AM
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Yeah. Nice clip! And I could see bro bragging about it to his friends, as well.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)

453 I have a brother I no longer contact; it's been about 6 or 7 years...
He was the only access to Mom, so I sent him an email that had a scanned copy of her baptismal record; he sent letters to me, my former lawyer, and an email to me stating if I ever contacted him or my mom again he'd file a restraining order.
Such a nice boy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 01:46 AM

Share with me.

My brother felt that I had it easy taking care of my parents for 14 years. My friend Sammy took me to his trailer so I could get out of the house. I cried when I did the math and realized that was my first time out of the house in 9.9 years.

But I was coddled and had an easy life.

I no longer have family. No one checked on me and I'll only be called for funerals. Screw that.

My friends across the street have been amazing to me. They have been feeding me and keeping me alive. Mom and I have been great friends to them. That's going to continue...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:09 AM (Sco7b)

454 Big bro is *just as nice* to our other siblings too. Younger bro asked me one time: "What the hell did I do to him? He treats me like a piece of shit or something."

So, I told lil bro: "Same thing as me. You got born."

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

455 Womyn's Pro Baseball coming in 2026.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 02:11 AM (+U7B7)

456
I just stumbled across the infamous Mars Bluff, SC nuclear incident in 1958. The Air Force accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a farm community in Florence county, SC. The "physics package" wasn't installed, kept separately, but the conventional implosion explosive did go off on impact, making a bit crater, damaging buildings, killing chickens, and injuring several people with shrapnel.

It was a Slim Pickens type incident. There was some fault with the bomb harness mechanism. The bombardier/navigator went in the bomb bay to try to secure it, and accidentally knocked it loose. It fell on the bomb bay doors, knocking them open, and the bomb dropped on that farm.

The bombardier managed to hang on and not fall out with it, like Slim.

That was just a WOW!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 02:13 AM (w6EFb)

457 Stateless! Hi!

*high five*

Shitty family sucks, but there's life afterward! Good friends become our new families.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

458 Yeah, a hundred people might want to see that.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 02:14 AM (+qU29)

459 455 Womyn's Pro Baseball coming in 2026.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 02:11 AM (+U7B7)

What the hell for?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 22, 2025 02:16 AM (urtE/)

460
Now, question is, what would have happened if the physics package was installed? Would it have caused a real nuclear explosion? Probably not, because the implosion explosive timing has to be down to the microsecond to generate the correct compressive shock wave, and the inadvertent detonation would've been way off.

It would however, have scattered plutonium all over the area, rendering it uninhabitable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 22, 2025 02:16 AM (w6EFb)

461 Not the Bee had the Womyn's Pro Baseball story.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 22, 2025 02:17 AM (+U7B7)

462 And after all those years of caregiving, I faced homelessness for 5 months.

What a subhuman piece of garbage my brother is.

Seriously. Garbage.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:17 AM (Sco7b)

463 Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:09 AM (Sco7b)

Taking care of one's parents is not easy. I saw how hard it was with my grandparents. I saw (and helped when asked) when a brother was taking care of my dad. It's not right for family that is not taking care of parents to claim the life of the sibling(s) taking care of elderly parents is easy, especially if those other siblings don't have to give baths, change parents' clothes and diapers, and take care of their other daily needs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:20 AM (ynpvh)

464 Yeah, a hundred people might want to see that.
Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 02:14 AM (+qU29)

Womens' Bikini Baseball might be popular, just like beach volleyball. You could watch hot babes in bikinis chew tobacky and spit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 02:21 AM (8zz6B)

465 464 Yeah, a hundred people might want to see that.
Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 02:14 AM (+qU29)

Womens' Bikini Baseball might be popular, just like beach volleyball. You could watch hot babes in bikinis chew tobacky and spit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 02:21 AM (8zz6B)

Is that a perk? Cause if it is, I can tell you I'm not into that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:23 AM (ynpvh)

466 And I am out for the night. Getting right sleepy. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 22, 2025 02:23 AM (8zz6B)

467 The bombardier managed to hang on and not fall out with it, like Slim.

That was just a WOW!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

- One forty-five caliber automatic
- Two boxes of ammunition
- Four days' concentrated emergency rations
- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine,
vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
- One miniature combination Redneck phrase book and Bible
- One hundred dollars in rubles
- One hundred dollars in gold
- Nine packs of chewing gum
- One issue of prophylactics
- Three lipsticks
- Three pair of nylon stockings.


Hell, a feller could have a good weekend in Florence or even Aynor with all that!

Posted by: Major Miklos Kong at October 22, 2025 02:24 AM (M772T)

468 Doggo!
I am soooo late🤫....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 22, 2025 02:24 AM (mAdag)

469 De-lurking to say 'evening, Horde.

99% sure the mountain lion video is AI.

Posted by: Average Guy at October 22, 2025 02:25 AM (lPHZZ)

470 7 Stateless! Hi!

*high five*

Shitty family sucks, but there's life afterward! Good friends become our new families.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:14 A

My friends had me over for Canadian Thanksgiving. And sent me home with so much food.

I am a good friend too. Trust me. Horde proud.

We always have Christmas in October or November. The kids wanted to decorate the tree. Food and gifts eventually were added.

This will be the first year without Mom. Year 5. I'll deal.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:26 AM (Sco7b)

471 Womens' Bikini Baseball might be popular, just like beach volleyball. You could watch hot babes in bikinis chew tobacky and spit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And when they scratch an itch

Posted by: Miklos wonders if "Play Balls!" would apply at October 22, 2025 02:26 AM (M772T)

472 Womens' Bikini Baseball might be popular, just like beach volleyball. You could watch hot babes in bikinis chew tobacky and spit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And when they scratch an itch
Posted by: Miklos wonders if "Play Balls!" would apply
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Yep. That's prolly what you'll get. Because at least half of them will be "women" but not actually female.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)

473 469 De-lurking to say 'evening, Horde.

99% sure the mountain lion video is AI.

Posted by: Average Guy at October 22, 2025 02:25 AM (lPHZZ)

In this day and age, it's quite possible.

https://youtube.com/shorts/DIviUcPphIw

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:30 AM (ynpvh)

474 Hmmm....87 Cherokee XJ starts easily, runs fine, occasionally dies when hot then is hard to start. Just now while the vehicle was.cold, turned the ignition on, heard the fuel pump run, then shut off. Started easily, runs fine. Here"s the weird part. l press on the schrader valve on the fuel rail and NO fuel comes out. I even attached my fuel gauge to the scrhader valve as a sanity check, and it indicated zero. Can a it actually have enough fuel to run but not pressure up the fuel line? Weird.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 02:36 AM (vd6bO)

475 Hubby & I had been going over to my BFF's house for Thanksgiving (USA) the last couple of years.

Looks like it will be just me & BFF this year. Will visit hubby at nursing home, like always, but doubt he will be aware of the holiday. We'll see.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

476 We're in October?

I've only gone grocery shopping 8 or 9 times this year.

Man, Stateless has been through stuff. I'll be more amazing here on out.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:42 AM (Sco7b)

477 Well, I'm out. Good night folks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:42 AM (ynpvh)

478 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:20 AM (ynpvh

Thank you.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:44 AM (Sco7b)

479
Looks like it will be just me & BFF this year. Will visit hubby at nursing home, like always, but doubt he will be aware of the holiday. We'll see.
Posted by: JQ

Not sure what I could or should do here

But

Maybe create a drink according to hubby inspiration?

And make it famous?

Posted by: Miklos used to have to create drinks at Nick's Night Train Bar in new Orleans at October 22, 2025 02:44 AM (M772T)

480 'Night, Jim in Kali!

----

Don in SoCo, that's an AOP question, for sure! (I'd wonder about the fuel pump or fuel pressure regulator, but that's just a WAG).

Can you smell gas? Any evidence of a leak-- even tiny one-- between tank and engine?

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:46 AM (rdVOm)

481 469 De-lurking to say 'evening, Horde.

99% sure the mountain lion video is AI.

Posted by: Average Guy at October 22, 2025 02:25 AM (lPHZZ)

The closer I look at the video, the more it seems you're probably right...
1. Cougar wouldn't be interested in candy (cats can't taste sweet)
2. When it jumps up, seems a little off with the physics.
3. Doesn't knock over the witch or the candy container, just slightly pushes it; candy inside container is not the least bit disturbed.
4. As it runs into the bushes, the bushes are not disturbed at all...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:47 AM (ynpvh)

482 Night!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 22, 2025 02:48 AM (ynpvh)

483 Don in SoCo, have you ever replaced the fuel injectors? '87... it's probably time for those.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:50 AM (rdVOm)

484 Don in SoCo, that's an AOP question, for sure! (I'd wonder about the fuel pump or fuel pressure regulator, but that's just a WAG).

Can you smell gas? Any evidence of a leak-- even tiny one-- between tank and engine?
_-_
No evidence of a leak. Just now replaced the fuel pressure regulator, since that was the easiest first part to replace. There was a small.amount of fuel in it, but definitely no pressure on the fuel line or fuel rail. I am probably going to replace the fuel pump also, since it is a good ten years old. It just seems odd that the vehicle starts and runs but not enough fuel pressure at the rail to even dribble from the schrader valve. Ibguess it is possible the the valve stem in the schrader valve is bad, but they don't usually fail....

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 02:52 AM (vd6bO)

485 483 Don in SoCo, have you ever replaced the fuel injectors? '87... it's probably time for those.
_-_
Have not done the injectors. I have tried to learn nothing about fuel injection other than it usually just works and have been getting away with it for a while now...guess it is time to learn!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 02:55 AM (vd6bO)

486 Don in SoCo-- can you hook up the pressure gauge, then have a buddy turn the key without starting, while you see whether it registers anything? Like maybe pressure up & fall right away, I think would indicate a bad pump or leak.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

487 On contemplation of some musical references

I feel my Old Papa let me down

Hiram "Hank" Williams gave his boy (Hank Jr.) the nickname Bocephus, which stuck, and Jr. was proud of it.

I got nuthin' like that

Seems unfair

Posted by: Miklos, if I'd know i'd live this long, I'd of taken better care of myself at October 22, 2025 02:58 AM (M772T)

488 479
Looks like it will be just me & BFF this year. Will visit hubby at nursing home, like always, but doubt he will be aware of the holiday. We'll see.
Posted by: JQ

I'm so sorry. I went through a lot, but not that.

Dad was 90 and was active on the computer. I'd go downstairs and stuff from WebMD was printed out on the computer. He had a favorite computer math game.

There were nights he fell asleep in my computer chair and I would get him to bed.

Blessed. Good Stateless

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 02:59 AM (Sco7b)

489 486 Don in SoCo-- can you hook up the pressure gauge, then have a buddy turn the key without starting, while you see whether it registers anything? Like maybe pressure up & fall right away, I think would indicate a bad pump or leak.
_-_
That is probably a good idea - will have to wait til the morning when the youg'ens get up. Mountain time, and all the reeeasonable people in my household are sleeping. Thanks for the suggestion!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 03:00 AM (vd6bO)

490 Hiram "Hank" Williams gave his boy (Hank Jr.) the nickname Bocephus, which stuck, and Jr. was proud of it.

I got nuthin' like that

Seems unfair
_-_
Could be worse - thought my name was "Dammit, Boy!" til I was about 7.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 03:02 AM (vd6bO)

491 We went t p see Hank Williams Jr at some fair, I doubt could have been 5 or 6 but remember going to it

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 03:04 AM (+qU29)

492 I thought of bikini team but already know there might be lots of cute women, not so sure bikinis are what you want to see them in.

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 03:06 AM (+qU29)

493 Could be worse - thought my name was "Dammit, Boy!" til I was about 7.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

I guess you got promoted to "Dammit Donny" with your first pair of long trousers.

A coming of age ritual.

Posted by: Anthropolical Miklos, rehecting the Wite Man's cultural Pants concept at October 22, 2025 03:07 AM (M772T)

494 I thought of bikini team but already know there might be lots of cute women, not so sure bikinis are what you want to see them in.
Posted by: Skip

Done well, the best response to a girl question "do I look good in this" is Yes, but better in less

Posted by: Days of Miklosian Youth at October 22, 2025 03:09 AM (M772T)

495 "Dammit, get in here!"

"But, Dad, I'm Jesus Christ!"

Posted by: JQ remembers when B. Cosby was funny at October 22, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)

496 I guess you got promoted to "Dammit Donny" with your first pair of long trousers.

A coming of age ritual.

_-_
That's a fact. Some of my favorite older relatives still call me.Donny - or by my dad's name because now I look like he did.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 03:11 AM (vd6bO)

497 Women softball players are generally well rounded

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 03:11 AM (+qU29)

498 3 nights in a row been up extremely early

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 03:15 AM (+qU29)

499 That's a fact. Some of my favorite older relatives still call me.Donny - or by my dad's name because now I look like he did.
Posted by: Don

Don or Donny is not a bad name. You could be President with that, believe me, it's the best Presidential name, classy, really the best

I got worse.

Don't care to remember the number of times I have been encouraged to be careful with that axe.

And they laughed

But I'll show them...

Posted by: Suppressed Miklos at October 22, 2025 03:19 AM (M772T)

500 Don in SoCo-- When one of my car's injectors 'went bad' I could smell gas when I walked by. It was leaking, but car would still run fine. Just that's where the system depressurized when engine stopped. Had no issues with hot restarts, though.

Good luck!

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:19 AM (rdVOm)

501 You're all making me miss Mom and Dad.

Mom was a nun for 14 years. Dad was 42 and Mom was 32 when they married.

I have been going through all the photo albums. Mom was REALLY pretty. And her friends from the convent wow. But only if the Horde likes attractive, 6 feet tall, skinny red heads. The pictures were from 1970. There was a lot of leg....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:21 AM (Sco7b)

502 And her friends from the convent wow. But only if the Horde likes attractive, 6 feet tall, skinny red heads. The pictures were from 1970. There was a lot of leg....
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED


That's how they could kill and bury so many thousands of Indigenous Children...without leaving a trace

Posted by: Miklos thinks fraud is increasing at October 22, 2025 03:24 AM (M772T)

503 500 Don in SoCo-- When one of my car's injectors 'went bad' I could smell gas when I walked by. It was leaking, but car would still run fine. Just that's where the system depressurized when engine stopped. Had no issues with hot restarts, though.

Good luck!
_-_
Thanks - I will definitely check for that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 03:24 AM (vd6bO)

504 That's how they could kill and bury so many thousands of Indigenous Children...without leaving a trace

Posted by: Miklos thinks fraud is increasing at October 22, 2025 03:24 AM (M772T

Mom was in Cleveland Ohio.

I don't think they've discovered the mass graves yet.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:28 AM (Sco7b)

505 Don or Donny is not a bad name. You could be President with that, believe me, it's the best Presidential name, classy, really the best

I got worse.

Don't care to remember the number of times I have been encouraged to be careful with that axe.

And they laughed

But I'll show them...
_-_
(Nervous laughter)

Yeah, it has been a little weird since The Donald has been making a showing in the political world.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 03:30 AM (vd6bO)

506 Mom was in Cleveland Ohio.

I don't think they've discovered the mass graves yet.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

I was thinking of some Canadian hysteria of recent years

Posted by: Miklos provides context at October 22, 2025 03:31 AM (M772T)

507 Aw, Stateless... {{hugs}}!

I miss my parents, too.

Mom had bladder cancer, spread slowly over 2 years & crippled her; she was incoherent that last couple of weeks. Gone since 2002.

Dad had prostate cancer, thought he'd beat it for a dozen years & it came back with a vengeance.. but he was alert, thoughtful and talkative right up to the night before he passed. Gone since 2019.

Hubby has dementia. No one in my family has suffered *that* so I'm kind of lost here, with no other experience with it.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:31 AM (rdVOm)

508 Mom was in Cleveland Ohio.

I don't think they've discovered the mass graves yet.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

Or maybe they burned them on the Cuyahoga in the 70s

Posted by: Big River Keep on Burnin'-the Tina Turner Version at October 22, 2025 03:33 AM (M772T)

509 Hubby has dementia. No one in my family has suffered *that* so I'm kind of lost here, with no other experience with it.
Posted by: JQ

Infinite prayerful patience

You need the Help, and God encourages you to ask

Posted by: Miklos does know at October 22, 2025 03:35 AM (M772T)

510 I am grateful for all you good people here....and also very sleepy...goodnight!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 22, 2025 03:37 AM (vd6bO)

511 Thanks Miklos. You're right. But I'm still at the "wordless groans" stage of prayer.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:39 AM (rdVOm)

512 Hubby has dementia. No one in my family has suffered *that* so I'm kind of lost here, with no other experience with it.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:31 A

I can't imagine that.

Both Mom and Dad died within a week. That quickly..

I still took care of them for years.

You have the Horde here.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:39 AM (Sco7b)

513 'Night, Don!

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:39 AM (rdVOm)

514 Don't know of any blood relatives who had dementia

Posted by: Skip at October 22, 2025 03:43 AM (+qU29)

515 It's all good, Stateless. I mean, as good as it can be under the circumstances.

Took care of hubby for 4 years at home after quitting my job, but then his mental and physical state became more than I could handle alone. 24hr supervision is $$$$. Even more than nursing home! So... moved him to a place nearby, where he can have a whole team of help, 24/7, and I can see him every day.

He still knows who he is & who I am. Just has no sense of time or date, and no problem-solving ability; cannot recognize unsafe situations. Stuff like that.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

516 Thanks Miklos. You're right. But I'm still at the "wordless groans" stage of prayer.
Posted by: JQ


One prayer from me.

Others will do it too

Posted by: Miklos, Believer and Bartender at October 22, 2025 03:48 AM (M772T)

517 Thanks again, Miklos! Prayers always welcome.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:52 AM (rdVOm)

518 He still knows who he is & who I am. Just has no sense of time or date, and no problem-solving ability; cannot recognize unsafe situations. Stuff like that.

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

I'm so sorry you are going through that. That's horrible.

I took care of my parents until 88 and 90. But nothing like you are going through.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:53 AM (Sco7b)

519 I took care of my parents until 88 and 90. But nothing like you are going through.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:53 AM (Sco7b

Dad was on the computer and playing games into his 90's.

And I took care of Mom forever. For years.
I have bèen a good member of the Horde.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 03:59 AM (Sco7b)

520 It's ok, Stateless. Really.

I don't do the poopy work, or sleep with one eye open anymore-- the nursing home staff takes good care of hubby.

Now, I can catch-up on all the stuff at home that has been neglected while I cared for him! Lots to do!

It sucks that we're separated, but at least he's still alive and still *my guy*

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

521 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 22, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

522  It's ok, Stateless. Really.

I don't do the poopy work, or sleep with one eye open anymore-- the nursing home staff takes good care of hubby.

Now, I can catch-up on all the stuff at home that has been neglected while I cared for him! Lots to do!

It sucks that we're separated, but at least he's still alive and still *my guy*

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 03

I'm sitting in a pretty large house for one person.

For years, Mom had bladder issues. She'd be up 6 plus times a night.

I was always up asking if she was alright.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 22, 2025 04:14 AM (Sco7b)

523 >>For years, Mom had bladder issues. She'd be up 6 plus times a night.
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Hubby, too. Only he didn't always 'make it' in time. Ugh. It was a fight to get him into pull-ups. I got soooo tired of washing bedding and mopping the floor!

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

524 Good night. I should've been gone hours ago, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at October 22, 2025 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

525 Who put up the sign?

Posted by: Leland at October 22, 2025 06:23 AM (Z0pGC)

526 Yawn, what decade is it anyway?

Posted by: TxDan at October 22, 2025 07:15 AM (x6mGV)

527 Fine...delurking

Posted by: Lt. York at October 22, 2025 08:00 AM (IhuUt)

528 Nothing worse than a chaotic screw.

Posted by: Indy Bill at October 22, 2025 08:52 AM (iKLKd)

529 we just swore.
mom would say criminentlies, h e double hockey sticks and for the love of pete.

Posted by: cmeat at October 22, 2025 10:57 AM (R11M+)

530 The Yellowstone "zone of death" was central to the plot of a Joe Pickett novel, by CJ Box.

Posted by: John the River at October 22, 2025 11:19 AM (Li1E5)

Animal Playground Cafe

godzillavsbabyhippo.jpg

Kitten isn't ready to go to bed.

Blowing bubbles.

You can take a picture, but you have to pay the model.


Police dogs get the zoomies in an airport.

Animals necking.

Shepherd puppy meets the human puppy.

These dogs are very very excited!

The difference between lions and tigers.

Cat just wants to dip his beak.

Dog enjoys a fountain.

Dad taught me how to wallow.


Dude, you're doing it wrong.


Posted by: Ace at 07:15 PM




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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 07:18 PM (+qU29)

2 Thank you, Ace.

Posted by: EveR at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (Z/h4+)

3 thank you, Ace!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 07:20 PM (kHop/)

4 Godzirra!

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:21 PM (+U7B7)

5 Ditto

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 21, 2025 07:22 PM (DiWSa)

6 Red panda!

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:22 PM (gWBY1)

7 That husky just looks happy to be there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

8 Y'all left me on the other thread !

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM (g47mK)

9 Brody will wake up and howl loud enough to wake the dead. Normally around 2 am. This is not endearing.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM (QGLzn)

10 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:24 PM (Y0+2O)

11 our rat terriers loved fighting with the hose out in the yard

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 07:24 PM (kHop/)

12 Went to Home Depot today to get a key copied. They have these very cool machines that scan your key and then cut the new key using the scan. Ain't technology grand.

Posted by: Tuna at October 21, 2025 07:24 PM (lJ0H4)

13 The doggies go crazy under a full moon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:25 PM (+U7B7)

14 Mom cat
But I can't watch you while I am sleeping

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 07:25 PM (+qU29)

15 Dash, have you made it home ? Said while licking baklava from my fingers.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:26 PM (QGLzn)

16 Odd how expensive brass keys got.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:26 PM (+U7B7)

17 Went to Home Depot today to get a key copied. They have these very cool machines that scan your key and then cut the new key using the scan. Ain't technology grand.
Posted by: Tuna at October 21, 2025 07:24 PM (lJ0H4)

And now, Peter Thiel has a key to your house.

Watch out for your cornhole, bud.

Posted by: Brandon at October 21, 2025 07:28 PM (BI5O2)

18 Before and after dog park, lol

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:29 PM (Y0+2O)

19 $4 Brass Keys.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:29 PM (+U7B7)

20 My money is on the hippo

Posted by: 496 at October 21, 2025 07:29 PM (TV54s)

21 OMG! 'Pay the Model Girl' is a cutie!!

Yet, sadly, I'm well aware somewhere, somehow, sometime, theres some poor schlub who's just about had it with her s*** and is looking for the exit.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 21, 2025 07:29 PM (QGaXH)

22 Made it to dark.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:30 PM (+U7B7)

23 I saw the Lion and Tiger buddies recently but don't remember where?

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 07:30 PM (+qU29)

24 Brody will wake up and howl loud enough to wake the dead. Normally around 2 am. This is not endearing.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM


Have you considered he may be asking for a promotion to Chief?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

25 Anybody up for barbeque hippo?

Posted by: fd at October 21, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

26 Ben Had, I did not. Once they got started and opened up the transfer case, it was pouring shrapnel. So then they had to order a new transfer case, which they are to get in the morning, and hope to finish tomorrow.

Back to the hotel I went, to check in again. It's like Groundhog Day!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:32 PM (Y0+2O)

27 Boss Moss, the bar tab is on you, 'cause
Early to be Early to rise
Makes one wealthy and wise

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:32 PM (QGLzn)

28 9 Brody will wake up and howl loud enough to wake the dead. Normally around 2 am. This is not endearing.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM (QGLzn)
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Justifiable Doggocide. Good thing dogs are cute.

Posted by: 496 at October 21, 2025 07:33 PM (TV54s)

29 >>>The difference between lions and tigers.

The introvert vs the extrovert. The introvert just wants to chill in his isolation. But, the extrovert won't stand for it. He has to poke and prod to force the introvert out of his shell.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 21, 2025 07:33 PM (syz1S)

30 Duncanthrax, he already makes me ask to sit in my comfy chair.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:35 PM (QGLzn)

31 >>>Cat just wants to dip his beak.

Sure, he just wants to dip his beak.

Again and again and again and again...

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 21, 2025 07:35 PM (syz1S)

32 The difference between lions and tigers.

"Whaddya have to do to get a little action around here?"
-- The Lion

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

33 If this is true, I love this exchange. Hillary Clinton on bemoaning the current WH remodel to add a ballroom:

Hillary on X: It's not his house. It's your house. And he's destroying it.

@BuzzPatterson: your husband had sex in the oval office. Prolly should sit this one out.


Progressives will work so hard to rip up the constitution and tear up the fabric of Western civilization, but cry about a building remodel. Of a building they always tell us was built by slaves!

Never mind one of the presidents did a remodel of the WH that pretty much gutted it to the outside walls. I think it was Truman.




Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:36 PM (gWBY1)

34 willowed

Kindltot, are you now, or have you ever been, located in Korea? I noted the name of your cat.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 07:04 PM (ldc7S)


My wife is Korean. She calls him Sejong the Great

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 07:36 PM (rbvCR)

35 Duncanthrax, he already makes me ask to sit in my comfy chair.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:35 PM


"You're gonna need a bigger chair."
-- Chief Brody

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 07:37 PM (0sNs1)

36 Have you considered he may be asking for a promotion to Chief?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

Everyone knows how he makes his livin'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)

37 "Husky tries howling with wolves"

That's the sound I want to hear at the next Spanberger rally.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 07:37 PM (gKWVE)

38
No penguins? No ducks?

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 07:38 PM (v0R5T)

39 Duncanthrax, well played.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:38 PM (QGLzn)

40 Over at X, there are many videos of folks talking about how they're gonna steal their food if their EBT doesn't happen next month, and you get in their way, they're gonna get violent.

Grocery shopping in blue areas next month may be a bit dangerous.

Plan accordingly.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:38 PM (22p5n)

41 Over at X, there are many videos of folks talking about how they're gonna steal their food if their EBT doesn't happen next month, and you get in their way, they're gonna get violent.

Because it never occurs to them to maybe skip the hair and nails for a month and buy food.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 21, 2025 07:40 PM (a+4eV)

42 Tigers and lions sometimes do git jiggy widd it.
The result is a Liger which is an absolute monster. It's actually too big for its own good, it can't hunt.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 07:40 PM (gKWVE)

43 @BuzzPatterson: your husband had sex in the oval office. Prolly should sit this one out.

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Weak.

@Yudhishthira'sDice would have said "your husband and cheated on your frigid ass with a fat kid in the oval office. Go die."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 07:41 PM (BI5O2)

44 Blue city thieves have another $900 free pass.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:41 PM (QGLzn)

45 Because it never occurs to them to maybe skip the hair and nails for a month and buy food.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 21, 2025 07:40 PM (a+4eV)

They might not need EBT if they could think ahead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 07:41 PM (zZu0s)

46 No penguins? No ducks?
Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 07:38 PM


For penguins we are thankful.

Let us prey!

Posted by: Leopard Seals at October 21, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

47 Brody will wake up and howl loud enough to wake the dead. Normally around 2 am. This is not endearing.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM (QGLzn)


My big tom will sit in the hallway and yowl at around 4am because the kitten is sleeping on the bed, and he feels that is his place or he wants the kitten to come and play.

I have taken to picking the big arsed cat up and putting him on the bed so they can be near each other. It seems to work. Eventually they both get down and patrol the house.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 07:41 PM (rbvCR)

48 It's actually too big for its own good, it can't hunt.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 07:40 PM (gKWVE)
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But with looks like that...

Posted by: 496 at October 21, 2025 07:42 PM (3CN/6)

49 Yeah, I did it. I embraced the masochism and picked up an order of the Arby's Steak Nuggets on the way home tonight.

Official Review: Apparently, there is a chemical that can be applied to beef jerky that makes it softer.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 07:42 PM (dIske)

50 your husband and cheated on your frigid ass with a fat kid in the oval office

Uh... I did not have sex with that woman.

Posted by: Billy Jeff at October 21, 2025 07:42 PM (gKWVE)

51 Because it never occurs to them to maybe skip the hair and nails for a month and buy food.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
___

This guy thinks taxpayers are required to pay for his and his kids' food:

“The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”

https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:43 PM (22p5n)

52 SMH, I wish I had gotten to talk to you about "The Chosen".

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:45 PM (QGLzn)

53 Weird, I just used the key making machine at Home Despot an hour ago. Nice.

The Home Depot Parking Lot Index was much lower than it used to be before the Entrumpenation, but still not at the desired level (zero). Handful of guys, plus a burrito vendor.

Homan & Co. have quite a hill to climb.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 21, 2025 07:45 PM (bXrf4)

54 My money is on the hippo...unless the lizard critter is a flame-thrower.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 07:46 PM (XeU6L)

55 That red panda is a happy little stinker, isn't he?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 07:46 PM (fd80v)

56 Oh, nice! The WH, knowing the flak they are getting on the ballroom remodel, has put out an extensive timeline today on the WH building renovations over the years.

Look at those pics from the 1950's of the WH completely gutted!! It's like a giant shell. But Trump's modest renovation is more destructive than Truman's. (Where did the Trumans live during the renovation?)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/
2025/10/white-house-ballroom-
proud-presidential-legacy/

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:46 PM (gWBY1)

57 Is the music under the cat on the laptop video from one of the Harry Palmer movies, like Ipcress File or Billion Dollar Brain?

It is very familiar, and very . . . 1960's British, somehow

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 07:47 PM (rbvCR)

58 Love the lion and tiger pillow talk.


she says, don't so clingy.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 07:47 PM (EyfuW)

59 >>> @Yudhishthira'sDice would have said "your husband and cheated on your frigid ass with a fat kid in the oval office. Go die."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 07:41 PM (BI5O2)

Well, not everyone can spit poetry the way you or Muldoon can. It's a precious gift, and we appreciate it!

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:47 PM (gWBY1)

60 Godzilla has trex sized arms. Hippo would win.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:47 PM (+U7B7)

61 Left work at 4:00. Got home 10 minutes ago.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 07:48 PM (4MksP)

62 Oh, I love pet-story time!

Last summer, Cat jumped onto the patio chair I was sitting in. Behind me, of course, because he is not a lap-cat. He s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out and then started pushing me with all fours! Pushed me right out of *my* chair!

Well, huh. Guess it's not really mine... So, I sat down in the other chair that was right next to it.

Cats. Go figure.

Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 07:49 PM (rdVOm)

63 The first version of the White House did not have indoor plumbing.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:49 PM (QGLzn)

64 SMH, I wish I had gotten to talk to you about "The Chosen".
Posted by: Ben Had
___

Watched this last season with the eldest daughter last week.

It was engrossing, and I am looking forward to how the show goes forward with the trial and crucifixion of our Lord.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:49 PM (22p5n)

65 61 Left work at 4:00. Got home 10 minutes ago.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 07:48 PM (4MksP)

Ughhhh ...

Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at October 21, 2025 07:49 PM (3sXRv)

66 Well, not everyone can spit poetry the way you or Muldoon can. It's a precious gift, and we appreciate it!
Posted by: LizLem


And not everyone can spit like I can!

Posted by: Monica! at October 21, 2025 07:50 PM (gKWVE)

67 “The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”
-------

People argue about the numbers, but roughly 40% of the populace pay no income tax. I expect the above is one of those.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 07:50 PM (XeU6L)

68
Bath for The Big Dummy this afternoon ahead of shows this weekend in Belton. He's a good boy and stands placidly while being washed, nails ground, blown dry and groomed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 07:50 PM (tgvbd)

69 Husky's name.... Yono?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:50 PM (mP0Kj)

70 Over at X, there are many videos of folks talking about how they're gonna steal their food if their EBT doesn't happen next month, and you get in their way, they're gonna get violent.

Because it never occurs to them to maybe skip the hair and nails for a month and buy food.
Posted by: FeatherBlade


Because it never occurs to them other people can get just as violent.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (4MksP)

71 Ben Had, I did not. Once they got started and opened up the transfer case, it was pouring shrapnel. So then they had to order a new transfer case, which they are to get in the morning, and hope to finish tomorrow.

Back to the hotel I went, to check in again. It's like Groundhog Day!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:32 PM (Y0+2O)

Damn, I kinda figured. Remember when I said wait until they get it opened? I felt that one in my bones. Well, the upside is it will all be new.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (snZF9)

72 SMH, as am I but we have to wait until ' 27. I will have all the pixels worn off my copy by then.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (QGLzn)

73 Forget No Kings! No Penguins is the protest we need!!!

Posted by: Horde Penguin Protection Society at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (nt1Vu)

74 For penguins we are thankful.

Let us prey!
Posted by: Leopard Seals


mmmm baby seals

Posted by: the Eskimos at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (UjdFS)

75 Over at X, there are many videos of folks talking about how they're gonna steal their food if their EBT doesn't happen next month

Do any of them look any less than 50 lbs overweight?

(Also: hi, SMH! Nice to see you around again.)

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (3nLb4)

76 “The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”



I ain't gotta do shit for you. Especially pay to feed your crotch fruit.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 07:52 PM (4MksP)

77 And not everyone can spit like I can!
Posted by: Monica!
-----

Ah, c'mon. You're a drooler.

Posted by: The blue dress at October 21, 2025 07:53 PM (XeU6L)

78 56 Oh, nice! The WH, knowing the flak they are getting on the ballroom remodel, has put out an extensive timeline today on the WH building renovations over the years.

Look at those pics from the 1950's of the WH completely gutted!! It's like a giant shell. But Trump's modest renovation is more destructive than Truman's. (Where did the Trumans live during the renovation?)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/
2025/10/white-house-ballroom-
proud-presidential-legacy/
Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:46 PM (gWBY1)

And better... us taxpayers are NOT paying for it... Trump and his friends are building us a nice Ballroom for OUR house...

Whutz not to like!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:53 PM (mP0Kj)

79 >>Official Review: Apparently, there is a chemical that can be applied to beef jerky that makes it softer.
Posted by: Orson
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What is it, and will it soften denim? I hate how starchy & scratchy jeans are when new.

Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 07:53 PM (rdVOm)

80 73 Forget No Kings! No Penguins is the protest we need!!!
Posted by: Horde Penguin Protection Society at October 21, 2025 07:51 PM (nt1Vu)

Well, there are KING Penguins... just slightly smaller than Emperor Penguins...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:54 PM (mP0Kj)

81
Where did the Trumans live during the renovation?

________

Blair House, across the street.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)

82 “The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”

https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:43 PM


🎵🎵

I want my...
I want my...
I want my EBT...

🎵🎵

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (Wnv9h)

83 Emperor Penguins. I never voted for them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (+U7B7)

84 Damn, I kinda figured. Remember when I said wait until they get it opened? I felt that one in my bones. Well, the upside is it will all be new.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Yep, you called that one, friend. I'm not even confident I can get on the road tomorrow. If they're not finishing until afternoon, might be better to plan on a full day of daylight travel on Thursday.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (Y0+2O)

85 Truman and his family lived in Blair House during the renovations

Posted by: steevy at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (YwEeS)

86 Crap, I gotta figure out dinner. We had potato ham and veg soup yesterday with buttery rolls. I just want all the warm comfort foods now that fall is here!

Maybe ham Mac and cheese, I have lots of leftover ham.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (gWBY1)

87 rickb223, I am such a putz. There is something I really wanted to tell you and I blew it.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (QGLzn)

88 This guy thinks taxpayers are required to pay for his and his kids' food:

“The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”

https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:43 PM (22p5n)

Making someone else labor for your benefit for no compensation... with the power of law behind it... sounds like Slavery...

Funny, thought we outlawed that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (mP0Kj)

89
I cookulated a rack of lamb for dinner. Turned out very well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (tgvbd)

90 Random interwebs revelation: Bradley Cooper and Bill Hader do a better impersonation of Christopher Walken than Robin Williams and Will Farrell do.

the more you know
*NBC jingle*

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (0aYVJ)

91 SMH, as am I but we have to wait until ' 27. I will have all the pixels worn off my copy by then.
Posted by: Ben Had
---

Heh, I know.

I think Season 6 will cover the last 24 hours of Jesus' life prior to His crucifixion, and will air next fall. Season 6 finale will be in March 2027.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (22p5n)

92 rickb are you in a snow storm? Have had two short drives like that in them that took 3 hours less than 15 miles.

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (+qU29)

93 Emperor Penguins. I never voted for them.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (+U7B7)

Not more moistened bints lobbing scimitars about!

Posted by: Dennis, Constitutional Peasant at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (wVcYX)

94 Gnome sayin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (+U7B7)

95 Romeo13. Sounds like robbery.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (QGLzn)

96 It was engrossing, and I am looking forward to how the show goes forward with the trial and crucifixion of our Lord.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Mr. Dmlw! was quite moved by this series (did not grow up in church, so it was all new to him). The episode where they killed John the Baptist wrecked him.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:58 PM (AKtM8)

97 I want my...
I want my...
I want my EBT...

🎵🎵
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
__

lol

catchy

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:58 PM (22p5n)

98 I am such a putz. There is something I really wanted to tell you and I blew it.
Posted by: Ben Had


No you are not. If it comes to you, email me.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 07:58 PM (4MksP)

99 95 Romeo13. Sounds like robbery.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:57 PM (QGLzn)

Funny how when the State does it, the meanings of words suddenly changes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:59 PM (mP0Kj)

100 SMH, I saw where they are going to make a full length movie out of 6.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:59 PM (QGLzn)

101 97 I want my...
I want my...
I want my EBT...

🎵🎵
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
__

lol

catchy
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:58 PM (22p5n)

Money for nothin
and my Kids are free.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:59 PM (mP0Kj)

102 What's 6?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (+U7B7)

103 Money for nothin
and my Kids are free.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 07:59 PM

Oh, I ain't workin...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (Wnv9h)

104 Nice... Mexican and US Intel got a Sinaloa Cartel boss...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

105 SMH, I saw where they are going to make a full length movie out of 6.
Posted by: Ben Had
__

That's what I just read.

Guess in the meantime, we'll just have to make do with the previous seasons and episodes.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:01 PM (22p5n)

106 102 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (+U7B7)

$20, same as in town...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 08:01 PM (mP0Kj)

107 rickb223, I know exactly what it was.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:01 PM (QGLzn)

108 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM

It's a number between 5 and 7. But that's not important right now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 08:01 PM (Wnv9h)

109 rickb are you in a snow storm? Have had two short drives like that in them that took 3 hours less than 15 miles.
Posted by: Skip


No. 81 miles north of the office. Took over an hour and a half to go from Dallas to Melissa. Traffic was slow. Then another hour to Bonham. Stop at Whataburger for a to go burger and another twenty minutes home.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 08:01 PM (4MksP)

110 rickb223, I know exactly what it was.
Posted by: Ben Had

👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 08:02 PM (4MksP)

111 Melissa is near Jaimaca.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:03 PM (+U7B7)

112 108 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM

It's a number between 5 and 7. But that's not important right now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 08:01 PM (Wnv9h)

Comes with Eggroll...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 08:03 PM (mP0Kj)

113 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss


A dance.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 08:03 PM (4MksP)

114 Boss Moss, season 6. Did that clear it up?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:04 PM (QGLzn)

115 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM

Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a-whompin' and a-whumpin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course.

Posted by: Taggart at October 21, 2025 08:04 PM (wVcYX)

116 40 billion dollars for Argentina?:
Yes only a King can do that

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 21, 2025 08:04 PM (pnulr)

117 “The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”

-------

So... my stepson is a fuckin' kid, and he's about 10 shades blacker than that knucklehead. He works a job and shows up to every work shift on time, and does chores around here, too. Don't get me wrong - I still pay for more of his food and housing than he does, but he contributes to this home.

It's pretty damn pathetic to be about my age and just a touch darker than I am, talkin' all blackassed about yo' kidz, when an actual black 16 year old boy can speak clean English and act like more of a man than you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:05 PM (BI5O2)

118 Official Review: Apparently, there is a chemical that can be applied to beef jerky that makes it softer.
Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 07:42 PM (dIske)

Yeah, I saw them and thought 'Damn you straight to hell Arby's for describing heaven, but there is no way those can taste good.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

119 102 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (+U7B7)

We go ridin' into town, a-whoopin' and a-whompin'...

Posted by: Taggart at October 21, 2025 08:05 PM (TbWk/)

120
"“The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”
“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”

https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf"

SMH, this guy even has the cadences of Fly Guy and "My b*tch better have my money"

Posted by: barbarausa at October 21, 2025 08:05 PM (enw9G)

121 Season 6 of what? I could use some content.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:05 PM (+U7B7)

122 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (77rzZ)

123 Season 6 of The Chosen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (22p5n)

124 Hi Bulg!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (22p5n)

125 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (+U7B7)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

126 Boss Moss, "The Chosen "

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (QGLzn)

127 Oh OK. Thanks

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (+U7B7)

128 Damn it!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

129 >>> The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”
https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:43 PM (22p5n)

His attitude is so disgusting. I'd remind him that it's the politicians that work for him and us, NOT me. I'm not his wage slave.

Then I realized that the politicians DID work for him: they took my money and made me a wage slave to pay for his free food.

It's gross when you think about it too much.

Me, whitey, is his slave.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (gWBY1)

130 What's 6?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:00 PM (+U7B7)

Well, Mom says when two people love each other very much ...

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 21, 2025 08:07 PM (0sNs1)

131 Twenty bucks. Same as in town.

Posted by: Geez... at October 21, 2025 08:07 PM (bVKL8)

132 I better get to bed, been up since 1:45am.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 08:08 PM (+qU29)

133 Hey, SMH!

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:08 PM (77rzZ)

134
Totally OT of anything we ever discuss, but I was wowed by this guy I've followed off and on for a few years.

Charlie was some teenager who fooled around on social media and made like $55k over two years. His posts are sometimes hilarious, unsparingly self-revealing, apolitical (I can't find him endorsing or going left or right anywhere, mostly the "leave me alone" type), and current. He caught on, and by the time he'd been at it for something like 10-12 years, he'd racked up ~$36mil.

He recently demonetized all his accounts and told his followers, "Look, I'm rich beyond anything I ever conceived or intended, go spend that Membership and Superchat money on something you need."

Wild.

youtube.com/watch?v=PGTaWcU8I3E

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 08:09 PM (ldc7S)

135 SMH, I do think Peter was called 'the Rock' for other reasons.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:09 PM (QGLzn)

136 I looked it up. Knopfler was mocking some stoners at the electronics store who were watching MTV while packing up microwaves.
What might be interesting is that this world they mocked as unreal might be happening
youtu.be/xPmMH5eAU6c
Music labels don't want to deal with human acts if the human acts are going to bicker amongst themselves like Sting bickered with the Police, and that when they don't do drugs and hump teenagers. So they are tempted to let machines do it.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

137 Skip, sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

138 Yep, you called that one, friend. I'm not even confident I can get on the road tomorrow. If they're not finishing until afternoon, might be better to plan on a full day of daylight travel on Thursday.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 07:55 PM (Y0+2O)

Well, you're better off with a new case anyway, especially if there was an explosion. There could be things that happened that they can't see, or miss, like stress cracks. You'll have a whole new unit, and if they do their job right you won't be dealing with that again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 08:09 PM (snZF9)

139 Any news about how Skip's dad's surgery went?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 21, 2025 08:10 PM (lFFaq)

140 The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”
https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf

This is so unbelievably vile it's almost hard to believe it's real and not satire.

Posted by: Dude's hit Western white woman levels of entitlement at October 21, 2025 08:10 PM (TbWk/)

141 >>> So... my stepson is a fuckin' kid, and he's about 10 shades blacker than that knucklehead. He works a job and shows up to every work shift on time, and does chores around here, too. Don't weed get me wrong - I still pay for more of his food and housing than he does, but he contributes to this home.

Good for him, and you for helping raise him right. It's a tough job, step parenting.

My stepson is part Asian and his best friend is part black. And they both work hard at jobs and might go into the Navy. They are good kids.

They also sling the most racist jokes at each other with no shade. They give me hope that Gen Z kids are all right.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 08:14 PM (gWBY1)

142 The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”
https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 07:43 PM (22p5n)

His attitude is so disgusting. I'd remind him that it's the politicians that work for him and us, NOT me. I'm not his wage slave.

Then I realized that the politicians DID work for him: they took my money and made me a wage slave to pay for his free food.

It's gross when you think about it too much.

Me, whitey, is his slave.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 08:06 PM (gWBY1)

That rotten bastard is serious, isn't he? At first I thought it was a joke. Shit stains like him are exactly why the dem party won't die. The poster child for the free shit army.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 08:15 PM (snZF9)

143 I love this woman.

She speaks truth.

https://tinyurl.com/4hanw87v

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:15 PM (22p5n)

144 see, people would not have been this boiling mad if ace'd included a link to penguins doing friendship things....

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 08:16 PM (g47mK)

145 The taxpayers work for US …..they work for me”“They gotta help me feed my f*ckin kids!”
https://tinyurl.com/c4vd7cmf

This is so unbelievably vile it's almost hard to believe it's real and not satire.
Posted by: Dude's hit Western white woman levels of entitlement at October 21, 2025 08:10 PM (TbWk/)

What! The! Fuck!

That's gotta be parody. Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

146 "I'm a boss," the knucklehead says. Boss of what? It ain't a criminal racket. He wouldn't be freaking out about EBT if he had dope money. It ain't a workplace. He made that pretty damn clear.

So, what's he the boss of? I'm guessing he's the boss of playing GTA 137 on a Playstation I bought, a battered wife, and a couple of illiterate, smelly children he forgot to make dat bitch abort when he got high playing GTA 136 and 135 for nine straight months at a time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:17 PM (BI5O2)

147 The internet is so very performative that it causes people to constantly try to out do each other in their vileness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

148 141 Gen Z — of which my son is one — are pretty good, on the whole. My son and his friends are pretty based. Even my son’s girlfriend, though a liberal, has a good work ethic and seems sensible in daily life.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:18 PM (77rzZ)

149 SMH, I do think Peter was called 'the Rock' for other reasons.
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Because he was hard-headed at times?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:18 PM (22p5n)

150 That's gotta be parody. Lie to me if you must.
__

Sadly, it's not.

There are many videos like that flooding social media right now.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:19 PM (22p5n)

151 GTA 6 is on the horizon, iirc.

I think they are woking it up. Not too upset myself as I never liked the GTA games.

Although the initial teaser video had a busty blonde in a bikini. And... mud?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 08:20 PM (zZu0s)

152 SMH, thank you . That lady needs a bigger platform because she is so right.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:21 PM (QGLzn)

153 That 20 hour work requirement will be the end of most ebt in my state. We have a $12 / hour minimum wage. 80x12 would put you over the income limit unless you had a lot of kids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (+U7B7)

154 So, what's he the boss of? I'm guessing he's the boss of playing GTA 137 on a Playstation I bought, a battered wife, and a couple of illiterate, smelly children he forgot to make dat bitch abort when he got high playing GTA 136 and 135 for nine straight months at a time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:17 PM (BI5O2)

Exactly that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (snZF9)

155 Well, you're better off with a new case anyway... and if they do their job right you won't be dealing with that again.
Posted by: Berserker

Yep. Now, tell me if this is total BS, because I truly don't know: He told me I have two different brands of tires, and minor differences in tires can cause excessive vibration on the differential and create problems like this.

It sounds dumb to me, if they are the same size tire, but then I realized this problem didn't start until I had oil change with tire rotation three weeks ago. I know correlation does not equal causation, but...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (Dc8dC)

156 It's a parody!

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)

157 Good evening, friends.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (Wmg4n)

158 Like the prof who cancelled class because he needed to process TayTay gettin' engaged ...

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 08:23 PM (g47mK)

159 I think he said the surgery went well. Talk of visiting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:23 PM (+U7B7)

160 157 Hey, Piper!

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:23 PM (77rzZ)

161 Ben Had, yes she does.

She simply stated what most of us think when we see videos of these moochers.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:24 PM (Y7TJ9)

162 SMH, I do think Peter was called 'the Rock' for other reasons.

Very high T levels.

Posted by: And excellent cardiovascular health at October 21, 2025 08:24 PM (TbWk/)

163 Hi Piper.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:24 PM (Y7TJ9)

164 Hi, Bulg!

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 08:24 PM (Wmg4n)

165 Hi, SMH! It’s been good seeing you on a little more!

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 08:25 PM (Wmg4n)

166 SMH, because he would tell the other disciples to trust in Jesus but then question him. The wasing of the feet showed how far Peter didn't get it.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:25 PM (QGLzn)

167 So sick and tired of the FSA.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 21, 2025 08:26 PM (LjSYW)

168 Well, John 1-20 is notoriously antiPeter. Almost as if it was written by one of Peter's rivals for the postResurrection Church.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

169 EV'Y SINGLE MINORATY GOT OBAMAPHO! VOTE FO OBAMA HE GAVE US A PHO!!!

Posted by: FSA throwback at October 21, 2025 08:28 PM (TbWk/)

170 *evan powell thought john 21 was supposed to be the ending of mark but got transplanted

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 08:28 PM (gKWVE)

171 Piper, your youngest daughter is on the autism spectrum, no? How do she and the new pup get along because of that? Sorry if I’m prying too much, but I’m genuinely curious.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:28 PM (77rzZ)

172 Thanks Piper. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:29 PM (Y7TJ9)

173 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes a new tax targeting social media companies

Social media platforms would be required to pay 50 cents per active user each month after the first 100,000 users

“Just like we tax other addictive vices that are bad for our health like nicotine and tobacco, it is far past time to tax social media companies the same way,” Johnson said

https://tinyurl.com/nppvc2c5

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 08:31 PM (Y7TJ9)

174 EV'Y SINGLE MINORATY GOT OBAMAPHO! VOTE FO OBAMA HE GAVE US A PHO!!!
Posted by: FSA throwback at October 21, 2025 08:28 PM (TbWk

I no longer make fun if that lady, because she apologized for it, and admitted she only said that stuff because she was paid to say it, and regrets it. I can let that bygone be a bygone.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:31 PM (BI5O2)

175 Click tax.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:32 PM (+U7B7)

176 Peter walks on water like a rock.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 08:33 PM (wVcYX)

177 134
'he'd racked up ~$36mil.'

Maybe he can spend some of that on a haircut.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 08:34 PM (fd80v)

178 171 Piper, your youngest daughter is on the autism spectrum, no? How do she and the new pup get along because of that? Sorry if I’m prying too much, but I’m genuinely curious.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025

Fine! He loves her. In fact, he attached himself to her before the rest of us. She is pretty high functioning, and a huge animal lover. Her biggest issues are emotional regulation, something she has truly worked so hard on controlling, and completely missing social cues. Her affect can be a little flat, and she has learning differences.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 08:34 PM (Wmg4n)

179 addictive vices that are bad for our health like nicotine and tobacco"

What, no soda?

/phil

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 08:36 PM (tubbA)

180 Yep. Now, tell me if this is total BS, because I truly don't know: He told me I have two different brands of tires, and minor differences in tires can cause excessive vibration on the differential and create problems like this.

It sounds dumb to me, if they are the same size tire, but then I realized this problem didn't start until I had oil change with tire rotation three weeks ago. I know correlation does not equal causation, but...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (Dc8dC)

Well, he is actually right. With an AWD it is super critical to match ALL 4 tires. The size theoretically should be the same on paper between 2 brands, but in reality its a crap shoot and may not be the case. The most recent harley I bought needed a rear tire. I ordered the same brand that was on the front, and it had a matching rear tire. Anyway, the new rear tire comes in. I dismount the old tire and laid it next to the new one. The old tire was a full 1 inch wider. It grew a full inch over time. The front was normal, but the back has a lot of weight on it, so it changed more than the front.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 08:36 PM (snZF9)

181 If Brandon Johnson proposes a tax of $1000 for every time boobs are mentioned, it would bankrupt this site in under 24 hours.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:36 PM (77rzZ)

182 Tax the EBT.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:37 PM (+U7B7)

183 I should try to find that interview. She really cut a pathetic figure, apologizing to Mitt Romney (she was right anyway, he sucks) because she didn't know anything about him or politics in general, and was just taking some days' pay to protest, and then the whole thing went viral. It was sad, and you could tell she rued the day it happened.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:38 PM (BI5O2)

184 178 Good to hear, Piper. May she and the pup remain great friends!

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

185 With an AWD it is super critical to match ALL 4 tires."

Yep. Think about it - a fraction of an inch larger around tire will not have to rotate as much to go as far as the smaller, and awd systems rely on differences in rotation speed to activate...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 08:40 PM (tubbA)

186 12 Went to Home Depot today to get a key copied. They have these very cool machines that scan your key and then cut the new key using the scan. Ain't technology grand.
Posted by: Tuna

That remains in our files until we send someone over to loot your house or car.

Posted by: It's Not A Home Invasion If You Have The Key. at October 21, 2025 08:40 PM (oftw2)

187 176 Peter walks on water like a rock.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 08:33 PM (wVcYX)

That's not walking, that's skipping

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 21, 2025 08:40 PM (pIfcn)

188 Well, he is actually right. With an AWD it is super critical to match ALL 4 tires.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 08:36 PM (snZF9)

Ah, good. I feel better that I agreed to new tires, then. My service center at home said they are starting to dry rot and I need them anyway, but I had hoped to put it off for a while.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Dc8dC)

189 142
'Shit stains like him are exactly why the dem party won't die. The poster child for the free shit army.'

Well. It won't until someone kills it.

This is one of the worst things welfare does. It's like morphine. In small doses and for the right reason it's a godsend. In large doses, it's poison and slavery.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 08:43 PM (fd80v)

190 Peter, or Petr is derived from the Aramaic word Kepha (anglicized “Cephas” meaning stone/rock. It’s generally associated with something that is immovable.

Matthew 16:17-19 is somewhat of a debate between Catholics and Protestants as to Peter being called the rock and its significance. But that’s for another day. Ultimately John 1:42 IMVHO puts that to rest.

God Bless all.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 21, 2025 08:43 PM (6GtQt)

191 Peter was the only disciple to deny Jesus.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:43 PM (QGLzn)

192 Well, John 1-20 is notoriously antiPeter. Almost as if it was written by one of Peter's rivals for the postResurrection Church.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 08:27 PM (g

How so?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 21, 2025 08:44 PM (EYmYM)

193 Yep. Think about it - a fraction of an inch larger around tire will not have to rotate as much to go as far as the smaller, and awd systems rely on differences in rotation speed to activate...
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 08:40 PM (tubbA)

That's basically how he described it to me. Thanks for the confirmation.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 08:44 PM (Dc8dC)

194 Peter was the only disciple to deny Jesus.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:43 PM (QGLzn)

He was kind of screwed. If Jesus said you were going to do it , take it to the bank.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 21, 2025 08:45 PM (EYmYM)

195 And I guess that's where I draw the line... I can't really blame a dirt poor, bone stupid woman for taking a check to shout "MITT ROMNEY SUCKS! HE SUCKS!" I've been known to do it for free, on occasion.

But an able bodied man telling me I owe him a living because he's "a boss" is a little much for ol' YD to swallow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:45 PM (BI5O2)

196 hmmm

"Luigi Mangione was clawed by seven Thai ladyboys during mysterious disappearance months before United Healthcare CEO murder..."

the DM has the best salacious stories !

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 08:46 PM (g47mK)

197 176 Peter walks on water like a rock.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 08:33 PM (wVcYX)

Golf clap.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 21, 2025 08:46 PM (0eOxh)

198 Yes awe you need all 4 tires to be the same and also same wear. It kinda sucks but if you have to replace one, you kinda have to replace all of them unless the replacement is near new to begin with.

One of those things you don’t want to fuck around with.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 08:48 PM (PGEno)

199 Also never buy tires at the dealer. It’s always more expensive than a tire store.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 08:49 PM (PGEno)

200 You can take a picture, but you have to pay the model.

That red panda knew how to get food off a skewer. She's not the first cutie he's modeled for.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 08:49 PM (nhCoE)

201 Luigi Mangione was clawed by seven Thai ladyboys

----

OOF. Sorry, Lefty Ladies! You're all fag hags, and he won't be meeting you at the conjugal trailer. He'll have his hands (and other things) full.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 08:49 PM (BI5O2)

202 Thanks for the confirmation"

Sure. I was going to do the maths...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 08:49 PM (tubbA)

203 How so?
Posted by: the way I see it


To paraphrase Evan Powell:
John 1-20 makes use of chiasmus and parallelism to associate Peter with Judas - and Stan himself - in the Passion account. Peter also leaves after the denials of Jesus without weeping. And then he isn't seen again until racing the Beloved Disciple to the empty tomb, where Peter sees but the B.D. sees and believes. Other accounts which just makes Peter look bad.
John 21 then does "okay, nah, never mind all that, let's rehab Peter" without very many parallels to other Gospels or even Apostolic traditions until late.
Hence Powell's suspicion that it belongs with Mark instead.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 08:50 PM (gKWVE)

204 Hence Powell's suspicion that it belongs with Mark instead.

==

or the Debil !

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 08:52 PM (g47mK)

205 Just out of curiosity, has anyone here ever seen a video of giant pandas taking a whizz?

It seems the idea is that the higher up on the tree they can leave their mark, the more terrifying it is for other pandas, thus keeping interlopers out of their territory. To ensure maximum elevation of splattering urine, (that's probably not a phrase any of you expected to read today,) they do handstands up against the tree when relieving themselves. Being that they are pandas, the most inelegant of all the ursines, the process can be rather entertaining to watch.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 21, 2025 08:53 PM (0eOxh)

206 Is being Cafe!

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 08:53 PM (AOsQT)

207
Maybe he can spend some of that on a haircut.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

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lol he's gotten haircuts over the years, but that's kinda the thing, he never really changed from being some dude who fools around, games, and still lives in his pre-millionaire mindset.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 08:54 PM (ldc7S)

208 194 Peter was the only disciple to deny Jesus.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 08:43 PM (QGLzn)

To be fair, wasn't he also the only apostle still in the area to be questioned? (Trying to remember what Johm was up to at the time.)

Posted by: tankdemon at October 21, 2025 08:56 PM (0eOxh)

209 Peter walks on water like a rock.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 08:33 PM


Next! Ah, it's Count de Monet. I'm delighted to see you here at last. Shall we discuss your comment?

Posted by: Saint Peter at the Heavenly Gates at October 21, 2025 08:56 PM (wVcYX)

210 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: report

Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2025 08:56 PM (GITLP)

211
It seems the idea is that the higher up on the tree they can leave their mark, the more terrifying it is for other pandas, thus keeping interlopers out of their territory.

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So assuming I got a tree strap and climbed the tree and poured female panda urine all over it... I could have the pick of the litter?

Posted by: Future Authoress of Morning Glory Panda Farm at October 21, 2025 08:57 PM (BI5O2)

212 Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2025 08:56 PM (GITLP)

No way !

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 08:59 PM (g47mK)

213 Peter walks on water like a rock.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Next! Ah, it's Count de Monet. I'm delighted to see you here at last. Shall we discuss your comment?
Posted by: Saint Peter at the Heavenly Gates


I think you can deny you made that comment.

Up to three times.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 09:00 PM (nhCoE)

214 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: report
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2025 08:56 PM (GITLP)

But he'd show them- he'd show them all!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

215 Ah, good. I feel better that I agreed to new tires, then. My service center at home said they are starting to dry rot and I need them anyway, but I had hoped to put it off for a while.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Dc8dC)

Best thing you could have done. It helps preserve all that new stuff you just had done.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 09:00 PM (snZF9)

216 ADMW, I am so sorry you had car issues, but I am learning a heck of a lot about tires right now. Silver lining?

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 09:01 PM (Wmg4n)

217 Lucy the Fink has become a Velcro kitty since I got home.

Sweet sweet fur friend.

Thank you to all of you for the smiles and the hugs. It made my heart happy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:02 PM (XS2xc)

218 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: report
Posted by: SMOD


In fairness, I don't think I'd do too well in a seven-on-one fight. Ladyboys or otherwise.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 09:03 PM (nhCoE)

219 nurse, thank you for all of your above and beyond hard work

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:03 PM (QGLzn)

220 216 ADMW, I am so sorry you had car issues, but I am learning a heck of a lot about tires right now. Silver lining?
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 09:01 PM (Wmg4n)

Right? The Horde is an amazing wealth of information! All y'all file this away for future reference.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:05 PM (Dc8dC)

221 I have a project I need engineered and I have no better resources than the Horde.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:07 PM (QGLzn)

222 "Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting"

I had to check up on it (plz give ur sauce b4 poasting thx) and - yeah, it's all over the Daily Mail. Except the Mail said they gave him such a scratch!
There was talk he had "brain fog" due to a back problem but according to the AP last December, the docs fixed that
tinyurl.com/42p7yxc7
So I dunno.
Could be more trantifa links. Or should I say lynx OwO

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 09:07 PM (gKWVE)

223 FWIW, tires over 5 years old can be suspect, regardless of mileage or wear. ..

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:09 PM (tubbA)

224 Lucy the Fink has become a Velcro kitty since I got home.
___

*glances at kittehs curled up next to me*

I understand nurse, heh.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 09:09 PM (Y7TJ9)

225
Oh, and Delilah's application to be enrolled in the Borzoi Club of America's Register of Merit - which recognizes sires and dams whose offspring have recognized accomplishments in the ring or field - was approved by the BCOA board. She may now be styled as MBIS MBISS MRBIS MBIS-OH GCHP Soyara's Devilish Delilah ATT NOHS-P ROM-C. Our dear, late girl excelled at everything she tried.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:10 PM (tgvbd)

226 I don't think I'd do too well in a seven-on-one fight"

*looks at 1911 right over there...*

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:10 PM (tubbA)

227 In fairness, I don't think I'd do too well in a seven-on-one fight. Ladyboys or otherwise.
Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 09:03 PM (nhCoE)

So the question becomes: WHY did he get beaten up by 7 lady boys?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

228 Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: report
Posted by: SMOD

That is a weird kink.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 21, 2025 09:10 PM (/lPRQ)

229
FWIW, tires over 5 years old can be suspect, regardless of mileage or wear. ..
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:09 PM (tubbA)


In a couple of weeks, make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:11 PM (tgvbd)

230 make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires."

Don't forget the "no freeze " blinker fluid!

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:12 PM (tubbA)

231 In fairness, I don't think I'd do too well in a seven-on-one fight. Ladyboys or otherwise.

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Look, I'm a mediocre fighter, but these are Thai dudes. They're tiny, and we're not talking about Muy Thai kickboxing here. They're tiny gay prostitutes.

Advantages: They're all certainly rough trade, so they're probably used to taking a punch from white tourists - but the tourists are usually British gays. Not so tough. Also, they're dressed like girls, which might make a lot of guys hesitate or a pull a punch - but not me.

Dusadvantages: everything else.

I'm calling this one for me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 09:12 PM (BI5O2)

232 230 make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires."

Don't forget the "no freeze " blinker fluid!
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:12 PM (tubbA)

And make sure you oil the brakes!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:13 PM (Dc8dC)

233 I thought I was supposed to put nitrogen in my tires.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:13 PM (mT+6a)

234
I thought I was supposed to put nitrogen in my tires.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:13 PM (mT+6a)


Argon. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:14 PM (tgvbd)

235 I want my
I want my EBT

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 09:15 PM (viF8m)

236 I have a project I need engineered and I have no better resources than the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:07 PM (QGLzn)

Duct tape is your best friend.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 09:15 PM (wVcYX)

237 Dealer got me a great deal on winter blinker fluid. Only $29 instead of the normal $49. And will work at temps down to -40.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:15 PM (PGEno)

238 I'm in relative shape, but I'm not standing my ground against seven Thai catbois with claws. Maybe two.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 09:15 PM (gKWVE)

239 Solid rubber airless tires

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:16 PM (QGLzn)

240 When you get winter tires make sure they fill it up with winter air. Otherwise they dont grip as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:17 PM (PGEno)

241 Count de Monet, not on this one.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:18 PM (QGLzn)

242 231
'I'm a mediocre fighter, but these are Thai dudes. They're tiny, and we're not talking about Muy Thai kickboxing here. They're tiny gay prostitutes.'

Please let there be video if this ever happens.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 09:18 PM (fd80v)

243 Tonight's campsite is next to a lake somewhere in the bootheel of Missouri. Starlink wifi and a hot shower.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 21, 2025 09:21 PM (bVKL8)

244 217 Lucy the Fink has become a Velcro kitty since I got home

These little furry faces! I just got ready for bed, opened the bathroom door and sitting outside in a row were 2 kitties and a Shiba, waiting.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 09:23 PM (Wmg4n)

245 >>> 220 216 ADMW, I am so sorry you had car issues, but I am learning a heck of a lot about tires right now. Silver lining?
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 09:01 PM (Wmg4n)

Right? The Horde is an amazing wealth of information! All y'all file this away for future reference.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:05 PM (Dc8dC)

What you said.

Dash, sorry you're having such an um, adventure, but it really is helpful to see this conversation. How far did you make it until the problem started? Are you near any Morons who could at least share a beverage with you?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 09:23 PM (ULPxl)

246 Helium in tires nets two extra MPG and your car will float.

Posted by: Stefan Schwimmwagen at October 21, 2025 09:23 PM (oftw2)

247 My kitteh has been following me everywhere I go.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 09:25 PM (ULPxl)

248 246 Helium in tires nets two extra MPG and your car will float.
Posted by: Stefan Schwimmwagen at October 21, 2025 09:23 PM (oftw2)

Mine actually might! 😂

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 09:25 PM (Wmg4n)

249 Hey Helena!

Mine too.

They try to pry the bathroom door off its hinges.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 09:25 PM (Y7TJ9)

250 My dogs were " can we take a nap now?"

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:26 PM (QGLzn)

251 230 make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires."

Don't forget the "no freeze " blinker fluid!

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:12 PM (tubbA)


Always install clean brake socks before installing new brake shoes.

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 09:26 PM (5rh/l)

252 I feel cheated when someone comes in post the same stuff I post...I just do!

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 09:27 PM (g47mK)

253 lol Ben Had

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 09:27 PM (Y7TJ9)

254 >> Luigi Mangione got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand

Also known as a “Hunter’s Dozen”..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 09:27 PM (l3YAf)

255 246 Helium in tires nets two extra MPG and your car will float.
Posted by: Stefan Schwimmwagen at October 21, 2025 09:23 PM (oftw2)

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy at October 21, 2025 09:27 PM (wVcYX)

256 FWIW, tires over 5 years old can be suspect, regardless of mileage or wear. ..

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:09 PM (tubbA)

I built my brother a full blown custom harley in 2000-2001. he didn't use it much but we put Metzeler tires on it, which were great tires. He didn't use it much, maybe 2k miles since it was built, and I finally ended up with it last year. Same tires, no dry rot. I pulled a Dunlop back tire off one of my other bikes a few years ago, and that was from the 90's. Again, not many miles, and no dry rot. I'm not sure if it's because they are garage kept, or they just make really good tires, because I get bikes come in with other brands and the tires got more cracks in them than pelosi's face.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 09:28 PM (snZF9)

257 I'm in relative shape, but I'm not standing my ground against seven Thai catbois with claws. Maybe two.


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just run...it's not cowardice, it's ...hygiene!

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 09:28 PM (g47mK)

258 >>>They're tiny gay prostitutes.
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Yeah, but those *CLAWS*! Damn. Pop your eyes right outta their sockets!

Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 09:29 PM (rdVOm)

259 239 Solid rubber airless tires
Posted by: Ben Had

My first bicycle. It was purple with a banana seat, silver sparkle tassels and a white basket with pink and purple flowers.

I used to pretend it was a horse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:29 PM (mT+6a)

260 >>> 249 Hey Helena!

Mine too.

They try to pry the bathroom door off its hinges.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 09:25 PM (Y7TJ9)

LOL

My black and white kitty (now gone) used to reach his paw under the door all the time.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 09:29 PM (ULPxl)

261 In wish I had a dollar for every time I'm told by a woman that the tire guy said that she needed new tires because her's are starting to dry rot.

I works almost every time too.

Posted by: pawn at October 21, 2025 09:29 PM (Vth6/)

262 >> The doggies go crazy under a full moon.

The January (or first moon of astronomical winter, depending on which convention you prefer) full Moon is dubbed the Wolf Moon.

Supposedly, the howls of wolves were particularly baleful during the dead of Winter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 21, 2025 09:30 PM (w6EFb)

263 These little furry faces! I just got ready for bed, opened the bathroom door and sitting outside in a row were 2 kitties and a Shiba, waiting.
Posted by: Piper


You get to close the door?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:32 PM (mT+6a)

264 How far did you make it until the problem started? Are you near any Morons who could at least share a beverage with you?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 09:23 PM (ULPxl)

Differential started burning up about 30 miles short of Little Rock--last week on my way TO the MoMe. they gave me a rental to get me there. Extended warranty that I bought when I bought the car in April is paying for it, thank you, Jesus!

New tires are on me, though. *sob

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:32 PM (Dc8dC)

265 I sneak installed a quick disconnect on the Nitrogen generators at work so I can fill my tires with it. I've heard lots of numbers but 50% more life out of a tire seems to be the average. Plus its a more stable gas than the 80/20 mix we breathe so no fluxuations in pressure between summer and winter.
The five year thing is due to oxidization inside the tire.

Posted by: Reforger at October 21, 2025 09:33 PM (SG6eL)

266 "I have a project I need engineered and I have no better resources than the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had"

Send me an email ...subsolanus@...

Posted by: pawn at October 21, 2025 09:33 PM (Vth6/)

267 >>The five year thing is due to oxidization inside the tire.
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*considers all the vehicles, carts, mower, &etc*

5 years? Damn. There's not a tire here, that is that new!

Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 09:37 PM (rdVOm)

268 I think I have my $1b idea... Floyd Mayweather vs. 16 Thai ladyboys. Three 1min. rounds, like an amateur bout.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 09:37 PM (BI5O2)

269
Today was the new moon for what will be the Beaver Moon of Nov.

You might say today was the Bare Beaver. The 29th will be Quarter Beaver, and Nov. 5 will be the Full Beaver.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 21, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)

270 230 make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires."

Don't forget the "no freeze " blinker fluid!

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:12 PM (tubbA)


Always install clean brake socks before installing new brake shoes.
Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 09:26 PM (5rh/l)
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Horde advice is best advice!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:39 PM (IBQGV)

271 5 years? Damn. There's not a tire here, that is that new!
Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 09:37 PM (rdVOm)

I don't buy it either. Probably a marketing thing. I'm rolling on a set that is 15 years old right now. No wires showing yet so all good.

Posted by: Reforger at October 21, 2025 09:39 PM (SG6eL)

272 From Algore's Amazing Internet:

To find the date a tire was made, look for the tire date code on the sidewall, which is a four-digit number. The first two digits represent the week of the year, and the last two digits indicate the year, such as "1422" meaning the 14th week of 2022.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 21, 2025 09:39 PM (bVKL8)

273 All I know is it's blacker than a witches heart out there as I went to lock the gate.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:40 PM (QGLzn)

274 She may now be styled as MBIS MBISS MRBIS MBIS-OH GCHP Soyara's Devilish Delilah ATT NOHS-P ROM-C. Our dear, late girl excelled at everything she tried.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:10 PM (tgvbd)
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She has more letters before and after her name than the most exalted faculty member where I work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:41 PM (IBQGV)

275 I works almost every time too.
Posted by: pawn at October 21, 2025 09:29 PM (Vth6/)

Yeah, I hear you. Which is why I told my local dealer "no, thanks."

But after all this, it seems like a good idea.

And I'm never gonna get my tires rotated again.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:41 PM (Dc8dC)

276 And colder than a brass monkey's butt.

Posted by: Stuff my dad used to say at October 21, 2025 09:41 PM (bVKL8)

277

You get to close the door?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025

I usually have to chase at least 1 kitty out. Saijo is goofy and has created his own rules about where he is allowed to go. He will not go in the bathroom, the kitchen, or upstairs at all. We have never told him he can’t. He just won’t.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 09:43 PM (Wmg4n)

278 Good evening all!

You've got to love the husky's enthusiasm.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 21, 2025 09:43 PM (NTdv6)

279
It was 25 degrees this morning here in Wyoming. I think winter has arrived.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (3ek7K)

280 111 Melissa is near Jaimaca.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:03 PM (+U7B7)

DID SOMEONE SAY “MELISSA”?

Posted by: Mercyful Fate at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (vwL3N)

281 [Sidebar:] "On the eleventh orbital test flight today of Starship/Superheavy, SpaceX basically achieved all its engineering goals, with both Superheavy and Starship completing their flights as planned, with Superheavy doing a soft vertical splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico America, and Starship doing a soft vertical splashdown in the Indian Ocean." [CBD]

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Fixed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 09:46 PM (h93kG)

282
Some time ago, a bigshot Brit businessman went to Bangkok on a "business trip". He ended up defenestrated by ladyboys.

Some dispute over pay, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 21, 2025 09:46 PM (w6EFb)

283 111 Melissa is near Jaimaca.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 08:03 PM (+U7B7)

Obligatory AoSHQ response -
John has a long mustache.

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 09:46 PM (5rh/l)

284 DID SOMEONE SAY “MELISSA”?
Posted by: Mercyful Fate at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (vwL3N)

I think I need BEN ROETHLISBERGER to explain this to me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:48 PM (Dc8dC)

285
Interstellar interloper 3I/ATLAS has just disappeared behind the Sun, and we won't be able to see it from earth for a while.

As the "I'm not sayin it's aliens, but it's aliens" crowd goes on, if this is a alien ship, this would be the time to do a sneaky deceleration maneuver to whip around and put it on an intercept course for earth. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 21, 2025 09:49 PM (w6EFb)

286 DID SOMEONE SAY “MELISSA”?
Posted by: Mercyful Fate at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (vwL3N)

I think I need BEN ROETHLISBERGER to explain this to me.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:48 PM (Dc8dC)

What's funny to me is that, despite being a metal head, my first though was the Allman Brothers Band song. Great Song.

Mercyful Fate is a metal band.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 21, 2025 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)

287 5 years? Damn. There's not a tire here, that is that new!
Posted by: JQ at October 21, 2025 09:37 PM (rdVOm)

I don't buy it either. Probably a marketing thing. I'm rolling on a set that is 15 years old right now. No wires showing yet so all good.

Posted by: Reforger at October 21, 2025 09:39 PM (SG6eL)

I think it seriously changes from brand to brand. I just changed the tires on my pickup, a 2wd colorado. 7 year old Pirelli tires, and they were toast. A lot of tread left, but a shit ton of cracks. Just like anything else, 1 asshole got to ruin it for everybody.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 09:52 PM (snZF9)

288 DID SOMEONE SAY “MELISSA”?
Posted by: Mercyful Fate
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Uh...

Posted by: Allman Bros. at October 21, 2025 09:54 PM (XeU6L)

289 FWIW, tires over 5 years old can be suspect, regardless of mileage or wear. ..
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 09:09 PM (tubbA)

In a couple of weeks, make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:11 PM (tgvbd)

230 make sure to switch from Daylight Savings air to Standard air in your tires."

Don't forget the "no freeze " blinker fluid!
Posted by: man



Reverse your battery cables so your heat will come on this winter and not your ac.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 09:55 PM (4MksP)

290 DID SOMEONE SAY “MELISSA”?
Posted by: Mercyful Fate at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (vwL3N)

I once dated a Melissa. Had a rotten head that one. What a dumpster fire that was.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 09:56 PM (snZF9)

291 284 DID SOMEONE SAY “MELISSA”?
Posted by: Mercyful Fate at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (vwL3N)

I think I need BEN ROETHLISBERGER to explain this to me.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 09:48 PM (Dc8dC)

Curse of the Ben Roethlisberger is the best song on the album.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 21, 2025 09:56 PM (44PAK)

292 I think it seriously changes from brand to brand. I just changed the tires on my pickup, a 2wd colorado. 7 year old Pirelli tires, and they were toast. A lot of tread left, but a shit ton of cracks. Just like anything else, 1 asshole got to ruin it for everybody.
Posted by: Berserker
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Same here with a set of B.F. Goodrich truck tires. Plenty of tread, but badly cracked.

Posted by: Allman Bros. at October 21, 2025 09:57 PM (XeU6L)

293
She has more letters before and after her name than the most exalted faculty member where I work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:41 PM (IBQGV)

__________

And, unlike your most exalted faculty member, she earned them from hard-slogging accomplishment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:58 PM (tgvbd)

294 I have a George VI silver crown, but I love the penny I have more, for its grandiosity.

"GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:IND:IMP"

"Georgius VI, Dei Gratia, Rex Britannium Omnium, Fidei Defensor, Indiae Imperator"

"George VI, by the grace of G-d, King of all the Britons, Defender of the Faith, and Emperor of India."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 09:59 PM (BI5O2)

295
The Husky was intimitated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 09:59 PM (kkYD1)

296 The set of run flats has worn extremely well on the mustang. Not the grippiest tires I have ever had though.

Kind of shudder to think what the new set will cost.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 10:00 PM (zZu0s)

297
ONT

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 10:01 PM (3ek7K)

298 I never knew until a couple years ago that 4WD and AWD tires all needed to be the same size or you can ruin your transfer case.

After the tires being maybe half worn on my old Honda CRV -- had a sidewall puncture and needed a replacement tire. Took it to Costco where I purchased them, and they put a new tire on.

A few minutes later I start noticing a noise that I assume is the transmission starting to go out; took it to a transmission specialist, and he tells me that on an AWD like that it can't have different size tires or it wrecks your transfer case.

BTW, this is why 4WD and AWD vehicles don't have those little tiny spares -- only full-sized ones.

I never read the Costco paperwork before, and it says that they recommend you by four new tires if you have to replace one. Another option I've heard is that you can have someone shave the new tire to the size of the other three.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 10:01 PM (h93kG)

299 *A few MONTHS later ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 10:02 PM (h93kG)

300 It was 25 degrees this morning here in Wyoming. I think winter has arrived.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (3ek7K)

I think you are in the third season

Posted by: MAC V SOG at October 21, 2025 10:02 PM (P4Pk9)

301 *BUY four new tires .... damn voice translation!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 10:03 PM (h93kG)

302 It is chilly enough here that I have been firing up the wood stove some nights. It is wrenching because I no long have a full wood shed.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 10:15 PM (rbvCR)

303 Tiger loves its personal space. Lion also loves Tiger's personal space.

Posted by: Area_Man at October 21, 2025 10:44 PM (jfC9z)

DEI Dum-Dum Who Debated Charlie Kirk and Then Glorified His Murder Booted Out as President of Prestigious Oxford Debating Society

At least he had the class to accept the 2/3rds no-confidence vote gracefully.

I'm just kidding, he's claiming the vote was rigged.

The New York Post from September:


Oxford student George Abaraonye, who is the president of the historic debate club founded in 1823, callously cheered when he heard Kirk was shot and killed -- and is now facing the repercussions.

"Charlie Kirk got shot, let's f--king go," Abaraonye, 20, posted on WhatsApp on Wednesday.

"Charlie Kirk got shot loool," the depraved debater wrote on Instagram in another message.

What made this especially sociopathic is that the two men had just met and debated a few months before. Charlie Kirk was no accumulation of pixels, he'd actually shaken this degenerate animal's hand.

And he celebrated when Kirk was murdered.

The third year Philosophy, Politics, and Economics undergrad met Kirk and debated face-to-face back in May, during which the president-elect showed up in sweatpants and a T-shirt.

Abaraonye challenged Kirk to expand on his claims that younger generations of boys are being negatively affected by the wider culture, which tamps down masculinity.

"It's a very good faith question, thank you," Kirk said to Abaraonye while they squared off over podiums.

The two did come to loggerheads over the issue of "infantilization of young men" and "toxic femininity," which Abarayone suggested was a byproduct of an "oppressive system."

When asked what could contribute to happiness in men is, in part, "openness to allowing men to express themselves any way they want."

Obviously, someone who is interested in debate should not also be fans of murdering people who beat your dumb DEI ass in a debate.

And the Oxford Union has wisely -- finally -- agreed with that.

After the degenerates' emails were leaked, revealing that he hates Oxford and the UK itself, and ran to become president of the Oxford Union out of sheer racial spite.


The president-elect of the Oxford Union has lost a no-confidence vote after he was criticised for comments appearing to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.

Oh, it "appeared" that way, did it?

"Charlie Kirk got shot, let's f***ing go!!!"


The motion against George Abaraonye had met the required two-thirds threshold to oust the student from his position, the society has announced.

...

Mr Abaraonye is disputing the no-confidence vote, telling the BBC people campaigning to oust him had "unsupervised access" to the email account collecting proxy ballots.


...

According to the Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted a message on Instagram which read "Charlie Kirk got shot loool" - an elongated version of the phrase 'lol' which means 'laughing out loud'.

...

Last week, Mr Abaraonye said he had submitted the motion of no confidence in himself, with voting taking place over the weekend.

Pride goeth.

A notice published by extraordinary returning officer Donovan Lock on Tuesday said 1,228 ballots were cast in favour of no confidence, while 501 were against.

The notice stated the president-elect was deemed to have resigned in accordance with Oxford Union's rules.

Proceedings were informally suspended early on Monday after the returning officer was allegedly subjected to "obstruction, intimidation, and unwarranted hostility by a number of representatives", a notice said.

In a statement, Mr Abaraonye claimed the count had been halted because electoral officials believed "no legitimate and true result could be reached as a result of procedural failures".

"We unequivocally deny that any representative appointed by George engaged in intimidating or disruptive behaviour," his statement stated.

It said the "extremely serious issues" had been referred to the disciplinary committee on Monday afternoon and that Mr Abaraonye remained president-elect.

In other words, he's crying -- get this -- "racism."

No one could have possibly seen that one coming.


"George is proud and thankful to have the support of well in excess of a majority of students at Oxford, who voted to have a safe election and resist attempts to subvert democracy," his statement added.

...

On Friday, Mikey McCoy, Kirk's former chief of staff, read out an open letter to the Oxford Union on The Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

It accused the union of becoming a place where "presidents of the union publicly celebrate the assassination of a political opponent".

The letter said that if Mr Abaraonye were to remain in post, Kirk's allies would "personally contact every American political speaker who has ever graced the union's chamber and urge them never again to lend their name, time or reputation to that institution that has betrayed its founding ideals".

As I mentioned, this psychopathic token was defenestrated after his emails were leaked, showing him to be -- get this -- a hateful and malignant person.

The controversial president-elect of the Oxford Union -- the world's most prestigious debate club -- once endorsed the claim that Queen Elizabeth perpetuated "genocide" and said he "hates" the famed organization he now leads, texts obtained by The Post reveal.

George Abaraonye, an Oxford University student who became infamous after he celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk just months after the two debated, claimed in leaked WhatsApp text messages that he only sought the presidency of the vaunted Oxford Union because of "hate."

"If u hate it then you should run for the presidency!!!!" one Oxford student wrote in a group WhatsApp chat with members of the debating society, which was founded in 1823.


"Real lol that's what I did," answered Abaraonye, 20, who was elected in June.

In another message from the chat which included from Oxford, Trinity College, and Keble College, Abaraonye endorsed the idea that Queen Elizabeth was a perpetrator of "genocide and famine."

"Bro low-key the day before the Queen died I did a massive post about her being implicit in genocide and famine and just a big thing about imperialism," one person wrote in the chat.

"And then when she died so many people got angry at me because they thought that I somehow killed the queen because of bad vibes," the Oxford student continued, referencing the monarch's September 2022 death.


"Based," Abaraonye said in response to the tasteless message, using slang for unapologetic approval.

The leftist also expressed an antipathy for "white establishments."

"But I don't frequent white establishments so I don't have firsthand experience," he wrote regarding "Indie Fridays," a monthly concert series at Oxford University.
WhatsApp chat showing George Abaraonye's response, "real lol that's what I did," to an earlier message that says, "if u hate it then you should run for presidency!!!!"

Posted by: Ace at 06:15 PM




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1 Foist

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 06:16 PM (iJfKG)

2 Boobs!

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (jrgJz)

3 Wa gwan

Posted by: Accomack at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (WWhXE)

4 Elric must be loaded on Sterno squeezins and bath salts again.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 06:18 PM (iJfKG)

5 If this is what leads an "Oxford Debating Society," I move that the Society be renamed the "Oxford Talking Point Regurgitation Society."

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 06:20 PM (nhCoE)

6 Is it actually still "prestigious?" Or is it wearing the threadbare clothing of its ancestors while still claiming a long-dead genteel nobility?

Serious question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:22 PM (CgKt6)

7 DEI Dum-Dum Who Debated Charlie Kirk and Then Glorified His Murder Booted Out as President of Prestigious Oxford Debating Society

Fuck this guy in particular.

I hate his guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to him and nobody else but him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 21, 2025 06:22 PM (fqXci)

8 What made this especially sociopathic is that the two men had just met and debated a few months before. Charlie Kirk was no accumulation of pixels, he'd actually shaken this degenerate animal's hand.

And he celebrated when Kirk was murdered.

++++
Of course. Kirk was the enemy.

There is a war on, even if nobody likes to call it that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (CgKt6)

9 Forget his opinion on Charlie Kirk, he talks like a street rat.

You don't need a street rat running the oxford debating society.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (gDhA9)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (Zz0t1)

11
I'm so happy about this I'm near delirious. The UK did something right.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (ldc7S)

12 >> Is it actually still "prestigious?"

“Prestigious” now just means something communists have skin-suited, so yes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (l3YAf)

13 What kind of country is this when a black man can't even celebrate the murder of a white person he disagrees with? I thought this was America!!

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (E0p3T)

14 The third year Philosophy, Politics, and Economics undergrad met Kirk and debated face-to-face back in May, during which the president-elect showed up in sweatpants and a T-shirt.
++++
When did the old class titles get retired? "Third-year" is "a junior."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (CgKt6)

15 Hmmm. Phony race-based sinecure at a prestigious university?Murderous hatred of whites?

He should marry a black dude in drag and run for POTUS.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (BI5O2)

16 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (yy9ow)

17 So, I guess Kirk won the debate, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (Zz0t1)

18 I thought I read that donors froze their pocketbooks because of this loser. and thus a real chance of it going bankrupt

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (FCrpy)

19 When did the old class titles get retired? "Third-year" is "a junior."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


It's England, they've never had those titles.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (a+4eV)

20 Oh - we could have featured the Brennan Skull on the last thread.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (E0p3T)

21 Obviously, someone who is interested in debate should not also be fans of murdering people who beat your dumb DEI ass in a debate.
++++
He isn't. That he lost some debate to Kirk is decidedly secondary.

Kirk was bad people. This guy was good people. Bad people deserve to die.

It's much simpler than most people make it out to be. They hate you and want you dead, and will celebrate your death while remaining comfortably sure of their moral position.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (CgKt6)

22 >> “Bro low-key the day before the Queen died I did a massive post about her being implicit in genocide..”

“implicit in”

These people are sub-literate savages and I’m tired of being told to pretend otherwise. Just as delusional as the claim men can put on a skirt and become a little girl..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (l3YAf)

23
The third year Philosophy, Politics, and Economics undergrad...

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics!

The Midwit's Trifecta.

No wonder xe's such a waste of skin.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (iJfKG)

24 Pride goeth.
++++
Once can hope.

Make June June Again!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (CgKt6)

25 6 Is it actually still "prestigious?" Or is it wearing the threadbare clothing of its ancestors while still claiming a long-dead genteel nobility?

Serious question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:22 PM (CgKt6)

I think at this point they are dead and gutted, with hate-filled bigots wearing the carcass as a skinsuit and demanding respect. Like almost every formerly-respected and prestigious institution.

Posted by: It's how the left operates at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (TbWk/)

26 Marxist DEI hires gut and wear organizations like skin suits, then demand respect.

Oxford is no different.

In fact, the current "war" inside the D party is because the Marxists decided to gut the Dem party and wear IT as a skin suit. Progressives are shocked that their own tactics would be turned on them.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (gDhA9)

27 Englands high screwls don't make sense either.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (+U7B7)

28 None of these universities are prestigious. They're festering shit holes. Their time draws near.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (LjSYW)

29 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (BI5O2)

Is it sad, weird or predictable that I was thinking almost this exact thing.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 06:26 PM (E0p3T)

30 So Charlie kicked his ass, twice. Once after he was dead.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (jc0TO)

31 You know who else was based?

Posted by: fd at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (vFG9F)

32
Also, some UK sleuths dug into this guy's admission papers and found that his grades were a joke by Oxford standards (for white people, that is). He shouldn't even have been a student there, much less the President of the Oxford Union.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (ldc7S)

33 "But I don't frequent white establishments so I don't have firsthand experience," he wrote regarding "Indie Fridays," a monthly concert series at Oxford University.
++++
I bet he's a blast at parties.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (CgKt6)

34 When did the old class titles get retired? "Third-year" is "a junior."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (CgKt6)

This imbecile is going to have a “fifth-year”, unless standards are so lowered by DEI they just graduate him because of his skin color..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (l3YAf)

35 Also, some UK sleuths dug into this guy's admission papers and found that his grades were a joke by Oxford standards (for white people, that is). He shouldn't even have been a student there, much less the President of the Oxford Union.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (ldc7S)
++++
DEI, baby!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:28 PM (CgKt6)

36 The dumdum debate dreadlocked idiot's parents escaped Nigeria so their kid could terrorize and debase the country they escaped to. Go back to Nigeria, George, your people need you to help with indoor plumbing and the like.

Posted by: Cry Freedom at October 21, 2025 06:28 PM (R/m4+)

37 How was the queen implicit in genocide and famine?

Man, the left is perpetually damaged.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:28 PM (Zz0t1)

38 Boy, Charlie Kirk must have destroyed him in that debate.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:28 PM (gDhA9)

39 >>> 36 The dumdum debate dreadlocked idiot's parents escaped Nigeria so their kid could terrorize and debase the country they escaped to. Go back to Nigeria, George, your people need you to help with indoor plumbing and the like.
Posted by: Cry Freedom at October 21, 2025 06:28 PM (R/m4+)

Don't forget curing cancer and deflecting asteroids, h8ter.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 06:29 PM (ULPxl)

40 The leftist also expressed an antipathy for "white establishments."

"But I don't frequent white establishments so I don't have firsthand experience," he wrote ...

He don't go honky-tonkin' at Bob's Country Bunker!

Posted by: Zombie Hank Williams at October 21, 2025 06:29 PM (wVcYX)

41 Hmmm. Phony race-based sinecure at a prestigious university?Murderous hatred of whites?

He should marry a black dude in drag and run for POTUS.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (BI5O2)

We’ve already reached out to him!

Posted by: Harvard Chancellor Hiring Committee at October 21, 2025 06:29 PM (l3YAf)

42 35 Also, some UK sleuths dug into this guy's admission papers and found that his grades were a joke by Oxford standards. He shouldn't even have been a student there, much less the President of the Oxford Union. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (ldc7S)

Why, that is preposterous! Shocking! Outrageous! Why I never!

Oh wait, he's a black guy from Nigeria. never mind.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:30 PM (gDhA9)

43 They hate you and want you dead because then they never have to face their failings, moral or otherwise.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 06:30 PM (QGLzn)

44 I hear a lot about white supremacists but I actually see a lot more black supremacists. And I've had my fill of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:30 PM (viF8m)

45 China's economy is going from number two to number two.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (+U7B7)

46 When did the old class titles get retired? "Third-year" is "a junior."

he's still in 200 level classes in the third year...

Posted by: DanMan at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (8uzBS)

47
These people are sub-literate savages and I’m tired of being told to pretend otherwise. Just as delusional as the claim men can put on a skirt and become a little girl..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

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

Guess what? Right up from ace's post, which quotes the BBC:

>>"We unequivocally deny that any representative appointed by George engaged in intimidating or disruptive behaviour," his statement stated.

This was originally, from Abaraonye's statementL

"We equivocally deny that any representative appointed by George engaged in intimidating or disruptive behaviour."

EQUIVOCALLY, meaning in a way that is open to more than one interpretation, ambiguous, or uncertain.

The BBC corrected it for him.

Lies upon illiteracy upon incompetence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (ldc7S)

48 Wakanda uber alles.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (+U7B7)

49 This discount British Obama will be Prime Minister one day.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)

50 He'll be given a phony degree he didn't earn, and any other student from oxford will have the prestige of their degree diminished by just a little bit.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:32 PM (gDhA9)

51 >> “Bro low-key the day before the Queen died I did a massive post about her being implicit in genocide..”

Anyone who uses "low-key", "lowkey", "high-key", or "legit" in this manner is a stupid douchebag.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (GYGpZ)

52 I've been reliably informed that contesting election is evil. Also, that election results are never wrong.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (gDhA9)

53 I posted earlier that I hoped this asshole would survive this, on account I'd like to see the Oxford Union implode.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (gKWVE)

54 Is it actually still "prestigious?"

Sure. Just like every other student council...

Oh...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (tubbA)

55 White only hate groups total under 10k members total.

Black, brown or otherwise top that number exponentially.

If there was a white hate problem, everyone would know. We got a Lotta guns and ammo.


Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (Zz0t1)

56
I'll repeat that. Abaraonye's statement was:

"We equivocally deny that any representative appointed by George engaged in intimidating or disruptive behaviour."

The BBC corrected this embarrassing lapse of language skill, changing "equivocally" to "unequivocally."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (ldc7S)

57 41 Hmmm. Phony race-based sinecure at a prestigious university?Murderous hatred of whites?

He should marry a black dude in drag and run for POTUS.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (BI5O2)

We’ve already reached out to him!
Posted by: Harvard Chancellor Hiring Committee at October 21, 2025 06:29 PM (l3YAf)

It's all fake and gay. And they keep bringing in really stupid people. Not in the "I disagree with this person therefore he's stupid" but as in not especially intelligent, informed, or capable of critical thinking. How does it help "the black community" to have their "achievers" be functionally illiterate, violent, racist, and barely able to speak the English language in a coherent manner? Is it somehow sticking it to The Man to put someone who acts like a hoodrat through college and have them come out exactly the same?

Posted by: They aren't sending their best. at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

58 >>>In other words, he's crying -- get this -- "racism."

What is he? Arab perhaps. Or what the Brits call East Asian. Looks too light-skinned to be Black.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 21, 2025 06:34 PM (syz1S)

59 49 This discount British Obama will be Prime Minister one day.
Posted by: toby928(c)
========
Pakistanis and Indians don't particularly like blacks. South Asians are a far faster growing subclass than blacks in UK.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:34 PM (WDjG6)

60 Lies upon illiteracy upon incompetence. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (ldc7S)

Upon racism, upon didn't earn it.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:34 PM (gDhA9)

61 EQUIVOCALLY, meaning in a way that is open to more than one interpretation, ambiguous, or uncertain.

The BBC corrected it for him.

Lies upon illiteracy upon incompetence.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (ldc7S)

Remember when the Biden White House would edit Sleepy Joe’s transcripts to sound less brain-fried? Good times..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:34 PM (l3YAf)

62 51 >> “Bro low-key the day before the Queen died I did a massive post about her being implicit in genocide..”

Anyone who uses "low-key", "lowkey", "high-key", or "legit" in this manner is a stupid douchebag.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (GYGpZ)

No cap, frfr.

Posted by: On God at October 21, 2025 06:34 PM (TbWk/)

63 I hear a lot about white supremacists but I actually see a lot more black supremacists"

Because one of those is good, and the other is bad.

Guess which is which...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:34 PM (tubbA)

64 Anyone who uses "low-key", "lowkey", "high-key", or "legit" in this manner is a stupid douchebag.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 21, 2025 06:33 PM (GYGpZ)
++++
Meh.
Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

The bigger problem is that he's a nasty, ideologically-pure dumbass who wants his enemies killed so he can bathe in their blood.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:35 PM (CgKt6)

65 Pakistanis and Indians don't particularly like blacks"

Let's check in w some of Mrs' SA relatives...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (tubbA)

66 I really wish I cared the Mariners lost last night, but, baseball, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (Zz0t1)

67 "....the world's most prestigious debate club"

______________________________

Not any more. What's not really addressed in these articles is that a boatload of patrons have withheld their donations to the Oxford Union over this guy's behavior. As a result it is facing bankruptcy. That's a shame.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (dIske)

68 The bigger problem is that he's a nasty, ideologically-pure dumbass who wants his enemies killed so he can bathe in their blood.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:35 PM


Err ... yes ... hmm ... well .. quite ..

That bastard!

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (jc0TO)

69 But I don't frequent white establishments so I don't have firsthand experience," he wrote ...

-----

LOL, he purportedly worked at the Oxford Debating Society.

How do you get more white, or more establishment? The mayo company sales representative for the Augusta National Golf Course account?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (BI5O2)

70 In before the first snarky comment.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 06:37 PM (0sNs1)

71 50 He'll be given a phony degree he didn't earn, and any other student from oxford will have the prestige of their degree diminished by just a little bit.
Posted by: El Mariachi
=======
Oxford is a bit strange in that which college of Oxford you attend affects the rep of your degree in the UK. Outside, like in the US, most people simply see Oxford, not so in UK, Australia, etc.

If you google around, you can find unofficial rankings and the Norrington Tables actually deal with exam result rankings.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:37 PM (WDjG6)

72 This discount British Obama will be Prime Minister one day.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)

Can’t wait to see him shaking hands with President Mamdani!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:37 PM (l3YAf)

73 The bigger problem is that he's a nasty, ideologically-pure dumbass who wants his enemies killed so he can bathe in their blood.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Correction: he °low-key° wants his enemies killed so he can bathe in their blood.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at October 21, 2025 06:37 PM (GYGpZ)

74 In before the first snarky comment.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 06:37 PM


You would have to be in by 4, after the first three Firsts!

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:38 PM (jc0TO)

75 69 But I don't frequent white establishments so I don't have firsthand experience," he wrote ...

-----

LOL, he purportedly worked at the Oxford Debating Society.

How do you get more white, or more establishment? The mayo company sales representative for the Augusta National Golf Course account?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (BI5O2)

To be undeservedly fair, London is like 50% goatfucker now.

Posted by: They'll put minarets on Big Ben before long at October 21, 2025 06:38 PM (TbWk/)

76 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.

Posted by: the 80s called at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (gKWVE)

77 LOL, he purportedly worked at the Oxford Debating Society.

How do you get more white, or more establishment? The mayo company sales representative for the Augusta National Golf Course account?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (BI5O2)
++++
Those words don't have the same implication they once did.

Oxford is indeed still a red-blooded Establishment organization.

People like this *are* the establishment.

Dull-normal and ideologically pure dead-eyed killers who want their enemies - that's you - chucked into mass graves are the establishment norm.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (CgKt6)

78 Does this Oxford dude speak jive?

Posted by: Zombie Barbara Billingsley at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (wVcYX)

79 There is no future
In England's dreaming

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (7HzNC)

80 Based.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (+U7B7)

81 >> How do you get more white, or more establishment? The mayo company sales representative for the Augusta National Golf Course account?

Gavin Newsom’s family banker

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:41 PM (l3YAf)

82 Wait a minute.

Charlie Kirk's chief of staff was named McCoy?

Where was Spock?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 06:41 PM (IBQGV)

83 London is islhamic now. NYC will mirror it in a year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM (Zz0t1)

84 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called


Not!

Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM (nhCoE)

85
He'll be given a phony degree he didn't earn, and any other student from oxford will have the prestige of their degree diminished by just a little bit.
Posted by: El Mariachi

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

Remember that Black brat screaming in the face of the Yale headmaster over insensitive Halloween costumes? It was back in 2015:

https://tinyurl.com/nhf26jrb

Jerelyn Luther got some sort of Outstanding Student award for that and is now an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a major international law firm, based in their New York City office.

It pays to be an obnoxious little fvck.

Although hell for all I know, she's good at what she does but being an obnoxious little fvck helped her ascend.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM (ldc7S)

86 People like this *are* the establishment.

Dull-normal and ideologically pure dead-eyed killers who want their enemies - that's you - chucked into mass graves are the establishment norm.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (CgKt6)

The thing that’s hard for people to accept is that the communists won the Cold War, just not the Soviet Communists.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM (l3YAf)

87 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called

Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM



Far out.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

88 I lost all respect for the Oxford Debating Society, and Oxford University, and pretty much all of the UK, when some raghead chick tried to refute Shapiro's point about the universality of civilian deaths in war by stating that Great Britain did not bomb civilians in WWII.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (n9ltV)

89 I've stayed up to nearly dark.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (+U7B7)

90 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s

Far out!

Posted by: The 60's calling at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (lJ0H4)

91 The thing that’s hard for people to accept is that the communists won the Cold War, just not the Soviet Communists.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM /i]

They're Lords of the Ashes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

92 dammit again. My left bracket key is flakey.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

93 It pays to be an obnoxious little fvck.

Although hell for all I know, she's good at what she does but being an obnoxious little fvck helped her ascend.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM (ldc7S)

“Obnoxious little fuck” is probably what her job entails..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (l3YAf)

94 Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM (nhCoE)


**********

Sphincter says what?

Posted by: The 90s Farts in The 80s Direction at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)

95 Lotus Eaters claim Abaraonye didn't even have the required grades to get into Oxford.
Yet there he is, and then elected president of the Oxford Union.

Total DEI choice all the way through.

Showing up to a formal debate wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants should've gotten him de-elected then and there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

96 The Italics were contained.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (+U7B7)

97 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called

Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM

Gag me with a spoon!

Posted by: Aged Valley Girl with Danger Hair at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (6tEBv)

98 Showing up to a formal debate wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants should've gotten him de-elected then and there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

Easy there, chief.

Posted by: J Fetterman at October 21, 2025 06:45 PM (BI5O2)

99 Wait a minutegot harlie Kirk's chief of staff was named McCoy?

Where was Spock?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 06:41 PM (IBQGV)

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

Nice!

Also just saw your "hot iron" response in the prior thread -- and am jealous I didn't think of that first!

'Twas a pleasure to meet you, good sir!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (h93kG)

100 People like this *are* the establishment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:40 PM (CgKt6)


Ding! Ding! Ding!

Exactly. And that is why the UK is lost (absent a civil war), and Academia is the most malignant force in America. They are happily producing legions of these murderous lunatics, and grooming them for highly-placed positions throughout society.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (n9ltV)

101 What is the deal with going up the street dressed like a mental patient?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (+U7B7)

102 Sphincter says what?
Posted by: The 90s Farts in The 80s Direction at October 21, 2025 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)
---
Chillax, dude!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (IBQGV)

103 I tried to get Doof to karaoke to Zappa's Valley Girl, but no.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:47 PM (Zz0t1)

104 The first Christian nationalist was Solzhenitsyn who was ostracized by the Left over his 1978 Harvard commencement speech.
The rot is deep.

Posted by: Accomack at October 21, 2025 06:47 PM (FqNtp)

105 'Twas a pleasure to meet you, good sir!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (h93kG)
---
Likewise, my gray box friend!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 06:47 PM (IBQGV)

106 Good.

This tyranny of faux tolerance has to end.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 06:47 PM (LNXuK)

107
What the hell is an "extraordinary returning officer"?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (w6EFb)

108 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:47 PM (Zz0t1)

And thank God he didn't!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (n9ltV)

109 Given the state of the UK, he'll be Prime Minister by next fall.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (UrJPj)

110
The dumdum debate dreadlocked idiot's parents escaped Nigeria so their kid could terrorize and debase the country they escaped to. Go back to Nigeria, George, your people need you to help with indoor plumbing and the like.
Posted by: Cry Freedom

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

Same as the dreadlocked idiots infesting our campuses. I'm so glad Rubio is kicking them out. I hope he's given instrux to scrutinize student visa applications harder than ever for anti-America, pro-terror sentiments.

I also hope someone is working on an Ilhan Omar denaturalization case. Another turbaned idiot now infesting our political institution.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (ldc7S)

111 I tried to get Doof to karaoke to Zappa's Valley Girl, but no.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:47 PM (Zz0t1)
---
What? Does he sound like Yoko Ono? That would have been entertaining...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (IBQGV)

112 Exactly. And that is why the UK is lost (absent a civil war), and Academia is the most malignant force in America. They are happily producing legions of these murderous lunatics, and grooming them for highly-placed positions throughout society.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (n9ltV)

Yup, and then due to credentialism, they get hired into positions of authority in Government.

They have created a system where you must go through their indoctrination mill, to get the Degree you need, for high positions...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (mP0Kj)

113 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called

Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM

Far out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

23 Skidoo!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 06:49 PM (wVcYX)

114 And thank God he didn't!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:48 PM (n9ltV


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

Someone had to intervene. Its right in his wheelhouse and he knows all the words!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:49 PM (Zz0t1)

115 I lost all respect for the Oxford Debating Society, and Oxford University, and pretty much all of the UK, when some raghead chick tried to refute Shapiro's point about the universality of civilian deaths in war by stating that Great Britain did not bomb civilians in WWII.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (n9ltV)

They don't think so.
All you ever hear about is Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

She was probably a Women's Studies major with a minor in Comparative Religion. She'd rather be an activist than accurate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2025 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

116 Exactly. And that is why the UK is lost (absent a civil war), and Academia is the most malignant force in America. They are happily producing legions of these murderous lunatics, and grooming them for highly-placed positions throughout society.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:46 PM (n9ltV)
++++
Done and dusted.

Leftist Millennial monster babies are in every "commanding heights" position throughout the West, except a few rare exceptions like the Oval Office and Hungary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:50 PM (CgKt6)

117 >> Posted by: J Fetterman

I only learned recently that he’s more properly addressed as “Fetterman’s monster”, as Dr. Fetterman was the scientist who created him.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:50 PM (l3YAf)

118 113 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called

Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM

Far out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

23 Skidoo!
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 06:49 PM (wVcYX)

Yeah, burned a Fag.... or blew my Tranny... don't quite work nowadays.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 06:51 PM (mP0Kj)

119 The British are kindling.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (+U7B7)

120
What the hell is an "extraordinary returning officer"?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

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

lol I had to laugh at that, too. Like the equerry-in-waiting to the first gentleman of the sugar tongs -- but I'm sure there's a rationale for the position.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (ldc7S)

121 I particularly enjoyed "The Trio" doing their covers.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (QGLzn)

122 if you haven't seen that debate devastating dismantling by Charlie and his brief speech afterwards -- it was a tour-de-force.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (h93kG)

123 Pakistanis and Indians don't particularly like blacks"
Let's check in w some of Mrs' SA relatives...
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:36 PM (tubbA)

The Chinese really don't care too much for their black slaves. The videos from Africa of Chinese overseers berating their black subjects on how worthless and stupid they are are a laugh riot.

The Yellow Man's Burden.

Posted by: Moose Dung at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (R/m4+)

124 I lost all respect for the Oxford Debating Society, and Oxford University, and pretty much all of the UK, when some raghead chick tried to refute Shapiro's point about the universality of civilian deaths in war by stating that Great Britain did not bomb civilians in WWII.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (n9ltV)
++++
I am sure that RAF Bomber Command, which, when faced with the inaccuracy of their bomb-targeting systems, decided to just bomb Dresden into ruin and see if they could whip up a firestorm that would make stone burn would be surprised to learn that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (CgKt6)

125 Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called

Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM

Far out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

23 Skidoo!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Groovy

Posted by: The 60's calling at October 21, 2025 06:53 PM (lJ0H4)

126 The British bombed civilians by night. The Americans bombed civilians by day.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:54 PM (+U7B7)

127 You have to admit that "groovy" is a groovy kind of word.

Posted by: fd at October 21, 2025 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

128 First time I went to England and a guy said he was going to head out and burn a fag......

"Woah. You can do that here?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:55 PM (Zz0t1)

129 But nary a peep complaining about the Luftwaffe burning parts of London or Coventry.

Every now and then they still finding the odd Luftwaffe incendiary munition lodged in someone's attic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (LNXuK)

130 The Chinese really don't care too much for their black slaves. The videos from Africa of Chinese overseers berating their black subjects on how worthless and stupid they are are a laugh riot.

The Yellow Man's Burden.
Posted by: Moose Dung at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (R/m4+)

What’s evident now is that European colonialism was the best thing to happen to the third world, and the worst to happen to the first world. De-colonization destroyed Africa and is in the process of destroying Europe (and to a lesser extent, the US..)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (l3YAf)

131 I was glad to see that perhaps some sense has returned to Oxford, at least for a day. Tolkien and Lewis can roll a little leas in their graves tonight. And it's fitting that in asking for a no confidence vote out of egotistical hubris, the anti Kirk student sealed his own fate.

This George kid has a corrosive chip on his shoulder. Hope he can find a way to let that burden of hate go one day. I bet he sees racism everywhere on campus. I'm sure some is there. But a lot more of the discrimination at Oxford is probably just class based, and a general "outsider vs insider" mentality at these schools that goes well beyond race.

It can be satisfying to rip on the impossible situation higher education has placed themselves in. They get themselves into these messes on their own. But it's also a tragedy so see all the great institutions get ripped down, especially higher ed. Education should be sacrosanct, and instead has been ravaged by the progressive woke.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (gWBY1)

132 70 In before the first snarky comment.

That ship sank before ace hit post.

Posted by: clarence at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (SWsf/)

133 Groovy
Posted by: The 60's calling at October 21, 2025 06:53 PM (lJ0H4)


**********

You asked for it.............


https://m.youtube.com/channel/
UCzP_Ay-TdCfgVJdZ_qFv81Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (Zz0t1)

134
Showing up to a formal debate wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants should've gotten him de-elected then and there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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

To say nothing of that head-wrapping over dreadlocks, which earned him the moniker "Temu Jack Sparrow."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (ldc7S)

135 The British bombed civilians by night. The Americans bombed civilians by day.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:54 PM (+U7B7)
++++
We had the superior air forces. And we pretended otherwise. That was mostly "precision bombing." Not very precise and nobody lost any sleep over it, but we largely kept up the claim. The RAF didn't. That was naked vengeance for Coventry. I don't blame them, but they weren't even pretending.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:57 PM (CgKt6)

136 Feeling groovy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:57 PM (+U7B7)

137 DEI Dum-Dum Who Debated Charlie Kirk and Then Glorified His Murder Booted Out as President of Prestigious Oxford Debating Society

===

YYYYEEEEESSSS!👍

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 06:58 PM (g47mK)

138 In his very small, dark little soul, he knows that Kirk was the better man and he hates him for it. He knows and it is eating him up inside.

Posted by: Cheri at October 21, 2025 06:58 PM (oiNtH)

139 To be undeservedly fair, London is like 50% goatfucker now.
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From what I've read it may "only" be 5% or 10%, BUT that seems to be about the tipping point where Muslims get all uppity and decide to openly declare that they are not there to adapt but to conquer.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

140 I am sure that RAF Bomber Command, which, when faced with the inaccuracy of their bomb-targeting systems, decided to just bomb Dresden into ruin and see if they could whip up a firestorm that would make stone burn would be surprised to learn that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:52 PM (CgKt6)

Bombing industrial targets, like railway yards and factories, is explicitly bombing civilians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (8zz6B)

141 See?
I wasn't even sure if the Brits had bombed Dresden with us.

You listen to some Yankee-hating lefties across the pond and they make it sound like it was a napalm run by B-52s in the biggest massacre in the European theater.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (6ydKt)

142 The guy is a poster child for Club 85

He argued getting fired was a violation of his free speech rights, after he glorifies the murder of someone for their free speech.

That’s an argument a 5 year old might make. What a fucking ass clown. I hope he dies in a fire. Better than he deserves.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (BbO+r)

143 Nuking Japan was the best thing we could have done for them. Ended the war without mass starvation, cannibalism and Soviet invasion.

Maybe we can make that happen for Europe.

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (7HzNC)

144 The USAF and RAF bombed Dresden in response to a Soviet request to do so.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 07:00 PM (LNXuK)

145 To say nothing of that head-wrapping over dreadlocks, which earned him the moniker "Temu Jack Sparrow."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (ldc7S)

Funny stuff.
I hadn't heard that one.

He might've been buzzing the entire time like Jack, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2025 07:00 PM (6ydKt)

146 England doesn't have free speech, so he can shove that argument up his fartclam.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 07:00 PM (Zz0t1)

147 >>They don't think so.
All you ever hear about is Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Could've gone with Boston although that was bullets not bombs.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 07:00 PM (viF8m)

148 Dresden was the cultural city iirc.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:01 PM (+U7B7)

149 The USAF and RAF bombed Dresden in response to a Soviet request to do so.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 07:00 PM


We missed Vonnegut though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 07:01 PM (jc0TO)

150 Bombing industrial targets, like railway yards and factories, is explicitly bombing civilians.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (8zz6B)
++++
Yes indeed. War industry is civilian and also, to those who care about such things, a legitimate military target.

Modern industrial warfare makes the distinction difficult. All-of-society total war like WWII was makes the distinction impossible.

Total war means *everyone* is a military target, because *everyone* is working on the war. There's no difference between a factory and an airfield, or between an apartment building and a barracks.

Total war is an unpleasant game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:01 PM (CgKt6)

151 Curiously, I am reminded that Obama was the President of the Harvard Law Review.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 07:02 PM (XeU6L)

152 let's now find out how did got into rather prestigious Oxford, shall we

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:02 PM (g47mK)

153 143 Nuking Japan was the best thing we could have done for them. Ended the war without mass starvation, cannibalism and Soviet invasion.

Maybe we can make that happen for Europe.
Posted by: Ray Patriarca at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (7HzNC)

What do you have against cannibalism?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
at October 21, 2025 07:02 PM (fqXci)

154 Total war is an unpleasant game.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:01 PM (CgKt6)


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

Would you like to play a game?

Posted by: WOPR at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (Zz0t1)

155 >> But nary a peep complaining about the Luftwaffe burning parts of London or Coventry.

To say nothing of Prague, Warsaw, Minsk and Sevastopal.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (l3YAf)

156 >>> Youth slang is often stupid. Mine certainly was.

90s valley girl speak infecting all the youth nationwide was its own strange fun thing. But the brain rot spoken by today's gen alpha generation deserves a special trophy for ridiculousness. For example:

"..."6-7" is a slang term used by Gen Alpha that has no definitive meaning, originating from the song "Doot Doot (6 7)" by rapper Skrilla and a viral video of NBA player LaMelo Ball. The numbers are linked to Ball's height of 6 feet 7 inches, and the phrase is used as a meaningless interjection or response, with some users linking it to indifference or a "so-so" feeling."

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (gWBY1)

157 We missed Vonnegut though.
Posted by: toby928
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I recollect that he was stashed away in a meat locker?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (XeU6L)

158 What’s evident now is that European colonialism was the best thing to happen to the third world, and the worst to happen to the first world. De-colonization destroyed Africa and is in the process of destroying Europe (and to a lesser extent, the US..)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 06:56 PM (l3YAf)


Not really, colonialism was a modern form of mercantilism and was used to exploit the colonies for the economic benefit of the home country. The French right up to last year when the countries in Africa rejected the CFA Franc were an example of how it worked.

everyone applauds the Brits, but they jacked around with local currencies and leaderships to keep the lid on it all and put vicious limits on who and where what could be manufactured and sold - and in doing so got themselves in an economic bind with Asian debts in 1910. The worst were the Belgians who ran a country sized work camp nearly as bad as Pol Pot's wet dreams, and the best seems to have been the Germans and the Italians.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (rbvCR)

159 Youth slang isn't stupid. I ever tell you about the time I invented the word malarkey? It was during the Austro-Prussian War. My chief of staff, an old bat called Taylor Lorenz, told me Bismarck's Republicans killed my Beau in a cowardly windshield-oil attack.

"MALARKEY," I shouted, "THAT'S MALARKEY!"

The word came to me just like that! Sadly, it was no malarkey, jack. Even though I beat Helmuth von Moltke to death with a length of chain, nothing could bring him back. Beau was deader than Donald Trump's political career. I had to cremate him myself in a burn pit outside Bratislava.

Word as a Brandon.

Posted by: Brandon at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (BI5O2)

160
Kindltot, are you now, or have you ever been, located in Korea? I noted the name of your cat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 07:04 PM (ldc7S)

161 They don't think so.
All you ever hear about is Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Could've gone with Boston although that was bullets not bombs.
-------

And 40 years of that syrupy "More Than a Feeling".

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 07:04 PM (TN0g+)

162 Never forger Guernica

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 07:04 PM (LNXuK)

163 The USAF and RAF bombed Dresden in response to a Soviet request to do so.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 07:00 PM (LNXuK)
++++
Dresden was mostly British. They took their Lancasters to Dresden and we focused much more on other targets. In part over other disagreements around tactics, IIRC.

Like virtually everything in that war, there wasn't a single reason for anything. The Soviets wanted heavy bombing of eastern Germany, the British wanted vengeance, we wanted to make the Soviets happy, all had their own strategic and tactical preferences, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:04 PM (CgKt6)

164
That guy is going to make trouble everywhere he goes for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 07:05 PM (kkYD1)

165 We had the superior air forces. And we pretended otherwise. That was mostly "precision bombing." Not very precise and nobody lost any sleep over it, but we largely kept up the claim. The RAF didn't. That was naked vengeance for Coventry. I don't blame them, but they weren't even pretending.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:57 PM (CgKt6)

The RAF bombed at night because they were afraid of being shot down, making “precision bombing.” The US tried precision bombing, but it failed so they fell back to larger incendiary strikes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:05 PM (l3YAf)

166 Slaughter House 5. The Germans weren't terribly creative with naming things.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:05 PM (+U7B7)

167 He said the quiet part out loud

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 07:06 PM (ctF2c)

168 I listened to the estimable Ron DeSantis' recent interview at Stanford. he was interviewed at Hoover Institution by none other than Condi Rice. She asked many thought provoking questions, a good portion was dedicated to the education system in the Free State of Florida. It is worth a listen. Apparently University of Florida is now the Harvard for the un-woke. Good for DeSantis.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:07 PM (g47mK)

169 That guy is going to make trouble everywhere he goes for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 07:05 PM (kkYD1)



Augusto Pinochet, he know de wey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 07:07 PM (8zz6B)

170 De-colonization destroyed Africa and is in the process of destroying Europe (and to a lesser extent, the US..)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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"I can think of no better argument for colonization than Haiti"

WFB

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 07:08 PM (XeU6L)

171 Great post, Ace. My only quibble is that he's not a DEI dum-dum, he's a DEI evil bastard.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 21, 2025 07:08 PM (lWPQK)

172 I read all of the Vonnegut. I discovered him in ragged paperbacks while in in school suspension.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:08 PM (+U7B7)

173 We missed Vonnegut though.
Posted by: toby928
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I recollect that he was stashed away in a meat locker?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 21, 2025 07:03 PM (XeU6L)

Frigidaire?

Posted by: Professor Indy Jones at October 21, 2025 07:09 PM (wVcYX)

174 No colonizers made money on their colonies. Every one was a sink hole -- useful only as strategic checks and balances during an earlier cold war period.

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at October 21, 2025 07:09 PM (7HzNC)

175 Refrigerators are bomb proof.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:10 PM (+U7B7)

176 Strength is our diversity!

Posted by: Squid at October 21, 2025 07:10 PM (Ux/2E)

177 The RAF bombed at night because they were afraid of being shot down, making “precision bombing.” The US tried precision bombing, but it failed so they fell back to larger incendiary strikes.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:05 PM (l3YAf)
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Yup, except for the language. Lots of jawboning about "precision bombing." Not the reality.

LeMay never bothered with it. He just firebombed Japan until he had to dial it back in order to leave some targets for the A-Bombs to make an impression.

Except Kyoto. Kyoto was off limits. Had we actually had to invade Japan, I doubt it would have remained so unless it was bargaining chip what would have the inevitable division of Japan with the Soviets.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:10 PM (CgKt6)

178 Great post, Ace. My only quibble is that he's not a DEI dum-dum, he's a DEI evil bastard.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 21, 2025 07:08 PM (lWPQK)
++++
Power of and.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:11 PM (CgKt6)

179 During Total War, you bomb things.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:11 PM (g47mK)

180 >> The worst were the Belgians who ran a country sized work camp nearly as bad as Pol Pot's wet dreams

This is revisionist nonsense. The atrocities in the Congo were mostly the result of Arab slavers from Zanzibar and brutal local warlords. Every place under actual Belgian control improved significantly. The Congo is much worse now than it was when the Belgians were still in control.

Stop listening to commie propaganda. They’ll tell you King Leopold killed twice as many Congolese than even existed at the time. They now claim tens of millions of dead which is not only absurd, but what physically impossible for the small Belgian.

The cutting off of hands pre-dated European contact and was practiced by cannibalistic locals and Arab slavers alike. The Belgians put a stop to it wherever they could.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:12 PM (l3YAf)

181 151 Curiously, I am reminded that Obama was the President of the Harvard Law Review.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
---------------

Wondering if it was, oh, good, he's not here today we can get work done or oh, good, he's here we can goof off today?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 07:12 PM (kkYD1)

182 >>> Dane
@UltraDane 4h
British woman telling us what it's like living in England today. She's angry.

Lovely lass. They should all be angry their country is being stolen from them without a shot fired.

I've never heard the phrase "from day dot" instead of "from day one," but I like it.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:13 PM (gWBY1)

183 No colonizers made money on their colonies. Every one was a sink hole -- useful only as strategic checks and balances during an earlier cold war period.
Posted by: Ray Patriarca
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We were doing quite well with the American colonies, thank you.

Posted by: The Brits at October 21, 2025 07:13 PM (XeU6L)

184 I read all of the Vonnegut. I discovered him in ragged paperbacks while in in school suspension.
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I have mixed feelings about Kurt. I really enjoyed....4...or 5 of his books in my late 20s/early 30s.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)

185 Nuking Japan was the best thing we could have done for them. Ended the war without mass starvation, cannibalism and Soviet invasion.

Maybe we can make that happen for Europe.
Posted by: Ray Patriarca at October 21, 2025 06:59 PM (7HzNC)
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The Soviets *did* invade Japan. They made a mad dash to do so they could claim half of it after the surrender. Landed on Hokkaido and seized some of the coastal territory at fairly great cost - not because it was well defended (it wasn't - Japan was throwing everything south to fight the US), but because the Soviets had no skill at contested amphibious landings.

But they did get boots on the ground in Japan before the end of the war. Not that it mattered for Stalin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:14 PM (CgKt6)

186 ">> Is it actually still "prestigious?"

“Prestigious” now just means something communists have skin-suited, so yes."

exactly

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 07:14 PM (kHop/)

187 Connected to the decline of Britain:

Basil the Great
@Basil_TGMD

5h
🚨🇯🇵NEW PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN MAKES MASS DEPORTATIONS FIRST POLICY
Sanae Takaichi was sworn in and IMMEDIATELY created a ministry for mass deportations
How can you not be jealous?
Imagine a country defending its own people

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:14 PM (gWBY1)

188 Be a shame if a high wind came on and he was strangled with his own dreadlocks.

Posted by: Paco at October 21, 2025 07:14 PM (mADJX)

189 >> LeMay never bothered with it. He just firebombed Japan until he had to dial it back in order to leave some targets for the A-Bombs to make an impression.

LeMay actually did give precision bombing a try in Europe, and even early on when he was transferred to the Pacific, but it just didn’t work. The B-29s couldn’t hit their targets so he fell back to area bombing.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:15 PM (l3YAf)

190 Oxford was at one time an esteemed institution. That time has passed. It is now a sign of the United Kingdom’s decline into third-world status. The population has let the government and its globalist, anti democratic denizens push the country into surrendering its culture, and has used the police and military to enforce their authoritarian overthrow. Most of the country is just standing around watching the country fall backwards into its pre-democratic state. it’s sad really.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 21, 2025 07:15 PM (woOQT)

191 Auslander raus.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:15 PM (+U7B7)

192 There are so many people who come here from shithole countries, only to rabidly

Isn’t it just common sense that such people never be allowed to visit here, let alone live here?

Posted by: Mike at October 21, 2025 07:16 PM (zeZHk)

193 LeMay actually did give precision bombing a try in Europe, and even early on when he was transferred to the Pacific, but it just didn’t work. The B-29s couldn’t hit their targets so he fell back to area bombing.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:15 PM (l3YAf)
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Yup. LeMay was absolutely ruthless and had zero patience for shit that didn't work.

It's also *entirely* because of him that the entire B-29 program didn't go down as a monstrously embarrassing waste and item of national shame.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 07:16 PM (CgKt6)

194 The Brits couldn't even squeeze a 2% tax on tea out of us.

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at October 21, 2025 07:17 PM (7HzNC)

195 Rabidly hate America.

Posted by: Mike at October 21, 2025 07:17 PM (zeZHk)

196
How can you not be jealous?
Posted by: LizLem

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A whole MINISTRY for mass deportations!

Have you by any chance seen some of the videos of the "guests" starting to form enclaves in Japan? You want to jump through your monitor and yell STOP!!! Stop now, before it's too late!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 07:17 PM (ldc7S)

197 Most people just drank the tea off the Dutch Traders.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:18 PM (+U7B7)

198 Japan surrendered and they are better off because they did.

Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 07:18 PM (YHmYJ)

199 I accidentally caught a few minutes of Kirks's show (because the Oxford topic came up), now headed by his lieutenants, and one them said that he sat behind (or near) George Abaraony during Charlie's debate, and ...Abaraony he smelled pretty awful. thought I share it with y'all!

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:18 PM (g47mK)

200 This is revisionist nonsense. The atrocities in the Congo were mostly the result of Arab slavers from Zanzibar and brutal local warlords. Every place under actual Belgian control improved significantly. The Congo is much worse now than it was when the Belgians were still in control.

Correct. Zanzibar would march her slave grabbing armies across Africa every year from East to West under the red flag and the natives in the way fled in terror whenever they could. Funny how Zanzibar is never mentioned today. Once a canoe full of captured slaves sank and killed a dozen slaves and the Zanzibar Warlord demanded to know if his canoe survived.

Posted by: The Truth at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (R/m4+)

201 The Brits couldn't even squeeze a 2% tax on tea out of us.
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And 250 years later California charges a roughly 20% tax on each gallon of gas sold there.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (TN0g+)

202 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (+qU29)

203 >>> Most of the country is just standing around watching the country fall backwards into its pre-democratic state. it’s sad really.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 21, 2025 07:15 PM (woOQT)

Make great swords great again? Back to squabbling between petty feudal lords and tribalistic culture clashes?

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (gWBY1)

204 I am always amazed that these "geniuses " don't return and become the guiding lights of their Countries.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (QGLzn)

205 Japan doesn’t have the equivalent of a federalist system, whereby the states use their power to thwart, and ultimately subvert constitutional laws pass by Congress under the guise of states rights.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (woOQT)

206 My cousin and her husband went to Oxford and two more woke people you cant imagine. They moved to Tasmania. But I just got an email from them and they want to come back to live in Seattle. I told her it would be a good fit.

Posted by: Megthered at October 21, 2025 07:20 PM (NHKs8)

207 I didn't realize George was Indian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 07:20 PM (+U7B7)

208 At some point someone needs to notice that a majority of black people in academia viciously hate white people, although that’s really why they are there in academia in the first place

Posted by: UGAdawg at October 21, 2025 07:21 PM (9dClJ)

209 With people like Tommy Robinson, I still have hope for Great Britain.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:21 PM (g47mK)

210
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 21, 2025 07:12 PM (l3YAf)

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

So where does one get the truth? I thought that customs agent who got suspicious about ships coming in laden with rubber, ivory, and minerals and going out empty went and saw for himself and it was unspeakable, and it was Belgian.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 07:21 PM (ldc7S)

211 Their time will come, they just need to learn how to defend what they have.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:21 PM (g47mK)

212 And they are getting much better. He had a million or so people show up last time.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 07:22 PM (g47mK)

213 Funny how Zanzibar is never mentioned today. Once a canoe full of captured slaves sank and killed a dozen slaves and the Zanzibar Warlord demanded to know if his canoe survived.
Posted by: The Truth at October 21, 2025 07:19 PM (R/m4+)

I can relate. Had something similar happen with a $400 handcart and quicksand.

Posted by: Taggart at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM (wVcYX)

214 185 No Joe, the Soviets had plans, but never made it to Hokkaido.

Now, back to my idea of nuking Europe...

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at October 21, 2025 07:23 PM (7HzNC)

215 113 Radical.
Posted by: the 80s called

Not!
Posted by: the 80s answered at October 21, 2025 06:42 PM

Far out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

23 Skidoo!
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 06:49 PM (wVcYX)

Solid, Jackson! You’re talkin’ to the hep cat in chief, togged to the bricks and in the groove, a solid sender from way back. Well, awwwwreet!

Posted by: The 1940s are at the door at October 21, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

216 Kindltot, are you now, or have you ever been, located in Korea? I noted the name of your cat.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 07:04 PM (ldc7S)


My wife is Korean.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 07:34 PM (rbvCR)

217 141 -- speaking of -- IIRC, Dresden was a 24 hour around-the-clock operation, the U.S. by day, the RAF by night.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 21, 2025 07:54 PM (DK5Sh)

218 Serious question Ace, are you going to be breaking out the Flaming Totenkopf in light of the recent story involving Graham Platner?

Posted by: Irving Washington at October 21, 2025 08:14 PM (gm2LS)

219 "When did the old class titles get retired? 'Third-year' is 'a junior.'"

Not in the UK. The Freshman/Sophomore etc. nomenclature is only used in the US.

Posted by: Nemo at October 21, 2025 08:59 PM (4RPgu)

220 I don't go to white establishments. Really? Stay home a lot?

Posted by: Whosher at October 21, 2025 09:44 PM (6EL/O)

221 Election Denier!

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at October 22, 2025 05:40 AM (JB3Jm)

222 Whitey's fault. Guilt again. It never quits.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 22, 2025 09:35 AM (s9EN2)

223 Given that in the UK they arrest people over Facebook posts, or simply wearing a Star of David necklace, this guy deserves nothing less than prison.

Posted by: Cymbaline at October 22, 2025 10:14 AM (Lau4O)

Jim Jordan Refers John Brennan to the DOJ for Prosecution Over His Serial Perjuries

"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly fine".


Jordan's referral, sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleges that Brennan "knowingly and willfully testified falsely" during a May 2023 interview with the Judiciary Committee when he claimed the CIA "was not involved at all" with the Steele dossier -- a Democrat-funded collection of false stories used to smear Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. But a newly declassified House Intelligence Committee report contradicts that testimony, revealing the CIA worked directly with the FBI to circulate information from the dossier and that Brennan personally intervened to keep it in the intelligence community's 2017 assessment on Russian election interference.

That assessment, produced under Brennan's direction, claimed Russia sought to help Trump win -- a conclusion Trump has long dismissed as part of the "Russia hoax." According to declassified CIA memos cited by Jordan, agency analysts warned against including the dossier's unverified material. Brennan, however, insisted it remain, reportedly responding, "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"

These fictions compiled by Hillary Clinton's Master of Conspiracies Sydney Blumenthal, and then given a Credibility Laundering through Christopher Steele -- do they ring true to the other demented partisans in this room?


Jordan's letter says that Brennan's testimony "was a brazen attempt to mislead Congress" and that the former CIA chief "intentionally distorted material facts" surrounding his actions.

...

Jordan also cited Brennan's 2017 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee -- when he insisted the CIA did not "rely on" the dossier -- as further evidence of a pattern of deception. Though that earlier statement falls outside the five-year statute of limitations, Jordan said Brennan's statements showed "a pattern of willingness to lie to Congress about the Steele dossier."

Posted by: Ace at 05:16 PM




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Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 05:16 PM (TN0g+)

2 Sleeves are rolled, bitches.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 05:16 PM (ExV1e)

3 I want blood and executions!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:17 PM (IxmwC)

4 top squid!!

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 21, 2025 05:17 PM (CWTWj)

5
Is it too soon to say it?

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (ldc7S)

6 Hang him higher than Haman

Posted by: night lifted at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (/YboP)

7 What Goes Around Comes Around.............

Brennan is such a slime ball and a waste of human flesh....

Plenty of room at "Club Gitmo" for Brennan

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (J9q9v)

8 Yes, but doesn't it ring true? = Fake but accurate.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (bNf8H)

9 Is Brennan the muzzie, or the one who voted for Gus Hall? Or both?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

10 Ya know, with Blumenthal in the mix, I have to wonder if that fat sack of even more fat Tyler Drumheller was involved, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (BI5O2)

11 Hopefully we can get him.. I'm not too optimistic about Comey

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (VE6XX)

12 The process is the punishment.

I hope this asshole gets grinded to dust.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (Sco7b)

13 YAY

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (6U1c2)

14 I would pay money to see him perp walked
Fking Communist

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (+qU29)

15
Do communists do better or worse in US Jails?

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (IifOV)

16 If the Black and Tans don't back off many of them will never make it home.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (+U7B7)

17 Brennan needs to share a cell with Bubba who has not been with a woman for 30 years..

Deliverance Style.... Squeal like a Pig, Fat Boy !!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (J9q9v)

18 For his next round of questions, use the rack.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (s0JqF)

19 Of course a "criminal referral" doesn't mean a fucking thing legally speaking. You or I could make a criminal referral to the DOJ. That being said, this DOJ might actually go after this motherfucker since they did indict Comey.

Posted by: All the REAL insurrectionists need prison at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (TbWk/)

20 Send him to Allah

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)

21 CIA is a cesspool of evil

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (6U1c2)

22 Launch!

Posted by: Accomack at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (ldLe1)

23 In Sweden a Muslim was found innocent of rape on the grounds that he only lasted a few seconds. Europe is gone.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (QZThv)

24
Does this have anything to do with Tulsi's revelations?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (ldc7S)

25 didn't he lie under oath some years ago about the cia spying on members of the senate?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (CWTWj)

26 FAFO, it should get him a new home and suit in a Fed Max.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (qZdIZ)

27 Charge him with conspiracy... because any lie to cover up that conspiracy then kicks the can of statute of Limitagions down the road.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (mP0Kj)

28 Hold him in solitary, pending trial, and feed him nothing but Tylenol and water... but all the Tylenol he can eat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (ExV1e)

29 For his next round of questions, use the rack.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (s0JqF)

Go straight to the pear of anguish for that bastard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (snZF9)

30 I never really thought about it, but Drumheller looked exactly like if Eric Cartman was in his sixties. But Drumheller only lived til 41, which is even worse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

31 B9th sides are on horseback.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:22 PM (+U7B7)

32 I'd like to see Obama amongst the indicted...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 05:22 PM (ynpvh)

33
The process is the punishment.

I hope this asshole gets grinded to dust.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

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

But I hate it when they get acquitted and trumpet "They tried to take me down, and FAILED!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (ldc7S)

34 Strange rumblings in Beijing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Video from China, lots of AFV.

https://is.gd/tFEdmV

Confucius say, "Holy shit!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (L/fGl)

35 The Five.
KJP segment.
Pants off??

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (Sco7b)

36 We should extradite this guy to the British prison where Mr Watkins ended up.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (gKWVE)

37 I hear Brennan was stoned faced when he heard the news.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (kanec)

38 I missed the nood. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

39 In before the “ nothing will happen” syndicate…

Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (PCK5/)

40 Like Monty Python once said.................

"Stick a live snake up his Ass" !!!!!!!.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (J9q9v)

41 We won WW2 without the CIA
Never won a war after they were created
Coincidence?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (6U1c2)

42 Brennan, however, insisted it remain, reportedly responding, "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"
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I look forward to those prosecuting him enthusiastically using the "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?" standard in presenting their case.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (TN0g+)

43 So tired of “being referred for” bullshit.

Let the bodies hit the floor.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (sqL2s)

44 Brennan, however, insisted it remain, reportedly responding, "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"

Ah, yes - the "We want this to be true, so we are going to deem it to be true, 'cuz [insert name here] is a poopy-head that we don't like" defense.

Taught in only the best Ivy League and leftist (BIRM) law schools

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (SRRAx)

45 Easter Island is missing a monolith.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (wVcYX)

46 23 In Sweden a Muslim was found innocent of rape on the grounds that he only lasted a few seconds. Europe is gone.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (QZThv)

This is the just-the-tip defense?

Nauseating.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 05:25 PM (urtE/)

47 For his next round of questions, use the rack.
Posted by: Eeyore

Can I get interrogated by Tara Yazdi's rack?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

48 Xi doesn't remember his Sun Zhou?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:25 PM (+U7B7)

49 41 We won WW2 without the CIA
Never won a war after they were created
Coincidence?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (6U1c2)


They had the OSS a precursor to the CIA

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (VE6XX)

50 34 Strange rumblings in Beijing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Video from China, lots of AFV.

https://is.gd/tFEdmV

Confucius say, "Holy shit!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (L/fGl)

Yeah, there were some rumblings amongst some of the CCP higher-ups...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (ynpvh)

51 Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye !

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)

52 Like Monty Python once said.................

"Stick a live snake up his Ass" !!!!!!!.
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (J9q9v)

No! But very inventive!
-Guy from. HISTORY OF THE WORLD PT 1

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (zZu0s)

53 Brennan [Easter Island] Flaming Skull (courtesy of our buddy "Ellipsis"}:

https://tinyurl.com/yah2sjf5

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (IxmwC)

54 Remember when China was washing away from flooding and Seven Gorges was about to be over topped.
Blah blah blah
Everything in China is BS.

Posted by: Accomack at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (ldLe1)

55 Easter Island is missing a monolith.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Please, show some respect. We're called "moai."
-- Moai Local 592 President

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (77rzZ)

56 Armies aren't for dealing with higher ups.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (+U7B7)

57 For his next round of questions, use the rack.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (s0JqF)

Go straight to the pear of anguish for that bastard.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (snZF9)

Bench vise.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (wVcYX)

58 had to look up "tyler drumheller"... kind of a pudding face

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (CWTWj)

59 They had the OSS a precursor to the CIA
Posted by: It's me donna

Which was military during the war

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (6U1c2)

60 Afternoon, folken,

I'm sorry to have missed the thread about gas prices. We'e not doing too badly in Da Swamp, 2.39 to 2.79 for regular E10, 3.00 to 3.29 for E0 when you can find it.

I spent the morning wrestling with the verification process to be able to sign on to Social Security. You can't just use your old username anymore; oh, noooo. You have to use Login.gov or ID.me. And to get one of those accounts you have to upload pics of your ID front and back, and your SS card; and then have a video call to confirm you are you and not Hannibal Lecter. Bah.

But! My new Canon printer showed up. This afternoon I set it up and downloaded the software, and everything works!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (omVj0)

61 >>Charge him with conspiracy... because any lie to cover up that conspiracy then kicks the can of statute of Limitagions down the road.

Not just him. All of them.

Perhaps an even bigger part of conspiracy charge is that the case can be brought in any district where part of the conspiracy took place. Like Florida for example.

Trying these bastards in DC and VA is suboptimal. Florida would be a lot friendlier.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (viF8m)

62
Brennan didn't get one of those autopen pardons for some reason. I wonder why.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (ES1Rb)

63 I don't know my Ees. What is summer blend?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (+U7B7)

64 I’d like to read the actual transcripts of what this mutant ape testified to, before I can say whether there’s any chance a prosecution can succeed. But indict the fucker anyway. Fuck him.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (mrJNK)

65 62
Brennan didn't get one of those autopen pardons for some reason. I wonder why.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (ES1Rb)

The Autopen ran out of ink ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 05:29 PM (VE6XX)

66 As the world’s premier foreign intelligence agency, the work they do at the CIA is vital to U.S. national security. They collect and analyze foreign intelligence and conduct covert action. U.S. policymakers, including the President of the United States, make policy decisions informed by the information they provide.

Americans are safer because of the dedicated employees at the CIA.

Please, give them a round of applause!

Posted by: Bob And Shirley Chipeska, federal employees at October 21, 2025 05:29 PM (R/m4+)

67
Maybe it's something. Maybe not. You can often see large scale armored convoys on American highways too, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:29 PM (BI5O2)

68 Willow'd

China and India were shootin at each other a couple months ago...

A couple weeks ago it was Pakistan vs. India.

Thailand and Cambodia have been shootin...

China and Viet Nam have problems in the South China Sea...

This week it was Afghanies vs Pakistan...

Whole region is a powder keg.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (mP0Kj)

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:29 PM (mP0Kj)

69 E15 apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (+U7B7)

70 Video from China, lots of AFV.

https://is.gd/tFEdmV

Confucius say, "Holy shit!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (L/fGl)

Yeah, there were some rumblings amongst some of the CCP higher-ups...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (ynpvh)


That video is very jerky, could be largely AI?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (8zz6B)

71 I don't know my Ees. What is summer blend?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025


***
The "E" I was referring to is the ethanol content of the fuel. E10 is 10% alcohol in the fuel, E15 is 15%, E85 is 85%. E0 is that rara avis nowadays, ethanol-free.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (omVj0)

72 Zap that dawg
youtu.be/eIxdr1d3F6Y

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (gKWVE)

73 I hear Brennan was stoned faced when he heard the news.
Posted by: Beartooth
________

Who looks more like The Thing - Brennan or Homan?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (XvL8K)

74 67
Maybe it's something. Maybe not. You can often see large scale armored convoys on American highways too, though.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:29 PM (BI5O2)

Large scale call back of Veterans though... that could really impact your economy.

Can't see them do that for an exercise.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:31 PM (mP0Kj)

75 That video is very jerky, could be largely AI?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (8zz6B)

The narrator sounds ai, certainly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

76 E0 is that rara avis nowadays, ethanol-free.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Fortunately, I am seldom ethanol-free. At least after 5PM.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:31 PM (77rzZ)

77 It is my firm belief that Trump was subject to a conspiracy to illegally remove him from office headed up by the entirety of that jug eared communist's administration. Instead of trials for treason we are getting scraps.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 21, 2025 05:31 PM (TBS5r)

78 53 Brennan [Easter Island] Flaming Skull (courtesy of our buddy "Ellipsis"}:

https://tinyurl.com/yah2sjf5
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (IxmwC)

Love it!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 21, 2025 05:31 PM (Dc8dC)

79 China has like 8 million veterans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:32 PM (+U7B7)

80 I don't know my Ees. What is summer blend?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025

***
The "E" I was referring to is the ethanol content of the fuel. E10 is 10% alcohol in the fuel, E15 is 15%, E85 is 85%. E0 is that rara avis nowadays, ethanol-free.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:30 PM (omVj0)

E-I-E-I-O

Posted by: Old MacDonald, Farmer Outstanding In His Field at October 21, 2025 05:32 PM (wVcYX)

81 Off topic:

Graham Platner (Dem-Maine trying for Senate) has a Totenkopf (death's head) SS tat that he and some Marine buddies got in Croatia. Claims he didn't know the Nazi link.

THAT'S BULLSH!T

Anyone deploying to that region got the "cultural sensitivity" briefing! Croats were formerly aligned with Nazis (not -quite- as bad as Ukraine), Serbs were Marxists aligned with Stalin, Bosnians were Turkic Muslim. EVERYONE got that brief!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at October 21, 2025 05:32 PM (e/Osv)

82 Can't see them do that for an exercise.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:31 PM (mP0Kj)

I seem to recall that there are only two times a year where a sea based invasion of Taiwan would be cool, weather wise.

November and March? Something like that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

83 China has like 8 million veterans.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:32 PM (+U7B7)

Well, service is mandatory, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:33 PM (zZu0s)

84 The Buc-ees I stopped at in Athens, AL, had ethanol-free for $3.29/gal., about the same as most stations down here. I filled up nearly the whole tank -- and, running at 70 with the A/C on, saw over 34 mpg on the trip home from Birmingham, both the instrument readout and the calculated figure when I gassed up. And this Buick was EPA-rated at 28 mpg highway in 2016. The E0 can pay off sometimes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:33 PM (omVj0)

85 There was a whistleblower who came forward on this. Brennan ordered his team to ignore normal operating procedures and directed a finding rather than the usual process.

I seem to recall a couple of people objected and were quickly overruled.

By the way, I'm pretty sure Schumer was in on this. I think he came out with the "be careful, because the intelligence services have ways and means to get you." Paraphrasing, of course.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 05:33 PM (tT6L1)

86 When I was at Bien Hoa VN there was an Air America operation at the far end of the flight line. Their staff were noted trouble makers at the NCO and O clubs, and the hooch bars the Air Force ran. One of them, or possibly a Pacific Architects and Engineers (swearsie not CIA) guy shot up one of the AF hooch bars with an AK and missed everybody.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (gm9Sb)

87 We are on E15 year round. Should I be getting the slightly more expensive ethanol free?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (+U7B7)

88 41 We won WW2 without the CIA
Never won a war after they were created
Coincidence?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (6U1c2)

Didn't win a war after they renamed the Department of War, to Department of Defense either.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (mP0Kj)

89 77 absolutely right

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (kHop/)

90 >>I’d like to read the actual transcripts of what this mutant ape testified to, before I can say whether there’s any chance a prosecution can succeed. But indict the fucker anyway. Fuck him.

I can tell you. He testified under oath to Congress that the CIA did not have trust in the Steele dossier and didn't rely or push for it to be included in the ICA.

All of that is a lie. Obama told them to redo the original ICA and include the Steele dossier and Brennan pushed for it to be included knowing it was complete bullshit.

It should be a layup but it's DC so unlikely.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (viF8m)

91 The other day I was asked what I think about the Government being shut down for two weeks......

I said that I really have not noticed .....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (J9q9v)

92 But! My new Canon printer showed up. This afternoon I set it up and downloaded the software, and everything works!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
=======
In my experience, printers are more reliable for home use than computers. Only issue is drivers when a new Microsoft OS comes out. Linux is actually better supported on older printers than new ones (Brother and Epson have native linux drivers, Canon did but last time I checked, they no longer do).

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (WDjG6)

93 We won WW2 without the CIA
Never won a war after they were created
Coincidence?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (6U1c2)


They had the OSS a precursor to the CIA
Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (VE6XX)


We stopped winning wars when we stopped grabbing military attorneys, handing them a rifle, and telling them that they were point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (ExV1e)

94 Holy Crap!!! I just learned that Baker & Taylor book distributing company is closing. In the good old days, B&T was one of the two biggest distributors of books in the country and was used by most libraries. I've been so divorced from the book industry since closing my bookstore I didn't hear about this until a few minutes ago. I honestly am having a super difficult time processing this. This is just so-o-o bad!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (DK5Sh)

95 Almost 2.5 years ago and he's just being referred now?


What's the rush?

Posted by: 496 at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (oOhQ4)

96 Strange rumblings in Beijing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Video from China, lots of AFV.

https://is.gd/tFEdmV

Confucius say, "Holy shit!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (L/fGl)

Yeah, there were some rumblings amongst some of the CCP higher-ups...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 05:26 PM (ynpvh)

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

Watching that video linked above; claims there are 57 million retired military in Chy-na.

[Had to look up the acronym AFV ... surrenders smart-military-blog man-card once again:]

Armored Fighting Vehicle(s)

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (IxmwC)

97 >>Instead of trials for treason we are getting scraps.

I prefer to think of them as appetizers.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (viF8m)

98 I'm a Government Shutdown Survivor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (+U7B7)

99 another farging MEMO.

great.fine.sure.

Posted by: ZooomZooom (R) at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (alHMS)

100
Holy Crap!!! I just learned that Baker & Taylor book distributing company is closing.

-------

Well, I can tell you *wasn't* distributing print runs of "Morning Glory Milking Farm."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (BI5O2)

101 "Didn't win a war after they renamed the Department of War, to Department of Defense either.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:34 PM (mP0Kj) "

This!
words have meanings!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (kHop/)

102 Discovery should be exciting.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (7NCS/)

103 It will be fun to watch the Dems defend a CIA director. Oh how the times have changed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 05:37 PM (BLGhW)

104 Armed Forces Veterans?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:37 PM (+U7B7)

105
In before the “ nothing will happen” syndicate…
Posted by: tubal

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

See #5.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:38 PM (ldc7S)

106 We are on E15 year round. Should I be getting the slightly more expensive ethanol free?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025


***
The only way to tell is to run a tank or two of your E15, then a tank or two of the E0, over the same kind of driving. See if the increased price pays for itself in enough gas mileage improvement. I suspect it might well do better than E15 -- that's even more ethanol than the E10 I have here. But if the E0 gas costs 15% more, and you get only 10% improved mileage, it doesn't compute.

I do it anyway because I think it's better for the car's digestion. But I'm probably imagining things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:38 PM (omVj0)

107 When I was at Bien Hoa VN there was an Air America operation at the far end of the flight line.

My oldest brother Butch was there circa 1969-71. Another brother was in Okinawa about the same time.

Posted by: DanMan at October 21, 2025 05:38 PM (8uzBS)

108 Sentence him to wear a cylindrical red hat. Use an actual pukao if he doesn't plea bargain.

Posted by: DaveA at October 21, 2025 05:38 PM (FhXTo)

109 John "F**king Kerry and Da Nang Dick should be called in to provide their expertise regarding CCP and SEA Communist movements/strategy.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:38 PM (J9q9v)

110 105
In before the “ nothing will happen” syndicate…
Posted by: tubal

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

See #5.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:38 PM (ldc7S)

Dammit Morticia… quick, the Horde is.

Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2025 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

111
It will be fun to watch the Dems defend a CIA director. Oh how the times have changed
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 05:37 PM (BLGhW)

Make him a defense contractor and a pharma exec, and they'll defend him three times as much. Then take off his mask to reveal Elon Musk, and they'll hate him again. Or their logic circuits will pop and smoke will come out of their ears, whatever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:39 PM (BI5O2)

112 Nothing will happen until it does.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:39 PM (+U7B7)

113 Apple Flavored Vodka?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 05:39 PM (wVcYX)

114 In my experience, printers are more reliable for home use than computers. Only issue is drivers when a new Microsoft OS comes out. Linux is actually better supported on older printers than new ones (Brother and Epson have native linux drivers, Canon did but last time I checked, they no longer do).
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025


***
I've got it wired to my iMac. No problems with downloading the drivers, etc., for printing and scanning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (omVj0)

115 We're talking about Pam Bondi. I'm sure she looks great in a meeting. I'd like to arrange a "meeting" with her myself.

But Nothing - absolutely Nothing - gets done while she's the MILF at the DOJ. We are all wasting time wishing until she is gone.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (e8Z/f)

116 Ring true? I remember when this shit broke. We sat around here for about an hour debating the merits of the claim until the hookers peeing on the bed shit came out at which time I and others blew the bullshit whistle. Fuck you, Brennan.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (pgOCT)

117 The OSS, often called "Oh, So Social" due to the types recruited (academics, cocktail party friends, those speaking French) was essentially a para military outfit without the trappings of the CIA. Like spying on citizens.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (gm9Sb)

118 In before is part of the joke though. I cannot tell you how many times I have done some sort of arcane/obscure reference and found someone else beat me to it. It's kind of amazing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

119
China has like 8 million veterans.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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

Veterans of what? Raping Xinjiang Uyghur women?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (ldc7S)

120 Armored Furry Response?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (+U7B7)

121 Lock her up.

Put the iron upon her plentiful buttocks.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 05:41 PM (EyfuW)

122 80 I don't know my Ees. What is summer blend?
Posted by: Boss Moss
=========
If you live in a non attainment area cited by the EPA (most urban areas do), then you have a special blend of summer fuel with oxygenate added (ethanol). Post OBD-II cars, made after 1996 don't need the oxygenate because their computers and those after it are perfectly fine with adjusting engine settings to avoid excessive emissions. Pre 1996, some makes, mainly Japanese are also okay.

But the whole oxygenate issue is an artifact of the last time the Clean Air Act was revised in 1991 IIRC. The first one EPA proposed was a disaster as MTBE was a really nasty contaminant of water and quickly shelved in favor of ethanol.

Outside the attainment area, you get cheaper gas during the summer, inside them, more expensive and it can sometimes cause bad problems like when pipelines, hurricanes, etc. disrupt refinery operations. Without a waiver by the president, fuel for Cleveland cannot be sold in Louisville or Atlanta. And vice versa. And refineries base their output on specific markets which means fubar when a non attainment area cannot get its specific summer blend. And it costs more.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:41 PM (WDjG6)

123 Comey is paying lawyers. Brennan is paying lawyers. Clapper is paying lawyers. I bet they think something is happening.

Yesterday the DOJ finally dropped charges against Ekim Alptekin, the final victim of the Russia hoax and today Brennan gets referred for prosecution.

Coincidence?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (viF8m)

124 Chinese Internal Security gets more money and triggertime than the army.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (+U7B7)

125 CCP might have lots of Military Weapons (Junk), but they do not allow the Commanders to think independently, and everything is Commie Bureaucrat Down Driven.

I think they would fold in 1 minute if placed against US Forces because of the mass chaos of war.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (J9q9v)

126
Dammit Morticia… quick, the Horde is.
Posted by: tubal

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

It's never too soon for Nothing Will Happen. And never too cynical.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (ldc7S)

127 So, James Clapper will be next week. I notice a trend.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (dIske)

128 Put the iron upon her plentiful buttocks.
Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 05:41 PM (EyfuW)
-------------------

US Steel will be falling all over themselves for that contract.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (tT6L1)

129 Sentence him to wear a cylindrical red hat.
-----

He is Devo?

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

130 *quietly longs for those halcyon days of your when traitors and coup plotters such as Red Brennan were hung by the neck until dead, dead, dead*

Posted by: Sharkman at October 21, 2025 05:43 PM (tE+Cl)

131 123 Comey is paying lawyers. Brennan is paying lawyers. Clapper is paying lawyers. I bet they think something is happening.


Bankrupt the Commie Bitches...

Like someone once said...... The process is the punishment....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:43 PM (J9q9v)

132 Yore.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (+U7B7)

133 Yore.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (+U7B7)

Mom.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (BI5O2)

134 finally

brennan

I hope it hurts

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (emBoF)

135 alleges that Brennan "knowingly and willfully testified falsely"

Let's be honest here. When someone asks you if have committed treason, given the penalties, the answer is always going to be "no".

Posted by: John Q. Brennan at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (+r3CQ)

136 America's Funniest Videos!

Posted by: Zombie Bob Saget at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (wVcYX)

137 Veterans of what? Raping Xinjiang Uyghur women?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (ldc7S)

Well, yeah. If you are making the distinction between 'veteran' and 'veteran' i am not sure many countries actually have what would constitute a veteran military. We do, what survived the purges under Biden. African countries, but that is more tribal terror conflicts. Same goes for middle eastern fighters.

Veteran guerrillas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (zZu0s)

138 Watching that video linked above; claims there are 57 million retired military in Chy-na.

[Had to look up the acronym AFV ... surrenders smart-military-blog man-card once again:]

Armored Fighting Vehicle(s)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (IxmwC)

Yeah, watching that video... they talked about recalling RETIRED military... but it's more like Ex Military... they can serve as little as 2 or 3 years based on what the Peoples Liberation Army needs... but then are in the Reserves.

They also seem to have military training at both High Schools and Colleges... which is pretty much mandatory.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:44 PM (mP0Kj)

139 >>Bankrupt the Commie Bitches...

>>Like someone once said...... The process is the punishment....

Indeed. It only seems relevant to some when it happens to our side.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:45 PM (viF8m)

140 94 Holy Crap!!! I just learned that Baker & Taylor book distributing company is closing. In the good old days, B&T was one of the two biggest distributors of books in the country and was used by most libraries. I've been so divorced from the book industry since closing my bookstore I didn't hear about this until a few minutes ago. I honestly am having a super difficult time processing this. This is just so-o-o bad!
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 21, 2025 05:35 PM (DK5Sh)

That's too bad. I used to use them and Ingram all the time when I worked at Hastings.
A shame.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 05:45 PM (xcxpd)

141 It's nearly always summer in this place, so I'm not sure what "winter blend" is here.

True, a little ethanol in the gas will prevent your gas lines freezing from moisture. The ethanol absorbs the water. Not much need for "gas dryer" products any more. It only gets cold enough for that moisture freezing issue to be a concern once a "winter," if then, and the ethanol handles it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:45 PM (omVj0)

142 I've got it wired to my iMac. No problems with downloading the drivers, etc., for printing and scanning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
========
Macs generally work fine until big version changes when it can sometimes be a driver issue if the mfg does not support the newer OS variant. Only happened a couple of times in Mac world, more than several in Windows. Main reason a lot of people run old Windows machines is because they have either programs that won't run on later versions or hardware with the same problem.

The underlying OS of Macs is BSD Unix so you get reliability with refinement. Linux is a bit Wild West for some people but far better than it was.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:45 PM (WDjG6)

143 The traitor John Brennan is a traitor, who deserves a traitors fate.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 05:45 PM (sAmhv)

144 by iron i mean red hot iron

. For cattle and wayward marxist.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 05:46 PM (EyfuW)

145 I sincerely hope Brennan spends eternity trying to avoid Satan's barbed cock, and failing at that task.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 05:46 PM (Da7Vv)

146 How much training do they have to have to shoot people in the back of the head?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

147 94 Holy Crap!!! I just learned that Baker & Taylor book distributing company is closing. In the good old days, B&T was one of the two biggest distributors of books in the country and was used by most libraries. I've been so divorced from the book industry since closing my bookstore I didn't hear about this until a few minutes ago. I honestly am having a super difficult time processing this. This is just so-o-o bad!
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
=======
I think the only hold left of the big publishers is print and as the market for that shrinks, the big trad publishers will probably fade away.

Reprints on demand for old books out of copyright and perhaps for newer ones is probably a growth market.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:47 PM (WDjG6)

148 Squidward lives in Brennan's head.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2025 05:47 PM (63Dwl)

149 108, LOL, the pukao!

no plea bargain unless he flips on all of his accomplices

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 05:47 PM (kHop/)

150 One of our Demonrat ex Governors put us on summerblend in perpetuity. But if you are rural you can buy real gasoline year round.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:47 PM (+U7B7)

151 As always, the problem I have with this crimes is that there is NO WAY the prosecutor will be able to explain them to a jury in terms they can understand that will lead to a conviction.

The defense will do their absolute best to confuse the jury as to the culpability of their client.

Then we also have lefty judges presiding over the whole affair who will--at most--administer a slap on the wrist, even if the jury recommends slow execution by fire ants and honey.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 05:48 PM (IBQGV)

152
How much training do they have to have to shoot people in the back of the head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

All they need to do is cough on you after returning from R&R with the comfort pangolins.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:48 PM (BI5O2)

153 125 CCP might have lots of Military Weapons (Junk), but they do not allow the Commanders to think independently, and everything is Commie Bureaucrat Down Driven.

I think they would fold in 1 minute if placed against US Forces because of the mass chaos of war.
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (J9q9v)

Surprises abound. For example, who guessed the North Koreans fighting in Uke would become massively addicted to porn? Makes them easy to target with UV light.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 21, 2025 05:48 PM (pIfcn)

154 21 CIA is a cesspool of evil

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport



Yes, but even the CIA warned the traitor John Brennan about this partisan hack 'document' and the traitor John Brennan overruled the his own agency and went with it, because he's a traitor.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

155 >>But Nothing - absolutely Nothing - gets done while she's the MILF at the DOJ. We are all wasting time wishing until she is gone.
Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 21, 2025 05:40 PM (e8Z/f)
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Okay, who's her replacement? And specifically why is that person superior?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 21, 2025 05:49 PM (bNf8H)

156 Yeah, too bad the SOL passed on other false statements to Congress. Wait, what? Five years? Why does that SOL exist at all let alone absolutely no less than 10 years at a minimum? Oh yes, to add another layer of protection for our government corruptocrats to avoid consequences.

Posted by: Puma at October 21, 2025 05:49 PM (hRag9)

157 Reprints on demand for old books out of copyright and perhaps for newer ones is probably a growth market.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:47 PM (WDjG6)
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There's probably a lot of truth to that. Many of the books I've ordered in the past few years have been "print-on-demand" of otherwise out-of-print books (i.e., original copies are hard to find and are very expensive, but reprints are affordable and accessible).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 05:49 PM (IBQGV)

158
https://is.gd/tFEdmV

Confucius say, "Holy shit!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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From Zhangzhou and Hangzhou to Beijing is a looooong way. I don't know how military coups work, but do you just drive your convoys in broad daylight over thousands of miles to your target? Don't you decapitate someone first and then move in to establish control?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:50 PM (ldc7S)

159 Surprises abound. For example, who guessed the North Koreans fighting in Uke would become massively addicted to porn? Makes them easy to target with UV light.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 21, 2025 05:48 PM (pIfcn)

Yeah, I can just imagine the rate of desertion in those NORK troops...

Putin's Russia would be a WAYYYYY better place to live than North Korea.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:50 PM (mP0Kj)

160 My mom called while ago that my dad's surgery went well, going to go see him.

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 05:50 PM (+qU29)

161 Could that mean something has already happened?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:51 PM (+U7B7)

162 The most he'll get is a fifteen yard penalty and loss of down.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at October 21, 2025 05:51 PM (V362x)

163 That's great news, Skip.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 21, 2025 05:51 PM (Yp6az)

164 Good news, Skip.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:51 PM (viF8m)

165 161 Could that mean something has already happened?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:51 PM (+U7B7)

Orville Redenbacher time, in any event.

Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2025 05:52 PM (PCK5/)

166
Yeah, too bad the SOL passed on other false statements to Congress. Wait, what? Five years? Why does that SOL exist at all let alone absolutely no less than 10 years at a minimum? Oh yes, to add another layer of protection for our government corruptocrats to avoid consequences.
Posted by: Puma

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I can't get over that 5-year SOL, especially considering how politicized the DOJ is anymore. If you're a high-ranking criminal, all you have to do is wait out the current term, then if the White House switches parties, wait another little bit while the new DOJ gets out of bed and puts its spectacles on. That's a statute that should be revised.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:52 PM (ldc7S)

167 Yeah, watching that video... they talked about recalling RETIRED military... but it's more like Ex Military... they can serve as little as 2 or 3 years based on what the Peoples Liberation Army needs... but then are in the Reserves.

Seeing sketchy reports of a power struggle betwixt Xi and the top general. Given how many times Xi has been on deaths door due a stroke, however, I'm not prepared to place credence in any of them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

168
For example, who guessed the North Koreans fighting in Uke would become massively addicted to porn?

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Morning Grory Mirking Farm. I bet a healthy piece of meat on the hoof gets them drooling.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (BI5O2)

169 146 How much training to shoot somebody in the back of the head? Well, I'm here to tell you, a lot. Say Fat Sal is standing at the urinal, you gots to come up real quiet, and bada bing, bada boom, two .22 shorts right behind the ear. Little bastards bounce around in the gourd and not much noise. And hold up a piece of newspaper before you whack him, keeps off the blood splatter.

Rocco

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (gm9Sb)

170 Okay, who's her replacement? And specifically why is that person superior?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 21, 2025 05:49 PM (bNf8H)


I don't really care. Someone that maybe isn't as hot on a photo-shoot ... but actually takes charge at the DOJ.

How many people have you seen fired at the DOJ ? The answer is none.

Pam looks great though. Really MILFy.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (e8Z/f)

171 161 Could that mean something has already happened?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:51 PM (+U7B7)

Xi has been picking fights with Trump, which has not doen their economy any good.

China's economy won't survive long term in a High Tariff environment..

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)

172 the pukao!


The prosecutor should have a little one on his desk for S&G.

Posted by: DaveA at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (FhXTo)

173 >>Instead of trials for treason we are getting scraps.

I prefer to think of them as appetizers.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:36 PM (viF8m)

I'm ready for the big ass side of beef belly buster main course.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:54 PM (snZF9)

174 How many people have you seen fired at the DOJ ? The answer is none.

Pam looks great though. Really MILFy.
Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (e8Z/f)

Actually there has been a bunch of Lawyers fired or pretty much forced to resign in the last couple of months.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

175 141 It's nearly always summer in this place, so I'm not sure what "winter blend" is here.

True, a little ethanol in the gas will prevent your gas lines freezing from moisture. The ethanol absorbs the water. Not much need for "gas dryer" products any more. It only gets cold enough for that moisture freezing issue to be a concern once a "winter," if then, and the ethanol handles it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Oxygenates are supposed to help gas burn more cleanly to prevent incomplete combustion but modern car computers since at least 1996 don't need it. We get it anyway as a Zombie EPA program and probably also due to increasing demand for ethanol.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:55 PM (WDjG6)

176
i got yer beef belly buster RIGHT HEAH

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:55 PM (BI5O2)

177 >>I'm ready for the big ass side of beef belly buster main course.

Me too. And I really hope it happens in Florida.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:55 PM (viF8m)

178 “ Morning Grory Mirking Farm”

I’m dying over here

Posted by: Kratwurst at October 21, 2025 05:56 PM (16bRC)

179 OTOH, Desert Storm showed that veterans do not count for much in the right type of battle (on either side.)

Or maybe that training counts for more? Or equipment. This is a fun discussion to have.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

180
We get it anyway as a Zombie EPA

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Chuck Grassley

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:56 PM (BI5O2)

181 Mmmmm. Steamship Round of Beef.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 05:56 PM (wVcYX)

182 Trump et el have been meticulously playing by the rules in all of their actions; doing so leaves their opposition wrong-footed every time they resist.

Posted by: tubal at October 21, 2025 05:56 PM (PCK5/)

183 I don't know how military coups work, but do you just drive your convoys in broad daylight over thousands of miles to your target? Don't you decapitate someone first and then move in to establish control?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Damn! (smacks head)

Posted by: Zombie Prigozhin at October 21, 2025 05:57 PM (XvL8K)

184 There's probably a lot of truth to that. Many of the books I've ordered in the past few years have been "print-on-demand" of otherwise out-of-print books (i.e., original copies are hard to find and are very expensive, but reprints are affordable and accessible).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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As a grad student, I have done manually photocopying reprint by demand on individual books when needing a particular reference beyond normal library lending times.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:57 PM (WDjG6)

185 179 OTOH, Desert Storm showed that veterans do not count for much in the right type of battle (on either side.)

Or maybe that training counts for more? Or equipment. This is a fun discussion to have.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

Yeah, they recalled some reservists to my Destroyer during Storm.... all overweight Chiefs and such... none of them with any recent Sea experience...

Meanwhile, ships crew had worked up for over a year. Captain took one look at them, and sent them back... as they would have just been Mid Chain of Command dead weight.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:58 PM (mP0Kj)

186 It amazes me that they keep going after people who know where the bodies are buried. Eventually one of these guys is going to just run and drop a torrent file of incriminating evidence on the people who are turning on them.

In 3 years I hope the Dems have the stones to go after bondi, Patel, Jordan, miller and all the trumps. Toss in Hegseth, he's done the exact same thing they've charged Bolton with.

If by some miracle we have normal elections in 2028 and a Democrat wins, Trump/Vance will get hand cramps signing pardons so that can't happen. Just like when Biden did one for his son on the way out

Do they really want to take to trial? Can they use classified material? I think this is meant to bankrupt these people with legal fees.

Republican politicians haven't figured out that they will wind up being pursued by Trump, too. They keep letting this train run and eventually they're going to be on the tracks.

I thought the House was in recess so they couldn't swear in Grijalva? But they can do this shit instead I guess.

BIden pardoning all of those people is looking pretty good at the moment.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 21, 2025 05:58 PM (ycI94)

187 For example, who guessed the North Koreans fighting in Uke would become massively addicted to porn? Makes them easy to target with UV light.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls,


You'd think the IR spectrum would be better for that purpose. Just lock in on the twitching red pickles

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 05:58 PM (gKWVE)

188 There are a lot of small outfits republishing old books.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:58 PM (+U7B7)

189 >>Actually there has been a bunch of Lawyers fired or pretty much forced to resign in the last couple of months.

Weeks. 3 at the Eastern District of Virginia. The spot where Comey is being prosecuted. The US Attorney and two staff prosecutors refused to go forward with the case and got shit canned.

How many court cases has the Trump administration won? 22 at the SC alone.

Who do the lawyers who argue for the Trump administration work for?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:59 PM (viF8m)

190 Syd Blumenthal may well have had Russian prostitutes pee on the bed Obama once slept in.
But Brennan surely had Russian prostitutes pee on him directly.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at October 21, 2025 05:59 PM (gxokI)

191 How could you forget the decapitate?

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 05:59 PM (EyfuW)

192 We get it anyway as a Zombie EPA

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Chuck Grassley
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Well, he is close enough to a zombie.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 05:59 PM (WDjG6)

193 [WILLOWED:]

also got to visit my first Buc-cees -- fanf*ckingtastic!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (mcWkK)


Wha'd you buy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (p/Ri7)

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Just some electrolyte (Gatorade knockoff) drink for the road -- but lots of tempting goodies & treats; would have likely gone for a breakfast burrito, but we had already just eaten alot at the hotel continental breakfast.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:00 PM (IxmwC)

194 [WILLOWED:]

You asked about where the First Lady was, and I was taking you to introduce, and asked what your name was......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7

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ROFLMAO!

I DO remember that now ... and the look on your face when you realized it! Hey, TBF, we'd only known each other for minutes.

THANKS for retrieving & memorializing THAT Classic Memory forever ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:01 PM (IxmwC)

195 Rollo Tamassi. The guy who always gets away with it

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2025 06:02 PM (7HzNC)

196 I suggest finding some of the podcasts with John Kiriakou if you want to know who and what John Brennan has always been.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 21, 2025 06:03 PM (MZ+PY)

197 " waves to The Bacon Wench *

"I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE MOAR BACON!"

AND where do I go to get reimbursed for treating the third degree burns on my fingers?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:03 PM (IxmwC)

198 We just have Sheetz. No Buckeys yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:03 PM (+U7B7)

199 We get it anyway as a Zombie EPA program and probably also due to increasing demand for ethanol."

Yay!

/corn farmers

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:04 PM (tubbA)

200 of the three, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, Brennan is by far the vilest human being, and that is saying something.

Look, if you are going to toss Trump people in jail (Steve Bannon) or force them out of office with lies (Flynn), then this is the fucking game. I didn't want these rules, I begged for them not to enforce these rules, but the Dems did it anyway. So, we prosecute until we agree that this kind of bullshit stops once and for all.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:04 PM (gDhA9)

201
What!?!?

The Commie lied!?!?

Hold me up...the room is spinning!!!


It can't be...It just can't beeeeeee!

*collapses on fainting couch*

*goes into convulsions*

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 06:04 PM (iJfKG)

202 Oxygenates are supposed to help gas burn more cleanly to prevent incomplete combustion but modern car computers since at least 1996 don't need it.

yep, DanMa'am has a '21 Lincoln with a tiny 4 cylinder engine that claims 300hp. Book sez don't bother with premium fuel...burn the lowest grade instead.

Posted by: DanMan at October 21, 2025 06:05 PM (8uzBS)

203 Syd Blumenthal may well have had Russian prostitutes pee on the bed Obama once slept in.
But Brennan surely had Russian prostitutes pee on him directly.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at October 21, 2025 05:59 PM (gxokI)

Probably had male prostitutes. Not sure women can pull of the fountains of Bellagio thing like men can. Also, he probably just likes men.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 06:05 PM (snZF9)

204 Short of a Frog March for this Communist Cocksucker...this is about as good a news as I could expect coming back from a bike ride.

I hope they have their ducks in a row to put this fat bastard behind bars.

Posted by: garrett at October 21, 2025 06:05 PM (FCi/W)

205 John was only following orders.

Posted by: Hermann Fegelein at October 21, 2025 06:05 PM (7Q0e+)

206 Tough to convict Brennan in DC but, make the process long and painful.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:05 PM (jc0TO)

207 Weeks. 3 at the Eastern District of Virginia. The spot where Comey is being prosecuted. The US Attorney and two staff prosecutors refused to go forward with the case and got shit canned.

How many court cases has the Trump administration won? 22 at the SC alone.

Who do the lawyers who argue for the Trump administration work for?
Posted by: JackStraw
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5 so far in ED of VA. Harmeet Dhillon has also fired a few in the Civil Rights Division while others have resigned.

From Reuters, "WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.
Sixty-nine of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since President Donald Trump's election in November."

Quite a few in DC attorney's office were fired as well, two in the last two weeks that were on forced leave due to Jan 6 issues.

Brave AI claims about sixty nationwide of career DoJ lawyers so far as fired.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:06 PM (WDjG6)

208 >>> 174 How many people have you seen fired at the DOJ ? The answer is none.
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Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 21, 2025 05:53 PM (e8Z/f)

Actually there has been a bunch of Lawyers fired or pretty much forced to resign in the last couple of months.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

Which we have been laughing at every time another one bites the dust, and which you can find in about 2 seconds with a search on whatever engine you prefer.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 06:06 PM (ULPxl)

209 Lying to Congress is *the* national pastime for the connected and powerful.

0% chance of successful prosecution. If DoJ even bothers to push it to trial - or even go for "process as punishment" on him - (I doubt either), he walks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:07 PM (CgKt6)

210 AND where do I go to get reimbursed for treating the third degree burns on my fingers?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 06:03 PM (IxmwC)
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A hot iron should take care of that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 06:07 PM (IBQGV)

211
Actually there has been a bunch of Lawyers fired or pretty much forced to resign in the last couple of months.

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That Oyer chick right off the bat. The one who wouldn't review the yanking of Mel Gibson's gun permit. Gone on March 7.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:07 PM (ldc7S)

212 >> Harmeet Dhillon has also fired a few in the Civil Rights Division while others have resigned.

Sounds like she gutted the place.

There are also over 20 US Attorneys awaiting Senate approval being held up with Democrat blue slips.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:08 PM (viF8m)

213 I like the Reddit innocence. If these fuckers had had anything real on trump, they would have used it. That's why we got the made up Steele dossier and they tried to shoot him twice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

214 Oxygenates are supposed to help gas burn more cleanly"

Ok, ok. I'm still laughing at that, ok?

Here's a free tip for econauts - pour a quart of water into your vehicle's gas tank. It's organic!

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:08 PM (tubbA)

215
Lying to Congress is *the* national pastime for the connected and powerful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

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For the Extreme Sports contestants, it's blowing off a subpoena.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:08 PM (ldc7S)

216 209 Lying to Congress is *the* national pastime for the connected and powerful.

0% chance of successful prosecution. If DoJ even bothers to push it to trial - or even go for "process as punishment" on him - (I doubt either), he walks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:07 PM (CgKt6)

Gotta admit, I find the idea that 'Contempt of Congress' is against the law, is pretty silly.

Andddd... if lying to Congress is against the Law, how do you square that with the Speech and debate clause which they use to lie to us all the time?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (mP0Kj)

217 Somebody cleaned out the Louvre in 7 minutes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (+U7B7)

218 if lying to Congress is against the Law"

Well, not for them, you know...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (tubbA)

219 yep, DanMa'am has a '21 Lincoln with a tiny 4 cylinder engine that claims 300hp. Book sez don't bother with premium fuel...burn the lowest grade instead.
Posted by: DanMan at October 21, 2025


***
My Buick has that hp, but from the 3.6L V-6. It amazes me every time I fill up that a big car with that much power not only runs, but gets good mileage, on regular.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (omVj0)

220 >>0% chance of successful prosecution. If DoJ even bothers to push it to trial - or even go for "process as punishment" on him - (I doubt either), he walks.

Comey was indicted for lying to Congress.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)

221 Andddd... if lying to Congress is against the Law, how do you square that with the Speech and debate clause which they use to lie to us all the time?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (mP0Kj)
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They play by their own rules.

One rule, really. "Screw the people."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:10 PM (CgKt6)

222 Somebody cleaned out the Louvre in 7 minutes."

Peter Sellers?

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:10 PM (tubbA)

223 There are also over 20 US Attorneys awaiting Senate approval being held up with Democrat blue slips.
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Approve them and ignore the blue slips. The Dems are no longer an entity we can do business with.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:10 PM (TN0g+)

224 209 Lying to Congress is *the* national pastime for the connected and powerful.

0% chance of successful prosecution. If DoJ even bothers to push it to trial - or even go for "process as punishment" on him - (I doubt either), he walks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Not necessarily. Investigating the lying charge means a whole lot of other rocks can be overturned that would ordinarily be off limits.

Criminals, including our elite class, don't stop at just one crime almost never. Leticia is an example as she has lied on mortgage applications for decades now and keeps two criminals in her houses. One who has an outstanding warrant in another state. Plus, tax and insurance fraud are likely.

Cook had three or four properties where she claimed residence but yet never lived in.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:10 PM (WDjG6)

225 If DoJ even bothers to push it to trial - or even go for "process as punishment" on him - (I doubt either), he walks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:07 PM (CgKt6)

Same as anyone in DC. Stories like this don't qualify as news AFAIC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (BI5O2)

226 217 Somebody cleaned out the Louvre in 7 minutes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (+U7B7)
______________________

Someone steals a painting, it's going to stay intact due to value. BUT, these guys took jewelry pieces. Those gems are already separated out. The Louvre is never getting those pieces back intact.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (dIske)

227 Comey was indicted for lying to Congress.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)
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Yup.

And I'll eat my hat if it gets to trial.

If he gets convicted - or even if he cops a plea and does time - I'll buy and eat another one.

These people don't go to jail. These people don't get punished. They do the Party's business, then retire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (CgKt6)

228 Wasn't she renting out her residences?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (+U7B7)

229 >>Approve them and ignore the blue slips. The Dems are no longer an entity we can do business with.

The blue slip process is moronic but it's up to Thune to end it not the DOJ.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)

230 Leticia is an example as she has lied on mortgage applications for decades now"

Lucretia McEvil?

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 06:12 PM (tubbA)

231 Brennan in prison with about 10000 antifa goons/troons would be highly entertaining.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 21, 2025 06:12 PM (XMwZJ)

232 217 Somebody cleaned out the Louvre in 7 minutes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (+U7B7)

Used a ladder truck... in a window... had cordless angle grinders they used for both access to jewelry, AND to threaten what little security was there... back down the ladder, off on Mopeds...

Fucking classic... First Female Director, and First Female HEAD OF SECURITY...

Right out of a bad Caper movie. Wait... anyone know the whereabout of Raymond Reddington?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 06:12 PM (mP0Kj)

233 Approve them and ignore the blue slips. The Dems are no longer an entity we can do business with.

The blue slip process is moronic but it's up to Thune to end it not the DOJ.
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Absolutely. He needs to end it now.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:12 PM (TN0g+)

234 Syd Blumenthal may well have had Russian prostitutes pee on the bed Obama once slept in.
But Brennan surely had Russian prostitutes pee on him directly.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at October 21, 2025 05:59 PM (gxokI)

It's not pee! It's Kunyaza, sacred waters.

Posted by: J. Brennan at October 21, 2025 06:12 PM (wVcYX)

235 Not necessarily. Investigating the lying charge means a whole lot of other rocks can be overturned that would ordinarily be off limits.

Criminals, including our elite class, don't stop at just one crime almost never. Leticia is an example as she has lied on mortgage applications for decades now and keeps two criminals in her houses. One who has an outstanding warrant in another state. Plus, tax and insurance fraud are likely. ...
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:10 PM (WDjG6)
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I'd bet my net worth on it.

And not one of them will be punished. They may get cashiered and sent home, but not one of them will ever wear stainless steel bracelets and a fetching orange outfit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:12 PM (CgKt6)

236 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:13 PM (Zz0t1)

237 217 Somebody cleaned out the Louvre in 7 minutes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:09 PM (+U7B7)

Well, they cleaned out the Napoleonic royal jewelry in 7 minutes. In broad daylight. During business hours. Using a construction lift. Right through a window. Apparently the Louvre administration has never heard of perimeter security, CCTV, motion or vibration alarms, secure locked casing or even window bars.

Posted by: Tres stupid! at October 21, 2025 06:13 PM (TbWk/)

238 Jim Jordan "refers" a lot of shit.

Jim Jordan follows up on not much shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2025 06:13 PM (Q4IgG)

239 Taught in only the best Ivy League and leftist (BIRM) law schools

Other than ACB, four SCOTUS justices got ther JD from Harvard, the other four from Yale.

Lots of Diversity there!

If you were Stan, what schools would you corrupt first?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 21, 2025 06:13 PM (pUU4E)

240 229 >>Approve them and ignore the blue slips. The Dems are no longer an entity we can do business with.

The blue slip process is moronic but it's up to Thune to end it not the DOJ.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Yup, blue slip is a Senate Rule, which they can get rid of with a simple majority.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 06:14 PM (mP0Kj)

241 These people don't go to jail. These people don't get punished. They do the Party's business, then retire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:11 PM (CgKt6)


- - - - - - - -


This gentleman right here. He seems to understand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:14 PM (Zz0t1)

242 There is phone footage of the robbery.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:14 PM (+U7B7)

243 Wasn't she renting out her residences?
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Yep. That raises the stakes to tax evasion. And if she says "Oh not true, I claimed the income on my tax returns", then her tax returns convict her of mortgage fraud.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:14 PM (TN0g+)

244 Jim Jordan "refers" a lot of shit.

Jim Jordan follows up on not much shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2025 06:13 PM


Jim get's his shirts from the drycleaner with the sleeves pre-rolled up.



Light starch.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 06:15 PM (jc0TO)

245 >>These people don't go to jail. These people don't get punished. They do the Party's business, then retire.

It's always an uphill battle for us. We all know this. But the Trump team is actually fighting.

Yea, it would be great to see Brennan, Clapper, Comey and more in an orange jumpsuit but don't overlook the benefit of it being proven once and for all how corrupt the Obama/Biden/Clinton team was. I want their reputations shredded.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:15 PM (viF8m)

246 I don't know if we'll ever see John Brennan's giant Olmec head behind bars, but at least he can spend some time in the sweat box.

Posted by: Paco at October 21, 2025 06:15 PM (mADJX)

247 Yep. That raises the stakes to tax evasion. And if she says "Oh not true, I claimed the income on my tax returns", then her tax returns convict her of mortgage fraud.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:14 PM (TN0g+)
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So she might even get fired and sent home.

Oh, the horror of it all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:15 PM (CgKt6)

248 Well, they cleaned out the Napoleonic royal jewelry in 7 minutes. In broad daylight. During business hours. Using a construction lift. Right through a window. Apparently the Louvre administration has never heard of perimeter security, CCTV, motion or vibration alarms, secure locked casing or even window bars.
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Women have intuition--they don't need such clearly *male* oriented things like technology, locks, or other security items.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

249
Orville Redenbacher time, in any event.
Posted by: tubal


Explosive!

https://t.ly/RiSHw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (63Dwl)

250 No reaction force?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (+U7B7)

251 Wish Jim did more than talk but that's what we get

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (XlD6C)

252 I spent the morning wrestling with the verification process to be able to sign on to Social Security. You can't just use your old username anymore; oh, noooo. You have to use Login.gov or ID.me. And to get one of those accounts you have to upload pics of your ID front and back, and your SS card; and then have a video call to confirm you are you and not Hannibal Lecter. Bah.

But! My new Canon printer showed up. This afternoon I set it up and downloaded the software, and everything works!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2025 05:27 PM (omVj0)

I thought I'd lost my SS card last week.
Couldn't find it anywhere.

So I had to go through the same thing you did at login.gov and went through the entire process (several times) for it to ask me for a phone number (which I'd just given them to do the entire process on my phone.

At which point it informed me that my phone number couldn't be verified and I'd have to use another method - go to Post Office and they'll check my ID and me.
So frustrating and had me angry for a few hours.

Thankfully, I found my SS card in the last place I'd look for it - behind my auto insurance card in my wallet. d'oh!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (6ydKt)

253 Women have intuition--they don't need such clearly *male* oriented things like technology, locks, or other security items.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

Well, evidently they do not need priceless historical artifacts either, apparently.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

254 It's always an uphill battle for us. We all know this. But the Trump team is actually fighting.

Yea, it would be great to see Brennan, Clapper, Comey and more in an orange jumpsuit but don't overlook the benefit of it being proven once and for all how corrupt the Obama/Biden/Clinton team was. I want their reputations shredded.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:15 PM (viF8m)
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Yes, they're fighting. And I for one actually *do* appreciate it. Maybe some normals might notice and adjust their thinking.

But the problem as I see it that doesn't matter that the Trump admin is actually fighting, because the fight cannot be won. The Party's people are above the law. They may get fired and their reputations outside of Party circles may crash, but there is no real punishment for them. DC is a Party town, and the federal courts more broadly are a Party organization. They're all fine, and will remain so. It's terribly unjust, but it is what it is. They can't be punished. Just sent home.

Sent home is better than staying put in their offices, but it ain't exactly just.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 21, 2025 06:18 PM (CgKt6)

255 Any possibility the jewels on display were replicas?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 06:18 PM (QGLzn)

256 The blue slip process is moronic but it's up to Thune to end it not the DOJ.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Chairman's perogative (eg Grassley's) which can be changed, I think, by a committee vote. Blue slips are not in the Senate rules and have been unevenly applied depending on who was chair of Judiciary on the Senate. Came about for Southern senators back in seg days to block integrationist judges (aka Republicans) from being seated in the South.

Frankly outdated and unconscionable nowadays.

Nominees can and have been forced directly to the floor without Judiciary signoff but controversial as usually at least a tie vote is used to send to the floor with no recommendation.

Bork got a non recommended vote from Senate Judiciary and sent to the floor anyway because of WH and Bork's insistence on a floor vote.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:19 PM (WDjG6)

257 Yea, it would be great to see Brennan, Clapper, Comey and more in an orange jumpsuit but don't overlook the benefit of it being proven once and for all how corrupt the Obama/Biden/Clinton team was. I want their reputations shredded. - Jack Straw

That is so. It's no small thing for the truth to be made known far and wide, regardless of whether or not the individual principals spend any time in jail. And they still might.

Posted by: Paco at October 21, 2025 06:19 PM (mADJX)

258 Wish Jim did more than talk but that's what we get
Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 06:17 PM (XlD6C)


* ********


That guy from Utah, I think, had better hair.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:19 PM (Zz0t1)

259 Or say fk you, I' m quitting government and so free and clear

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 06:20 PM (XlD6C)

260 >>But the problem as I see it that doesn't matter that the Trump admin is actually fighting, because the fight cannot be won.

You're probably right with cases in DC or VA. Rigged game.

Florida might be a different story.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)

261 255 Any possibility the jewels on display were replicas?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 06:18 PM (QGLzn)

The only dummies on display were the security staff.

Posted by: Inside job at October 21, 2025 06:20 PM (TbWk/)

262 Any possibility the jewels on display were replicas?
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Great question--I heard years ago that much of the art in Paris was replicas because of the risk posed by the Muslims.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 06:20 PM (TN0g+)

263 There might be a NOOD. It's up for debate.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 06:20 PM (nhCoE)

264 12 The process is the punishment.

I hope this asshole gets grinded to dust.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (Sco7b)


The initial process punishment is making these execrable DeepState Made Men - Comey, Brennan, and hopefully many more - sweat about their future for the first time in many, many decades.

Posted by: Gref at October 21, 2025 06:21 PM (5rh/l)

265 They left a big display jewel. It must have been fake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 06:21 PM (+U7B7)

266 Harry Reid bragged about lying on the floor about Romney's taxes. "It worked, didn't it?" The only bad thing for these f*cks is the fact that Trump eventually won again.

They won't serve one moment in jail and will get paid by the media for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 06:22 PM (Zz0t1)

267
don't overlook the benefit of it being proven once and for all how corrupt the Obama/Biden/Clinton team was. I want their reputations shredded. - Jack Straw

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

Reputations, by definition, are perceptions. Those are easily manipulated. The Obama/Biden/Clinton team can easily turn it all back on Trump as a wild-goose-chasing, witch-hunting revenge project that ended in failure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (ldc7S)

268 254 But the problem as I see it that doesn't matter that the Trump admin is actually fighting, because the fight cannot be won. - Joe Mannix

Maybe because nobody on our side ever really fought before. One thing's for sure: the fight can't be won if it's never joined. We could still lose, of course. The rot has set in deep.

Posted by: Paco at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (mADJX)

269 I'd bet my net worth on it.

And not one of them will be punished. They may get cashiered and sent home, but not one of them will ever wear stainless steel bracelets and a fetching orange outfit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
=====
Not so sure. Winds seem to be changing direction where the past may no longer predict the future accurately. Crimes have gotten egregious lately up to an attempted coup and perhaps widespread electoral cheating at a massive scale.

I think the real problem for the Trump administration is how much do they want to go with their investigations as some of them are pretty explosive in nature.

Government, since the Cold War ended, has simply carried on with secrecy to the extent that those in it felt emboldened to do all sorts of things because they felt they could get away with it. Like the Covid Vaxx conspiracy and so on.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6)

270 Good.

Trump let Brennan, Clapper and Hillary all walk away in the name of 'bipartisanship' and 'grace' despite clear and unambiguous evidence of actual, real crimes.

They knifed him in the back and tried to throw him in prison for the rest of his life on made-up 'novel interpretations' of law.

Now he's going full scorched earth.

They shouldn't have started this fight.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 21, 2025 06:24 PM (lCHt6)

271 266 Harry Reid bragged about lying on the floor about Romney's taxes. "It worked, didn't it?" The only bad thing for these f*cks is the fact that Trump eventually won again.

They won't serve one moment in jail and will get paid by the media for the rest of their lives.
Posted by: Sponge
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Something happened with Harry remember his exercise band 'accident' which led to his retirement shortly after. He pissed off someone.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (WDjG6)

272 Yea, it would be great to see Brennan, Clapper, Comey and more in an orange jumpsuit but don't overlook the benefit of it being proven once and for all how corrupt the Obama/Biden/Clinton team was. I want their reputations shredded.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 06:15 PM (viF8m)
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We are the only people who care about their reputations. For the left, being a corrupt piece of shit is a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: ballistic at October 21, 2025 06:25 PM (5aZAZ)

273 Maybe because nobody on our side ever really fought before. One thing's for sure: the fight can't be won if it's never joined. We could still lose, of course. The rot has set in deep.
Posted by: Paco

GOP has never in its modern incarnation fought like Democrats. Remember how they went after all of Nixon's supporters. It wasn't just Nixon that served time. They went after Reagan's administration too lock stock and barrel requiring a ridiculous last minute going out the door pardon for Caspar Weinberger over Iran Contra. Caspar opposed the whole deal in the first place.

And they went after GWB (Scooter Libby), after Trump with fake charges, and so on.

The problem for Dems is that Trump fights like a Democrat.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:27 PM (WDjG6)

274 Reputations, by definition, are perceptions. Those are easily manipulated. The Obama/Biden/Clinton team can easily turn it all back on Trump as a wild-goose-chasing, witch-hunting revenge project that ended in failure.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
========
Not so much. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition is the key to destruction of a reputation which is why the Russia Russia bullshit lasted so long that a small percentage of the American population still believes it is true that Trump was a Russian asset.

Dems learned that playing hardball which is why, like Kevin Costner teaching Nuke how to deal with reporters, they have a long line of cliches that they repeat over and over again to ensure it sticks with low information voters.

Trump, and now others in the GOP finally seem to be getting the message. And once the public has come to judgment of a character repeatedly in the news for bad behavior, almost impossible to climb out of the hole entirely. Nixon came as close as anyone and still was essentially relegated to behind the scenes roles. Truman, similarly for Democrats as was Hoover for the GOP.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 06:32 PM (WDjG6)

275 Haven't danced a step since my wedding night, but I'll do an Irish jig if this commie gets perp walked.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 21, 2025 08:52 PM (R86kT)

276 You have to use Login.gov or ID.me. And to get one of those accounts you have to upload pics of your ID front and back, and your SS card; and then have a video call to confirm you are you and not Hannibal Lecter.
I had to deal with the IRS last year - same routine, except my ONLY option was ID.me.
It's a PRIVATE company that the gov DEMANDS you give all of your personal.info to.
Talk about a hacker target.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 09:20 PM (1jBX9)

The FDA Remained Silent For Years About the Linkage of Tylenol and Autism, Even As Their Own Scientists Urged Them to Inform the Public

TrUsT tHe ExPeRtS rAcIsTs


FDA Stayed Silent As Internal Reports About Potential Tylenol Risks Piled Up


Emily Kopp
Investigative Reporter

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defied the advice of its own drug safety experts to warn pregnant women about Tylenol for nearly a decade, internal reports and presentations obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation reveal.

FDA rank-and-file scientists repeatedly recommended the agency release information about Tylenol in pregnancy across three scientific reviews conducted in 2016, 2019, 2022 and two memos, one from the FDA's maternal health division in 2016 and one from the FDA's urological health division in 2017.

The scientific literature posits many plausible drivers of autism, the most well-established of which are genetic, and the FDA drug safety experts acknowledged that the research linking the condition to Tylenol is far from ironclad.

Still, as alarm bells rang within FDA headquarters and the boardrooms of Tylenol's manufacturers, pregnant women heard nothing from either the government or the manufacturers about the potential risks until the September announcement by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

FDA leadership declined to update its webpage about over-the-counter painkillers in pregnancy, repeatedly falling back on language first issued in January 2015. But that statement simply acknowledged that "FDA is aware of concerns" about Tylenol and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), citing just one scientific paper.

At the urging of Trump and Kennedy, FDA finally released a nuanced statement in September cautioning pregnant women about Tylenol while acknowledging that aspirin, ibuprofen and high fevers all pose their own risks. That move was first recommended by an FDA drug safety expert nine years earlier.

The DCNF obtained the FDA documents from the law firm Keller Postman LLC, which brought a class action lawsuit against Tylenol maker Kenvue, a legally independent spinoff of Johnson & Johnson. The personal injury law firm, which often brings class action lawsuits, obtained the documents from FDA via the Freedom of Information Act.

Tylenol, a brand name for acetaminophen, first received FDA approval in 1955 before modern drug laws tightened clinical trial requirements in 1962.

Some experts argue that neurological damage occurs due to a toxic byproduct of acetaminophen called NAPQI. Babies and children with autism may struggle to metabolize the drug, resulting in higher levels of NAPQI, which kills cells.

...

An internal memo reveals that the agency first began examining acetaminophen in pregnancy 11 years ago, in May 2014, after an April 2014 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association raised concerns about the drug and ADHD-like behaviors, prompting its sole statement on the issue for the next decade -- an 2015 FDA webpage that acknowledging that "FDA is aware of concerns" and citing that single study.

Less than two years later, in October 2016, FDA Senior Medical Officer Andrew Mosholder had reviewed eight observational studies with seven showing an association between acetaminophen and issues including attention deficits, delayed motor development and autistic behaviors.

Mosholder's 22-page report recommended that FDA issue a nuanced warning: Tylenol in pregnancy could cause neurological harm and the drug should be used sparingly, but other painkillers are associated with more definite risks and Tylenol will sometimes be necessary to reduce fever. The report also recommended more toxicology studies -- laboratory studies designed to uncover the potential toxicity of a drug.

Mosholder declined to comment.

...


In January 2018, an FDA decision-making committee led by longtime Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director (CDER) Janet Woodcock heard a presentation by Mosholder and Valerie Pratt, who oversaw the safety of over-the-counter drugs, according to the meeting minutes. By this time the scientists had reviewed 21 studies, three-fourths of which indicated a risk of Tylenol in pregnancy, the slides show.

FDA had preemptively ruled out a drug label change, but Woodcock and other FDA officials also nixed Mosholder's proposed public statement, instead postponing a decision by six months and calling for yet more studies, the meeting minutes show.

...

Woodcock oversaw CDER during other controversial decisions over her lengthy tenure, including the approval of OxyContin in 1996, government records show, and defended the approval as following "all applicable statutes and regulations" in a 2020 Senate letter. She also delayed a clinical warning about the risk of heart issues and the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in 2021, according to a Senate investigation.

CDER under Woodcock had downplayed a warning flagged by Mosholder before when he warned in a Dec. 2003 report that antidepressants increased suicide rates in children, a report superiors sought to suppress.

Requests for comment from the DCNF sent to two nonprofits for which Woodcock serves on the board of directors did not receive a reply.

janetwoodcock.jpg
The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior.


...

In October 2018, at the follow-up meeting FDA officials had called for six months earlier, the FDA's toxicology division shared their hypothesis that Tylenol could impede blood flow to the growing infant. Other details have been largely redacted in the documents obtained by the DCNF.

Posted by: Ace at 04:10 PM




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1 Boned.

Posted by: Max Bone at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (Qe1m7)

2 Boner

Posted by: Max Bone at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (Qe1m7)

3 So...the left is gonna see an increase in trannyism over the next few decades, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

4 Bonest

Posted by: Max Bone at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (Qe1m7)

5 Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (jTEUc)

6 Boneless.

Posted by: Boneless chicken at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (DIAAz)

7 her characteristic "smugging" behavior.

Heh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 04:11 PM (jc0TO)

8 The science is settled heretic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:11 PM (+U7B7)

9 Tylenol itself tells women to consult with their DR before taking it if pregnant.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

10 This is why we have tribunals no?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:12 PM (abIsI)

11 11th!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:12 PM (yy9ow)

12 Plymouth is supposedly going to reappear in 2026...as a (single model) sport truck.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:13 PM (TN0g+)

13 That picture reminds me; there is this combination of smug and incompetence that really gets under my skin, and is exhibited almost entirely by elitist lefties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:13 PM (0U5gm)

14 "The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior."

*******

That's...actually pretty darn accurate of a description.

I saw it on that scumbag FBI guy who was smirking while testifying to congress.

Posted by: EFG at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (jTEUc)

15 Yeah but they're Experts.


The only fucking thing they're expert at is being experts.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (bZ5+b)

16 > Other details have been largely redacted in the documents obtained by the DCNF

WTH? What are they hiding even now?!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (aJQbY)

17 Then: You need to trust the government. You aren't smart enough to understand medicine yourself.

Now: The government lies! Never trust them! They are a bunch of unqualified hacks!

Posted by: The left at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

18 Woodcock..great name. She looks old enough to have carved one when every last dude in the village said Oh hell no.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (snZF9)

19 I want more pregnant progs eating Tylenol for TikTok.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (PGEno)

20 Whoops! Whoopsie!

It's not like *I* have to worry about kids with autism.

Posted by: Janet Woodcock at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (9mQ3m)

21 There must be some kind of way to vet experts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:15 PM (+U7B7)

22
I don't get it. The FDA gets its rocks off by banning things, doesn't it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:15 PM (ldc7S)

23 I saw it on that scumbag FBI guy who was smirking while testifying to congress.


That still burns. I wanted to wipe the smug off his face with a baseball bat.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 21, 2025 04:15 PM (bZ5+b)

24 Other details have been largely redacted in the documents obtained by the DCNF.

Why, the fuck, is a medical bureaucracy document redacted? It's not national security. It was paid for with our money. It should not be secret.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 04:15 PM (ExV1e)

25 Inexplicably, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director's last name was Woodcock.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

26 If Trump said it is dangerous to put your head in a plastic bag there would be a lot of dead liberals.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (kTd/k)

27 Yeah but they're Experts.

The only fucking thing they're expert at is being experts.
Posted by: Chairborne!


And who decided that they were Experts? Why, other Experts, of course!

Posted by: mikeski begs the question at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (nhCoE)

28 The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior.


A dangerous creature.

Posted by: zombie Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

29 Well, we certainly were warned and protected by the FDA from the COVID Vaxx, right?....right?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (ynpvh)

30 Every one of these scumbags should get the wall but, we are a weak nation. I don't see that changing in the near future.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (abIsI)

31 In order for the science to work you have to believe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (+U7B7)

32 Tylenol Jones
I got a Tylenol Jones
I got a Tylenol Jones
Oh baby ooo-weee-ooo.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (oraVG)

33 Yeah, that's going to be a problem. It's gonna be a problem for them. This a clear violation of your rights as a consumer. It's an infringement on your constitutional rights. It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous.

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (jc0TO)

34 19 I want more pregnant progs eating Tylenol for TikTok.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (PGEno)

Possibly harming your baby to stick it to the man is an insane position to take.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (vZUXb)

35 I think this is the "crimes against children will unite all humanity". Not nameless children in Haiti or Epstein Island or 'lost' during Joe Biden's massive sex trafficking operation, but YOUR children, the children that you trusted the experts with.

Fuckers.

Posted by: t-bird at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (+r3CQ)

36 28 The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior.


A dangerous creature.

Posted by: zombie Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

Did we every determine what the proper term for a grouping of Karens is? Was it a scold of Karens?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (ynpvh)

37 Other details have been largely redacted in the documents obtained by the DCNF

WTH? What are they hiding even now?!
Posted by: RandomDave



Probably Fauci on record saying, "LIE!"

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (1a9a5)

38 I don't get it. The FDA gets its rocks off by banning things, doesn't it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia



Unless a company is open to offering FDA employees a very lucrative job once they leave the agency, in which case said company gets a free ride.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (0U5gm)

39 If Trump said it is dangerous to put your head in a plastic bag there would be a lot of dead liberals.

Irrespective of this autism concern it is a well established fact large doses of Tylenol are bad for your liver and yet a bunch of lefties went to TikTok to down a ton of Tylenol to spite OrangeManBad...

Posted by: The left at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

40 Makes you wonder how much more they have been hiding for all these years.

We're getting health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (kHop/)

41 It's an infringement on your constitutional rights.

Which one?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

42 By this time the scientists had reviewed 21 studies, three-fourths of which indicated a risk of Tylenol in pregnancy, the slides show.
-------

And yet they took no action. There are only two plausible explanations--they were on the take, or they owned stock in the very industry they were over-seeing.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (TN0g+)

43 While Jim wrestles the angry Karen, I head back to the camp for some much needed Scotch.

Posted by: Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

44 I tossed my Sam's Club sized Tylenol bottle.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (+U7B7)

45 Was it a scold of Karens?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That's the one I remember.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

46 31 In order for the science to work you have to believe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (+U7B7)

Faith-based science...and here I thought it was money-based science...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (ynpvh)

47 Her face screams for a Louisville Slugger.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (P7vXf)

48 I wonder if you can pinpoint the period of time when medical researchers moved away from the "search for a cure" and into the more lucrative "search for medical maintenance."

The whole system currently in place is not interested in finding a cure to anything. They are more interested in creating techniques, prescriptions, and treatments that lessen the symptoms, but don't isolate the cause or pursue the cure.

Perhaps that's why Cancer and various other diseases have confounded humanity for centuries, but can go from manned flight to landing on the moon in 66 years.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (dIske)

49 Try to find out about Mr and his business.

I'll wait.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (tubbA)

50 I took a LOT of Tylenol when I was pregnant with both my boys.

They are both fine.
Not saying there’s not a connection, but, taking Tylenol during pregnancy certainly doesn’t CAUSE autism. I think the chemicals in our food and water and air all play a bigger part.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (sPVU9)

51 43 While Jim wrestles the angry Karen, I head back to the camp for some much needed Scotch.

Posted by: Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

Is angry Karen redundant?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (ynpvh)

52 That's...actually pretty darn accurate of a description.

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

The only thing that was missing form this description was being a Subaru owner

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (HYKHz)

53 Advil >> Tylenol

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (abIsI)

54 Is angry Karen redundant?

That's not funny.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (Riz8t)

55 Subarus have all wheel drive.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (+U7B7)

56 Glad never took pain medication very often

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (+qU29)

57 53 Advil >> Tylenol

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (abIsI)

Only if you don't have kidney problems...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (ynpvh)

58 Aspirin FTW.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

59 Jim (in Kalifornia), how are you?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

60 I wonder if you can pinpoint the period of time when medical researchers moved away from the "search for a cure" and into the more lucrative "search for medical maintenance."


Posted by: Orson



I'm going to go with the same period of time when software companies stopped selling products and started selling subscriptions.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (0U5gm)

61 Morphine >> Advil >> Tylenol

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (abIsI)

62 The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy where power is maximized and accountability is minimized. This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates her characteristic "smugging" behavior

I put that into a David Attenborough voice generator. It tripped over "smugging".

Posted by: far cry at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (RIfpe)

63 Thanks to the left, I'm learning far more about White House renovations than I ever knew. I am sort of surprised at how many renovations have taken place over the years on the East wing.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (sX1BW)

64 Those little flaviored chewable aspirins are much more fun.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (+U7B7)

65 Regulatory capture needs to be outlawed but I don't know how and the way they'd write the laws they'd still be able to use the revolving door between the regulators and the regulated.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (vZUXb)

66 Perhaps that's why Cancer and various other diseases have confounded humanity for centuries, but can go from manned flight to landing on the moon in 66 years.

25 years ago everyone thought the cure to cancer in general was coming soon.

What we found those was cancer is more complicated then we had originally thought. And with many cancers there has been significant progress over the last couple of decades. But some cancers have proven harder to resolve then others.

And as a digression of course we found a great way to increase cancer's mortality rates with the clot shot...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

67 59 Jim (in Kalifornia), how are you?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

Waiting for the doc to call back so I can have an appointment to reconnect. You?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

68 They're killing the kiddies,
they're addling the tots.

Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (LHPAg)

69 Irrespective of this autism concern it is a well established fact large doses of Tylenol are bad for your liver and yet a bunch of lefties went to TikTok to down a ton of Tylenol to spite OrangeManBad...


The Natural Selection process at work.


AKA The Darwin Awards.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (bZ5+b)

70 "I regarded the sight with horror. Not even the destructive nature of a hurricane could compare with the murderous intent I saw as I watched that vision of depravity and evil. A woman, pregnant and nearly bursting with a new life, smashing up Tylenol pills and snorting them while raising a middle finger in a vulgar protest against the picture of the man she hates more than she loves life itself. Donald Trump, a carnival barker who became the most powerful man in the world but who has never known this woman, whose name I never learned but will call Becky, rests placidly but confidently in his official portrait that Becky has taped haphazardly against her wall. She looks at him with hatred, a hatred that she has turned inward as a way to harm her own unborn child begging for his first sight of the new world that awaits him, and he looks back with a smile, a happy look of paternal contentment. The contrast is striking. I feel sick."
-Werner Herzog

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

71 61 Morphine >> Advil >> Tylenol

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:21 PM (abIsI)

Cocaine > Meth > Morphine > Advil > Tylenol

Posted by: Hunter at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

72 51 43 While Jim wrestles the angry Karen, I head back to the camp for some much needed Scotch.

Posted by: Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

_______________________

Ok, that made me laugh. I used to watch Wild Kingdom for that very reason. Jim would be fighting it out with and Anaconda (and perceivably losing) while Marlin is casually taking it all in and calmly describing the fight. My Bro and I wouldn't miss the show just to see what hijinks Jim had to deal with each week. It was a classic.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 04:23 PM (dIske)

73 FDA lied and kids died.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:23 PM (+U7B7)

74 NSAIDs have there own health issues

In fact almost every medicine has a side effect.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:23 PM (sKqQm)

75 Waiting for the doc to call back so I can have an appointment to reconnect. You?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

OK. My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

76
Cocaine > Meth > Morphine > Advil > Tylenol
Posted by: Hunter


JFK cocktail?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (abIsI)

77 22
I don't get it. The FDA gets its rocks off by banning things, doesn't it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:15 PM (ldc7S)

We need to take a long hard look at her stock portfolio over the years... when and whut she bought and sold.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (mP0Kj)

78 Bourbon >>> Morphine >> Advil >> Tylenol

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (wtvvX)

79 The US Food And Drug Administration Regulates Drugs, Medical Devices, Radiation-Emitting Products, Vaccines, Blood, and Biologics, Animal and Veterinary Cosmetics and Tobacco Products.

These hard working federal employees keep us safe!

A round of applause please!

Posted by: Bob And Shirley Chipeska, federal employees at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (R/m4+)

80 I didn't like Cocaine much.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (+U7B7)

81 Did we every determine what the proper term for a grouping of Karens is? Was it a scold of Karens?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Unless it's a group of queen-bee Karens like the picture above.

Then it's an "expertise" of Karens.

The quote marks are a part of the collective noun. You can't write it without them, and if you say it out loud, you have to make air-quotes with your fingers.

Posted by: mikeski at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (nhCoE)

82 Possibly harming your baby to stick it to the man is an insane position to take.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 21, 2025 04:17 PM (vZUXb)

Of course the unborn child of a Leftard is almost certainly pre-doomed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (8zz6B)

83 While Jim wrestles the angry Karen, I head back to the camp for some much needed Scotch.

Posted by: Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

Is angry Karen redundant?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Happy Karens are extremely rare in the wild, but should still be approached with caution.

Posted by: zombie Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (UjdFS)

84 took a LOT of Tylenol when I was pregnant with both my boys.

They are both fine.
Not saying there’s not a connection, but, taking Tylenol during pregnancy certainly doesn’t CAUSE autism. I think the chemicals in our food and water and air all play a bigger part.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (sPVU9)

Lots of people smoke and never get lung cancer.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:25 PM (PGEno)

85 Morphine >> Advil >> Tylenol
Posted by: Maj. Healey



Dilaudid >> Morphine >> Advil >> Tylenol

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:25 PM (1a9a5)

86 (1950s-style drug-dealer opens his trenchcoat to reveal an array of wares on sale inside) :

"Downers? Uppers? Pink Ladies? Mary Jane? And I got the hard stuff too: Thalidomide, Tylenol, and rhinoceros tranquilizer carfentanyl. Take your pick."

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 04:25 PM (oraVG)

87 In fact almost every medicine has a side effect.

Posted by: 18-1


Even a hot iron?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:25 PM (0U5gm)

88 73 FDA lied and kids died.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:23 PM (+U7B7)

Yeah... people always want to think our Government would NEVAH put us in danger...

Yet... this is the same government that took active duty soldiers, put them in foxholes, just a couple mile from A Bomb tests.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 04:26 PM (mP0Kj)

89 The way they are going after vapes, they must be manna from heaven.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:26 PM (+U7B7)

90 The problem with government regulation of healthcare is the problem of government overall. It is way to big to be responsive.

You can pass more laws to limit the revolving door between say the CDC/NIH and pharma companies but with enough money at stake people will always find a way around them.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:26 PM (sKqQm)

91 Didn't some news bint try to make the case RFK Jr didn't belong at HHS because he's not "qualified" only to have RFK's wife shut the woman down with a line about previous HHS secretaries?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:26 PM (tT6L1)

92 Morphine is awful stuff. I felt horrible on the occasions that I was gorked with it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:26 PM (yy9ow)

93
Even a hot iron?


MEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Some Cow getting branched at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

94 We're getting health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated, amirite?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (kHop/)
-------------

The "experts" also preferred malaria to DDT.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

95 84 took a LOT of Tylenol when I was pregnant with both my boys.

They are both fine.
Not saying there’s not a connection, but, taking Tylenol during pregnancy certainly doesn’t CAUSE autism. I think the chemicals in our food and water and air all play a bigger part.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 04:19 PM (sPVU9)

Lots of people smoke and never get lung cancer.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:25 PM (PGEno)

And I knew a woman who NEVER smoked (neither did her husband, a minister) who died of lung cancer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

96 Punch from Teofilo Stevenson > Azerbainjani arthouse film> Advil > Tylenol.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (oraVG)

97 They're killing the kiddies,
they're addling the tots.
Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (LHPAg)


And eating the dogs and cats .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (PGEno)

98 I couldn't even watch Andy Griffith on post surgical pain meds. Not fun.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (+U7B7)

99 >>While Jim wrestles the angry Karen, I head back to the camp for some much needed Scotch.

Posted by: Marlin Perkins at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

Is angry Karen redundant?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Happy Karens are extremely rare in the wild, but should still be approached with caution.
Posted by: zombie Marlin Perkins

Should have put out some angry Karen snare traps around camp. Just to be sure.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (abIsI)

100 I've had some oxy- drug after a surgery and I really appreciated it and had absolutely no desire to take it for more than a week. Might have been oxycodone.

Anyway, other than surgery, my experience has been if I needed a powerful pain reliever, I was told to use OTC even though it was inadequate, but several times I've been urged to take long-term prescription pain relievers for a health condition that only causes a low level of pain that I just ignore. It's backwards.

Posted by: Emmie at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (FMtrg)

101 Morphine is awful stuff. I felt horrible on the occasions that I was gorked with it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious


When my gall bladder went hot, it laughed at morphine. Twice.

It wasn't until they hit me with dilaudid that I started to chill out.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (1a9a5)

102 93
Even a hot iron?

MEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Some Cow getting branched at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

Did it identify as a cat?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

103 Morphine was an interesting band. To this day I don't know how to describe them other than "interesting". I doubt I could sit through an entire show of their's (were they still in existence). But they were "interesting" in small doses.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:29 PM (TN0g+)

104 Apparently, that real talk Redditor running for senate in Maine has...

a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

A Totenkopf tattoo.

I'm really looking forward to the left explaining why it's fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

105 Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

_______________________________

I can't help thinking that when the cure does actually arrive, it will be different from what everyone thinks. Personally, I think medicine is going to start moving towards "sound based" treatment. Focusing resonant tones to destroy targeted cells. IOW, instead of the non-discriminate radiation treatment or chemotherapy, the focus will be on a more precise eradication using atomic weight calibration to focus target on specific damaging cells.

(Disclaimer: Third cup of coffee )

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 04:29 PM (dIske)

106 Even a hot iron?

MEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Some Cow getting branched


One of the best Far Side cartoons was a cow looking at the branding iron that said:

This Here Cow Belongs to Earl James Cunningham III

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0U5gm)

107 101 Morphine is awful stuff. I felt horrible on the occasions that I was gorked with it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious


When my gall bladder went hot, it laughed at morphine. Twice.

It wasn't until they hit me with dilaudid that I started to chill out.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (1a9a5)

Had morphine for the first time last year...I didn't like the way it made my mind feel, but it reduced the pain.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

108 I'm really looking forward to the left explaining why it's fine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)


It’s an ancient Hindu symbol of peace you H8er.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (PGEno)

109 Tylenol itself tells women to consult with their DR before taking it if pregnant.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

I think wvery drug in existence does that.

I never see advertisements for aspirin, do I?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)

110 A woman, pregnant and nearly bursting with a new life, smashing up Tylenol pills and snorting them while raising a middle finger in a vulgar protest against the picture of the man she hates more than she loves life itself.

A man who had never done her harm... who only wished her well. A man she hated because others told her to hate - and she listened. Others who wanted to rule over her and promised that they would harm others in her name. She is foolish, yes, but evil also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

111 When my gall bladder went hot, it laughed at morphine. Twice.

It wasn't until they hit me with dilaudid that I started to chill out.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (1a9a5)
---------
When I had my sciatic pain and took oxy, I may as well have been eating chalk.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (yy9ow)

112 IMO anything can effect some but it won't be everyone.
Drugs alcohol, nicotine most anything, even food.
Someone will get cancer from something but another with exact exposure won't.
It's all a throw of dice

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (+qU29)

113 We represent the Totenkoph Guild.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (+U7B7)

114 I didn't like Cocaine much.
--------

Yeah, but his version of I Shot The Sheriff was better than Marley's.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:30 PM (TN0g+)

115 Morphine is awful stuff. I felt horrible on the occasions that I was gorked with it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
.....

I was given Demerol when I dislocated my shoulder, it was good.
I was given liquid Valium in Indonesia, I thought I was gonna die.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 04:31 PM (UjdFS)

116 My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)


Lost in the mail?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

117 2 things:

1. Looking at Woodcock, I don't think that she Woodcock at all.

2. Mosholder sounds like the pit at the next Anthrax concert.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at October 21, 2025 04:31 PM (BGygK)

118 OxyContin

Wish I could get some, but thankful for Norco. Arthritis is a bitch.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 21, 2025 04:31 PM (AGxUO)

119 104 Apparently, that real talk Redditor running for senate in Maine has...

a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

A Totenkopf tattoo.

I'm really looking forward to the left explaining why it's fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

https://youtu.be/gaXigSu72A4

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:32 PM (ynpvh)

120 My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21

See if Newman can help.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:32 PM (PGEno)

121 When I had my sciatic pain and took oxy, I may as well have been eating chalk.
Posted by: Captain Obvious



Ouch.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:32 PM (1a9a5)

122 In fact, Carfax ranks the Ford F-150 number one as the car most likely to have its catalytic converter stolen nationwide. Criminals target this model because it sits high off the ground, making it easy for them to crawl under quickly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:32 PM (jFCkp)

123 It wasn't until they hit me with dilaudid that I started to chill out.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:28 PM (1a9a5)

Dilaudid is the only drug I have ever tried with a kidney stone and not felt 'anything'- from the kidney stone, at least. I did feel a bit nauseated, but I was happy about it.

Considering my pain had been about a 9 or 9.5 30 seconds before, it was pretty amazing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (zZu0s)

124 Did we every determine what the proper term for a grouping of Karens is? Was it a scold of Karens?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---

A murder of Karens?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (22p5n)

125 I try to avoid tylenol, but it's the only thing I can take for pain since I am on blood thinners...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

126 So many memos
So many degrees
So many titles
So many teams, divisions , bureaus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (w9ItN)

127 124 Did we every determine what the proper term for a grouping of Karens is? Was it a scold of Karens?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---

A murder of Karens?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (22p5n)

A Scold of Karens

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

128 A cvnt of Karens.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (PGEno)

129 My theory on "why do some people get cancer from something and not others" is that your immune system is regularly killing cancerous/precancerous cells.

The problem is if there are too many to deal with and/or your immune system is facing other stresses.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

130 OK. My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg

Your clean record has probably thrown them for a loop.

Posted by: Hmmmm, Never Had One Of These Before... at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (oftw2)

131 They're killing the kiddies,
they're addling the tots.
Posted by: Eromero

And eating the dogs and cats .
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

QUACK

Posted by: Ducks for Trump at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (UjdFS)

132 "smugging"
...............................
I see this look a lot in Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

133 Did we every determine what the proper term for a grouping of Karens is? Was it a scold of Karens?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---

A murder of Karens?


A banshee.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

134
A murder of Karens?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (22p5n)

A Scold of Karens
Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)
--------------

I'm going with SMH here because Karen's have evolved.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (tT6L1)

135 When my pappaw got morphine for heart surgery, he had an odd reaction to it. I was maybe 30 at the time and he whispered in the hospital that we should cut class and go down to the creek and skip rocks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (zZu0s)

136 115 Morphine is awful stuff. I felt horrible on the occasions that I was gorked with it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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I loved morphine. I can see why heroine addicts become addicted. That shit is umm, umm good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (jFCkp)

137 Dilaudid. Hospital didn't allow but for a few days but excellent pain relief after helacious surgery.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (AGxUO)

138 1. It's terrible they suppressed this info on Tylenol

2. There are some benefits to autism, they can be math savants, for example.

3. The conservative case for causing autism in babies.

David French

Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (vbXSk)

139 And yet, if I were to beat the dog crap out of any of these people for withholding this information from the public, I'd be the bad guy. Strange world we live in.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (Da7Vv)

140 OK. My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg
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Not enough guns in the house?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (tT6L1)

141 I tried to get weaker pain killers after surgery so I could do more than drool while awake after surgery. They relented eventually.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (+U7B7)

142 We are talking at least seven years of preventable disabilities sacrificed for what?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (v7zmp)

143 A coven of Karen's

(Probably already mentioned)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (sAmhv)

144 138 1. It's terrible they suppressed this info on Tylenol

2. There are some benefits to autism, they can be math savants, for example.

3. The conservative case for causing autism in babies.

David French
Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (vbXSk)

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"That Donald Trump is overriding the loyal opposition who opposed this release shows that he's a tyrant overriding all of our norms in a way that Jesus himself would not understand."
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

145 In fact, Carfax ranks the Ford F-150 number one as the car most likely to have its catalytic converter stolen nationwide. Criminals target this model because it sits high off the ground, making it easy for them to crawl under quickly.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:32 PM (jFCkp)

Bait trucks. F150's with catalytic converters loaded with a dollop of Cobalt-60. Not enough to harm casual passers-by, but enough to start the rad alarm screaming if the thief takes them in to a scrapyard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (8zz6B)

146 Gall bladder pain is weird. It was a band just below the moobs that felt like I was being squeezed to death. I knew it wasn't a heart attack, because the pain never subsided.

Went to the hospital around 11 at night and it wasn't until around 4 when they gave me the dilaudid that I was able to sleep.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:36 PM (1a9a5)

147 130 OK. My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg

Your clean record has probably thrown them for a loop.
Posted by: Hmmmm, Never Had One Of These Before... at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (oftw2)
___________________________________

Well, if my locale is any indication, a foreign accent might help.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 04:36 PM (dIske)

148 >>OK. My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag

IQ too high? No criminal or mental health records?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:36 PM (abIsI)

149 A kvetch of Karens

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 04:36 PM (v7zmp)

150 Something I never understood was why the medical profession seemed to push Tylenol/acetaminophen to the exclusion of all else. I get *some* people get gastric issues with aspirin, but why not suggest ibuprofen as an option? No it was always acetaminophen and only when I pushed back and asked did they say other NSAIDs would also work.

I've also had a bad reaction to Tylenol 3 if I dare take more than one pill. Projectile vomiting bad reaction. I don't think we should be so tolerant of a drug with such a low LD50, but that's just me ...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at October 21, 2025 04:36 PM (DUzWf)

151 My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg


Pro tip: Going postal is not seen as a positive attribute by the postal service.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:36 PM (0U5gm)

152 I remember the Karen thing thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (+U7B7)

153 Shoulda been passing out armloads of this at the NoKings things, saying if you really hate Trump, take a couple handfuls.

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (zeLd4)

154 But all the Best People assured me that since RFK, Jr is against Tylenol preggers women should gobble it like peanuts!!!

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (4K54T)

155 My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.

While pants are NOT required for the job, the other option is shorts.

Just so you know.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

156 Are white men allowed to be hired by usps? I assumed that was an automatic disqualification . Or an IQ above 90. Or possession of any work ethic.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (PGEno)

157 If a person didn't know better, they'd start to think that the "experts" inhabiting basically every facet of our government have been absolutely and completely wrong about pretty much every issue they've studied for the last 60 or so years.

Drugs
Monetary policy
Foreign policy
Constitutional law
Homeland security/public safety/crime
...the list goes on.

Posted by: ballistic at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (5aZAZ)

158 Everybody enjoying the James Brown of non kings?

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (EyfuW)

159 >>
Bait trucks. F150's with catalytic converters loaded with a dollop of Cobalt-60 C4.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (abIsI)

160 OK. My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg


You mailed it in didn't you?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (2WIwB)

161 153 Shoulda been passing out armloads of this at the NoKings things, saying if you really hate Trump, take a couple handfuls.

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (zeLd4)

If you gave them bottles of aspirin they'd probably shove it up their asses...I mean, it sounds like "Ass-Peer'in"....

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

162 Another point here with Tylenol - the government already recommends pregnant women not consume lunch meat even though the actual risk is very, very low.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

163 Bait trucks. F150's with catalytic converters loaded with a dollop of Cobalt-60. Not enough to harm casual passers-by, but enough to start the rad alarm screaming if the thief takes them in to a scrapyard.
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This is how they screen scrap metal from Ukraine. Seems Chernobyl mining is a thing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (jFCkp)

164 A coven of Karen's

(Probably already mentioned)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come
.....

From the looks of that pic above, I'd have to go with herd.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (UjdFS)

165 Hey Blake!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (22p5n)

166 145 In fact, Carfax ranks the Ford F-150 number one as the car most likely to have its catalytic converter stolen nationwide. Criminals target this model because it sits high off the ground, making it easy for them to crawl under quickly.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:32 PM (jFCkp)

Bait trucks. F150's with catalytic converters loaded with a dollop of Cobalt-60. Not enough to harm casual passers-by, but enough to start the rad alarm screaming if the thief takes them in to a scrapyard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 04:35 PM (8zz6B)

Cobalt-salted Catalytic Converters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

167 Dilaudid is the only drug I have ever tried with a kidney stone and not felt 'anything'- from the kidney stone, at least. I did feel a bit nauseated, but I was happy about it.

Considering my pain had been about a 9 or 9.5 30 seconds before, it was pretty amazing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


It scares the nurses when they hit you with morphine and you just look at them. Scares them even more when they hit you a second time and nothing changes.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (1a9a5)

168 There are some benefits to autism, they can be math savants, for example.
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Boy F. makes perfect coffee every time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (w9ItN)

169 Tell them you are a native American. You were born here?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (+U7B7)

170 Hey right back atcha, SMH!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (tT6L1)

171 I’ve always despised Tylenol, never did anything for me. Only take aspirin for headaches, fever, ibuprofen for muscle/joint pain.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (WtEb/)

172 Bait trucks. F150's with catalytic converters loaded with a dollop of Cobalt-60 C4.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (abIsI)
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AKA the MI-6 anti-theft device.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:40 PM (yy9ow)

173 Didn’t some California Dem blame Toyota for the thefts of catalytic converters in Prius? Cuz Toyota made it too easy to steal. Yeah blame Toyota not the feral yuuuuthhhes who do the stealing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:40 PM (PGEno)

174 Woodcock.. great name.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM

*Fist Bump*

YouTube: https://bit.ly/48GVznL

Posted by: Jasper Woodcock at October 21, 2025 04:40 PM (P5BPp)

175 Bait trucks. F150's with catalytic converters loaded with a dollop of Cobalt-60 C4.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:38 PM (abIsI)

That would work, too. And would really cut down on recidivism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 04:40 PM (8zz6B)

176 173 Didn’t some California Dem blame Toyota for the thefts of catalytic converters in Prius? Cuz Toyota made it too easy to steal. Yeah blame Toyota not the feral yuuuuthhhes who do the stealing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:40 PM (PGEno)

It's the guns, not the people misusing them, right?
Just like it's the cars that let bank robbers get away...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

177 Just put a Sudoku lock on them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:41 PM (+U7B7)

178 It's the guns, not the people misusing them, right?
Just like it's the cars that let bank robbers get away...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

I want to lose some weight but that fucking fork won’t let me.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:42 PM (PGEno)

179 She's almost as scary as that former NZ prime minister Jacinda "We will continue to be your single source of information" Ardern.

Almost as scary.

Posted by: Rex B at October 21, 2025 04:42 PM (1Bcgn)

180 91 Didn't some news bint try to make the case RFK Jr didn't belong at HHS because he's not "qualified" only to have RFK's wife shut the woman down with a line about previous HHS secretaries?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:26 PM (tT6L1)

wait wait wait

so RFKJ actually looked at the existing FDA files and came up with his conclusion, rather than put on a tinfoil hat and wait for the knowledge waves to hit his brain stem?

Not just one news bint, but all of them tried to discredit RFKJ.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 21, 2025 04:42 PM (0CU3H)

181 Graham Platner, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine, took the unusual step of disclosing that he has a tattoo that has been linked to Nazis.
“We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo,” Platner said. “We chose a terrifying looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and, you know, skulls and crossbones are pretty standard military thing.”

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Ahh, the I was drunk defense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

182 The first thing that pops into my head when I look at the photo of that Woodcock woman is "Hillary voter".

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 21, 2025 04:43 PM (0Htd1)

183 Left: trust the science

RFK: ok here’s the science

Left: fuck you and your science, Nazi!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:43 PM (PGEno)

184 181 Graham Platner, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine, took the unusual step of disclosing that he has a tattoo that has been linked to Nazis.
“We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo,” Platner said. “We chose a terrifying looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and, you know, skulls and crossbones are pretty standard military thing.”

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Ahh, the I was drunk defense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

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"And I never bothered to pay to cover it up. Also, no one in my unit will agree with my story because I'm an asshole."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

185 151 My job application with the Postal Service has hit a snag, but I am trying to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Bulg

I warned you not to eat powdered donuts during the job interview!

Posted by: Jerry Lewis, Hardly Working 1981 at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (oftw2)

186 I don't get why they didn't warn about acetaminophen back in 2016 or so. Patent was expired so I don't see a big stake for big pharma. Tylenol was touted as safe safe safe and not "probably safe and safer than risks from fever and the other nsaids that fight fever if you are pregnant or nursing".

So I'd expect lots of mothers to be took tylenol or the generic counterparts for backaches and so on rather than knowing they should only take it in case of having a fever. But never been pregnant, so I don't know if OB's told pregnant women that they should minimize all nsaid usage, unless they got sick and were running a fever.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (kdHU2)

187 The Weasel has landed.

Posted by: Weasel at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (HEStL)

188 I know the FDA didn't make the stuff (Tylenol), but I do recall a lot of hullabaloo about cigarette manufacturers hiding evidence of serious adverse health effects, as well as addiction components added to tobacco to make the product more addictive. They were skinned alive over it. The FDA basically hides the evidence from the public with no repercussions. And they're the ones that are supposed to be protecting the public? It is to laugh.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (qBdHI)

189 The Weasel has landed.
Posted by: Weasel at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (HEStL)
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You made it home safely?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

190 -
Ahh, the I was drunk defense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

Isn't that the same excuse sailors use for what happens on ships?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (ynpvh)

191 It's the guns, not the people misusing them, right?
Just like it's the cars that let bank robbers get away...
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Leftists are actively, openly, trying to take away both our guns and our cars, don't worry.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (TN0g+)

192 80 I didn't like Cocaine much.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:24 PM (+U7B7)

but I bet it smelled pretty nice.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)

193 Just put a Sudoku lock on them.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:41 PM (+U7B7)
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I'd never be able to get in, then.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (yy9ow)

194 You made it home safely?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)
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I did!

Posted by: Weasel at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (HEStL)

195 One of the best Far Side cartoons was a cow looking at the branding iron that said:

This Here Cow Belongs to Earl James Cunningham III


Old joke:

"So you're a cattle rancher?"
"Yup."
"What's your ranch?"
"The Flying-Q-Double-Bar-X-Lazy-8-Rocking-D-Swinging-L."
"How many head do you have?"
"Two."
"Why only two?"
"Not many of 'em survive the branding."

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (3nLb4)

196 The Karen in her natural habitat, a sprawling bureacracy
where power is maximized and accountability is minimized.
This fine specimen of a Karen here demonstrates
her characteristic "smugging" behavior.



Its ones like that that made muslims lose their shit 1300 years ago.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:45 PM (snZF9)

197 The people who make Tylenol have lots of money. I wonder if that was a factor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:46 PM (+U7B7)

198 >> Woodcock and other FDA officials also nixed Mosholder's proposed public statement

You have to really marvel at the absolute lack of compassion in the FDA’s “debates”. It’s like watching a penis sipping contest between two people who have cherubism.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 21, 2025 04:46 PM (Htehk)

199 Ahh, the I was drunk defense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

Well, if he finds the tattoo to be embarassing, he has two options. Get another tattoo artist to alter it into something not recognizable as an SS Totenkopf, or get skin grafts off his ass, and remove the tat altogether.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 04:46 PM (8zz6B)

200 It was the view that attacked RFJ's wife. Those bints are hardly 'news bints'

Posted by: PaleRider at October 21, 2025 04:46 PM (kdHU2)

201 Yay Weasel!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:47 PM (22p5n)

202 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (snZF9)

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[WILLOWED:]

Its the same every year. I swore I would try to see every name tag this year. I see some posting here that said they were there and I still missed them. I need to sit on a bar stool and block the entrance with sign over me that says "Before you enter, show this idiot your name tag"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (snZF9)

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+1

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 04:47 PM (2hxk1)

203 When Colbert tells you your out of touch . . .

Stephen Colbert worries that people might read Karine Jean-Pierre's book and become an independent, "Do you recommend everyone leave the party, and if so where do they go? Because organization is how you face tyranny. Freelancing isn’t going to get anybody anything done."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)

204 It scares the nurses when they hit you with morphine and you just look at them. Scares them even more when they hit you a second time and nothing changes.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:39 PM (1a9a5)

I am not ashamed to say, I think i passed out. That stone had been hitting for around 6 hours at that point. I remember telling her when she asked what my pain was like now 'uh... 0' and then Dad was in the room, sitting (he had had to drive me. No way was i paying g for an ambulance.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 04:47 PM (Mni9D)

205 The missing piece here is that Woodchuck and her ilk do not consider children, born or unborn, to be fully human, and therefore, a low priority. Especially when compared to big pharma backhanders.

Who is John Galt ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (IESmr)

206 People seem a mite tetchy, so here's something to distract you.

Kohler Just Unveiled a Toilet Camera

Kohler, best known for its plumbing products including toilets and faucets, is entering the photography game with a camera that goes inside a toilet and analyzes photos of people’s stool.


https://is.gd/2C7MEo

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

207 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:47 PM (22p5n)
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SMH!!! So nice to see you this weekend!

Posted by: Weasel at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (HEStL)

208 That or he had along fall

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (+qU29)

209 Just a measurement of the insanity - they are spending years arguing over giving pregnant women a simple WARNING about a POSSIBLE adverse impact. You know, because maybe pregnant women might decide not to take Tylenol in certain situations.

Nobody is talking about banning it or making it prescription. JUST A WARNING. Hey, maybe don't take so much, or hey, maybe consult your doctor.

Think what kind of psychopath objects to a warning.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (gDhA9)

210 Your clean record has probably thrown them for a loop.
Posted by: Hmmmm, Never Had One Of These Before...

I got an e-mail from them yesterday saying that they were no longer considering me for the position because I had not submitted my fingerprints within the designated time (72 hours after receiving the notification that my application had been accepted). However, I submitted my fingerprints the next day after I got the e-mail.

I reached out to some of the folks there that I had communicated with earlier, and explained that. Hopefully, someone will realize the mistake and reinstate me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

211 Only a fascist would torture a government agency like this. LEAVE THE FDA ALOONNNE

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 04:49 PM (E0p3T)

212 Are white men allowed to be hired by usps? I assumed that was an automatic disqualification . Or an IQ above 90. Or possession of any work ethic.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 04:37 PM (PGEno)

Don't forget Heteros. Heteros are right out. So icky.

Posted by: Jill Bulldykall, USPS Load Master at October 21, 2025 04:49 PM (R/m4+)

213 I thought they had an AI that analysed all current Medical literature and studies.

It was shut down by noon.

Lol. PlutoTv. First Doctor Who. Barely 29. Sweet.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 04:50 PM (Sco7b)

214
Its the same every year. I swore I would try to see every name tag this year. I see some posting here that said they were there and I still missed them. I need to sit on a bar stool and block the entrance with sign over me that says "Before you enter, show this idiot your name tag"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (snZF9)
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Right, like you'd remember us no matter how many times we introduced ourselves!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:50 PM (tT6L1)

215 It was good to see you again also, Weasel.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 04:50 PM (22p5n)

216 Why, the fuck, is a medical bureaucracy document redacted? It's not national security. It was paid for with our money. It should not be secret.

Well if its covering up malfeasance resulting in death and injury... Surely you understand their desire to hide things.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 04:50 PM (Da7Vv)

217 >>Ahh, the I was drunk defense.

Was he drunk when he praised antifa or just a scumbag?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (viF8m)

218 “We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do...
--------------
Ahh, the I was drunk defense.


"See, a regular guy! You deplorable MAGAts have to vote for him now!"

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (3nLb4)

219 Just a reminder that today is the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

DEATH TO THE FRENCH!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (yy9ow)

220 Stephen Colbert worries that people might read Karine Jean-Pierre's book and become an independent, "Do you recommend everyone leave the party, and if so where do they go? Because organization is how you face tyranny.
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The thought of a grown adult imagining that he is facing "tyranny" while openly holding court for an hour on live television on one of the "Big 3" networks, and knowing that once the show is over he will collect this stuff and calmly drive home to his luxury residence...astounds me. I mean I *know* they're dumb, but I once imagined that even dumb had its limits.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

221 Paris Syndrome. The joys of "diversity is our strength".

City of love, no more...

Paris, France looking more like the slums of San Francisco or Los Angeles.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/47jeiDI

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (P5BPp)

222
Was he drunk when he praised antifa or just a scumbag?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (viF8m)
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Hmm, "and" or "yes" works in this case.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (tT6L1)

223 “We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do...
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You invaded a country? Or you did butt-stuff?

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:52 PM (TN0g+)

224 USPS. Pushing the Envelope.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:52 PM (+U7B7)

225 Think what kind of psychopath objects to a warning.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (gDhA9)
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The kind taking money from Big Pharma, obviously.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)

226 I honestly think this is disastrous feminist thinking.

Tylenol is the only drug currently safe for women to take during pregnancy. I think idiot feminists think it is some sort of patriarchal conspiracy to deny women this vital medicine. And what the fuck do these people care about a baby inside a woman? It has no rights in their mind - it is just a clump of tissue. The comfort of the mother is their primary focus.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 04:52 PM (gDhA9)

227 219 Just a reminder that today is the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

DEATH TO THE FRENCH!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (yy9ow)

Sadly, that's half me.
But I agree!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 04:53 PM (Sco7b)

228 The Marine guy had to get a tattoo. His buddies had eaten all the crayons.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

229 So why did Jordan pick today to refer John Brennan to the DOJ for lying to Congress? It's not like the news broke this morning, so why today?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:53 PM (viF8m)

230 These are the people who will stop you from doing anything "if it saves just one child".

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 04:53 PM (E0p3T)

231 Right, like you'd remember us no matter how many times we introduced ourselves!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:50 PM (tT6L1)


It would definitely help. Curiously, I never forget the ettes. Probably my mom's teaching who said it best "forget a woman's name and you die" lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:53 PM (snZF9)

232 220 Stephen Colbert worries that people might read Karine Jean-Pierre's book and become an independent, "Do you recommend everyone leave the party, and if so where do they go? Because organization is how you face tyranny.
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The thought of a grown adult imagining that he is facing "tyranny" while openly holding court for an hour on live television on one of the "Big 3" networks, and knowing that once the show is over he will collect this stuff and calmly drive home to his luxury residence...astounds me. I mean I *know* they're dumb, but I once imagined that even dumb had its limits.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)
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He doesn't believe it. He's just a simplistic partisan making millions of dollars to scare dummies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

233 Huh. That is a very specific skull the guy got. You'd think he'd have realized it at some point. Being a deep thinker and we'll read and all.

*cough*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (Mni9D)

234 Must be a lot of money in Tylenol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

235 Just a measurement of the insanity - they are spending years arguing over giving pregnant women a simple WARNING about a POSSIBLE adverse impact. You know, because maybe pregnant women might decide not to take Tylenol in certain situations.

Nobody is talking about banning it or making it prescription. JUST A WARNING. Hey, maybe don't take so much, or hey, maybe consult your doctor.

Think what kind of psychopath objects to a warning.
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I suggested earlier that there are only two explanations--they were on the take, or they were stock-holders in the very industry they were charged to regulate.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (TN0g+)

236
It would definitely help. Curiously, I never forget the ettes. Probably my mom's teaching who said it best "forget a woman's name and you die" lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:53 PM (snZF9)
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No matter what, it was great to see you in such good health. Cheers!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (tT6L1)

237 220 Stephen Colbert worries that people might read Karine Jean-Pierre's book and become an independent, "Do you recommend everyone leave the party, and if so where do they go? Because organization is how you face tyranny.

Don't think he has to worry much about many people reading that book

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (VE6XX)

238 He took it out.

Posted by: Janet Woodcock at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (wVcYX)

239 DEATH TO THE FRENCH!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (yy9ow)

Sadly, that's half me.
But I agree!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

It bugs me how we have to call the language the Quebecers speak as "French Canadian" instead of normal English "Canadian French."

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

240 Totenkopf is what Deaths Head?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (+U7B7)

241 237 220 Stephen Colbert worries that people might read Karine Jean-Pierre's book and become an independent, "Do you recommend everyone leave the party, and if so where do they go? Because organization is how you face tyranny.

Don't think he has to worry much about many people reading that book
Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (VE6XX)

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10,000 Democrats will buy it.

Out of that 10,000, 1,000 may skim it.

Can't lose that 1,000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

242 The thought of a grown adult imagining that he is facing "tyranny" while openly holding court for an hour on live television on one of the "Big 3" networks, and knowing that once the show is over he will collect this stuff and calmly drive home to his luxury residence...astounds me. I mean I *know* they're dumb, but I once imagined that even dumb had its limits.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

They're not dumb, they are lying. Always assume they are lying to try and fool other dumb people.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (E0p3T)

243 No matter what, it was great to see you in such good health. Cheers!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (tT6L1)

Thanks, I'm doing fine. If I was doing any better I would be embarrassed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:56 PM (snZF9)

244 SW somewhere Raggity Karine threw the Auto-Pen administration under the bus

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 04:56 PM (+qU29)

245 Just a reminder that today is the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

DEATH TO THE FRENCH!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:51 PM (yy9ow)

If I recall, there were a fair number of Spanish ships involved too.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (kanec)

246 Totenkopf is what Deaths Head?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (+U7B7)
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Yes.

3rd SS Panzer Division

Also worn by tankers in the Heer.

And by concentration camp guards.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (yy9ow)

247 Totenkopf is what Deaths Head?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Totemkopf. One of those big carved poles that the German Indians put up.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

248
I suggested earlier that there are only two explanations--they were on the take, or they were stock-holders in the very industry they were charged to regulate.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (TN0g+)

We learned so much we were probably happier to unknow since 9-11.

And then "Covid" rips away so many more layers.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (Sco7b)

249 246 Totenkopf is what Deaths Head?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (+U7B7)
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Yes.

3rd SS Panzer Division

Also worn by tankers in the Heer.

And by concentration camp guards.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (yy9ow)

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I liked him in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

250 If I recall, there were a fair number of Spanish ships involved too.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (kanec)
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Yep. But they were under overall French command.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:58 PM (yy9ow)

251 Tyranny, heh.

Gonna be tough to run another color revolution without control of social media and deep state funding.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:58 PM (viF8m)

252 Maybe we can get the Left to focus on this a little if we change the name of the drug to Epsteinaminophen.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 04:58 PM (E0p3T)

253 I mean I *know* they're dumb, but I once imagined that even dumb had its limits.

Every hour of every day, the tv networks offer conclusive proof that rock bottom has a sub-basement.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 21, 2025 04:58 PM (fFFrU)

254 I miss being innocent

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 04:59 PM (Sco7b)

255 If you experience an erection lasting longer than four hours, try Woodcock...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 21, 2025 04:59 PM (sjg9c)

256 HMS Victory still is.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (+U7B7)

257 For those wondering what must have been up with the FDA that day remember they are the ones who pushed the Food Pyramid.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (E0p3T)

258 Yes.

3rd SS Panzer Division

Also worn by tankers in the Heer.

And by concentration camp guards.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (yy9ow)
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Originally adopted by the Duke of Brunswick, whose lands were overrun by Napoleon. His troops dressed all in black, with the silver skull cap badges.

Nazis were copycats.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)

259 Fun fact: The three white stripes on the cuff and neck flap of the Navy enlisteds' dress blues represent Nelson's three victories at the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (77rzZ)

260 Totenkopf is what Deaths Head?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:55 PM (+U7B7)
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Yes.

3rd SS Panzer Division

Also worn by tankers in the Heer.

And by concentration camp guards.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 04:57 PM (yy9ow)


I had one on a guitar strap for years. Asshole younger me saw it in a place that sold pins and I said ooooh pirate. (facepalm)

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (snZF9)

261
Don't think he has to worry much about many people reading that book
Posted by: It's me donna

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

Latrine John-Pissoir starting a movement, lolol.

She's having a hard enough time defending her failure to sound the alarm on Biden's dementia, thus delivering the White House to Trump.

From what I can tell, her exit from the Dem party is actually a flight so she can say "Don't blame me for anything -- the party failed to fight."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:01 PM (ldc7S)

262 I miss being innocent
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Yes. I miss being naive too. Even when I lost my innocence, there was still a time where I was naive and yet relatively happy.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

263 261 Latrine John-Pissoir starting a movement, lolol.

She's having a hard enough time defending her failure to sound the alarm on Biden's dementia, thus delivering the White House to Trump.

From what I can tell, her exit from the Dem party is actually a flight so she can say "Don't blame me for anything -- the party failed to fight."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:01 PM (ldc7S)

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I think there's a real sensation on the left that their movement is just shrinking. Everyday, it's just a little bit smaller.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

264 "My theory on "why do some people get cancer from something and not others" is that your immune system is regularly killing cancerous/precancerous cells."

I once heard some evangelical claim cancer was caused by devil spirits (a life of its own). But I like the "low carb kills cancer cells" theory, along with Ivermectin and fenbendazole kills cancer theories better.

The evil "Food Pyramid" from the Evil Ones forced bad diet upon us, plus kids are a little too glues to their screens now.

Sure, there are benefits to internet learning and the most secluded don't have to attend a Charlie Kirk rally, they can see it on the internet and be transformed. But exercise is still vital, along with correct diet, and proper vitamin protocol (as opposed to BigPharma keeping you medicated and sick).

Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (vbXSk)

265 Nazis were copycats.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hitler loved Napoleon. He was the one who had Napoleon II moved from his tomb in Vienna to lie next to his father in Paris.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)

266 I had one on a guitar strap for years. Asshole younger me saw it in a place that sold pins and I said ooooh pirate. (facepalm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (snZF9)
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That was its origin - exiled troopers becoming pirates. The British serving along with them called them "Death or Glory Men."

Nazis ruin everything.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (ZOv7s)

267 From what I can tell, her exit from the Dem party is actually a flight so she can say "Don't blame me for anything -- the party failed to fight."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:01 PM (ldc7S)

Looks to me like she wants to move to the next man up from the DNC, who will somehow claim to be an "outsider".

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (E0p3T)

268 Kohler Just Unveiled a Toilet Camera

Kohler, best known for its plumbing products including toilets and faucets, is entering the photography game with a camera that goes inside a toilet and analyzes photos of people’s stool.

https://is.gd/2C7MEo

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)


You have Lupus. -- your toilet

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (ExV1e)

269 Originally adopted by the Duke of Brunswick, whose lands were overrun by Napoleon. His troops dressed all in black, with the silver skull cap badges.
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Also because his father was killed at Auerstadt.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 05:03 PM (yy9ow)

270 Its the same every year. I swore I would try to see every name tag this year. I see some posting here that said they were there and I still missed them. I need to sit on a bar stool and block the entrance with sign over me that says "Before you enter, show this idiot your name tag"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (snZF9)


Whew! Now I don't feel so bad - it usually takes me 3-4 years to link a face to a name at the Texas MoMe! I will remember one or both, but putting them together consistently still eludes me.

This year, I got to claim "cancer/chemo brain" 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 21, 2025 05:03 PM (SRRAx)

271 You have Lupus. -- your toilet
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Damn, Dude, Taco Bell AGAIN?!?!
-- Your toilet

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

272 >>They're not dumb, they are lying. Always assume they are lying to try and fool other dumb people.

They are laying the foundation for a color revolution.

Tyranny, fascists, Nazis .. It's all to help justify their actions.

Who wouldn't take drastic steps to get rid of Nazis?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:04 PM (viF8m)

273 Oxycontin is a great drug, very useful for the long-term control of pain. The regulatory failure was not in the approval, but in not watching what the hell Perdue was up to.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 05:04 PM (1jBX9)

274 Kohler is German, right?

My only thought is, if this is a German company, I'm surprised they didn't get around to it sooner.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 05:04 PM (tT6L1)

275
Don't think he has to worry much about many people reading that book
Posted by: It's me donna

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Plus the fact that she doesn't name names. Just more "a senior official tried to sabotage me." All the probing interview questions get "I can't speak to that."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 05:05 PM (ldc7S)

276 I had one on a guitar strap for years. Asshole younger me saw it in a place that sold pins and I said ooooh pirate. (facepalm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:00 PM (snZF9)
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That was its origin - exiled troopers becoming pirates. The British serving along with them called them "Death or Glory Men."

Nazis ruin everything.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:02 PM (ZOv7s)

Jeez, I guess so. I learned something new. The funny thing is nobody ever questioned it. Frigging metal heads all saw it like I did. wow dude, cool skull *toke*. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:05 PM (snZF9)

277 Today Kami Harris said she does not support the "No Kings" Protest.

She further commented by saying that the Sacramento Kings Basketball Team is good and she supports the Kings.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (J9q9v)

278 274 Kohler is German, right?

My only thought is, if this is a German company, I'm surprised they didn't get around to it sooner.
Posted by: blake
.............................
From Wisconsin, I think.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (sAmhv)

279 The thought of a grown adult imagining that he is facing "tyranny" while openly holding court for an hour on live television on one of the "Big 3" networks, and knowing that once the show is over he will collect this stuff and calmly drive home to his luxury residence...astounds me. I mean I *know* they're dumb, but I once imagined that even dumb had its limits.
Posted by: Crusader

He doesn’t believe any of it. But he knows his audience is full of cretins who do. So he gives them what they want.

See also Rach Maddow.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (PGEno)

280 Kohler. You're full of $hit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (+U7B7)

281 271 You have Lupus. -- your toilet
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Damn, Dude, Taco Bell AGAIN?!?!
-- Your toilet

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

"Another asshole..."

Posted by: Kohler Toilet at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (ynpvh)

282 Totenkopf. I used to go to a gunsmith in Ohio, Latvian guy, WW2 vet. He had a picture of himself in uniform that I never paid much attention too. Guy used to brag about killing many Commies. Dad rode over one time and after we left he said "Look at that picture and the skull and crossbones. That fucker (rare for Dad to use expletive) was no common soldier". Found out later any of the Baltic SS units were bad news.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (gm9Sb)

283 I think there should be a No Queens protest IYKWIM

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (E0p3T)

284 OT: The Irish are revolroiting.
youtu.be/gNx-gnfqFTw
Some diversity recently did an unconsensual with a ten year old.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (gKWVE)

285 >>That was its origin - exiled troopers becoming pirates. The British serving along with them called them "Death or Glory Men."

Every pirate captain had their own flag. Some of them are great.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (viF8m)

286 I remember that the throuple congresschick from California had a tattoo of the Iron Cross on the inside of her thigh. Dolts were calling it a "swastika," but the Iron Cross predated Hitler. Dates from Frederick der Grosse, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

287 Some diversity recently did an unconsensual with a ten year old.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (gKWVE)


How dare you question their culture?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (PGEno)

288 Orange man bad and crazy RFK strike again. Just followin' the deep state censored science to a logical conclusion.

Posted by: Dantes at October 21, 2025 05:08 PM (IZ7RB)

289 I know what you just ate during Lent. To the confessional with you!

Posted by: Your Catholic Toilet at October 21, 2025 05:08 PM (gKWVE)

290 Totenkopf. I used to go to a gunsmith in Ohio, Latvian guy, WW2 vet. He had a picture of himself in uniform that I never paid much attention too. Guy used to brag about killing many Commies. Dad rode over one time and after we left he said "Look at that picture and the skull and crossbones. That fucker (rare for Dad to use expletive) was no common soldier". Found out later any of the Baltic SS units were bad news.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (gm9Sb)
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Back in the 70s a guy ran for state representative as an WW II Air Force veteran. Turned out he flew for the Luftwaffe!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:08 PM (ZOv7s)

291 Kohler is German, right?

My only thought is, if this is a German company, I'm surprised they didn't get around to it sooner.
Posted by: blake
.............................
From Wisconsin, I think.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 05:06 PM (sAmhv)

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I rest my case.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 05:08 PM (tT6L1)

292 271 You have Lupus. -- your toilet
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Damn, Dude, Taco Bell AGAIN?!?!
-- Your toilet
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

Chipotle: When you absolutely, positively, have to empty your bowels now.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 05:08 PM (urtE/)

293 Every pirate captain had their own flag. Some of them are great.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (viF8m)------------
AoSHQ's is based on Calico Jack Rackham's.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 05:08 PM (yy9ow)

294 Was the throuple congresswymyn Katie Porter?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 05:09 PM (PGEno)

295 "The science was what we said it was, and we are the government so the science is what we say it is, and if you question government science you should have your testicles burned off with a blowtorch, but now a new guy from the government is saying the science is different, and so the government actually can be wrong about science - but just this once. Science. I'm sciencing right now."

--- Government Scientist

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:09 PM (BI5O2)

296 Innocence? *nudge, nudge, wink, wink*.
Don't miss it.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 05:09 PM (1jBX9)

297 I remember that the throuple congresschick from California had a tattoo of the Iron Cross on the inside of her thigh. Dolts were calling it a "swastika," but the Iron Cross predated Hitler. Dates from Frederick der Grosse, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)
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She gave her thigh an award for military bravery?

Who was she screwing?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

298 I remember that the throuple congresschick from California had a tattoo of the Iron Cross on the inside of her thigh. Dolts were calling it a "swastika," but the Iron Cross predated Hitler. Dates from Frederick der Grosse, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)
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The Pour le Merite dates from Frederick. The Iron Cross dates from the Liberation. The pre-Nazi ones had a crown and "1813" device on them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (yy9ow)

299 The top guy on our bowling team claimed to be the Duke of Brunswick.

Posted by: Wally at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (s1WXH)

300 297 I remember that the throuple congresschick from California had a tattoo of the Iron Cross on the inside of her thigh. Dolts were calling it a "swastika," but the Iron Cross predated Hitler. Dates from Frederick der Grosse, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)
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She gave her thigh an award for military bravery?

Who was she screwing?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

I would ponder a guess, but I'd be winging it...

Posted by: Kohler Toilet at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (ynpvh)

301 I be getting one of those toilet cameras!

Posted by: Zombie Chuck Berry, Pervert at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (R/m4+)

302 I need to go back to practicing my weight class for tomorrow. I am incredibly angry about this, on top of the Covid situation. Will there be anything done? I doubt it.

Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (pZEOD)

303 >>AoSHQ's is based on Calico Jack Rackham's.

Yo Ho.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

304 So OT.

I have been trying something the past few days. 20 mins sun exposure. Just sitting out on the balcony facing the sun. Saw it recommended. Could be psychosomatic, but I kind of like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (zZu0s)

305 These finding regarding Tylenol definitely answers lots of questions about today's Democrats.

Their birthing persons must have eaten Tylenol like candy when they were parasitically infected by a biological male.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (J9q9v)

306 Was the throuple congresswymyn Katie Porter?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Katie something. But not the Tina Cole character on My Three Sons or the cute girl that Tom Cruise married aftet Nicole.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

307 The Pour le Merite dates from Frederick. The Iron Cross dates from the Liberation. The pre-Nazi ones had a crown and "1813" device on them.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (yy9ow)
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It's based on the Maltese Cross, still used by the Knights Hospitaller.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (ZOv7s)

308 off sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (ynpvh)

309 Whew! Now I don't feel so bad - it usually takes me 3-4 years to link a face to a name at the Texas MoMe! I will remember one or both, but putting them together consistently still eludes me.

This year, I got to claim "cancer/chemo brain" 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 21, 2025 05:03 PM (SRRAx)

Well it seems to take me that long too. I have to actually talk to the person and then I'm good. Just seeing the person and hearing the name don't register.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (snZF9)

310 290 I was member of a Legion post that had a guy like that, and he was a USAF vet. At age 16 he was scheduled to graduate from gliders to Heinkel Salamander. Peace broke out, he had lost his family to bombings and made it to the US where he enlisted after a period of time. Interesting guy, got out on a medical after 10 years or so. Used to say he was so happy to see M4 Shermans at the main gate to the airfield.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:12 PM (gm9Sb)

311 Calico Jack Rackham. Shouldn't there be a Captain in there somewhere?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:13 PM (+U7B7)

312 Anyone see that Chairman Xi just sacked 9 generals, including the commander of the Rocket Force and the commander of the Armed National Police?

Reservists are being called up and stuff. Strange rumblings in Beijing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

313 The Pour le Merite dates from Frederick. The Iron Cross dates from the Liberation. The pre-Nazi ones had a crown and "1813" device on them.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 05:10 PM (yy9ow)
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It's based on the Maltese Cross, still used by the Knights Hospitaller.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

My late father-in-law knew all about German military insignia. He would've known this.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

314 Characteristic smugging behavior.....

A line worthy of David Attenborough.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (mxf27)

315 Calico Jack Rackham. Shouldn't there be a Captain in there somewhere?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:13 PM (+U7B7)
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Apparently, just a preference for cool and comfortable clothing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (yy9ow)

316 Was the throuple congresswymyn Katie Porter?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Katie something. But not the Tina Cole character on My Three Sons or the cute girl that Tom Cruise married aftet Nicole.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

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Katie Hill.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (IxmwC)

317 Hey, Teresa, good to see you!

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (77rzZ)

318
Strange rumblings in Beijing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

I dug a hole to China - that's just me taking a dump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

319 Katie Porter a great representative of today's ans future California women.

Farrah Fawcett, Pam Anderson, etc. were the California Bikini Babes of the past.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (J9q9v)

320 234 Must be a lot of money in Tylenol
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

Consider how fast it made a comeback after the poisoning scandal. They always marketed it as safer than aspirin. That was always a lie. Liver toxicity will get you long before aspirin eats holes in your stomach.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 05:15 PM (urtE/)

321 138 1. It's terrible they suppressed this info on Tylenol

2. There are some benefits to autism, they can be math savants, for example.

3. The conservative case for causing autism in babies.

David French
Posted by: illiniwek at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (vbXSk)

This is AUTISTIC GENOCIDE!!!!

Posted by: Disorders are identities now at October 21, 2025 05:15 PM (TbWk/)

322 Farrah Fawcett, Pam Anderson, etc. were the California Bikini Babes of the past.
Posted by: Jackson K.

Don't forget Annette Funicello.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)

323 Kohler could save cable tv.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 05:16 PM (+U7B7)

324 The science was what we said it was

-
Paleontology, now that's science!

https://is.gd/WnalkC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 05:16 PM (L/fGl)

325 Fookking tylenol

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 21, 2025 05:16 PM (dE3DB)

326 Nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 05:17 PM (ExV1e)

327 @247 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/864268984717115504/

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 21, 2025 05:17 PM (zdLoL)

328 I dug a hole to China - that's just me taking a dump.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Which some restaurant in Beijing is immediately gonna incorporate into one of its recipes.

Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

329 NOOD Traitor

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 05:17 PM (IxmwC)

330 312 Anyone see that Chairman Xi just sacked 9 generals, including the commander of the Rocket Force and the commander of the Armed National Police?

Reservists are being called up and stuff. Strange rumblings in Beijing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

China and India were shootin at each other a couple months ago...

A couple weeks ago it was Pakistan vs. India.

Thailand and Cambodia have been shootin...

China and Viet Nam have problems in the South China Sea...

This week it was Afghanies vs Pakistan...

Whole region is a powder keg.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (mP0Kj)

331 313 I've heard the Nazi "first 100,000 member pin" is among the rarest of Third Reich decorations (granted not military). You can bet your ass those babies were getting thrown in the lake or flushed down the can most ricky tick as allied formations approached.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (gm9Sb)

332 Katie Porter a great representative of today's ans future California women.

Farrah Fawcett, Pam Anderson, etc. were the California Bikini Babes of the past.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 05:14 PM (J9q9v)

So now they leave the beach and become buoys.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 05:18 PM (snZF9)

333 Consider how fast it made a comeback after the poisoning scandal. They always marketed it as safer than aspirin. That was always a lie. Liver toxicity will get you long before aspirin eats holes in your stomach.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 05:15 PM (urtE/)
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I grew up taking children's chewable aspirin, which was superseded by Tylenol because of the dreaded Rye's Syndrome.

Basically my entire childhood was a duel with death, riding bikes without helmets, no seatbelt laws, and we ate eggs and greasy food rather than stuffing carbs into our faces.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 21, 2025 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

334 Farrah Fawcett, Pam Anderson, etc. were the California Bikini Babes of the past.
Posted by: Jackson K.

Don't forget Annette Funicello.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)

Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield, and Marilyn Monroe all say, "Harumph!"

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (wVcYX)

335 Strange rumblings in Beijing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Video from China, lots of AFV.

https://is.gd/tFEdmV

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 05:20 PM (L/fGl)

336 You usually would not start a war by purging a bunch of general staff. Unless you are Stalin right before Barbarossa. It did not go well. Was not exactly his choice either, but it probably did not help in any way shape or fashion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

337 NOOD

Posted by: Max Power at October 21, 2025 05:23 PM (q177U)

338 The kidney stone surgery that was supposed to happen in the AM the day before kept getting postponed throughout the day for other cases until finally the surgical staff was sent home for the day. So I had to stay in the hospital overnight. The good stuff they gave me earlier wore off. I was curled up into fetal position in the hospital bed, moaning, for hours. The nurses were sympathetic, but no meds until the duty doctor for the floor perscribed something. They finally gave me perscription level Tylenol with oxycodone or something. Finally had surgery that day. It failed. They had to do it again in a few weeks time.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 21, 2025 05:24 PM (Dv3i1)

339 It bugs me how we have to call the language the Quebecers speak as "French Canadian" instead of normal English "Canadian French."
Posted by: Bulg
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Quebecois. Laughed at by every right-thinking Parisian. Of course, they also laugh at people from Marseille.
We had a friend (war bride, literally) who, on returning from a trip to Quebec said, "I could understand one word in ten. Those people don't speak French!"

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (1jBX9)

340 Tylenol and alcohol is a deadly combo - with a very low LD-50. Guess what Nyquil is. Incredible.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 05:42 PM (Da7Vv)

341 "I could understand one word in ten. Those people don't speak French!" Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 05:28 PM (1jBX9)

My aunt grew up in Canada and learned "french". Then moved to Paris thinking, "I'll be just fine".

Everyone she met had no idea what she was saying and treated her like she was somehow retarded.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 21, 2025 06:07 PM (gDhA9)

342 JFC, as a doctor, I rely on FDA recommendations. No way to keep up with every drug. To find out it might have been safer to give Oxycontin to pregnant women over Tylenol is F'ing ridiculous.
I tell my patients, do not trust experts, do not trust the CDC, do not trust your doctor, even me.
As Dr Phil might say, let's get real.

Posted by: PTSD giver at October 21, 2025 08:22 PM (yYYCR)

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Posted by: VIAGRA FOR YOU at October 22, 2025 10:42 PM (+UAYX)

National Gas Price Average Falls Below $3/Gallon for First Time Since... Trump's Last Term in Office

BuT wHaT aBoUt TrUmP's PrOmIsE tO rEdUcE iNfLaTiOn


Gas prices have dropped under $3 a gallon nationwide for the first time since 2020 -- a milestone the Trump administration is crediting to its aggressive push for American energy dominance and expanded domestic production.

According to GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan, the national average hit $2.99 on Monday -- the earliest in years that prices have fallen below the $3 mark. "Gas prices have finally fallen below $3 per gallon nationally -- the earliest date we've seen a $2.99 national average since 2020, when COVID was the primary driver of low prices," De Haan said, adding that 35 states now report averages under $2.99 per gallon. He noted that GasBuddy even recorded a $1.99 cash price in Evans, Colorado, with Oklahoma and Texas stations close behind.

De Haan attributed part of the trend to increased oil production by OPEC+, but many in Washington are pointing to President Trump's pro-energy policies as the real catalyst. The White House released a statement Monday touting the achievement as a direct result of Trump's commitment to "unleashing American energy production" and reversing what it called "years of Biden-induced economic disaster."


...

During Biden's tenure, gas prices soared to record highs, peaking at $4.60 a gallon in 2022 -- a 45 percent increase from when he took office. At the time, Biden blamed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the surge.


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1 e4t5bw4tb

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (ldc7S)

2 Now, here, hold my Chardonay!

Signed... California

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (mP0Kj)

3
Elric the Blade is defeated.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (ldc7S)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:11 PM (p/Ri7)

5 You also notice they've stopped talking about eggs since they've dropped WAY down compared to where they were under Biden when he was running roughshod killing every chicken in site for 2 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (p/Ri7)

6
Now, here, hold my Chardonay!

Signed... California
Posted by: Romeo13

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How much is it in your area? My local Costco, the dirt-cheapest, is $4.36/gallon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (ldc7S)

7 Top 10

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (TN0g+)

8 California? $4.45 average right now...

Yeah us!!! Clearly we are supporting the oil and gas industry!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (mP0Kj)

9 $2.39 at the right place at the right time in Oklahoma.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (TN0g+)

10 Elric the Blade is defeated.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (ldc7S)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (p/Ri7)

11 I paid 2.499 in lexington, sunday.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

12 Gas has gotten as low as $2.29 in my neck of the woods.

THANK YOU, SHEETZ!!!

(although Shell was back up to $3.19 today, those damned EuroBastards!!!)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 21, 2025 03:13 PM (wtvvX)

13 I actually paid below $3 a gallon for diesel on the way to the TxMoMe last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:13 PM (p/Ri7)

14 At the time, Biden blamed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the surge.

Those darn Russians were, for a time, almost as magical as teh Jooz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 03:13 PM (ULPxl)

15 They're NEVER going to be under $3 gallon in MY STATE.

Posted by: gruesom Newsom at October 21, 2025 03:14 PM (KtOUo)

16 California? $4.45 average right now...

Yeah us!!! Clearly we are supporting the oil and gas industry!
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (mP0Kj)



Aren't you due for another Newsom approved tax hike on fuel to hit very soon?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:14 PM (p/Ri7)

17 How much is it in your area? My local Costco, the dirt-cheapest, is $4.36/gallon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (ldc7S)

My local station is $4.59... pretty average for my town, but we have to pay for the expensive enviro blend because the Bay Area Smog blows down the Valley.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:14 PM (mP0Kj)

18 The last time the average US gas price was under $2.00/gallon -- other than during the Plandemic -- was February 2016.

Gas prices typically go down in November each year. Lower demand than during summer (lots of Americans travel for summer trips). Switch to winter blend, which is cheaper to produce than summer blend. Among other factors.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 03:14 PM (P5BPp)

19
In my accelerationist frenzy, I, a Californian, am looking forward to the consequences of Governor Winsome's fossil fuel fobia. I'd like to know what De Haan's projections are for Cali gas prices in 2026.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:14 PM (ldc7S)

20 You know, maybe we need to talk about the Moby grape and chick's with big tits more.

I seem to recall the old folks always talking about the weather and what they gave the last place they bought gas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)

21 Elric the Blade is defeated.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (ldc7S)


*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (p/Ri7)
____

The Blade cannot be defeated. He can be forced into tactical retreat, yes. But never defeated. He is eternal. Like the stars.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

22 the earliest in years that prices have fallen below the $3 mark.

Early relative to what?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (/HDaX)

23 Aren't you due for another Newsom approved tax hike on fuel to hit very soon?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:14 PM (p/Ri7)

Nah, Newsome wants us to be just like the EU, so we're burning down Refineries!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (mP0Kj)

24 Chris Christie thread?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (+U7B7)

25 would that reduce the massive per gallon tax we pay in PA tho?

nope. it will not.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (emBoF)

26 We talkin' gas? Because I have a real problem with it.

You should see my underwear bill!

Posted by: Jeremey Nadler at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

27
The Blade cannot be defeated. He can be forced into tactical retreat, yes. But never defeated. He is eternal. Like the stars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)



Then you should be good in starting your own schtick instead of stealing others and claiming you're some kind of Nintendo level boss...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (p/Ri7)

28 21 Elric the Blade is defeated.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (ldc7S)


*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (p/Ri7)

The Blade cannot be defeated. He can be forced into tactical retreat, yes. But never defeated. He is eternal. Like the stars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

Blade is Ozymandius? Who woulda guessed?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

29 If Kaiser Drumff really wants to explore alternate energy sources, he should reestablish whaling ports on Nantucket and Maaahhhhthuh's Vinyard. Whale oil is organic and stuff! 🐳

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (kpS4V)

30 I saw $2.34/gal in Mississippi. Unfortunately I had just filled up at $2.54.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)

31 I remember dollar/gallon gas prior to Shrub and Oblahblah

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

32 15 They're NEVER going to be under $3 gallon in MY STATE.


nor mine

rrrrrr

oh and our roads are still hell

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (emBoF)

33 People tend to drive more the warmer it is?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (+U7B7)

34 "Not to fear fellow Commies -- it's only a transitory deflation until we can still another election!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (uy4P1)

35 According to GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan, the national average hit $2.99 on Monday -- the earliest in years that prices have fallen below the $3 mark.

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GasBuddy is full of shit, by the way.

It's populated by users, and the dude is a massive Democrat dead ender who lashes out at people online who post pictures of low gas prices that aren't on his site.

He does this a lot to people in the San Antonio area, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

36 Always at least $2 higher here. Thanks, Gavin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (dtQZx)

37 Then you should be good in starting your own schtick instead of stealing others and claiming you're some kind of Nintendo level boss...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (p/Ri7)

Wait, are you trying to claim some sort of copyright?!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (zZu0s)

38 I got gas for around the mid $2.50s on the mome road trip. I think buc-ees in kentucky was the cheapest, maybe the $2.40s if I remember right. I was using shell V power for a few of the stops when that was reasonable. I love that gas. Still, mid $2.50s was nice. Some of the stops only costed $20.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (snZF9)

39 But what of the price of eggs?

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (jc0TO)

40 I hope that cheap gas gets to Western WA soon.
Still around $4 a gallon even at Costco

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (xcxpd)

41 The left: Of course gas prices have to go up

Also the left: Trump hasn't lowered gas to a dollar/gallon yet because he is owned by big oil!

Also, also the left: What do you mean gas is more expensive in blue states. Like the states have any effect on the price of gas you Russian bot!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

42 Wait, are you trying to claim some sort of copyright?!?

And why?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (Riz8t)

43 I live in Illinois, so the odds of ever seeing gas below 3 bucks is slim to none.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (22p5n)

44 Thank you to all the hard working people in The US Department Of Energy!

The US Department of Energy is pioneering the future and leading the world in cutting-edge research and innovation.

Can we get a round of applause please!

Posted by: Bob And Shirley Chipeska, federal employees at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (R/m4+)

45 Well, Trump does not have a magic wand or anything.

Posted by: President Clean & Articulate at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (wVcYX)

46
He does this a lot to people in the San Antonio area, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)



So, he's the fuel equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes, then.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (p/Ri7)

47 Trump is king of the USA,
Lowering prices every day,
Shipping illegals off our shores,
And bombing the shit out of Antifa whores.

BURMA SHAVE

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (wtvvX)

48 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (22p5n)


*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (p/Ri7)

49 Then you should be good in starting your own schtick instead of stealing others and claiming you're some kind of Nintendo level boss...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (p/Ri7)

Wait, are you trying to claim some sort of copyright?!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM/i]

In fairness, he was .... First!

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (jc0TO)

50 GasBuddy shows average gas price in California is ~$4.60.

January of 2020, prior to the Plandemic, it was ~$3.60.

It reached an average high of ~$6.40 in June of 2022.

Here in Michigan, average price today is ~$3.03.

For some reason, that is a spike from ~$2.76 just 2 days ago.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (P5BPp)

51 Still fluctuate in se Pa $3.15- 30

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (+qU29)

52 dammit

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (jc0TO)

53 In fact, I am trying to ban dirty fuel entirely.

Posted by: gruesom Newsom at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (KtOUo)

54 It's right around $3.60 here. Not bad at all considering where it was under the Biden fiasco.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (urtE/)

55 28 21 Elric the Blade is defeated.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:10 PM (ldc7S)


*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (p/Ri7)

The Blade cannot be defeated. He can be forced into tactical retreat, yes. But never defeated. He is eternal. Like the stars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

Blade is Ozymandius? Who woulda guessed?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

Look on his works, ye mighty, and dispair

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)

56 Trump is king of the USA,
Lowering prices every day,
Shipping illegals off our shores,
And bombing the shit out of Antifa whores.

BURMA SHAVE


Golf clap

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

57 I remember dollar/gallon gas prior to Shrub and Oblahblah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

Cheapest I ever paid was .97 per gallon on my motorcycle in high school.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (zZu0s)

58 I dont care about the average. It is still $3.60 a gallon here in AZ. I'm tired of hearing how good the economy is because of averages and how well the stock market is doing. Working class folks are still paying out their arse for the essentials to get by. Dont get me started on the struggles my kids face trying to leave the nest for the first time.

Posted by: TheLastPatriot at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (1ufgs)

59 46
He does this a lot to people in the San Antonio area, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)


So, he's the fuel equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes, then.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (p/Ri7)

======

Absolute flameout a few months ago against @TonerousHyus who posted 1.99 gas at a pump he stopped at in that part of Texas.

Closeness to refineries seems to be advantageous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

60 Despair, sir.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (zZu0s)

61 Blade is Ozymandius? Who woulda guessed?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)


Just watch out for naked blue glowing guys ok?

Posted by: Rorschach at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

62 Eggs are on sale at Kroger next weekend for $1.50 a dozen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (+U7B7)

63 Wait, are you trying to claim some sort of copyright?!?

And why?
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I always thought the words I leave here were mine and copyright-protected. I imagined I would some day retire off of "Fundamentally non-serious" and the oxford comma thingy I came up with earlier today. I'm going to have rethink some things if that's not the case.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (TN0g+)

64 I missed the shutdown thread. I think Duffy should authorize the ATC to charge the airlines a per flight surcharge to pay the traffic controllers during the shutdown.

And a bit on topic, if gas is cheaper people can take a driving vacation instead of flying somewhere. I am loving the lower prices at the pump, but diesel is still high at most stations that have space for a big trailer and especially at full on truck stops.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (kdHU2)

65 "Gas prices have finally fallen below $3 per gallon nationally — the earliest date we’ve seen a $2.99 national average since 2020, when COVID was the primary driver of low prices," De Haan said.

Wtf is this guy trying to say? This is barely English.

Is he talking about this being the first time gas has EVER been below $3 since 2020? Or the earliest date in the year that prices have been below $3? Prices usually rise during summer and then drop off.

And wtf is he talking about saying Covid drove down gas prices? I don't remember that at all.

I think this guy is a retard.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

66 58 I dont care about the average. It is still $3.60 a gallon here in AZ. I'm tired of hearing how good the economy is because of averages and how well the stock market is doing. Working class folks are still paying out their arse for the essentials to get by. Dont get me started on the struggles my kids face trying to leave the nest for the first time.


it's not fun. I have one with 2 roommates still paying $1300/month and another with 1 roommate paying $1100.

it's painful for them, definitely

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (emBoF)

67 Sponge!!

I do miss Texas gas prices...*sigh*

Gotta cross the river into MO for gas below 3 bucks, which is why Ex-ex usually fills up there.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (22p5n)

68 Wait, are you trying to claim some sort of copyright?!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (zZu0s)



No. I said schtick. Gimmick. Thing.

Do your own, don't steal others.....but whatever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (p/Ri7)

69 Despair is in the trunk.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (+U7B7)

70 The Blade cannot be defeated. He can be forced into tactical retreat, yes. But never defeated. He is eternal. Like the stars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

Blade is Ozymandius? Who woulda guessed?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

Look on his works, ye mighty, and dispair
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)

Despair? or... /grabs his crotch

DIS pair...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (mP0Kj)

71 63 Wait, are you trying to claim some sort of copyright?!?

And why?
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I always thought the words I leave here were mine and copyright-protected. I imagined I would some day retire off of "Fundamentally non-serious" and the oxford comma thingy I came up with earlier today. I'm going to have rethink some things if that's not the case.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (TN0g+)

=======

"This is important! If you place this message in your Facebook feed, Facebook won't own any of your messages!"
-a few years back

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

72
Always at least $2 higher here. Thanks, Gavin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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Another point I can't wait to see in the Winsome/Vance debates in 2028. Winsome seems to be trying to prevent a predicted price spike by begging the exiting gas companies (Valero and Chevron as I recall) to stick around, so he'll probably either force through a subsidy or blame Big Oil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (ldc7S)

73 I always thought the words I leave here were mine and copyright-protected. I imagined I would some day retire off of "Fundamentally non-serious" and the oxford comma thingy I came up with earlier today. I'm going to have rethink some things if that's not the case.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM


You have to change your sig.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

74 California? $4.45 average right now...

I’m guessing California gas prices sell a lot gas in Yuma. I know I make it a point to fill up there (often after having pozole at Los Manjares de Pepe. (No relation to the frog as far as I know.) And then time it to fill up again on the way back.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (EXyHK)

75 1999. Dearborn Michigan.

$0.99 US a gallon.

My Canadian head almost exploded.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (Sco7b)

76 Lowest I paid going from Apache Junction to the Tx MoMee and back was $2.42, some place in Texas. Filled up for 2.95 in Casa Grande, AZ on the return leg. Local gas price here is $3.29 or worse.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (8zz6B)

77 I dont care about the average. It is still $3.60 a gallon here in AZ. I'm tired of hearing how good the economy is because of averages and how well the stock market is doing. Working class folks are still paying out their arse for the essentials to get by. Dont get me started on the struggles my kids face trying to leave the nest for the first time.
Posted by: TheLastPatriot
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This^^^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (22p5n)

78 No. I said schtick. Gimmick. Thing.

Do your own, don't steal others.....but whatever.


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE...AH, HELL, I DON'T KNOW.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (Riz8t)

79 The Blade cannot be defeated. He can be forced into tactical retreat, yes. But never defeated. He is eternal. Like the stars.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

Blade is Ozymandius? Who woulda guessed?
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

Look on his works, ye mighty, and dispair
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)

Despair? or... /grabs his crotch

DIS pair...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:21 PM (mP0Kj)
_______

[Golf clap]

DEEZ NUTS

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

80 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (yy9ow)

81 And why?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 03:18 PM (Riz8t)

Could be for third person and/or for always coming first (not a good brag, guys.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (zZu0s)

82 I think that the last time I saw gas under a dollar was 1992, maybe.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

83 I'm tired of hearing how good the economy is because of averages and how well the stock market is doing

Since Trump's election if the stock market is up it shows he is controlled by the rich and if it is down it shows he has destroyed the economy.

Amusingly under the Junta it was reversed - if stocks were up it was a sign that Joe has fixed everything and if they were down it was a sign that Joe cared about normal people not the rich.

Now, the stock market is a poor proxy for the economy overall, but a significant portion of the population has some stock holdings (especially if you consider 401ks) so you do want to see consistent growth, but yeah, the FNM pays too much attention to it.

Posted by: Rorschach at October 21, 2025 03:23 PM (sKqQm)

84 I can't remember back that far.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:23 PM (+U7B7)

85 I was pleasantly surprised at the cost of gas in TX for the MoMe. But I was more pleasantly surprised at the cost of ammo. We paid about 1/3 of the cost there as we do here. Made all that lovely plinking an even better experience.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:23 PM (urtE/)

86 I saw gas for 1.36 at a Kroger during the height of the shutdown here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:23 PM (zZu0s)

87 $2.54 per gallon at Wal-Mart station this morning. With Hubbymayhem employee discount, we filled up for $2.44 per gallon. Lowest prices in a long damn time.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 21, 2025 03:24 PM (2J/Lj)

88 Biden laid the groundwork for this, drove the ball 99.9 yards, and Trump went the last two inches.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 03:24 PM (uWTh9)

89 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (yy9ow)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:24 PM (p/Ri7)

90 I fill up every three or four months.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:24 PM (+U7B7)

91 $5.40 for mid grade here in central coast CA.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (UjdFS)

92 88 Biden laid the groundwork for this, drove the ball 99.9 yards, and Trump went the last two inches.
Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 03:24 PM (uWTh9)

Yup, all Trump had to do was one simple order...

Rescinding all the stupid shit Biden did.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (mP0Kj)

93 I think that the last time I saw gas under a dollar was 1992, maybe.
Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)



That's right around the time my dad asked for his Philips 66 card back.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (p/Ri7)

94 Re-fill the SPR!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (wVcYX)

95 One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...

Posted by: Rorschach at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

96 still over $5 in ca : (

Posted by: uglykidmoe at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (D004a)

97 Always at least $2 higher here. Thanks, Gavin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho


Most of that $2 is state taxes. How else are you going to pay for the illegals' emergency room visits?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (0U5gm)

98 WTF?
I was promised high inflation, low wages, $6 gal gas, higher diesel prices, and empty shelves, especially after all farms shut down.

Huh.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (tubbA)

99 GASlighting is way up though.

Kumswallah and Latrine John Pissiour are doing some major gaslighting regarding Brandon's performance/abilities in their book tours.

Sorry, gals, sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (TezPK)

100 Biden laid the groundwork for this, drove the ball 99.9 yards, and Trump went the last two inches.
Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 03:24 PM (uWTh9)

Two inches can make all the difference.
-Ron Jeremy

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s)

101 On April 20 2020, oil futures were at -37.63 dollars per barrel, though the market soon corrected itself.

The average retail price of gasoline in the United States was still $1.81 per gallon on that day, though.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (eke50)

102 97 Always at least $2 higher here. Thanks, Gavin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho


Most of that $2 is state taxes. How else are you going to pay for the illegals' emergency room visits?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (0U5gm)

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"But it's not a direct Medicare payment into the illegal's pockets, so it's not actually Medicare for illegals."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

103 Yeah, don't get me started on the roads. Terrible conditions. And if they do finally repave a section, they tear it up one month later to reroute underground pipes and they leave it worse than before.

Posted by: Max Power at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (q177U)

104
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE...AH, HELL, I DON'T KNOW.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 03:22 PM (Riz8t)



When you can't innovate, imitate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (p/Ri7)

105 I think now, gas is about $1.30 Can a liter.

Since Mom passed, I may have been to the gas station 7 times.I haven't been getting out much.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:26 PM (Sco7b)

106 35 According to GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan, the national average hit $2.99 on Monday -- the earliest in years that prices have fallen below the $3 mark.

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GasBuddy is full of shit, by the way.

It's populated by users, and the dude is a massive Democrat dead ender who lashes out at people online who post pictures of low gas prices that aren't on his site.

He does this a lot to people in the San Antonio area, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

Gas Buddy completely fucked up their web site and their app a few months ago, and took away the simple functionality that made it easy to use. Sure sounds like the work of a leftoid genius!!

(The funny thing is that a local TV station still apparently has access to the "old" web version via embedded HTML, so I just go to that now)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (wtvvX)

107 One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...
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What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (TN0g+)

108 The angry millimeter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (+U7B7)

109 95 One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...
Posted by: Rorschach at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

That's not due to the actual Gas, it's due to the Ethanol they put in gas now.

Ethanol congeals over time... clogging the shit out of everything.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (mP0Kj)

110 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Hkcdp)

111 And wtf is he talking about saying Covid drove down gas prices? I don't remember that at all.

I think this guy is a retard.


Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM

Gas prices plummeted during the Plandemic, because of the lockdowns and no one driving anywhere. Demand was nil.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (P5BPp)

112 110 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Hkcdp)

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Graft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

113 Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:23 PM (urtE/)


*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (p/Ri7)

114 But I was more pleasantly surprised at the cost of ammo. We paid about 1/3 of the cost there as we do here. Made all that lovely plinking an even better experience.

Posted by: tcn


Ammo is heavy, I imagine it isn't cheap to bring in pallets of the stuff.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (0U5gm)

115 $3.49 for 93 at Costco near my NJ house. That's 50-75 cents cheaper than at the "name brand" stations.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

116 One word: Ethanol Free, well, and fuel stabilizer. I have about 40 gallons of fuel in the barn for hurricane season. It gets slowly rotated through the other small engines.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)

117 Killing me that since spring have been traveling 40 miles one way every work day

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (+qU29)

118 Cripplefight!!!!!

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (+U7B7)

119 One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...
Posted by: Rorschach at October

This is so NOT true.

Posted by: The Walking Dead still driving cars season 5 at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (mRp84)

120 If I lived close to the border I'd drive across and buy Pemex. Fuck you, Gavin.
Sincerely,
Your Pal

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (UjdFS)

121 91 $5.40 for mid grade here in central coast CA.
Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM

Under 4 at the cheapest gas station near me. All other gas stations are 5 or higher.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (vZUXb)

122 What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?
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Use diesel.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (jFCkp)

123
Dont get me started on the struggles my kids face trying to leave the nest for the first time.
Posted by: TheLastPatriot

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

There's something going on for sure. I know people who are giving up on dreams, and at first I thought it was California, but it might be broader. AI is changing parts of the job market radically.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (ldc7S)

124
A friend who now lives in North Carolina will ask how much gas is where I live (California) $4.36 Costco.
He'll gloat that gas is $2.00 a gallon cheaper.

Posted by: YIKES! at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (OgWfa)

125
Gas prices plummeted during the Plandemic, because of the lockdowns and no one driving anywhere. Demand was nil.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (P5BPp)



I had the note that declared I was 'essential.'

Avg. speed everywhere on any highway was 'Autobahn.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (p/Ri7)

126 What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?
Posted by: Crusader

Use diesel power.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:28 PM (TezPK)

127 I live in Illinois, and in the cooler months you can save almost a $1/gallon if you buy on the other side of the cheddar curtain.

Posted by: Brian at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (TEzGH)

128 Over the weekend I filled up the H1 for $3.65/gallon (diesel). It was the first time I remember paying under $4/gallon in a long, long time.

Could be a sign of weakening economy though.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (9LVqv)

129 Interesting poll I saw of the NYC election

American born voters
Mamdami 31
Silwa/Cuomo 65

Non-American born voters
Mamdami 62
Silwa/Cuomo 36

Looks like the left is getting its wish to replace the electorate...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

130 On April 20 2020, oil futures were at -37.63 dollars per barrel, though the market soon corrected itself.

The average retail price of gasoline in the United States was still $1.81 per gallon on that day, though.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous



And if you bought Exxon or Chevron stock then, you made out like a bandit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (0U5gm)

131 115 $3.49 for 93 at Costco near my NJ house. That's 50-75 cents cheaper than at the "name brand" stations.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

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Apparently, Costco doesn't do futures contracts on gas. They spot price purchase the gas from their suppliers.

So, it moves with the oil market much more tightly than most gas stations which do have futures contracts.

I also suspect that Costco has a policy to sell gas at certain margins and no more, kind of like how they'll always sell the hot dogs for $1.50.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

132 GasBuddy is full of shit, by the way.

It's populated by users, and the dude is a massive Democrat dead ender who lashes out at people online who post pictures of low gas prices that aren't on his site.

He does this a lot to people in the San Antonio area, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

I have found GasBuddy useful here in the Phoenix area. Generally pretty accurate. And I have never stumbled across a low-price gas station that was not on GasBuddy. Of course, I don't have the app on my phone, because I use no apps. If I am making a jaunt across the Valley here, I will go on GasBuddy on the computer here, and locate the best price to be found within a few miles of my planned route.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (8zz6B)

133 What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (TN0g+)

Don't rely on gas.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (urtE/)

134 Gas prices have dropped under $3 a gallon nationwide

And us Californians just wept.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (oraVG)

135 You want to get a deisel vehicle before you switch to deisel.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (+U7B7)

136 Graft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)



10% for the big guy's hair products.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (p/Ri7)

137 Diesel actually gets eaten by an algae like thing, so it doesn't last forever either.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (jc0TO)

138 Unfortunately, we're affected by California either shutting down or burning down their refineries.

Posted by: InZona at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (D6S5F)

139 Ok, what is the stated use for the gas tax?
Everything in CA is graft, just curious how it’s still tolerated by residents…

Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (Hkcdp)

140 What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (TN0g+)

I think you can buy stabilizer for it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

141 the majority of states with under $3 gas on average are low income, low cost of living, and relatively poor Red states compared to the states that don’t have $3 gas.

MAGA would say this is proof of superiority. I would like to hear how many of these states are subsidized by the rest of the country.

It's only 16 cents per gallon in Iran! I think the worst places to live have the cheapest gas. So naturally red states would have cheaper gas by my theory.

sweet, lets use it all up. build gasoline power plants and put all the data centers there! (Data centers are a growing Lefty boogieman)

Republican ran states are showing signs (lower energy prices) of recession faster than Dem ran states. Broke, unemployed people in our globalist-looted economy aren't doing much driving.

Killing demand is the best way to lower prices. Price of gas always crates when economy enters a recession, so thanks Trump. Recall 2008, 2020, etc...

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (JCZqz)

142 And wtf is he talking about saying Covid drove down gas prices? I don't remember that at all.

I think this guy is a retard.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM

Gas prices plummeted during the Plandemic, because of the lockdowns and no one driving anywhere. Demand was nil.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (P5BPp)
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Yea, but that was only for about a month. Prices cratered and then rose back to normal levels -- and then exploded under Biden. This retard made it seem like covid was holding down gas prices the entire time. That ain't true.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

143 EGGS!!!! WHAT ABOUT THE EGGS!!??!!!

They're still making me pay for them, the robber barons.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (dIske)

144 137 Diesel actually gets eaten by an algae like thing, so it doesn't last forever either.
Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (jc0TO)

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False.

The Gulf of Mexico is a dead zone now and will never, ever recover.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

145 I do recall that fuel did get cheaper here in in Colorado early in the covid hysteria when no one was driving anywhere. Gov'nor polesmoker proclaimed no one could drive more than 50 miles except for business needs. Riding buddies and I of course ignored it, figured the popo had other things to do than stop folks to see if they were more than 50 miles from home.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (kdHU2)

146 Murphy stations, the ones next to Walmart were $2.49 yesterday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (gm9Sb)

147 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Hkcdp)

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Graft.
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I think God, if he were inclined to speak to us on such matters, could confirm that the significant percentage of what we've believed for the last 100 years or so was taxed to "pay for the government" was in fact mere graft. 100 years ago more of it might have been used for government services, and nowadays I don't trust that much of any of it goes for government services. I believe the shift was slowly at first, and then all at once.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (TN0g+)

148 Looks like the left is getting its wish to replace the electorate...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

Importing the third world shitholes that Americans just can't.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (urtE/)

149
One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...
Posted by: Rorschach

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And I've heard that's because of those stupid ethanol ingredients. Thank you, Iowa farmers, and as soon as Iowa is moved down the primary schedule or we go to brokered conventions, you can kiss your subsidies goodbye.

I only know what I read, so don't blame me if that's all wrong.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (ldc7S)

150 I can corroborate this. Been waiting for prices to get below $3, at least in Ohio.

YMMV.

Posted by: Bladerunner2019 at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (hg9DX)

151 >>I dont care about the average. It is still $3.60 a gallon here in AZ.

Sounds like an Arizona problem. Gas is under $3/gallon in Rhode Island and we don't have any refineries nearby.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (viF8m)

152
Looks like the left is getting its wish to replace the electorate...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (sKqQm)



But, the replacement theory is an extreme right wing call to violence!!!!!

They told me so in the videos posted from the No Kings rallies.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (p/Ri7)

153 121 91 $5.40 for mid grade here in central coast CA.
Posted by: wth at


DAMN!

Anf I'm in Canada..

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (Sco7b)

154 So I leave for an hour or so, and when I come back, folks are sniping at each other. I can't leave you people alone without me, I guess.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

155 This post is malarkey! I can't afford to fill-up my Corvette and build my Lie-berry. And who shit my pants, again?

Posted by: Joe From Scranton at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (oftw2)

156 hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:27 PM (p/Ri7)

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

[Likely WILLOWED yesterday and ICYMI:]

So blessed and grateful to meet you and The FIRST Lady -- and many other Morons this past weekend -- I've now got a MoMe Hangover.

And for the rest of y'all: hard to imagine, but Sponge's Heart, Mind, Energy, and Soul are even larger in person.

Now, CBD OTOH ... I KEED, I KEED!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (uy4P1)

157 Someday we will get all the energy we need from the

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (YlWIZ)

158 Sam's Club Unleaded - Sherman, Tx $2.20/gal

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (1a9a5)

159 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?
Posted by: Lizzy
.....

Gavin used $200 million of it for Prop 50 mail in ballots.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (UjdFS)

160
The Gulf of Mexico is a dead zone now and will never, ever recover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)



Where is the Gulf of Mexico?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (p/Ri7)

161 I also suspect that Costco has a policy to sell gas at certain margins and no more, kind of like how they'll always sell the hot dogs for $1.50.
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That's a big hot dog, too. Haven't had one yet but I am giving it the side eye while checking out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (jFCkp)

162 One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...

Posted by: Rorschach at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

Gas is absolute shit these days. Forget the loss in potency, it becomes downright destructive. I had to deal with a few harleys a couple years ago where asshats let their injected bikes sit a few years. The injectors were frozen solid, the fuel pumps were seized, the internal fuel lines were cracked. They were a mess. On bikes with carburetors so you start seeing a blackish tar forming in the bottom of the bowl drain plugs. Gas today is shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (snZF9)

163 141 the majority of states with under $3 gas on average are low income, low cost of living, and relatively poor Red states compared to the states that don’t have $3 gas.

Republican ran states are showing signs (lower energy prices) of recession faster than Dem ran states. Broke, unemployed people in our globalist-looted economy aren't doing much driving.

Killing demand is the best way to lower prices. Price of gas always crates when economy enters a recession, so thanks Trump. Recall 2008, 2020, etc...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (JCZqz)

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1. Portraying low cost of living as a bad thing is certainly something.

2. This is obviously very selective economic sign reading. Deporting a shit ton of people (while GDP at 4% still) is going to produce weird numbers here and there.

3. See deportations.

Deportations are deflationary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

164 The Gulf of Mexico is a dead zone now and will never, ever recover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

Gulf of What?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (urtE/)

165 They told me so in the videos posted from the No Kings rallies.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (p/Ri7)

WHY DO THEY HATE ELVIS SO MUCH??!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (Sco7b)

166 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?

The point of government at all levels is to take as much from the taxpayers as possible and enrich office holders and their clients.

Any money spent on traditional government priorities like roads or policing is incidental.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

167 Eggs have been reasonable but not sure exactly how much

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (+qU29)

168 What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?
Posted by: Crusader


Storage with environmental controls and some form of Sta-bil additive for the short run. In the long run you'd have to figure out another fuel.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (mlg/3)

169 False.

The Gulf of Mexico is a dead zone now and will never, ever recover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

Gulf of Mexico died when The Gulf of America was born.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (TezPK)

170 $2.24 here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (Q4IgG)

171 TJM is deadnaming the Gulf of America!!! Reeeeeeee!!!

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

172 GasBuddy is full of shit, by the way.

It's populated by users, and the dude is a massive Democrat dead ender who lashes out at people online who post pictures of low gas prices that aren't on his site.

He does this a lot to people in the San Antonio area, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
_________

Also sounds like gay porn. I tend to be very suspicious of apps like AssBuddy who promise to find the lowest prices, etc. I assume they're paid by sellers as a kind of advertising.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

173 Now, CBD OTOH ... I KEED, I KEED!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (uy4P1)



An honor and privilege, sir.

I will remember the moment I asked likely the dumbest question you'd ever heard, forever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (p/Ri7)

174 169 False.

The Gulf of Mexico is a dead zone now and will never, ever recover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

Gulf of Mexico died when The Gulf of America was born.
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (TezPK)

=======

This is the joke I didn't even realize I was setting up.

I mean...I fully intended for someone to pick up on the joke I laid up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

175 In April of 2020 during the Wuhan Flu, I used Kroger fuel points and wound up paying $0.129/gallon for regular unleaded.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (wtvvX)

176 Eggs are $3.50 18 here. You can stock up on sale weeks for lower.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (+U7B7)

177 There's something going on for sure. I know people who are giving up on dreams, and at first I thought it was California, but it might be broader. AI is changing parts of the job market radically.

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

I don't think AI has changed the job market that much lately. I do think there is too much concentration in bigger and bigger entities across all sectors. And inflation is definitely still rearing its head, even if it has slowed down.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (sX1BW)

178 Test

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (1a9a5)

179 146 Murphy stations, the ones next to Walmart were $2.49 yesterday.
Posted by: bill in arkansas


Are you in some kind of time-warp 1980s Alternate History Arkansas?

Because we haven't seen prices like that in California in many decades.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (oraVG)

180 >>Gas is absolute shit these days.

My buddy who owned a boat sales and service shop made bank on rebuilding outboards thanks to corn.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (viF8m)

181 Don't survivalist types tend towards bio-diesel?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

182 WHY DO THEY HATE ELVIS SO MUCH??!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (Sco7b)



I'm still waiting for them to run LeBitch James out on a rail. He's self-proclaimed, which I'm told makes it worse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (p/Ri7)

183 F*cking California is ruining the Bell Curve. I suppose it's because of all the Asians that live there.

(YES!! Racial jab at Asians screwing up my math classes in college. Feels good.)

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:35 PM (dIske)

184 And wtf is he talking about saying Covid drove down gas prices? I don't remember that at all.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:20 PM (iFTx/)
==========================

Once the COVID panic set in and the lockdowns were issued, consumption of gasoline by vehicles plummeted since:

(1) A large proportion of the people still employed were now teleworking all the time rather than commuting to work at least part of the time
(2) A large proportion of people lost employment, if only temporarily, and were therefore no longer commuting to work
(3) Tourism crashed since so many tourist attractions were shut down, and it even became difficult to dine at restaurants et cetera

The price of oil futures actually became negative in April, though only briefly, and the average price of gasoline fell below two dollars per gallon. With the economy recovering rapidly in the six months after April, and lockdowns easing in most of the country, gasoline/oil consumption and prices increased from those April lows.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 21, 2025 03:35 PM (eke50)

185 $2.79 gas by me today.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 21, 2025 03:35 PM (3ImbR)

186 This post is malarkey! I can't afford to fill-up my Corvette and build my Lie-berry. And who shit my pants, again?

Posted by: Joe From Scranton at October 21, 2025 03:31 PM (oftw2)

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Your Lie-berry will be the Basement of the DogEater Presidential Outhouse and Bathhouse.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:35 PM (Fc1qt)

187 Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:30 PM (TN0g+)

Real data is hard to come by, but... Combined Fed, State, and Local Government spending is between 40% - 49% of GDP.

Our economy is ruled by Politics, and is nowhere near an actual Free Market.

Thought experiment, look around the room you are in right now, and see if there is ANYTHING there that is not covered by some Government Law, or Policy... does not have some regulation about it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (mP0Kj)

188 I don't hate Elvis, I hate elves.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (+U7B7)

189 179 What time warp? At least the pinsetters at the bowling alley can afford gas. And the soda jerks at the drug store too.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (gm9Sb)

190 You know who else wanted plentiful, low-cost gasoline and diesel?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (wVcYX)

191 NEWSOM 2028

Posted by: an idiot at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (UjdFS)

192 Test
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (1a9a5)



Positive for Covid. You attended a super-spreader event.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (p/Ri7)

193 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?


There are lifeguards there making $300 grand, lesbian police chiefs making half a million, and 18 million illegals in the state getting 'free' healthcare.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (0U5gm)

194 Gas today is shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (snZF9)

Doesn't Buccees have no ethanol gas?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

195 $2.19 a gallon for regular unleaded last week in Plainview, TX

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (pNkJD)

196 159 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?
Posted by: Lizzy


That $120 billion High Speed Rail train from Bakersfield to Turlock isn't going to pay for itself.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (oraVG)

197 I have 90cents in Murphy Oil discounts currently. It's only for one tank, 20 gals max. Whenever it hits $1 I tell the boy to use it to fill up his truck with diesel since he has a tank that will take 20 gals and mine is only 14.

Just my way of sticking it to The Man.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)

198 This is the joke I didn't even realize I was setting up.

I mean...I fully intended for someone to pick up on the joke I laid up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

The Gulf identifies as American. So, it is.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (TezPK)

199 183 F*cking California is ruining the Bell Curve. I suppose it's because of all the Asians that live there.

(YES!! Racial jab at Asians screwing up my math classes in college. Feels good.)

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:35 PM (dIske)

And that's probably my cue to start "Signal 100."

Japanese schoolgirls are the best.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Sco7b)

200 162 One thing to note, gas does lose potency over time. 3-4m is probably fine, but I've learned to drain the gas from my snowblower because 6m or more is not...

Posted by: Rorschach at October 21, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

Gas is absolute shit these days. Forget the loss in potency, it becomes downright destructive. I had to deal with a few harleys a couple years ago where asshats let their injected bikes sit a few years. The injectors were frozen solid, the fuel pumps were seized, the internal fuel lines were cracked. They were a mess. On bikes with carburetors so you start seeing a blackish tar forming in the bottom of the bowl drain plugs. Gas today is shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (snZF9)

I would say it's probably due to the ethanol.

Which reminds me, I need to get some ehtanol-free gas today at Sheetz for my mower and snowblower. I'll throw some in the car while I'm at it.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (wtvvX)

201 Happy Motoring!

See the USA in your Chevrolet

You can trust your car to the man who wears the star

Put a tiger in your tank

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (AOsQT)

202 180 >>Gas is absolute shit these days.

My buddy who owned a boat sales and service shop made bank on rebuilding outboards thanks to corn.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (viF8m)
___________________________

Still have a place within driving distance of my house that sells leaded gas without any of the corn additives. On Saturdays, there is a line of people filling up gas cans for their farming and landscaping equipment.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (dIske)

203 >>Posted by: IrishEi

How's the weather down by the beach in your neck of the woods?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (viF8m)

204 182 WHY DO THEY HATE ELVIS SO MUCH??!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:32 PM (Sco7b)


I'm still waiting for them to run LeBitch James out on a rail. He's self-proclaimed, which I'm told makes it worse.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (p/Ri7)

Yeah, don't know why they are protesting me...

Hail to the King baby...

Posted by: Ashe, Army of Darkness at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (mP0Kj)

205 What's the short version of how survivalists respond to the fact that gas goes bad rather quickly?
Posted by: Crusader

Storage with environmental controls and some form of Sta-bil additive for the short run. In the long run you'd have to figure out another fuel.
Posted by: weft cut-loop


Sta-bil is supposed to keep it good for two years. If we are still scrounging after two years? Keep your eyes peeled for zombies.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (1a9a5)

206 Thought experiment, look around the room you are in right now, and see if there is ANYTHING there that is not covered by some Government Law, or Policy... does not have some regulation about it.

Posted by: Romeo13



I just noticed in the room, that I did indeed remove that tag.... Don't tell anybody.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (0U5gm)

207 Apparently diesel can be converted to run on plant and animal oils.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (+U7B7)

208
I mean...I fully intended for someone to pick up on the joke I laid up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)



Well, when your level of intelligence is just that much higher than everyone around you......


Either that or "when you have to explain a joke...." applies here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (p/Ri7)

209 Premium gas is averaging 4.89 in my part of the California promised land paradise.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Q/w76)

210 208 Well, when your level of intelligence is just that much higher than everyone around you......


Either that or "when you have to explain a joke...." applies here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (p/Ri7)

======

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

211 Positive for Covid. You attended a super-spreader event.
Posted by: Sponge


I'll take it. I was in superb company.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:38 PM (1a9a5)

212 STP is the racer's edge

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 03:38 PM (AOsQT)

213 i bought my first car, a new VW bug, in 1968, cost me about $1,850, and gas was 23 cents a gallon. Lyndon Johnson was president.

We were paying about $3.50 all of September and into October, near our camp in the northern Adirondacks. Left there for suburban Chicago's McHenry county last Thursday, arriving Friday, and gas here was the same.

Then suddenly it dropped about 50 cents overnight. Just in time for No Kings!

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 21, 2025 03:38 PM (zeLd4)

214 Turdlock? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (+U7B7)

215 Also sounds like gay porn. I tend to be very suspicious of apps like AssBuddy who promise to find the lowest prices, etc. I assume they're paid by sellers as a kind of advertising.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I can personally vouch for AssBuddy. I've never had a bad experience using it.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (JCZqz)

216 My buddy who owned a boat sales and service shop made bank on rebuilding outboards thanks to corn.
Posted by: JackStraw


Buckee's and a few other places in Texas sell ethanol free gas. It isn't a panacea for longevity, but it helps.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (0U5gm)

217 Premium gas is averaging 4.89 in my part of the California promised land paradise.
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun


$2.80 for premium here.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (1a9a5)

218 $3.55 at Costco in the mid Willamette Valley. Local stations are running about .14 to .48 cents a gallon more.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (kanec)

219 I drain the gas out of everything at the end of its season. One of my kids does something to remove the water from gas so I've got a couple of cans of "good gas" to use in the mower, blower, etc.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (3ImbR)

220 You can trust your car to the man who wears the star

Put a tiger in your tank
Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 03:37 PM (AOsQT)



Fill 'er up! With BORON!!!


https://youtu.be/CP8v4lTP54U

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (p/Ri7)

221 189 179 What time warp? At least the pinsetters at the bowling alley can afford gas. And the soda jerks at the drug store too.
Posted by: bill in arkansas


And the roller-skate waitresses at the drive-in burger joint.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (oraVG)

222 4.95 in Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 03:39 PM (XI1F5)

223 "Blue" states levy all kinds of taxes and fees that double the price, and then claim gas is cheap in "Red" states "cuz they poor". God the Left are just evil for the sake of it.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (uWTh9)

224 Gas is absolute shit these days"

Additive pack and crap ethanol. As to storage, the issue is evaporation. Air tight seal and some sta bil, it'll last.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (tubbA)

225 STP is the racer's edge
--------

As a kid I always thought STP had the coolest logo. And that Petty Blue was the coolest color.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (TN0g+)

226 I had a run of getting really shitty diesel. Even with additives the truck was running like a tb patient.
I buy all my gas from the same station and have had no more problems.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (QGLzn)

227 That $120 billion High Speed Rail train from Bakersfield to Turlock isn't going to pay for itself.
Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (oraVG)

Latest plan it does not make Turlock, or even Merced.

Now its gonna cut off at Madera, just South of Fresno.

Posted by: Ashe, Army of Darkness at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (mP0Kj)

228
Doesn't Buccees have no ethanol gas?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (zZu0s)



They do, but for some reason, they're now getting EF at a lower octane rating.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (p/Ri7)

229 No gas price drop in Colorado

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (AOsQT)

230 Buckee's and a few other places in Texas sell ethanol free gas. It isn't a panacea for longevity, but it helps.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


I have a Hinda ATV and a Briggs & Stratton generator that both had their carbs eaten up thanks to ethanol fuel.

Never again. Ethanol does not touch my small engines.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (1a9a5)

231 195 $2.19 a gallon for regular unleaded last week in Plainview, TX
Posted by: Cow Demon


I can't tell the difference between satire and reality any more.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (oraVG)

232 Latest plan it does not make Turlock, or even Merced.

Now its gonna cut off at Madera, just South of Fresno.
Posted by: Ashe, Army of Darkness at October 21, 2025 03:40 PM (mP0Kj)

NORTH of Fresno... sorry.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (mP0Kj)

233 5 You also notice they've stopped talking about eggs since they've dropped WAY down compared to where they were under Biden when he was running roughshod killing every chicken in site for 2 years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:12 PM (p/Ri7)

Cash for Cluckers

Posted by: Artificially destroy supply and prices go up? Shock. at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (TbWk/)

234 STP is the racer's edge
Posted by: Don Black

STP is Molasses and honey. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (TezPK)

235 Speaking of Kings and Emperors, what's this I hear about Napoleon being kicked in his Crown Jewels?

Posted by: Miss Emily Litella at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (oftw2)

236 If you Leftifornians just don't stop driving you gas will never stop going up. Everyone just stop driving 1 month gas will go down to normal.

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (+qU29)

237
I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)



ITS FUNNY BECAUSE YOU CLAIM TO BE AN ILLITERATE ASSHOLE AND POSTED A COMMENT THAT ACTUALLY MIGHT MAKE PART OF THAT STATEMENT TRUE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (p/Ri7)

238 $2.19 a gallon for regular unleaded last week in Plainview, TX
Posted by: Cow Demon

I can't tell the difference between satire and reality any more.
Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM



He drinks your milkshake.


DRAINAGE!!!

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

239 We have ethanol free but it costs more. Is it worth more?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (+U7B7)

240 I was able to find regular gas in Chicago suburbs for 2.84, however it was that 10 percent ethanol crap.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (Q/w76)

241 Saw a funny man on the street interview at a No Kangz rally

Interviewer: Should ID be required to vote

Man dressed as King of Hearts: No, that's racist

Interviewer: Is it racist that CVS makes you show ID to buy cold medicine

Man dressed as KoH: Well you have to make sure people are actually allowed to buy cold medicine so they don't break the law

Interviewer: So it is more important you check ID to buy cold medicine then it is to choose the leader of the country?

Man dressed as KoH: Freezes for a while then wanders off

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

242 I Love My Hooker Headers

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (AOsQT)

243 In the Communist Republic of WA diesel is $4.39. Regular is $3.59. This is on the rez.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (abIsI)

244 That $120 billion High Speed Rail train from Bakersfield to Turlock isn't going to pay for itself.
Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (oraVG)
___________________________

You know, the more I've looked into that high speed rail in Cali, the more cynical I've become about the true purpose. I think it was a disguise for a covert land grab from generational farmers and privately held land. Since 2013, California has applied eminent domain on well over 700 properties, and those gas taxes partially paid for the acquisitions. Eminent Domain cases are open on the proposed rail path to this day...many of them. When the project is ultimately scrapped, California will be declaring more State held "Parks."

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (dIske)

245 If only we passed some law to lower our health insurance costs.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (sX1BW)

246
I'll take it. I was in superb company.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:38 PM (1a9a5)



Glad you made it AND enjoyed it, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (p/Ri7)

247 We have ethanol free but it costs more.
Posted by: Boss Moss

How can it cost more if it's free?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

248 241 Man dressed as KoH: Freezes for a while then wanders off
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

======

He shouldn't talk to people outside the cult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

249 159 What is that ridiculous CA gas tax used for?
Posted by: Lizzy

That $120 billion High Speed Rail train from Bakersfield to Turlock isn't going to pay for itself.
Posted by: zombie
.....

they'll never even make it to Madera

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (UjdFS)

250 >>>How's the weather down by the beach in your neck of the woods?
~~~~~

Gorgeous. 65 degrees, slight breeze, clear blue skies and no Bennies!

Posted by: IrishEi at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (3ImbR)

251 129 Interesting poll I saw of the NYC election

American born voters
Mamdami 31
Silwa/Cuomo 65

Non-American born voters
Mamdami 62
Silwa/Cuomo 36

Looks like the left is getting its wish to replace the electorate...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

Dissolve the people and elect another

Posted by: Bertolt Brecht at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (pNkJD)

252 Sidebar prick Will Thomas needs to chop off his dick and balls if he wants to be taken seriously.

But he isn’t serious. And he got his 15 minutes and bullied young women. So, just go away.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (XI1F5)

253 i paid $2.47 @ costco Saturday. the station across the street was $2.75

Posted by: DenverGregg at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (NS7R0)

254 I was able to find regular gas in Chicago suburbs for 2.84, however it was that 10 percent ethanol crap.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM


I filled up yesterday at Sams in Sherman TX for $2.23 a gallon. It says *may* contain up to 10% ethanol.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (0N4FZ)

255 Apparently diesel can be converted to run on plant and animal oils."

Any fluid that burns/ explodes under 10+ atmospheres compression will work. Better if said fluid is easy to pump and is somewhat self lubricating...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (tubbA)

256 We have ethanol free but it costs more. Is it worth more?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM


For lawnmowers, generators, and other small engines, ABSOFUCKINGLOTLY.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

257 South louisiana gas is around 2.50 and diesel is just under $3

Posted by: Daggit at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (Ue98P)

258 >>Gas is absolute shit these days.

My buddy who owned a boat sales and service shop made bank on rebuilding outboards thanks to corn.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:34 PM (viF8m)

I don't doubt it. I must do a dozen or so bike at the start of the season when some people pull bikes out of mothballs, and then a few every month that were skating. Its the same thing all the time. uh..hello, my bike won't run off choke. Yeah, your slow jet is clogged, bring it in.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (snZF9)

259 A wiseman once said we're not going to drill our way out of this.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 21, 2025 03:44 PM (b8J4P)

260 We have ethanol free but it costs more. Is it worth more?
-----

I've always believed that is a "right tool for the job" kind of question. I hardly ever keep a car for more than 90,000 miles, and I've never had engine problems using ethanol. But if you're trying to hang on to a car for 200,000 miles, maybe paying 45 cents a gallon more for the ethanol-free gas is worth it? There's some math to that equation, and this is a math-free zone.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:44 PM (TN0g+)

261 239 We have ethanol free but it costs more. Is it worth more?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (+U7B7)

Ran some tests through my old Camaro when Ethanol gas was still optional...

E10 would decrease my total gas mileage by almost 5%... partly because I drive hard and the less bang of ethanol meant my foot was on the accelerator harder.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:44 PM (mP0Kj)

262 I Love My Hooker Headers

Posted by: Don Black



I recall as a child that my friends and I would write letters to various companies like Hooker and request stickers, and get them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:44 PM (0U5gm)

263 Ford CEO Jim Farley called his visit “the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen.”

He said it changed how he sees the future of the industry.

“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just about EVs. If we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”

Andrew Forrest, founder of Fortescue, said what he saw shocked him. “There are no people, everything is robotic.”

Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, toured several Chinese factories and said some of them didn’t even have lights.

Machines were working around the clock in the dark. Full automation. No need for humans.

Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

264 If only we passed some law to lower our health insurance costs.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM (sX1BW)



"Lowered 3500%!"

- - - - - - Barack Hussein Owebama

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (p/Ri7)

265 What about undersized Toyota pickup motors?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (+U7B7)

266 >>Gorgeous. 65 degrees, slight breeze, clear blue skies and no Bennies!

Same here only a little breezier. Took Elvis down to the park to watch the sailboats and windsurfers. We are almost tourist free. Heaven.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (viF8m)

267 Madera is a good place to get off and pee.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

268 A wiseman once said we're not going to drill our way out of this.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 21, 2025 03:44 PM


It takes ten years to get a field producing. We'll have fusion by then.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (jc0TO)

269 Doesn't Buccees have no ethanol gas?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

Oh yeah, yeah they do. I got the message flashing on the pump screen. Ethanol free at pump # blah blah DURING my already started fill up. Fuck that rodent bastard. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)

270 Machines were working around the clock in the dark. Full automation. No need for humans.

This is China the odds that there weren't humans hiding inside those "machines" is 0%...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

271 Republican ran states are showing signs (lower energy prices) of recession faster than Dem ran states. Broke, unemployed people in our globalist-looted economy aren't doing much driving.

--

Then why are 1000s and 1000s of Dem run blue state residents moving to my red state?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (qBdHI)

272 If you'd just buy my proven 200 mpg carburetor, you'd be smiling all the way to the bank!

Posted by: Charles Nelson Pogue at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (wVcYX)

273 dude, it's scientifically-treated petroleum

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (AOsQT)

274 they'll never even make it to Madera
Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (UjdFS)

Big overpass bridge North Fresno is already done... they are now working on the bridges between Fresno and Madera... only part of the project in the Valley that is really visible...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

275 We're talking gas prices but I do like to occassionally post Canadian prices here so you have an idea.

I was at Walmart. Bacon was 7 to 9 bucks. I was shocked. Mom was the one who cooked. I may invest in a few weeks and cook myself.

The food threads are aspirational.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (Sco7b)

276 We have ethanol free but it costs more. Is it worth more?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:42 PM



It's amazing they figured out a way to sell you the same shit they've been making for generations, which is easier to make than the ethanol infused horseshit they're selling you now, easier to transport and actually burns cleaner at a higher price.

Our fuel supply is the New Coke-a-Cola Classic without being the original shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (p/Ri7)

277 Far-left group hands out flyers at Michigan No Kings protest vowing to escalate 'hostilities' unless police, Supreme Court abolished

Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (RHGPo)

278 What about undersized Toyota pickup motors?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Everything powered by gasoline runs better on PURE gasoline. Ethanol is not gasoline.

Simple.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (TezPK)

279 >>265 What about undersized Toyota pickup motors?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Toyota announced a diesel Tundra for next year.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (abIsI)

280 I may invest in a few weeks and cook myself.

The food threads are aspirational.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM



Remember to baste yourself.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (jc0TO)

281 Do they measure gas in french quarts in Canadia?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (+U7B7)

282 Machines were working around the clock in the dark. Full automation. No need for humans.

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

Machines have been improving productivity for 200 years. Why stop now.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (sX1BW)

283 This is China the odds that there weren't humans hiding inside those "machines" is 0%...

Posted by: 18-1



Anyone above the level of regional manager that visits china gets a tour that makes a Potemkin village look like a joke.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:48 PM (0U5gm)

284 Glad you made it AND enjoyed it, sir.
Posted by: Sponge


Me too. And I did. Thank you.
And I'll plan better next year.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 03:48 PM (1a9a5)

285 Thrush Mufflers had Woody Woodpecker for a logo and was named after a yeast infection of the mouth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:48 PM (p/Ri7)

286
My girl: You have to choke it.

Me: But this is fuel injected.

My girl: I know what kind of engine it is.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 03:48 PM (uWTh9)

287 267 Madera is a good place to get off and pee.
Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

Wellll.... I live close enough to Madera that I used to have IT support clients there... soooo.... was right at the edge of my 'territory'... stayed out of Fresno.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:48 PM (mP0Kj)

288 227 That $120 billion High Speed Rail train from Bakersfield to Turlock isn't going to pay for itself.
Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:36 PM (oraVG)

Latest plan it does not make Turlock, or even Merced.

Now its gonna cut off at Madera, just South of Fresno.
Posted by: Ashe, Army of Darkness


The 17 people annually who plan to ride from Bakersfeld to Madera will ride in sheer luxury!

At the terminus station, they will built a towering statue of Newsom, which after a few years will tilt over and sink into the dust, with the inscription on the base only barely visible:

""My name is Gavin Newsom, King of Kings:
Look on my train, ye Mighty, and despair!"

No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level California sands stretch far away.

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (oraVG)

289 I was pleasantly surprised at the cost of gas in TX for the MoMe. But I was more pleasantly surprised at the cost of ammo. We paid about 1/3 of the cost there as we do here. Made all that lovely plinking an even better experience.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 21, 2025 03:23 PM (urtE/)
----------------
Dammit, tcn was there? Do you remember if we met (I might have been a little tipsy -- but would have went out of my way to meet you)? I really wanted to go around and introduce myself to and chat with EVERYBODY -- but once you get talking with one or more folks it's hard to break away.

Although The Wifey said every time she turned around I was gone and visiting with others!

And yes, Berserker was exactly as you would imagine given his nic -- although I was hoping he had brought his guitar (I was disappoint ... so had to do some awful singing myself).

Both BruceWayne and She Hobbit were adorable -- as was SMH. I COULD GO ON AND ON. halfhourshower, Joe Kidd, AOP, AZ Deplorable, Salty, Chris (F-16 Pilot), Jennifer & Bob, Ben Had OF COURSE, Sponge and The FIRST Lady, f'd, Helena Handbasket and many more were exceedingly kind and interesting.

Ran outta chara

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (mcWkK)

290 Then why are 1000s and 1000s of Dem run blue state residents moving to my red state?

First: This blue state is great, we love science sexually, we welcome immigrants, and we don't let the police be racist to minorities. I just wish I could get a job, buy a house, or go for a walk after dark safely.

Then: This red state sucks. I mean yes I like my job, and the new house is beautiful, and we go for a walk after dinner every night. But...the retards in local government ignore the science, they don't welcome immigrants, and I'm pretty sure the police are harassing minorities. Oh well, once we all start voting the right way we can fix all that!

Posted by: Blue state locusts at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

291 Remember to baste yourself.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:47 PM (jc0TO)

Worst "Seinfeld" episode ever...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (Sco7b)

292 Ford CEO Jim Farley called his visit “the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen.”

FoMoCo needs to ditch him. Yesterday. His only job was to get max taxpayer coin, and now that's over, well...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (tubbA)

293 Same here only a little breezier. Took Elvis down to the park to watch the sailboats and windsurfers. We are almost tourist free. Heaven.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~

Speed limits upped to normal, one-way streets back to two-way, and dogs allowed back on the beach. Local summer is the best time of the year.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (3ImbR)

294 also got to visit my first Buc-cees -- fanf*ckingtastic!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (mcWkK)

295 Yea ................. But the price of Pork Rinds is still high !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (J9q9v)

296 Then why are 1000s and 1000s of Dem run blue state residents moving to my red state?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (qBdHI)


NY and NJ refugees are flocking to PA and driving real estate prices through the roof.

it's great for homeowners, but renters are really feeling the pinch

Posted by: kallisto at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (dCxaZ)

297 Remember to baste yourself.

Posted by: toby928(C)


over a rotisserie.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (abIsI)

298 Big overpass bridge North Fresno is already done... they are now working on the bridges between Fresno and Madera... only part of the project in the Valley that is really visible...
Posted by: Romeo13
.....

That's only 20 miles.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (UjdFS)

299 Beef is still high. Chicken is back to normal, and pork is cheap.

Posted by: toby928(C) at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)

300
E10 would decrease my total gas mileage by almost 5%... partly because I drive hard and the less bang of ethanol meant my foot was on the accelerator harder.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 21, 2025 03:44 PM (mP0Kj)



My test was much less scientific. I filled up our '97 Silverado 5.7 V8 (cold air kit and electric fans) with the "up to 10% ethanol" when leaving home and drove to Oklahoma City for work. Got around 17.5 MPG.

Filled up with EF in OKC on the way back and got 19.5 MPG.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (p/Ri7)

301 Ethanol congeals over time... clogging the shit out of everything.
Posted by: Romeo13

=======

The problem with ethanol is that it hygroscopic: absorbs moisture from the air, which then starts to corrode the innards of your engine.

Ethanol-free gas (or the non-ethanol part of ethanol gas) also oxidizes over time, which can form varnish and gums up the works. You still need stabilizer for the latter, but you can make the gas last five years or more.

Ethanol gas can also be stabilized but your max lifetime is about 12 months.

Store your equipment either completely full or completely empty.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (1Nv0l)

302 Big overpass bridge North Fresno is already done... they are now working on the bridges between Fresno and Madera... only part of the project in the Valley that is really visible...
Posted by: Romeo13
.....

That's only 20 miles.

Posted by: wth


What do you expect for only $40 billion?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (0U5gm)

303 293 Same here only a little breezier. Took Elvis down to the park to watch the sailboats and windsurfers. We are almost tourist free. Heaven.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (viF8m)

NO KINGS!!!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (Sco7b)

304 Even Chinese high speed rsil is losing it's ass.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (+U7B7)

305 Remember to baste yourself.
Posted by: toby928(C)


You better baste yourself before you waste yourself.

Posted by: Ice Cube at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (nhCoE)

306 296 Then why are 1000s and 1000s of Dem run blue state residents moving to my red state?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 21, 2025 03:46 PM (qBdHI)

NY and NJ refugees are flocking to PA and driving real estate prices through the roof.

it's great for homeowners, but renters are really feeling the pinch
Posted by: kallisto at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (dCxaZ)

NH has been feeling this as well with Massholes.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (N39Ws)

307 I'm got a guy in my circle of contacts that is a train aficionado.

He posts on FB about how the US is behind Europe and how terrible it is for da Erf.

Of course he flies everywhere when he goes on vacation. And even if we had a perfect train system in the US it isn't taking you to Europe or French Polynesia

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

308 Andrew Forrest, founder of Fortescue, said what he saw shocked him. “There are no people, everything is robotic.”
__________________________

Here's an interesting question. Suppose a "communist" country that depends on very, very cheap labor to compete on the world stage, all of a sudden replaces most of the menial labor with robotic machines thus eliminating the menial jobs (that pay piss poor wages) that have been used for many decades to control the population.

What do you think happens next?

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (dIske)

309 >>299 Beef is still high. Chicken is back to normal, and pork is cheap.
Posted by: toby928(C)

We know a few cattle ranchers and the price of beef at wholesale has never been higher. They're making bank.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (abIsI)

310 Apparently diesel can be converted to run on plant and animal oils."

Any fluid that burns/ explodes under 10+ atmospheres compression will work. Better if said fluid is easy to pump and is somewhat self lubricating...
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:43 PM (tubbA)

IIRC, Rudolf Diesel made his original engine run on peanut oil. Recent model Diesel engines will run fine on straight vegetable oil, once warmed up. Most animal and vegetable oils are not fluid enough to go through the injector pump when cold.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (8zz6B)

311
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2025 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

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

Who will have the guts to do what needs to be done re the UAW?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (ldc7S)

312
FoMoCo needs to ditch him. Yesterday. His only job was to get max taxpayer coin, and now that's over, well...
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (tubbA)



They need to fire their entire executive staff.

I'm a Ford fan and have been most of my life, but DAMN are they pissing me off with their idiotic bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:52 PM (p/Ri7)

313 "But the price of Pork Rinds is still high !!!!"

I bought microwave pork rinds from Walmart in NC. They were good too. $1.97.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (s9EN2)

314 234 STP is the racer's edge
Posted by: Don Black

STP is Molasses and honey. Prove me wrong.
-------------------
What is Marvel Mystery Oil?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (jFCkp)

315 >>The problem with ethanol is that it hygroscopic: absorbs moisture from the air, which then starts to corrode the innards of your engine.

You can probably guess why this is a big issue with outboards that live in the water.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (viF8m)

316 also got to visit my first Buc-cees -- fanf*ckingtastic!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (mcWkK)



Wha'd you buy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (p/Ri7)

317 GP:
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “There’s an existential threat… Some people would say we’re already in an authoritarian regime. I need to see teeth. I need to see fire.”

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

318 Here's an interesting question. Suppose a "communist" country that depends on very, very cheap labor to compete on the world stage, all of a sudden replaces most of the menial labor with robotic machines thus eliminating the menial jobs (that pay piss poor wages) that have been used for many decades to control the population.

What do you think happens next?

Posted by: Orson



I'm thinking either mass graves or soylent green.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (0U5gm)

319
What do you think happens next?
Posted by: Orson

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

Considering that country's population is shrinking, win-win.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (ldc7S)

320 He posts on FB about how the US is behind Europe"

Ask him about freight transport availability and costs. And if he's been in a 10 mile lorry backup lately.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (tubbA)

321 317 GP:
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “There’s an existential threat… Some people would say we’re already in an authoritarian regime. I need to see teeth. I need to see fire.”
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

======

Someone give her some matches so she can do it herself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

322 My biggest complaint about south FL is the other people from NJ/NY

It seems whenever I encounter someone with an attitude problem, they're a retired jackass from a blue state.

The locals are nice

Posted by: Iasonas at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (gUzGB)

323 $2.29 in Louisiana on Sunday was the cheapest I have seen in years.

Posted by: fd at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (vFG9F)

324 An honor and privilege, sir.

I will remember the moment I asked likely the dumbest question you'd ever heard, forever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:33 PM (p/Ri7)

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

Heh. You're gonna have to remind me (or at least a hint). I do remember being befuddled -- and the look on your face.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (mcWkK)

325 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “There’s an existential threat… Some people would say we’re already in an authoritarian regime. I need to see teeth. I need to see fire.”
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

======

Someone give her some matches so she can do it herself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
_______

Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

326 263 Ford CEO Jim Farley called his visit “the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen.”

He said it changed how he sees the future of the industry.

“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just about EVs. If we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”

Andrew Forrest, founder of Fortescue, said what he saw shocked him. “There are no people, everything is robotic.”

Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, toured several Chinese factories and said some of them didn’t even have lights.

Machines were working around the clock in the dark. Full automation. No need for humans.
Posted by: SMOD



Um, you'll have to forgive me if all of this sounds like ChiCom propaganda. If true, yay? Or not. Nobody has explained, without sounding like a crazy Utopian, how this won't have violent repercussions. Joblessness has a down side after all.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (sAmhv)

327 Several months back I followed a blind link to press release of Black Rock selling a small company to another Black Rock company. Turned out it was a partnership with the Onassis group to build LNG ships.

Build the port facilities here and the Eur/CCP receiving end, then we can turn Pittsburgh into a classy, yet naugahyde adjacent Dubai.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (pIfcn)

328 @_johnnymaga
Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “There’s an existential threat… Some people would say we’re already in an authoritarian regime. I need to see teeth. I need to see fire.”
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)



"Your people murdering Charlie Kirk wasn't enough for you, after the MULTIPLE attempts on Trump's life, I take it? You're begging for more?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7)

329 >>My biggest complaint about south FL is the other people from NJ/NY

It seems whenever I encounter someone with an attitude problem, they're a retired jackass from a blue state.

The locals are nice
Posted by: Iasonas

Gawd damn Yankee scourge. It's taking over AZ as well.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (abIsI)

330 $2.77 a gallon here,diesel about 50 cents a gallon more. Here's another difference for Reddit. Red states have gas and oil and drill for it. Blue states have gas and oil but won't drill.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (kUxzU)

331 Here's an interesting question. Suppose a "communist" country that depends on very, very cheap labor to compete on the world stage, all of a sudden replaces most of the menial labor with robotic machines thus eliminating the menial jobs (that pay piss poor wages) that have been used for many decades to control the population.

What do you think happens next?
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I already know. They kill the no-longer-needed labor. Its what communist countries are best at, and they're very consistent in doing so. Then when the alleged "free world" notices, they dare them to do something about it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (TN0g+)

332 >> Beef is still high.

Screwworms.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (viF8m)

333 328 "Your people murdering Charlie Kirk wasn't enough for you, after the MULTIPLE attempts on Trump's life, I take it? You're begging for more?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7)

=======

She's begging for some poor person to do it instead of doing it herself.

I think she should be presented with a flamethrower and told to start the burning herself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

334 My test was much less scientific. I filled up our '97 Silverado 5.7 V8 (cold air kit and electric fans) with the "up to 10% ethanol" when leaving home and drove to Oklahoma City for work. Got around 17.5 MPG.

Filled up with EF in OKC on the way back and got 19.5 MPG.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (p/Ri7)

Saw similar results with my '14 Silverado 5.3 V8 on a trip from NH to FL couple years ago.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (N39Ws)

335 Heh. You're gonna have to remind me (or at least a hint). I do remember being befuddled -- and the look on your face.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (mcWkK)



You asked about where the First Lady was, and I was taking you to introduce, and asked what your name was......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7)

336 Of course he flies everywhere when he goes on vacation. And even if we had a perfect train system in the US it isn't taking you to Europe or French Polynesia
Posted by: 18-1 at

My second term would have been long enough for the Biden Trans-Oceanic High Speed Rail System to have been completed. Trump canceled it his first day!

Posted by: In Big Oils Pocket! at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (oftw2)

337 Of course he flies everywhere when he goes on vacation. And even if we had a perfect train system in the US it isn't taking you to Europe or French Polynesia
Posted by: 18-1
.......

I thought Biden was going to build the Trans-Pacific Railway.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

338 STP is the racer's edge
Posted by: Don Black


Isn't that an AC/DC album?

Posted by: far cry at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (RIfpe)

339 And yes, Berserker was exactly as you would imagine given his nic -- although I was hoping he had brought his guitar (I was disappoint ... so had to do some awful singing myself).


Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:49 PM (mcWkK)

Well one day when Mrs B stops packing like we're going to europe for a month I might have room for one. It really don't matter anyway, the shit I play could start or end small wars, or make people walk like quasimodo. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (snZF9)

340 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (N39Ws)


How are you doing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (p/Ri7)

341 My test was much less scientific. I filled up our '97 Silverado 5.7 V8 (cold air kit and electric fans) with the "up to 10% ethanol" when leaving home and drove to Oklahoma City for work. Got around 17.5 MPG.

Filled up with EF in OKC on the way back and got 19.5 MPG.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:51 PM (p/Ri7)

Now convert the miles per gallon into miles per dollar, considering the price premium you pay for ethanol-free.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (8zz6B)

342 Eggs are $4.50 here because we treat our laying hens like our children. 5***** henhouses.

Posted by: gruesom Newsom at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (KtOUo)

343 Your people murdering Charlie Kirk wasn't enough for you, after the MULTIPLE attempts on Trump's life, I take it? You're begging for more?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7)

Duh

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (uWTh9)

344 317 GP:
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “There’s an existential threat… Some people would say we’re already in an authoritarian regime. I need to see teeth. I need to see fire.”
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)
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She lost her raggedy ann locks. She should of stuck with them.

Posted by: WisRich at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (G0vdT)

345 but DAMN are they pissing me off with their idiotic bullshit"

They looked at GM making money by bowing to O'Bumbles, with reduced costs and such, and tried to follow along. Trouble was that by then there were many hands in the gov cheese flow (ev $).
Now, must cover billions in stupid project costs ....

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (tubbA)

346
FoMoCo needs to ditch him. Yesterday. His only job was to get max taxpayer coin, and now that's over, well...
Posted by: man

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

Isn't he the one who stumbled blinking into the sunlight and admitted that they miscalculated on the EV market?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (ldc7S)

347 Considering that country's population is shrinking, win-win.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:54 PM (ldc7S)
________________________

Double edged sword. The producers are decreasing. The "parasites" are increasing. The one child rule they applied for a period of time created a void in their "entitlements production" and now they have resorted to locking people out of their residences if their credit falls below a certain level.

I'm telling you, China is circling the bowl. And, something massive is going to occur in the next decade where as you won't recognize the country that exists now.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dIske)

348 It is a proven fact that Socialists/Marxists do not like Kings.

So, this protest has no meaning about Trump....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 03:59 PM (J9q9v)

349 I'll apologize for my fathers voting habits, oh good people of the State of Arizona. He just won't fucking listen.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 21, 2025 03:59 PM (s9EN2)

350 TNT.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 03:59 PM (+U7B7)

351 347 Double edged sword. The producers are decreasing. The "parasites" are increasing. The one child rule they applied for a period of time created a void in their "entitlements production" and now they have resorted to locking people out of their residences if their credit falls below a certain level.

I'm telling you, China is circling the bowl. And, something massive is going to occur in the next decade where as you won't recognize the country that exists now.
Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dIske)

======

0.7 replacement rate go brrrr.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

352 I thought Biden was going to build the Trans-Pacific Railway.
Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (UjdFS)
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He was going to cure cancer as well.

Posted by: WisRich at October 21, 2025 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

353 Gas down, eggs down , but EPSTEIN

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (8RjCi)

354 I thought Biden was going to build the Trans-Pacific Railway.
Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (UjdFS)
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He was going to cure cancer as well.
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And he's an aspiring rapper.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (TN0g+)

355 Isn't he the one who stumbled blinking into the sunlight and admitted that they miscalculated on the EV market?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (ldc7S)



They've got a broad up there that made the comment "people don't care what's under the hood. They care about the technology in the vehicle."

This, shortly after Dodge announced they were bringing the Hemi back after a short hiatus and received a staggering 50,000 preorder load in the first few days.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (p/Ri7)

356 FoMoCo has had a banner year for recalls. They even surpassed their recall numbers from 2023. That's something right there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (abIsI)

357 I liked Karine Jean-Pierre better when she looked like a mop.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (UjdFS)

358 The Chinese railway workers kept drownding.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (+U7B7)

359 also got to visit my first Buc-cees -- fanf*ckingtastic!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:50 PM (mcWkK)


Wha'd you buy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:53 PM (p/Ri7)

$120 worth of shit in my case. Christmas T shirts, halloween T shirts, some christmas ornaments which one of was the rodent on a motorcycle, a few bags of the beaver nuggets (bucky balls).

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (snZF9)

360 Starting nightshift today at PBF Refinery in Martinez Ca. If you recall it blew up earlier this year. Just finished a turnaround/shutdown at Chevron Refinery Richmond last week. PBF thinks they can finish the unit that blew up here on Dec 5th.........theyre high, it'll be lucky if it sees start up in March or April.

Posted by: JROD at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (IlL6s)

361 People didn't miscalculate on EVs. They miscalculated on who was going to win the presidency.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (viF8m)

362 I liked Karine Jean-Pierre better when she looked like a mop.
Posted by: wth

I thought she was cute.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

363 340 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (N39Ws)


How are you doing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (p/Ri7)

Doing good. Finished chemo 7-8 weeks ago. Just finished radiation last week. Fatigue is an issue, but to be expected. Made it through though. Hope the First Lady is doing well?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (N39Ws)

364
She lost her raggedy ann locks. She should of stuck with them.
Posted by: WisRich

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

She is taking major heat for not coming clean on Biden's dementia and thus handing the country to Trump, so she's deflecting with a totally OT declaration that the Party is weak and toothless, hence her flounce from it.

It's all about her and her Journey, you see. As for Biden's unfitness for office, "I can't speak to that."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (ldc7S)

365 There is some kind of Argentine beef treaty in the works.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (+U7B7)

366 You could probably build a railway across the Bering start if you really wanted to.

But...it would never be worth it since there is little in Alaska and just about nothing on the Russian side.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

367 $120 worth of shit in my case. Christmas T shirts, halloween T shirts, some christmas ornaments which one of was the rodent on a motorcycle, a few bags of the beaver nuggets (bucky balls).
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (snZF9)



I'm actually shocked if we get out of there for under $100 and I've got 2 that aren't far from me, so it's not like it's a few and far between option.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (p/Ri7)

368 335 Heh. You're gonna have to remind me (or at least a hint). I do remember being befuddled -- and the look on your face.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 03:55 PM (mcWkK)


You asked about where the First Lady was, and I was taking you to introduce, and asked what your name was......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7

The meetups must be crazy.

Many of us slowly develop an image in our minds of these random names. And meeting everyone shatters that.

When I was in Columbus, I talked to people for YEARS on the phone. Very friendly. When I finally met them in person, it was such a mind- $###

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (Sco7b)

369 337 Posted by: 18-1

I thought Biden was going to build the Trans-Pacific Railway.


The only Trans thing Biden built was Transgender BS.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (J9q9v)

370 FoMoCo has had a banner year for recalls. They even surpassed their recall numbers from 2023. That's something right there.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:00 PM (abIsI)

Quality is Job #1!

Posted by: '70s TV Ads at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (wVcYX)

371
He was going to cure cancer as well.
Posted by: WisRich
.....

Maybe he should get started on his dick.

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (UjdFS)

372 Isn't he the one who stumbled blinking into the sunlight and admitted that they miscalculated on the EV market?

Si. All while whining about it...

And he's so lost - keeps banging on the "China is better" drum. Someone needs to tell him the "China Era" is over.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (tubbA)

373 351 347 Double edged sword. The producers are decreasing. The "parasites" are increasing. The one child rule they applied for a period of time created a void in their "entitlements production" and now they have resorted to locking people out of their residences if their credit falls below a certain level.

I'm telling you, China is circling the bowl. And, something massive is going to occur in the next decade where as you won't recognize the country that exists now.
Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dIske)

A recurring event in Chinese history is that they have a very strong Emperor who clamps a tight lid on everything, and all seems nice and peaceful for years - and then the Emperor becomes old and weak, and all hell breaks loose.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (uWKK8)

374 Well one day when Mrs B stops packing like we're going to europe for a month I might have room for one. It really don't matter anyway, the shit I play could start or end small wars, or make people walk like quasimodo. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 03:57 PM (snZF9)

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Funny.

The Wifey guessed some heavy shredding metal.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 04:03 PM (mcWkK)

375 I liked Karine Jean-Pierre better when she looked like a mop.
Posted by: wth

====

Why'd she straighten her hair? The whole red-headed-gollywog look suited her.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 21, 2025 04:03 PM (1Nv0l)

376 This, shortly after Dodge announced they were bringing the Hemi back after a short hiatus and received a staggering 50,000 preorder load in the first few days.
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Snort. Are they bringing back the Challenger?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:03 PM (jFCkp)

377 A recurring event in Chinese history is that they have a very strong Emperor who clamps a tight lid on everything, and all seems nice and peaceful for years - and then the Emperor becomes old and weak, and all hell breaks loose.

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"No Emperors" doesn't have the same ring ... so what are you going to do.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 04:03 PM (sX1BW)

378 Made it through though. Hope the First Lady is doing well?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (N39Ws)



Congrats!!!! Yes, the fatigue will be an issue for a while. First Lady is doing good, although still wears herself down on occasion. She'll feel good one day, do a bunch of things, then be useless the next day.

She got plenty of hugs and support while at the TxMoMe that made her feel good.

She is getting a bit tired of taking care of her dad as he goes through his 2 months of radiation, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (p/Ri7)

379
People didn't miscalculate on EVs. They miscalculated on who was going to win the presidency.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

You give those executive idiots way too much credit. They thought American car buyers are pathetic virtue signalers like themselves.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (ldc7S)

380 But...it would never be worth it since there is little in Alaska and just about nothing on the Russian side.
Posted by: 18-1

The Alaskan Eskimos should get into the casino racket like the Indians.

Do the Eskimos have reservations?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

381 The whole red-headed-gollywog look suited her.
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She should have worn pantaloons and apron as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (jFCkp)

382 >>Isn't he the one who stumbled blinking into the sunlight and admitted that they miscalculated on the EV market?

They stopped production of the Lightning. The truck that was supposed to power a neighborhood if need be. LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (abIsI)

383 Hemi Station Wagon?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (+U7B7)

384 365 There is some kind of Argentine beef treaty in the works.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (+U7B7)
______________________________

Been hoping for this. Now if we can get those Argentines back to work on their proposed coffee industry. They have the land all set aside with a perfect climate locale. And, once up and running they will give Columbia and Indonesia a run for their money.

Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2025 04:05 PM (dIske)

385 Machines were working around the clock in the dark. Full automation. No need for humans.
Posted by: SMOD


Um, you'll have to forgive me if all of this sounds like ChiCom propaganda. If true, yay? Or not. Nobody has explained, without sounding like a crazy Utopian, how this won't have violent repercussions. Joblessness has a down side after all.
Posted by: Puddleglum



Let one machine slightly hiccup. Let one part go on slightly crooked.

Then every thing after that is fubar if there isn't a human there to correct/stop it.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:05 PM (1a9a5)

386
They've got a broad up there that made the comment "people don't care what's under the hood. They care about the technology in the vehicle."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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LOLOL, what's the difference supposed to be between "what's under the hood" and "the technology in the vehicle"???

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:05 PM (ldc7S)

387 @LauraLoomer
·
2h
BREAKING: Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan has just been referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution for lying to Congress.

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (AOsQT)

388 It has occurred to me that I failed to meet so many Morons at the TX MoMe that ... Imma gonna just have to go back for an encore visit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (mcWkK)

389 Do the Eskimos have reservations?

Posted by: Bulg



They don't need them, it isn't very crowded there.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (0U5gm)

390 362 I liked Karine Jean-Pierre better when she looked like a mop.
Posted by: wth

I thought she was cute.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

Me too.

My god-daughter's family is Jamaican. There are a lot of very hot black women out there. Seperate them from politics...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (Sco7b)

391
I'm actually shocked if we get out of there for under $100 and I've got 2 that aren't far from me, so it's not like it's a few and far between option.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (p/Ri7)

Its a once a year thing for me. They put up a fairly new one 15 miles from our stop in kentucky. that works out because the one I used to go to is on a different route I don't drive anymore. I was bummed to miss it, but I found a new one so...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (snZF9)

392 >>You give those executive idiots way too much credit. They thought American car buyers are pathetic virtue signalers like themselves.

Less to do with virtue than mandates.

Easy to forget now but we were on the path to have EVs mandated. Do you know when everything changed? When Trump won.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (viF8m)

393
LOLOL, what's the difference supposed to be between "what's under the hood" and "the technology in the vehicle"???
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:05 PM (ldc7S)



She thinks everyone wants big screens, technology that will render the vehicle completely useless when one small bit fails, over horsepower and handling, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (p/Ri7)

394 Funny.

The Wifey guessed some heavy shredding metal.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 04:03 PM (mcWkK)

And she would be right. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (snZF9)

395 people don't care what's under the hood. They care about the technology in the vehicle."

Extra special funny there, as Ferd has dropped wireless charging from a few...
Cost cutting 'r' us...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (tubbA)

396
Um, you'll have to forgive me if all of this sounds like ChiCom propaganda. If true, yay? Or not. Nobody has explained, without sounding like a crazy Utopian, how this won't have violent repercussions. Joblessness has a down side after all.
Posted by: Puddleglum

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In a country with China's demographic future, it's a win.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (ldc7S)

397 . I was bummed to miss it, but I found a new one so...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (snZF9)



#Winning!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (p/Ri7)

398 Ford has a better idea!

Only Mustang makes it happen! Mustang, Mustang, 68!

Mustang II, Boredom Zero

Posted by: Random Ford Thoughts at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (oftw2)

399 Glad Dodge is going to continue building V8 hotrods. More asses to kick and doors to blow off with my GT 500.

Posted by: JROD at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (IlL6s)

400 381, LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (kHop/)

401 This, shortly after Dodge announced they were bringing the Hemi back after a short hiatus and received a staggering 50,000 preorder load in the first few days.
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Snort. Are they bringing back the Challenger?
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Not yet, but they should!

Instead, they carved out some mangled 2-door version of the Charger. The revamped Challenger from 2012 forward had the looks of a classic Charger. The 2-door Charger they brought out this year...doesn't look like a classic Charger.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (TN0g+)

402 Do the Eskimos have reservations?
Posted by: Bulg


About what?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (1a9a5)

403 >>Do the Eskimos have reservations?

Posted by: Bulg



They don't need them, it isn't very crowded there.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

But every little remote speck on the ice has a cell tower. Ask me how I know. F*cking mukluk wearing losers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 21, 2025 04:07 PM (abIsI)

404 Always at least $2 higher here. Thanks, Gavin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho a

$4.19 at local Pilot Truck stop here

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (b8J4P)

405 Hemi Station Wagon?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (+U7B7)



That was the Magnum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (p/Ri7)

406 Do the Eskimos have reservations?"


Yeah. Should've fought harder against the Russians...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (tubbA)

407
She thinks everyone wants big screens, technology that will render the vehicle completely useless when one small bit fails, over horsepower and handling, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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Oh, so the dashboard and such. What a dope. The big screen won't run when you're stranded for two hours waiting for a recharge. Make sure you bring backup batteries for your phone, because that will be your only entertainment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (ldc7S)

408 Raggity Karine was cute but a rabid lier

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (+qU29)

409 KJP was cute but then, so was Cameron Diaz. They're still retarded.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (gKWVE)

410 Needed more fake wood paneling.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (+U7B7)

411 Do the Eskimos have reservations?
Posted by: Bulg


About what?
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire

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About the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (1Nv0l)

412 It has occurred to me that I failed to meet so many Morons at the TX MoMe that ... Imma gonna just have to go back for an encore visit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 04:06 PM (mcWkK)

Its the same every year. I swore I would try to see every name tag this year. I see some posting here that said they were there and I still missed them. I need to sit on a bar stool and block the entrance with sign over me that says "Before you enter, show this idiot your name tag"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (snZF9)

413 >>BREAKING: Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan has just been referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution for lying to Congress.

No way.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (viF8m)

414 Snort. Are they bringing back the Challenger?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:03 PM (jFCkp)



I'd only heard they were putting them back in pickups, initially, so I can't answer that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:09 PM (p/Ri7)

415 405 Hemi Station Wagon?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (+U7B7)

That was the Magnum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (p/Ri7)
Good camper if you were kinda short.

Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (LHPAg)

416 They stopped production of the Lightning. "

There went a few billion...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (tubbA)

417 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (vZUXb)

418 She thinks everyone wants big screens, technology that will render the vehicle completely useless when one small bit fails, over horsepower and handling, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge


I would pay good money for a vehicle that didn't have a massive computer monitor in the middle of the dashboard, or sensors all around that I won't use but will have to replace three times during the life of the thing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (0U5gm)

419 Way. Fox News.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (+U7B7)

420 New thread, about the FDA. NOOD

Posted by: gdgm+ at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (C5GSe)

421 You could probably build a railway across the Bering start if you really wanted to.

But...it would never be worth it since there is little in Alaska and just about nothing on the Russian side.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

Giant hovercraft ferries, that could carry an entire railway train. They could run all year long, over water, over ice, over breaking-up ice.

Don't know if Russian railways use the same track gauge, though. But build some roads, and truckers could do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 21, 2025 04:10 PM (8zz6B)

422 Nudity.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 21, 2025 04:11 PM (jc0TO)

423 Do the Eskimos have reservations?

Doesn't matter. No shirt, no service!

Posted by: t-bird at October 21, 2025 04:11 PM (+r3CQ)

424 Do the Eskimos have reservations?
Posted by: Bulg
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More importantly, do their igloos have bathrooms?

Posted by: wth at October 21, 2025 04:13 PM (UjdFS)

425 US Marshall shot with ricochet bullet after they opened fire on illegal who rammed fed vehicle trying to get away.
Both will survive (Marshall hit in elbow.) The illegal should be charged with attempted murder imo.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 21, 2025 04:14 PM (3ImbR)

426 357 I liked Karine Jean-Pierre better when she looked like a mop.
Posted by: wth


Yesterday I saw something hat one rarely sees these days: A young lady who purposely dresses down as badly as she can, because she's naturally so good-looking that she wants to stop people from noticing her, so she can live her life in peace.

This girl was, approximately, a 9.5 out of 10, probably in her late teens. From the back she wore old baggy jeans, worn-out dirty tennis shoes, and a sloppy rumpled sweatshirt, and greasy unwashed hair. From the front she was revealed to be, despite zero makeup, one of Humankind's Great Beauties, without even trying. She kept her gaze down and tried to avoid eye contact, trying to "pass" as a normal-looking person.

This is exact opposite of most other mid-range girls who do their best to look as appealing as possible (within whatever framework of fashion/style they have chosen).

Posted by: zombie at October 21, 2025 04:15 PM (oraVG)

427 >Do the Eskimos have reservations?
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No, seating is first come first served

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (AOsQT)

428 405 Hemi Station Wagon?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 04:04 PM (+U7B7)


That was the Magnum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 04:08 PM (p/Ri7)

rented a Magnum once. fun car to drive.

Posted by: DenverGregg at October 21, 2025 04:16 PM (NS7R0)

429 I get eggs at Aldi for about 2.60 a dozen, 15 bean soup for 2.15, and smoked summer sausage runs about 4.50 per pound. Make a crock pot full every Saturday with carrots, an onion, and crushed red pepper, add two pounds of sausage the last hour after it cooks over night and have it for lunch every day for a week. Ends up being less than 2 bucks a day for a hearty, protein packed meal.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 21, 2025 04:18 PM (hlNLQ)

430 You asked about where the First Lady was, and I was taking you to introduce, and asked what your name was......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 21, 2025 03:56 PM (p/Ri7

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ROFLMAO!

I DO remember that now ... and the look on your face when you realized it! Hey, TBF, we'd only known each other for minutes.

THANKS for retrieving THAT Classic Memory ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 21, 2025 04:20 PM (mcWkK)

431 In fact, Carfax ranks the Ford F-150 number one as the car most likely to have its catalytic converter stolen nationwide. Criminals target this model because it sits high off the ground, making it easy for them to crawl under quickly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 04:27 PM (jFCkp)

432 Zombie, you must live in a fairly small town. That is normal behavior these days for any (other than old ) woman traveling alone or in a group of less than 3 or 4.
It use to be that the lout population was small enough that the odds of harassment or worse was very small. Today, with our imported diversity from South American patriarchal societies and mooselimbs whose religion tells them that no infidels are innocent, camouflage and pepper spray are de riguer

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 04:56 PM (1jBX9)

433 Paid $4.35 a gallon yesterday in Tumwater, WA.

Thanks, climate cultists.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 21, 2025 06:05 PM (eYAt4)

434 2.93 for regular this past Sunday.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 21, 2025 06:06 PM (5xuJ/)

435 Our Food Prices should go down as well in the case of like Transportation

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 21, 2025 06:10 PM (wGqjj)

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